Ratio Reports Samples For Students

Britvic Company Financial Analysis:

Introduction:
With operations in prominent countries of Europe like the Great Britain, Ireland and France, Britvic is renowned as one of the leading soft drink companies in the whole of Europe (Marketwatch.com, 2014).
The Company has been able and successful in setting up a definite portfolio across the markets where it operates. The brands of the Company that have captured its own market include Robinsons, Tango, J2O, drench, MiWadi, Ballygowan, Teisseire and Fruité. The Company also produces and sells famous drinks of PepsiCo Company such as Pepsi, 7UP and Mountain Dew Energy, in Britain and Ireland, as per ...

1 Introduction
As noted by Davies and Crawford (2011), firms with good financial records are attractive to both current and potential investors. However, one critical factor considered by the potential investors before investing in a company is its creditworthiness. A company may record high revenues, but its creditworthiness can be doubt. For the company to be creditworthy, it must significantly reduce its debt funding through the maximization of the internal sources of finance and equity (Delen, Kuzey and Uyar 2013). Additionally, the company’s management must ensure that the capital structure of the company maximizes the shareholder wealth. This ...

Part 1)

Analyzing financial statements of the company is of great importance as it serves different purposes of each interested party. For Instance, while investors analyze the financial statements to evaluate their investment decision in the company, creditors are more concerned to judge the profitability of the company i.e if the company will be able to honor their agreed payments on time. Apart from these outside parties, even the management of the company conduct financial statement analysis so as to formulate future plans and decisions.

However, there are different tools available for supporting the financial analysis of the companies and the same are discussed hereunder:

Vertical Analysis: A popular method of conducting financial statement analysis in which each entry of the ...

Target Company

Target Corporation is a retailing corporation in America. It is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was founded in 1902 and is ranked second after Wal-Mart as the biggest retailer in the United States. The company has stretched out its operations to Canada through a subsidiary, and it now operates in close to 100 locations in Canada. The corporation boasts of a large customer base of nearly over 110 million. The company operates stores in Canada, and United States that deal with general merchandise. These include pharmacy, baby care, beauty, cleaning products, personal care among others. Jewelry and clothing accessories for both sexes ...

Compass Group plc

Compass Group plc is a multinational company dealing with contract food service, support management, cleaning management and property management. It is a British multinational company with headquarter located in the compass house along Chertsey Surrey. Compass Group Company is the largest contract food service organization in the world. The company operates in more than fifty countries across the entire world. The company offers different food services in different locations and institutions such as the hospitals, cultural venues, offshore oil platforms, major sports, schools, offices, mining camps and various universities. The company has several shares and is very active in ...

Executive Summary

The report unearths the past five year financial performance of Walmart Inc. using the tool of ratio analysis. Our analysis indicated that over the years, the liquidity position of the company had been fairly stable and witnessed a surge during the latest year. However, the result were not appreciable when compared to the industrial averages. In terms of profitability and solvency, Walmart have shown promising trend with appreciable run both in comparison with the industry and at intra-company levels. As for the efficiency and market ratios, the trend again provided a mixed review, where miserable inventory turnover were offset ...

Report on the relationship between assets and sales

Executive summary
A company’s investment in foreign assets has a bearing on the amount of foreign sales it makes. The regression analysis indicates a positive association between the ratio of foreign sales to total sales and the ratio of foreign assets to total assets. This implies that transnational companies should invest more in foreign assets to improve their foreign sales. They should also consider other factors affecting foreign sales such as international marketing strategies including advertising expenditure, among others. Investment in foreign assets is not the only contributor to foreign sales as indicated by the model’s coefficient ...

Introduction

Morrison supermarket is the among the largest food retailers in UK. The company success in the market over years has been attributed to establishing its own manufacturing facilities which allows it to control quality of its food. The company keeps its accounting records under the guidance of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAPS). In addition, its financial statements are prepared and presented in accordance with IFRS. The company financial records are audited by independent external auditors. This implies that the financial reports relied in calculating financial ratios are reliable. The ratio analysis of the company shows that the company profitability, ...

Evaluation of Corporate Performance

Evaluation of Corporate Performance
Apple Inc. is one of the most innovative and the famous corporations in the world today. Apple Inc. is the leading manufacturers of mobile phones, tablets, laptops and other electronic devices. However, their product ‘iPhone’ is the leading smart phone brand as compared to their other products. Apple Inc. was founded in the year 1976 and incorporated in the year 1977. The main aim of the company was to make and produce the personal computer for their clients. Apple Inc. is the second largest company in the smart phone industry on the basis of ...

