cousin‚ Nada‚ who was sitting next to me‚ “What’s so funny?” She looked at me with a deadpan face and said‚ “She’s telling them about the “water story” again.” I sighed‚ “She says that story all the time.” The reason for my indifference feeling is that she tells us this story every time we visit her. The story‚ or what my cousins and I call it the “water story”‚ is about the time when my grandmother went with my mother to visit America for the first time. Being an alien in a different country‚
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OPERATING & FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE COMPANY PROFITABILITY RATIOS * Gross Profit marging Gross ProfitSales×100% 2010/2011 2009/2010 = (171‚325‚029/435‚759‚776) *100 = (59‚257‚454/327‚593‚843)*100 = 39.3164% = 18.0887% * Profit Margin = NPBT * 100 Sales 2011/2012 2010/2011 = (41‚896‚089/ 435‚759‚776)
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PROFITABILITY RATIOS RETURN ON INVESTMENT (ROI): The prime objective of making investments in any business is to obtain satisfactory return on capital invested. Hence‚ the return on capital employed is used as a measure of success of a business in realizing this objective. Return on Investment establishes the relationship between the profit and the capital employed. It indicates the percentage of return on capital employed in the business and it can be used to show the overall profitability
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and 2 ------------------------------------------------- Assignment 2012/2013 – Semester 2 ------------------------------------------------- B. Com (Major in Banking and Finance) – Year III ------------------------------------------------- Ratio Analysis Report ------------------------------------------------- Student: Kevin Galea 205891 (M) ------------------------------------------------- Lecturer: Dr. Emanuel Camilleri Introduction The purpose of the following report is to aid
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3 February 17‚ 2013 The article‚ “The Sharpe Ratio and the Information Ratio”‚ by Deborah Kidd is about the original risk-adjusted performance measure and they are Sharpe ratio and the Information Ratio. William Sharpe designed the first performance metric to insolate excess return per unit of total risk taken. The Sharpe ratio shows whether a portfolio ’s returns are due to smart investment decisions or a result of excess risk. The Sharpe ratio measure dividends average portfolio excess return
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Philip Hotchkiss Intro to Literature Short Story Analysis Paper October 5‚ 2009 “How to Tell a True War Story” I found “How to Tell a True War Story” the most interesting short story we have read so far. Why? Because the story is true and so very real. The story paints such a vivid picture of war and what effects it has on the many men involved. The people are real people‚ the events are real events‚ and the story is a real story. It really drives home the point because war is such a big
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How to Tell a True War Story The Irony of Truth in Tim O’Brien’s "How to Tell a True War Story" "This is true." (O’Brien‚ 420) with this simple statement which also represents a first‚ three-word introductory paragraph to Tim O’Brien’s short story‚ "How to Tell a True War Story"‚ the author reveals the main problem of what will follow. "Truth" when looked up in a dictionary‚ we would probably find definitions similar to sincerity and honesty on the one hand‚ and correctness‚ accuracy or reality
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and War Stories Almost everyone has lied at one point in their lives. Some lies may be big and others small but they still tell the lie. Most people only lie to make their stories sound better. For example‚ war veterans love to tell their stories and the stories they tell are usually exciting and wouldn’t need to lie when they are telling their stories or at least one would believe they are not lying about the stories they are telling. According to Tim O’Brien in one of his many stories he clearly
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manipulate the reader from seeing the actual truth. The author talks to the audience in a way that connects with them through the words and stories told in these essays. The use of diction has the power to persuade the audience to a specific side of believability. In How to Tell A True War Story Tim O’Brien goes on about all the indications of what a true war story is. “Its difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.” When Lemon got blown up it seemed that he was lifted up by the
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2.0 FINANCIAL RATIOS 2 Liquidity Ratios Liquidity ratios measure a business ’ capacity to pay its debts as they come due. It also measures the cooperative’s ability to meet short-term obligations. Liquidity refers to the solvency of the firm’s overall financial position – the ease with which it can pay its bills. Because a common precursor to financial distress and bankruptcy is low or declining liquidity‚ these ratios can provide early signs of cash flow problems and impending
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