Ratio Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Financial ratios are used to evaluate the company's financial performance in the market. This helps in identifying the key financial areas in the organization. The ratios are also used to compare the company performance with that of its competitors. This helps management in developing strategies for improving the organization financial position over that of their competitors. The intent of this paper is to analyze the financial ratios of Google and Yahoo companies, and a comparison is made with the whole industry. The analysis of the ratio between the two companies is done for a period of five years starting from the ...

About the paper

The paper is commissioned to conduct financial analysis for West Marine Incorporation. As part of this analysis, we will be a performing a comprehensive analysis of the raw financial figures of the company and will use the tool of common-size analysis and ratio analysis to unearth the trend that led to led to changes in the financial position of the company for the past three years. However, before introducing the analysis section, we will be introducing some of the facts related to the company and some statistics related to the stock price movement. The report will finally be culminated ...

Staples Inc.

Staples Inc has become the world’s largest office products company. The company produces a wide range of products including office supplies, copy and print, technology, facilities and breakroom and furniture. According to the 2011 annual report, Staples recorded sales of twenty five billion dollars in the last financial year. In the financial circles, by revenue base, Staples ranks second in ecommerce worldwide. This company is among the top Fortune 500. The company operates on an international level having a total of eighty eight thousand associates all over the world. As at 2011, it had operation bases in twenty six countries ...

Part 3

Liquidity Ratio
Leverage (Debt) Ratios
Profitability (Performance) Ratios
Activity Ratios
Liquidity
Liquidity is the ability of a firm to repay its short-term obligations when they become due. Short-term obligations can only be repaid using the firm’s current assets. Therefore, a firm is said to be liquid when the current assets are more than the current liabilities. The current ratio for the company was 93.75% in 2014 and 79.87% in 2013. This implies that P&G’s current assets were not sufficient to meet its short-term debts. The increase in the current ratio indicates that the liquidity P&G increased in ...

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The Malaysian Economy which is known to be a robust economy with supportive government reforms, talented workforce and newly developed infrastructure. The country has turned out to be an attractive investment destination for the not only domestic but international investors. So the Sya Suka Berada di Sini- ‘’ I Like it Here’’ phrase is quite suited for referring to Malaysian Stock Exchange.

- Money Market Investment
- Stock Market investment

Money Market Investment:

This region of investment opportunity is a risk less investment where the investors, invest their funds in highly liquid financial instruments of commercial banks primarily in Saving Bank Accounts, Fixed Deposits ...

How much a firm can grow

Sustainable Growth Rate: How much a firm can grow
A company requires capital to finance the growth. This can be achieved by using internally generated funds, or by issuing new equity shares. But, it has been observed that companies show reluctance in issuing new equity to raise capital (Firer, 1995, p-57). Without recourse to new equity capital, there is a limit to the growth of the company. The company can grow without opting for external equity finance by altering its present financial structure.

Sustainable Growth Rate and its Importance

There exists an important relation between growth in sales, and increase in assets and equity. Rapid ...

Income Statement Vertical Analysis

The gross profit as a fraction of total revenue (gross profit margin) was 60 percent in 2012. There was a slight improvement to 61 percent in 2013 and 2014. Selling and administrative expenses was constant at 37 percent of revenues for all the three years. However, other expenses increased by one percent in each year between 2012 and 2014. The income before taxes as a fraction of revenues declined slightly between 2012 and 2013 by one percent before declining by 4 percent to 20 percent in 2014. Similarly, the consolidated net income as a fraction of the revenues declined ...

Pearson’s Air Conditioning & Service

Summary statement
The Pearson Air Conditioning and Service is a business that is based in Dallas. The business is owned by a father and his son; Scott and Bob Pearson respectively. Scott is the president of the business while Bob is the general manager. The firm engages in selling general electric equipment, carriers, York air conditioning and heating systems. Their main customers are local customers although the firm also sells to commercials.

Strengths of the business

The business makes good profits
The firm’s equity state is well above the initial status when it was acquired
The business maintains a balance of $15, ...

Nursing

Mandatory Overtime in Nursing: Implementations
Although mandatory overtime among nurses is not encouraged because of the perceived risk on job performance and patient management, the practice is still necessary particularly in health facilities where staffing is an issue. In situations where there are insufficient nurses, a mandatory overtime can be implemented. According to Rogoski et al., (2013) hospitals are typically understaffed particularly in neonatal ICUs by 32%, which is a ground for the implementation of overtime. In addition, high-acuity units particularly among infants require additional 0.39% of nurses. Implementing the mandate on overtime should begin by analyzing the current ...

