to other items reported on the financial statements. 1) Return on Equity: One of the most important profitability ratios is return on equity (ROE). ROE is the amount of net income returned as a percentage of shareholders equity. Return on equity measures a corporation’s profitability by revealing how much profit a company generates with the money shareholders have invested. The return on equity ratio is computed as follows: Return on Equity = | Net Income | | Average Shareholder’s Equity
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than another person. This fact is still true today about much of America’s history‚ and the eye of the beholder when reading different accounts of history. Natalie Zemon Davis retells the history of Martin Guerre and his imposture in her book The Return of Martin Guerre. One historian named Robert Finlay questions Davis’ account of the Martin Guerre story where he explains Davis’ weaknesses in his article‚ “The Refashioning of Martin Guerre.” To clear up Finlay’s misunderstandings‚ Davis writes
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Profitability Ratios Profitability ratios measure two aspects of a corporation’s profits: (1) those elements of operations that contribute to profit and (2) the relationship of profit to total investment and investment by stockholders. The first group of profitability ratios [gross profit (or gross margin) percentage‚ operating margin percentage‚ and net profit margin percentage] expresses income statement elements as percentages of net sales. The second group of profitability ratios (return on assets
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A Ratio Analysis Report on Chevron Corporation By Brandon Dickerson Q1. When did the company begin operating and where are its major locations? Chevron Corporation is based in San Ramon‚ California‚ but has offices and does business in over a 100 countries. Their roots are traced back to an oil discovery at Pico Canyon‚ Ca in 1879 that led to the formation of Pacific Coast Oil Co. The company later became Standard Oil Co. of California and adopted the name Chevron in 1984 when it merged
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Summer Training PROJECT REPORT ON RATIO ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF GAIL Executive summary Gail has been no. 1 gas utility co in Asia and no. 2 gas utility co. globally which was declared by plats top 250 in 2010. It was also selected as the top Indian co. in the gas processing‚ transmission and marketing sector for the dun and Bradstreet- American express corporate awards. In addition to that GAIL ‘s Dahej Vijaipur pipeline project won the silver medal in mega projects category
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ch10 Student: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. The capital gains yield plus the dividend yield on a security is called the: A. geometric return. B. average period return. C. current yield. D. total return. 2. The expected return on a security in the market context is: A. a negative function of execs security risk. B. a positive function of the beta. C. a negative function of the beta. D. a positive function of the excess security
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A practical guide to accounting for agricultural assets November 2009 PricewaterhouseCoopers’ IFRS and corporate governance publications and tools 2009 IFRS technical publications Manual of accounting – IFRS 2010 Global guide to IFRS providing comprehensive practical guidance on how to prepare financial statements in accordance with IFRS. Includes hundreds of worked examples and extracts from company reports. The Manual is a three-volume set comprising: • Manual of accounting – IFRS
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Ratio Analysis: Liquidity(Times): | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | Current Ratio | 4.11 | 3.65 | 2.95 | Quick Ratio | 3.92 | 3.44 | 2.73 | NWC to Asset Ratio | 0.17 | 0.15 | 0.13 | Cash Ratio | 3.23 | 2.70 | 2.03 | NWC to Sales Ratio | 1.71 | 1.43 | 1.04 | NWC($) | 9215702577.00 | 7220848206.00 | 5205523576.00 | Average Daily Cash Expenses | 7537175.82 | 7160555.21 | 6768509.99 | Interval Measure(in days) | 1270.94 | 1029.86 | 798.11 | Interpretation: * According to current ratio
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line of returns for Asset B is steeper (has greater slope) than Asset A The slopes of these lines are the betas for each asset: 2.61 for Asset B and 1.48 for Asset A. The greater beta value of Asset B signifies that it is more responsive to market factors and therefore makes it more risky than Asset A. P8-20 Interpreting Beta a. A 15% increase in market return would lead to an 18% (15% x 1.20) increase in the asset’s return. b. An 8% decrease in market return would lead
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portfolio return: 1. Time-weighted returns 2. Dollar-weighted returns § Returns must be adjusted for risk. AFF5300 Case Studies in Finance 4 Dollar- and Time-Weighted Returns Time-weighted returns § The geometric average is a time-weighted average. § Each period’s return has equal weight. (1 + rG ) = (1 + r1 )(1 + r2 )...(1 + rn ) AFF5300 Case Studies in Finance 5 n Dollar- and Time-Weighted Returns Dollar-weighted returns § Internal rate of return considering
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