PROFITABILITY RATIOS One of the most important measures of a company’s success is its profitability. However‚ individual figures shown in the income statement/profit and loss account for gross profit and net profit mean very little by themselves. When these profit figures are expressed as a percentage of sales‚ they are more useful. This percentage can then be compared with those of previous years‚ or with the percentages of other similar companies. Changes in the gross profit percentage ratio can be
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Ratio Worksheet 1. a. Split £10 into the ratio 2 : 3 c. Split 50 sweets into the ratio 9 : 1 e. Split 2.50m into the ratio 3 : 2 g. Divide 56kg into the ratio 2 : 5 : 1 i. Divide 75 birds into the ratio 8 : 5 : 2 k. Split 3kg 600g into the ratio 1 : 2 : 3 b. Split £48 into the ratio 3 : 5 d. Change 250ml into the ratio 7 : 3 f. Change £6.60 into the ratio 5 : 6 h. Split £100 into the ratio 5 : 4 : 1 j. Divide 1.20m in the ratio 2 : 3 : 4 l. Split 1 hr 20 mins into the ratio 1 : 4
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classification of social regulations In the course of the recent 50 years the decrease of economic regulations is quite noticeable while the social ones present an increasing tendency and have been gaining significance after the Second World War. New government institutions have been established and keep preparing an increasing number of regulations referring to social issues. This trend is present both in USA and in the EU countries. As opposed to economic regulations‚ which refer to market and
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concentration ratios are used to determine total market shares within four specific industries. I will also discuss the levels of competition within those industries and how oligopolies can benefit society. Case‚ Fare‚ and Oster defines concentration ratio as the share of industry output in sales or employment accounted for by the top firms (2009). They are used to measure the total output produced by a certain number of firms within an industry. Four-firm concentration ratios are used
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ANALYSIS FOR INSIDERS RATIOS 1. Manufacturing Cost per Unit The ratio demonstrated that how much Polycon is spending in producing one unit. It helps business owners determine when they’ll turn a profit and helps them price their products with that in mind. It provides a dynamic overview of the relationships among revenues‚ costs and profits As little as company incurs on producing one unit‚ it will goes to the company’s goodwill. In order to review the ratio under consideration‚ it has been
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Stockholder Ratios Stockholders are primarily interested in two things: (1) The creation of value‚ and (2) The distribution of value. Stockholder ratios such as earnings per share and return on common equity provide information about the creation of value for shareholders. The value is distributed to shareholders in one of two ways. Either the corporation issues dividends or repurchases stock. The remainder of the stockholder ratios—dividend yield‚ dividend payout‚ stock repurchase payout
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many tools that a company can use to evaluate how well it is performing‚ one of those tools is the debt ratio calculation. The debt ratio shows the proportion of assets financed with debt‚ liabilities. It is calculated by the companies total liabilities divided by its total assets and is used as a percentage. Total assets and total debts can be found on the balance sheet. “It can be used to evaluate a business’s ability to pay its debt” (Nobles p. 89). The debt ratio can be used to evaluate a business’s
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Efficiency Ratios The efficiency ratio is an indicator of how well Johnson and Johnson (J&J) is run on an organizational wide basis. Efficiency ratios are also defined as asset turnover ratios (Finkler‚ Kovner & Jones‚ 2007). The asset turnover ratio measures how productive J&J is in managing all of its assets to generate Sales. This efficiency ratio is calculated by dividing sales by total assets by total revenue. For year 2010‚ J&J had an asset turnover of 0.6. Comparing J&J’s
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alone‚ Americans have consumed 4.8 billion pounds of seafood‚ and this number increases more and more each year. We already know that because of our over-population problem that fish is becoming more finite everyday. Luckily‚ we have many fishing regulations to help try to combat this problem. In 1871 the United States government took the first step to trying to combat the dwindling fish population. The U.S. Comission on Fish and Fisheries was established with the goal to be‚ “dedicated to the protection
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Financial ratio analysis is the calculation and comparison of ratios which are derived from the information in a company’s financial statements. The level and historical trends of these ratios can be used to make inferences about a company’s financial condition‚ its operations and attractiveness as an investment. Financial ratios are calculated from one or more pieces of information from a company’s financial statements. For example‚ the "gross margin" is the gross profit from operations divided
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