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Abstract

An important aspect of investment management in the form of investment is to identify and improve the economic efficiency of investments.
In practice, there are two approaches to the definition and evaluation of real investment - cost and income. If we start from the quantitative estimates, up to recently, the economy was dominated by the cost approach, which was reflected in the manner of determining the economic effectiveness of capital investments and the principles of effective options for selection of investment projects based on the methodology of comparative effectiveness, which was ...

Introduction

British Airways, the United Kingdom’s largest international airline company flying to over 300 destinations employs nearly 50,000 people. The company was founded in 1935. With the bulk of their work in scheduled airline services, they also engage in carrying mail and freight. (Datamonitor, 2008). A leading innovator in a number of key initiatives, British Airways continues to gain recognition as one of the first companies to print online boarding passes, work on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and continues to strive to meet its announced goal in becoming the “world’s most responsible airline” as outlined in their annual ...

Conflict between Capitalists and Landlord

There exist diminishing returns to scale in the agricultural production due to the limited amount of land. When the world population increases, then the production of the agricultural production increases while more people are hired in the agricultural production. The surplus is distributed to the landowners (as rent), to the workers (as the wage), and the capital owners (as profit). Under the condition of diminishing returns, the agricultural production cannot increase the surplus to increase the profits, the wages, and the rent. The rent is fixed for the limited amount of land; therefore, the capital owners and the workers ...

ANOVA is a test use to measure the significance of the difference in the means of various groups. The F distribution is a significant test in ANOVA. The significance of the F distribution is brought about by the basic assumption made by an analyst when performing ANOVA. The principle assumption is that the populations have equal variances. The F distribution helps the analyst test the assumption (Goos & Meintrup, 2016).
This is because during the calculation of the F ratio, the computation process also gives the result of the estimate of variance. One of the estimates of variance yielded through ...

Introduction Page

The field of finance and financial management is very broad, and it usually has number of aspects associated with it (Miller, 2008). Organizations have to consider their effectiveness while considering their planning and strategies to have competitiveness in the market. Merger and Acquisition (M&A) is an effective grant and strategies that associated with the financial management lectures, and it will be equally beneficial for the entities in initiate effective M&A strategies for their future benefits and aspects. The core aspect that will be discussed here related to M&A.

Analysis & Findings

- Mergers should be differentiated with the strategic alliance, as most ...

Leaving the industry’s top four publishers’ shares unchanged and merging the remaining firms to form a single company would not change the four-firm concentration ratios immediately. It will remain at 2,554 as it is before the merger. This is because they will each remain with the same percentage of market share until the new merger takes shape and starts reaping the fruits of the merger. In the long run, therefore, the four-firm concentration ratio may change. The new merger will have a 12% market share which is greater than that of the joint-fourth firm in the current market’s ...

Abstract

Financial management involves the formulation and execution of strategy. In the development of strategy and formulation of financial policies, several parameters are taken into consideration. The objective often entails making an informed decision that would position the firm strategically in the ever increasingly competitive market. In satisfaction of the managerial obligations, financial managers employ horizontal analysis, vertical analysis, ratio analysis, benchmarking, among other parameters in strategy layout and financial policy formulation. The function of business strategy and financial policy formulation does occur in isolation. It involves a comprehensive approach, in which the performance of a company is compared to previous years ...

WT Grant Company was known as the largest retail company in the urban areas of the United States. The main reason for the success of the company was its low-cost chain as compared to its competitors in the US market. The company liquidated due to its ineffective strategy to counter the competitive environment factors prevailing in the market. The major causes of the company’s failure in the market are mentioned below.

Financial Distress

It was the main reason for the failure of WT as it was unable to remain financially strong and increased credit risks to a high extent. The ...

Qualitative Data

Article: Health care cost growth, drivers, and implications for states by Leitz, S. (2007)

Quantitative Data

Article: The Impact of Nurse Staffing on Hospital Costs and Patient Length of Stay: A Systematic Review by Thungjaroenkul, P., Cummings, G. & Embleton, A. (2007).

Quantitative Table 3: Impact of Nurse Staffing on Patient Length of Stay

Narrative
In Table 2, ten studies indicated that there is a relationship between staffing of nurses and costs while two of them did not show any significant correlation. The researchers found three studies that showed that higher registered nurse to patient ratio, reduced hospital costs while one study recommended for a cost reduction by increasing the number of highly skilled ...

What is use value?

According to Marx every commodity has two characters – one is use value and other is exchange value. The use value of a commodity refers to the satisfaction or utility that an individual derives from the use of the commodity.

What is exchange value?

The exchange value of a commodity is the amount of other commodity which is obtained in exchange for one unit of this commodity.

What about money?

Money is the special commodity and functions as universal exchange equivalent.
Relationship between use value and exchange value
Use value means a relation between consumer and object consumed and is a subjective relation. But if a commodity ...