Executive Summary

Financial management is one of the crucial success tools for any organization. A good financial management must include the use of the required accounting standards when presenting the financial reports. A company that is financially viable is most likely to compete favorably with its peers. In this paper, I have analysed the financial performance of Persimmon Plc in the last four years. The company’s current success lies in its ability to treat the global competition as an opportunity in building capabilities, and adopting strategies that result into competitive advantage. The analysis includes a brief introduction of the company and ...

About the report:

In this report, we will analyze the financial performance of Double Ace Industries using the tools of ratio analysis where along with calculating six ratios under varied sections, we will also compare the results with the industrial average. Each ratio calculation will also be followed by an in-depth analysis about ongoing financial situation and with appropriate recommendations, if required. We are sure that by the end of this report we will be having a sound knowledge about the financial position of the company over the year and how its performance is comparable to the industrial average.

Ratio Analysis

i) Quick Ratio
Formula: ( ...

The understanding of the financial ration helps the organization to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the company. In order to analyze the financial position of the company, the financial ratios are categorized into five distinct categories. These categories include liquidity, leverage, profitability, valuation and efficiency. These ratios are significant to the managers within the organization, the firm’s creditors and the shareholders who use them to evaluate the financial condition of the firm. Below is the financial ration analysis of Lexmark Company categorized into five types.

Liquidity ratio

In this category the liquidity ratios includes current ratios, quick ratio and ...

Income Statement:

The income statement reports the revenue and expenses of the firm over a period of time. The income statement is sometimes refered to as the statement of operations or Profit and Loss Statement. The income statement relies on the equation:

In other words, Income Statement serves the purpose of providing the investors and other users of financial statements with most appropriate profitability of the entity net of expenses incurred by the company. In an elaborated manner, income statement helps an investor to assess as how the business has performed by giving a summary of how the business incurs its revenue and ...

Introduction to Accounting: Debenhams and H&M

Introduction
Inevitably, the circle of an organization is extremely broad in which there are certain things talks about. Organization is known as a place, wherein people belong to different demographic work together for the achievement of a single and pre-specified goal in total. When it comes to corporations, then there are certain decisions which have to be undertaking for the achievement of the goal effectively.
Organizations have a traditional approach to tackle with different things and issues in total and with the help of traditional approaches, organizations would certainly increase their financial belongings in total (BRIGHAM, 2013, pp. 172-182). It ...

Executive Summary

Estimating the performance of a company using ratio analysis is essential in determining the company’s profitability for internal and external users of financial statement. In this regard, the paper focused on establishing the level of performance for Morrison Supermarkets Company, and compared with Mark & Spencer, a similar company in the industry. Therefore, liquidity, profitability, activity, and capital structure ratios of the company were evaluated.
Morrison’s sales have increased from 12969 million Euros in 2008, to 15410 million Euros in 2010 then to 16479 in 2011. The company was able to have reasonable sales volume even in the ...

The City

Financial Analysis: Marks and Spencer
Marks and Spencer is one of the leading UK leading retail with over 1330 outlets across the globe. The company specializes in home products, clothing, and food. Food consists of the largest share of the company revenue. The company financial statements are prepared and audited by independent external auditors. This makes sure that they reflect a true and fair view of the financial position of the company. This report is based on the company’s financial statement for the financial year 2014 and 2015. The ratios used in the analysis are liquidity, profitability, and ...

Financial Statement Analysis

Part 1 – Financial Analysis
One of the methods to evaluate the financial performance of a company is to perform ratio analysis. By calculating the ratios for Soule Company for 2013 and 2014, we can not only conclude on the current situation in the company’s finances but also understand its performance in dynamics.
The analysis starts with the current ratio. The company’s current assets slightly increased in 2014 comparing to 2013 but so did its current liabilities. Therefore, the current ratio in 2013 was 1.66 and it decreased in 2014 to 1.5. Nevertheless, there are no liquidity issues ...

Financial ratios are one of the tools that are applied in financial analysis. This is because they help an analyst in creating the overall image of an organization. This is achieved since the ratios provide insight on various aspects of the organization that includes profitability, cash flow ratios, debt ratios and profitability ratios. These ratios are instrumental in ensuring that the analyst understands the financial soundness of the firm before investing in it (Shim and Siegel, 2000). Although these ratios face various shortcomings, they are essential in providing a bird’s eye view of the company from an analytic angle ...

