COURSE TITLE: MANAGING FINANCIAL PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES NAME OF CANDIDATE: DATE ASSIGNMENT IS DUE: 20th November 2012 TUTOR: S. M. Azeem Please‚ ensure you sign the statement of authentication and follow the notes given at the end of the assignment PREAMBLE Organisations operate in a very competitive and continually changing environment where effective decision making is crucial if an organisation
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a. Why are ratios useful? What three groups use ratio analysis and for what reasons? Financial ratios are designed to extract important information that might not be obvious simply from examining a firm’s financial statements. Financial statement analysis involves comparing a firm’s performance with that of other firms in the same industry and evaluating trend in the firm’s financial position over time. From the textbook ‚ we know managers use financial analysis to identify situations needing
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Industry Averages and Financial Ratios Paper Bryan Sawyer‚ Frank Figueroa‚ Jaime Sandez‚ Lesley Gonzalez Finance for Business/FIN 370 May 12‚ 2015 Instructor: John Kadlec Instructions: Find a publicly-traded company using a financial information website. Some example companies include the following: Safeway Inc. The Boeing Company General Motors Company Intel Corporation Microsoft Corporation Exxon Mobil Corporation Watch the Industry Averages and Financial Ratios video and use the industry
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Financial Ratios: What They MeanIn assessing the significance of various financial data‚ managers often engage in ratio analysis‚ the process of determining and evaluating financial ratios. A financial ratio is a relationship that indicates something about a company’s activities‚ such as the ratio between the company’s current assets and current liabilities or between its accounts receivable and its annual sales. The basic source for these ratios is the company’s financial statements that contain
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The financial statements of proctor & Gamble can be found in the annual report. But what these numbers really mean can be found by the use of ratios. In order to give you a more in depth analysis of Proctor & Gamble’s financial position we used several ratios. Activity ratios. These ratios measure whether a company is able to convert account within their balance sheet into cash. Showing us how fast a company can generate into cash and thus sales and ultimately more revenue. We used four ratios
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page Introduction……………………page1 Literature review………………page 2 Uses of ratios…………………...Page 2 Types of financial ratios………Page 3 ➢ Profitability ratios……….Page 3 ➢ Efficiency Ratios………....Page 4 ➢ Liquidity Ratios………….Page 5 ➢ Investment Ratios………..Page 6 Limitations of ratios…………..Page 8 Conclusion……………………..Page 8 Introduction. The primary purpose of accounting is to convey information about the business to management‚ investors‚ shareholders‚ government and
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2009 FIANANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS BEXIMCO PHARMA ASSIGNMENT ON Financial Report & Ratio Analysis CURSE NAME: Financial Accounting Course Code: ACT (142) Program: BBA Submitted BY Md. Akther Sayed Id No: 10510508 Bachelor of Business Administration Submitted TO Farhana Rohman Course Instructor of Financial Accounting Department of Business Administration Submission Date 29th December‚ 2010
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Division managers are padding cost estimates so as to show short-term efficiency gains when the costs come in lower than the estimates. Agency Problem: Division managers use their authority to mislead information and a problem exists when management and stockholders have conflicting ideas on how the company should be run in short-term. It will mess up the management in order to plan costs. Also it might ruin the number balance sheets and which could affect future gains. This might mean that the
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FINANCIAL RATIO ANALYSIS: PAKISTAN STATE OIL Introduction: Financial ratios for PSO for last 3 years are provided below. The company represents current market share of 78.2% in the black oil market and 54.3% share in the white oil market with net sales of Rs1.02 billion in 2012‚ Rs820 million billion in 2011 and Rs742 million in 2010. Ratio Analysis: PAKISTAN STATE OIL | |2012 |2011 |2010
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RATIO ANALYSIS Ratio analysis is a key dimension of financial management‚ suggesting a relationship between profit and loss as mentioned in the balance sheet of an organization. In Latin ‘ratio’ means reason. In English ‘ratio’ means relationship. Ratio analysis is defined as “the establishment of a reasoned relationship” of a fixed variable character between measurements of certain phenomenon having some kind of linkage. A ratio shows the arithmetical relationship between two figures
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