Article Review

Brenner, H., Chang-Claude, J., Seller, C. M., Rickert, A., & Hoffmeister, M. (2011). Protection From Colorectal Cancer After Colonoscopy: A Population-Based, Case-Control Study. Ann Intern Med, 22-30.

Introduction

The article, Protection from Colorectal Cancer after Colonoscopy, by Herman Brenner, Jenny Chang-Claude, Christoph M. Seller, Alexander Rickert and Michael Hoff Meister, seeks to define the relation between risk of Colorectal Cancer and previous colonoscopy. Colorectal Cancer, CRC, is common in both men and women; it is common in women than men. There are more than 1 million cases of CRC worldwide, and it claims more than 500,000 deaths annually (Brenner, Chang-Claude, ...

Psychology: Critique One

Psychology: Critique One
The current article “Effect of a Variable-ration Reinforcement Schedule with Changing Criteria on Exercise in Obese and Nonobese Boys” by De Luca & Holborn (1992) offer a glimpse on an array of issues aligned with childhood obesity. Precisely, the article focuses on behavioral treatment approaches that can be utilized to manage childhood obesity. The article is based on an experiential research that explored the benefits of reinforced physical activity as one of the behavioral treatment approaches in curbing childhood obesity.

Independent and Dependent Variable

The null hypothesis in De Luca & Holborn (1992) study was that variable-ratio reinforcement schedule with changing criteria ...

Technical analysis has a range of advantages. The main is that, although the fundamental analysis and allows us to estimate the ratio of supply and demand, economic statistics, determine the ratio of stock price to earnings of the company, etc., it does not have a psychological component, so necessary for an adequate assessment of the market situation. Gram emotions sometimes equivalent to a kilogram of facts. As John Manyard Keynes: "Nothing is more disastrous than a rational investment policy in our irrational world." Technical analysis - the only one way to size this "irrational" (emotional) component necessarily present in ...

`When the reported that the Adelphia Corporation was facing imminent collapse, shock waves ran through the business world. The reveal of Adelphia scandal made the world rethink their business practices. The story of Adelphia presents how one of the largest companies in the United States could also cause on of the largest cases of fraud in business history. By taking a closer look into the Adelphia scandal we are better able to determine what went wrong and what can be done in the future to prevent these types of instances.

This hidden information led to questions about how we evaluate ...

Idea # 1: Narrative addressing barriers to colorectal screening

This narrative has been used to intervene in the process of promoting the colorectal screening of cancer disease. Recruitment of participants, whose age ranges between 49 to 60 years has been done to investigate the claims made by renowned researchers, that there is an overestimate of barriers towards cancer screening but the results are not universally satisfactory . I propose that there be a categorical and random allocation of one-half of the recruits to encode the message, the results will be conclude that barriers to screening be predicted to have a minimal barrier in the near future.

Idea # 2: Examining HPV Threat-to-Efficacy Ratios in the Extended Parallel Process Model

The research model postulates that ...

General Education Capstone

Introduction
Suicide is an issue that affects our country in a big way, especially with the increase of bullying incidents in schools around the United States. What can we do as a society to help this problem and recognize the signs? It is possible to notice the signs of someone thinking about committing suicide and there are different tips on how to help the person or even tell an adult about the situation. Suicide can be preventable if given the right knowledge
There Are so many reasons why any individual would choose this topic to write about such as: ...

Susan was a human resource manager at Concreos, a software company. She joined the company soon after she had finished college and had been working with them for over a decade. When she joined Concreos, it was a startup with 15 employees. In the decade she had been with them, the company had grown leaps and bounds and now employed 250 employees. When she joined the company, she was the only woman and since the number of employees was really low, it did not really matter to her. As the company grew and they needed to hire new people, her department grew bigger ...

The U.S. Based Strategic Warehouse Management (SWM), Inc.’s Supply Chain Design for a Proposed Australian Warehouse Which Includes Warehouse Operations
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The U.S. Based Strategic Warehouse Management (SWM), Inc.’s Supply Chain Design for a Proposed Australian Warehouse

Requirements Needed for the Design of the Australian Warehouse
Gavin Clark, who is the CCO for SaaS warehouse management system provider, Snapfulfil writes in his article, “Ten Tips on Setting Up a Warehouse in 2014” that a warehouse staff will be more “highly motivated if they can locate products/stocks easily, are working in a safe environment” ...

Business Cycles

Overview
There is a contraction phase where the economy shrinks, the trough phase where growth is in negativity but manageable; the Expansion phase is when growth rate turns positive and peak phase is where the expansion grows. This happens every time in a country's economy cycles.

With currently the biggest electronic industry in the world, Japan's free market economy is the third largest globally. Best acknowledged by its effectiveness and efficiency in exports; it is competitive and a good business partner. However, the Agriculture sector is dwarfed. The exports can no longer service the national economy, so the country has shifted ...