About the Report:

The report is based on financial and fundamental analysis of four leading supermarket companies, i.e. Wal-Mart, Sainsbury, TESCO Plc and Kroger. Important to note, that, the conclusion at the end will be based on the individual analysis of each company and not by comparing them.

Wal-Mart:

Wal-Mart is the most renowned supermarket chain in the world and is also the world’s largest corporation providing employment to over two million employees. Founded in the year 1962, the company is still run as a family business with Walton family holding over 50% share in Wal-Mart through their holding company, Walton Enterprises. The ...

Liquidity ratios are a set of financial ratios that measure the ability of the company to meet its short term debt obligations using the most liquid current assets, those that can easily be converted into cash. There are basically two fundamental liquidity ratios that are used to provide insight into a company’s short-term liquidity. These are the current ratios, and the quick ratio, commonly known as the liquidity ratios (Walsh,2009).
Current ratio financial world and it’s easy to understand. Its however misleading to some extend in the fact that it’s highly unlikely that a company in its ...

Introduction

This paper seeks to conduct an analysis for the financial performance of Lexus in relation to other industry competitors; Jaguar, Mercedes, Porshe and BMW. In order to arrive at objective results, the analysis will compare various financial and performance metrics for the businesses. It is a purely objective analysis that will be based on the figures obtained from the annual reports of the companies.

Return on capital employed (ROCE)

Return on capital employed is a metric for a company’s profitability and the effectiveness of its capital employment.
ROCE = Profits before interest and tax/Capital employed.
A significantly huge amount of ROCE is a clear ...

- Liquidity Ratios
Before the author of this paper analyze the ratios above, it is prudent to note that generally, liquidity ratios are always used to determine the ability of the firm or the business organization to meet its short- term debt obligations.

Current ratio

Current ratio= current assets/ current liabilities. The current ratio measures the company’s current assets against the current liabilities. Therefore, the higher the ratio the better. This is because higher number implies that the company has large amount of the current assets which can be used to meet the current liabilities. Therefore, we can say ...

Administrative modification, powered by an extension of information technology, may have underwrote to the erosion of the previously established relationship between company size and the quantitative investment appraisal criteria selected. Seemingly, companies are by means of utilizing more methods composed, while the use of the more urbane discounted cash flow. However, systems are sophisticated, and that use of the less hypothetically sound accounting rate of return technique seems to be reduced, than aforementioned studies would have recommended of businesses .
Consequently, accounting modification may result from procedures ascending within an organization in which it is operational, while as of ...

Introduction

This report aims at evaluating the financial statements of Xstrata plc. In light of its corporate objectives and the industry practises and performance. To achieve this, this report provides a brief history of Xstrata and analysis of sources of finance, gearing and dividend policies. This report primarily relied on Xstrata financial statements for the last five years; 2007,2008,2009,2010 and 2011.

Xstrata Plc. is a multininational company in the minning industry which is listed in the London Stock Exchange and is part of the FTSE 100 index. It has its headquarters in Zug, Switzerland, however, it has another registered ...

State

Executive summary
Royal Dutch Shell PLC commonly known as shell is oil and Gas Company operating in many parts of the world. London it is second largest energy company in the world whose registered office is in London. It engages in both renewable and non renewable energy. It is a vertically integrated oil company which engages in all oil activities from exploration to refining and trade. However, the company has entered into partnership with many international organizations to conserve the environment. The company shares are listed in London stock exchange and its financial statement are presented in accordance to ...

Introduction

This report outlines the performance of Tesco PLC as a multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer as compared to other rival players in the industry. Close attention is paid to the selected ratios to show the financial stability of the company about rivals. The ratios show profitability, gearing, and liquidity of the company. The company takes the largest market share in the UK. Initially, it was dealing with grocery but later diversified into other sectors such as banking, clothing, and among others. Therefore, the annual financial report of the company provides vital information for investors.

Company history

Tesco PLC was founded ...

Introduction

Profitability and efficiency are two important aspects for an entity, and an analyst would analyze these two aspects in order to analyze the loopholes of an entity. Financial Statement Analysis (FSA) is an important type of valuation that used by the analysts in order to analyze the level of efficacy of an organization (Blaug & Vane, 2003). FSA is termed as the analysis of the financial statement that usually associated with income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement and changes in equity. All of these four elements are essential to analyze the main holes of the company. FSA merely used ...

