Interpreting Financial Results FIN/571 July 22‚ 2013 Interpreting Financial Results Liquidity: Current Ratio Parrino‚ Kidwell‚ & Bates (2012) detail the current ratio as current assets divided by liabilities. The current ratio identifies a firm’s potential to pay short-term liabilities; higher liquidity is a good sign for potential creditors (Parrino et al.‚ 2012). At the same time‚ however‚ the current ratio should not greatly exceed benchmarks of other competitors (Parrino et al.‚ 2012). This
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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 | Simply
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Financial ratio analysis A reading prepared by Pamela Peterson Drake OUTLINE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. Introduction Liquidity ratios Profitability ratios and activity ratios Financial leverage ratios Shareholder ratios Introduction As a manager‚ you may want to reward employees based on their performance. How do you know how well they have done? How can you determine what departments or divisions have performed well? As a lender‚ how do decide the borrower will be able to pay back as promised? As a
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- Using ratios computed from items contained in Financial Statement (Ratio analysis) Reasons for interpreting accounts Accounts have to be analyzed and interpreted for the following logical points (1) Evaluation of the trading performance of a firm in order to have a measure of the quality of management running it. (2) Appraisal and monitoring of the constituents of the Capital Structure and the cost associated with them (3) Whether or not an enterprise has solid liquidity base – a
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companies: Starbucks and Green Mountain Coffee 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
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Ratio Analysis: 2009 | 2010 | 0.53 | 0.51 | Current Ratio: Analysis: 2:1 is the benchmark of current ratio. Here in 2007 current asset is 0.53 against 1 current liability. In every year the company is unable to increase their current ration. Because the current ratio in 2010 decreases to 0.51. The company has a small amount of current asset for each amount of current liability in every year and its improvement was not that much remarkable. Though the company never crossed
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International Accounting 1. What industry is Disney in ? 2. Does Disney make money ? (IS) 3. Trend of 3 years 4. Makes Money ? YES : How much ? (IS) – Gross Margin and Net Income Margin – Ratio Analysis 5. Liquidity (Cashflow/BS) 6. How is Disney doing compare to competitors ? 7. ROE and ROA (IS/BS) 8. Future Prospects 9. Pricing Strategy 10. Marketing Strategy I. Return on Investment Return on Equity (ROE):
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Introduction to the companies. Cargills (Ceylon) PLC Cargills is Sri Lanka’s largest modern retailer. Its pioneer venture into modern trade was an innovation of the company’s trading legacy. Thereafter Cargills Food City continued to challenge the norm by taking to the masses what was traditionally an affluent focused business and offering ‘higher value for the lowest price’. Today the Cargills retail operation is spread across the island as ‘Cargills Food City’ supermarkets and ‘Cargills
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group PLC year end 28th February 2011. Contents Introduction 3 Kingfisher PLC 3 Home Retail Group 3 Analysis 4 Profitability Ratios 4 Liquidity Ratios 5 Gearing Ratios 5 Investment Ratios 6 Performance Factors 6 Kingfisher PLC 7 Home Retail Group 7 Appendix 8 Profitability Ratios 8 Liquidity Ratios 9 Gearing Ratios 9 Investment Ratios 10 Bibliography 11 Introduction The aims and objectives of this report are to compare the two companies‚ Kingfisher Plc. and
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Nadarajan AC089637 3 Thayasiri Sumaran AC089676 4 Khesanivarni Balakrishnan AC089702 Table of Content Pages 1.0 Introduction 3 2.0 Company Background 4 3.0 Profitability Ratio 5-6 4.0 Liquidity Ratio 7-8 5.0 Efficiency Ratio 9-10 6.0 Gearing Ratio 11-12 7.0 Shareholder Ratio 13-14 8.0 Cash Flow 15 9.0 Conclusion 16 10.0 Reference 17 11.0 Appendix 18 1.0 INTRODUCTION British American Tobacco (informally BAT) is a British multinational tobacco
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