Stedman, Richard C, John Parker and et al., "Resource Dependence and community Well-Being in rural Canada." Rural sociology. 69.2 (2004): 213-234. Print.

Summary

Stedman et al., conducted a research study in their paper “Resource Dependence and community Well-Being in rural Canada” for comparison of community reliance on natural resource industries in Canada (Stedman, and et al. 213-234).
Stedman et al., have discussed different parameters of well being (employment, income, in-migration education and poverty) that rely on natural resource industries (fisheries, mining, forestry, agriculture and energy) in different regions of Canada. According to authors, it is very hard to give a ...

Introduction

Healthcare budgets are made to encompass the remuneration packages of the entire healthcare team. Some of these budgets are made according to different departments or units in the facility (Finkler, Ward & Baker, 2007). The following is a calculation of the personnel budget for a skilled nursing facility for three consecutive months (January, February and March).

Nursing personnel is very important to the delivery of high-value patient care (Penner, 2004). In the determination of the quality of care in any hospital, nursing is a very critical factor. A very important factor in personnel performance is remuneration. Supposing the budget was recalculated by changing ...

Answer 1)

Since at 40% debt and 60% equity, WACC is minimized and stock price is maximized, the 40(debt):60(equity) is the optimal capital structure for Jackson.

Answer 2)

a. Expected EPS for Firm C:
E(EPSC) = 0.1($2.40) + 0.2($1.35) + 0.4($5.10) + 0.2($8.85) + 0.1($12.60)
= $0.24 + $0.27 + $2.04 + $1.77 + $1.26 = $5.58.
b) According to the standard deviations of EPS, Firm B is the least risky, while C is the riskiest.However,this analysis does not consider portfolio effects—if C’s earnings increase when most other companies’ decline (that is, its beta is low), its apparent riskiness would ...

- A brief summary of the major findings of the paper.
This paper describes a study of processing of poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) into fibers. Different draw ratios of the fiber products or degrees of fiber chain alignment were obtained under different deformation conditions and determined by a heat-induced relaxation method. The results of the strength tests on fiber products suggested that a higher degree of alignment leads to higher tensile strength, while decreasing alignment results in lower tensile strength but higher ductility.
2. Provide at least 4 MAJOR technical strengths to the paper and EXPLAIN why. In addition, please ...

Circus industry is one of those that are constantly under pressure due to the changing consumer behavior and trends associated with the industry. Even though, the circus industry has trembled for quite a long time, Cirque was able to enhance its profits along with its revenues in 20 years; a profit that older world leading circus took a century to attain. In order to attain such impressive and remarkable revenues, Cirque focused on creating an uncontested market space and aimed towards the audience that were noncustomers of the industry. This was the major advantage of the Cirque which allowed the circus to ...

Company overview and business description

Covenant Transportation Group (CTG) is a truckload carrier that offers premium transportation and just-in-time transport services truckload customers. Generally, CTG is a holding company for several companies that offer transportation services and its customers include retailers, manufacturers, third-party logistic providers, and freight forwarders. The services offered include solo-driver transit services, contract service, hazardous materials, team expedited or transit service, and refrigerated transportation services to freight and food shippers. Other services include critical services for shipping emergencies, defense, and government transportation services, and security for high-values products. Primarily, CTG undertakes its operations in the United States, and some parts of Mexico and ...

What has been the evolution of development theories since the “linear stages” period? Have these theories added value to the understanding/explaining the causes of underdevelopment? Give reasons for/against your position.

Among the many fundamental questions that continue to confound economists today, is the issue, what are the causes of economic growth and decline? Economic theories have emerged to locate, understand, and thus, develop the reasons behind the successes and failures of economies. While the original answers for this question were in the form of simple theories, nowadays, the complexity of this question has been better understood as these theories ...

Abstract

Obesity and breast cancer are key health issues for American women. Obesity has approximately reached epidemic percentages in the United States and is more widespread among American women. The breast cancer mortality rate persists to mount in Americans. A review of the recent literature was conducted to bring into focus the relationship of these two health problems as they relate to American women. The review is separated into three subjects, obesity prevalence and incidence, breast cancer incidence and mortality and the relationship between obesity and breast cancer. The two studies reviewed are facts of a connection between obesity and breast ...

Having a healthy eating plan is one of the most vital and significant elements that should be embraced by everyone in order to live longer. Healthy eating plans determine and define the type of food, the quantity and the quality of food one should consume at every given moment. Moreover, a healthy eating plan provides a balance of all nutrients which is very essential in providing the body with the necessary factors needed for growth and also provide the body with energy which is categorized as either maintenance or operational ratios. The maintenance ratio or basic metabolic rate is the energy required ...