a) Ratio analysis does several things‚. The first thing is it allows the company to compare itself with other like companies. If management feels things aren’t going well‚ they can help pinpoint the problem through comparing their ratios with other companies. They may have several ratios that are comparable‚ but a couple which are way off. That might be where the problem is. It helps to evaluate financial statement. It helps to take proper steps toward financial problem. Like reduce
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The possible problems are that should any gaps arise between the elements‚ in the long run‚ they could lead to unfavourable consequences in the organisation. To determine the possibility of such problems‚ a perception gap would be looked at. Berry and Parasuraman (1991)‚ developed a GAP model and demonstrated that a customer who visits an organisation expecting to get certain quality of service basing on previous dealings or because of advertising may be disappointed by the outcome. This was said
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are over 550 Next stores plus 50 franchises operating in Asia‚ Europe and The Middle East. This report will analyse and outline the company’s profitability‚ liquidity‚ solvency and investment potentials based on 15 ratios. All information is taken from the Next plc 2011 statement. Profitability and Performance The gross profit ratio indicates that Next plc was able to maintain their gross profit. It has decreased insignificantly by 0.05%. In 2011 the revenue has increased by roughly 47 Million‚
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The Giant Water Bug This story is about one phenomenon of nature‚ which the author observes ones when she was walking alone the edge. The frog was drained by a giant water bug. From the stylistic point of view the text falls into two parts. In the first part of the story the author uses a lot of literary stylistic devices such as epithets‚ trite metaphors and similes. For example metaphors: Frogs were flying all around me; similes: like a schematic
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Debt/Equity Ratio What Does Debt/Equity Ratio Mean? A measure of a company’s financial leverage calculated by dividing its total liabilities by its stockholders’ equity; it indicates what proportion of equity and debt the company is using to finance its assets. http://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/debt%2Fequity+ratio ’Debt/Equity Ratio’ A high debt/equity ratio generally means that a company has been aggressive in financing its growth with debt. This can result in volatile earnings
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Lowe’s Ratio Analysis In the period from 1997-2001 Lowe’s showed a steady increase in working capital. It went from being $2110 million in 1997 to $4920 million in 2001. This shows the company had good amount of liquid assets to conduct and build its business. Lowe’s fixed assets went from $3005 million in 1997 to $8653 million in 2001. Total capital is found by taking working capital and adding it to fixed assets. Lowe’s total capital increased from $5219 million in 1997 to $13736 million in 2001
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As the result of the ratio analysis. There are 5 limitations of ratio analysis as well. The first limitation of the ratio analysis is Comparing the ratios between two organizations/firms is a smooth path to do it. This is because‚ different organization/firms might have face unequal figures of earnings‚ losses. In addition‚ fact is the two difference organizations/firms might have different economic environment or production technologies even though they produce the same range of the product. For
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Roasters. Within the report we will focus on the financial Ratios for both companies spanning from the years 2010 to 2012 and compare the two while discussing the trends within both and deciding which company is best to invest in. 1. Liquidity & Activity Ratios- What are the trends? Liquidity and Activity Ratios consist of: Current Ratio‚ Acid-Test (Quick Ratio)‚ Receivables Turnover‚ Inventory Turnover‚ and Asset Turnover. Current Ratio is the determination of a firm’s ability to meet current
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RATIO CALCULATION RISK RATIOS Liquidity Receivables turnover ratio Average collection period Inventory turnover ratio Average days in inventory Current ratio Acid-test ratio Solvency Debt to equity ratio Times interested earned ratio PROFITABILITY RATIOS Gross product ratio Return on assets Profit margin Asset turnover Return on equity Return on the market value of equity Earning per share Price-earnings ratio Justification Of Chosen Firm I originally chosen
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