Computer Sciences Corporation

Outlook of the Industry
Information technology (IT) is one of the most important and authentic fields in the world, therefore it could be said that the entire industry is in great financial condition (Carpenter, Durtschi & Gaynor, 2011). There are number of companies in the world, specifically comes under the ambit of this industry in total. Company’s lies in the industry are enjoying high net income profitability of the company as a whole.
According to revenue, this industry was on the peak some years before and currently it is also on a higher scale as well. United States and ...

Abstract

Financial analysis is an essential tool in the hands of the manager, as it is with its help the decisions related to the company’s finances are taken. Without the analysis and grounds for making such management decisions, the firm cannot achieve the desired level of income, or the lack of financial settlement will lead the company to bankruptcy. The purpose of the assignment was to perform financial analysis of a company listed on the Bursa Malaysia. Dominant Enterprise Berhad was chosen for the completion. The Malaysia-located company turned into public listed organization with thirteen subsidiaries, operating on production ...

The operations of Kudler Fine Foods have been improving over years since 2003. The financial ratios for the business provide a clear picture whether the management has been working around the clock to ensure prosperity of the company. In addition, the horizontal analysis which compares the company 2009 performance and 2003 performance is used to show how the operations of the business have improved overtime

Liquidity ratios

Current ratio= current assetscurrent liabilities = 1971,000116,920 = 16.94.
This ratio is used as an indicator to suppliers whether the company will be able to pay its current liabilities especially credit purchases. The ratio ...

Company Overview

Sony Corporation is among the largest manufacturers of consumer electronics products in the world. The company engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of various types of electronic instruments, equipment, and devices for consumer, industrial, and professional markets. Primarily, the company operates in Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe, and America. The company also distributes gaming software and hardware ('Sony Corporation SWOT Analysis' 2013, p. 3). The company does the distribution, manufacture, and broadcasting of image-based software such as motion picture, television products, and recorded music. The company’s manufacturing facilities are mainly located in Asia, but the company ...

Executive Summary

Fundamental analyses of company shares involve the review of the financial aspects of a company and generate metrics, such as the price and book value of a security or the enterprise value and the EBITDA to value of a stock. Conversely, the technical analysis of a company shares involves the valuing of company shares on the historical information about pricing and volume. In this analysis several assumptions are used: the market value is taken to reflect the demand and supply of the security, the demand and supply are driven by factors such as economic and information analysis which are rational and speculations which ...

INTRODUCTION

Financial ratio analysis is one of the key techniques for evaluating a company’s financial position. Financial ratios help getting additional information about financial performance of a company that might not be obvious from its financial statements (Erhardt and Brigham 89). They enable the management to evaluate the operating performance of the company in dynamics. Besides, the managers may track their financial goals achievement with the help of this type of analysis as ratios are widely used in planning and setting future performance goals (1). Moreover, the ratios are used to compare performance of companies within one industry, including ...

Executive Summary 4

Introduction to Bovis Homes Group PLC (BVHMF) 5
Objectives of this Report 5
Methodology – Three-Year Financial Performance Analysis through Ratios 5
Liquidity Ratio Analysis 6
Current Ratio 6
Quick Ratio 7
Overall Liquidity Performance 8
Debt Management Analysis 8
Debt-to-Equity Ratio 8
Interest Coverage 9
Overall Debt Management Analysis 9
Analysis of Operating Efficiency 10
Receivable Turnover (in days) 10
Inventory Turnover (in days) 11
Fixed Asset Turnover (in times) 11
Overall Efficiency Management 12
Analysis of Profit Generation Capacity 12
Net Profit Margin 13
Return on Equity 13
Valuation Using Forecasted Dividend Growth Model 14
Investment Decision – Conclusion ...

Mathematics 101

The Golden Ratio and Its Use
The Golden Ratio (also known as the Golden Mean, the Golden Section, and the Divine Proportion) is the proportion of two quantities, such that their ratio is equal to the ratio of their sum to the biggest of those quantities. Due to its curious properties, throughout the history this ratio has been of interest not only to the mathematicians, but also to people of art – such as painters, architects, and designers.
The studies of this ratio began in ancient Greece, being related to the geometric problem of cutting a line section into ...

Introduction:

In this report, we will conduct an analysis of the financial leverage of the company and will also comment on the recent trends over the financing activities of the company. Overall, an extensive discussion will be made relating to the financial structure of the company and also the comparable firms.

Firm’s Leverage Policy: In comparison to Industrial Averages

For the purpose of evaluating the trend in the leverage policy of the company, we will be calculating the solvency ratios that will include analysis of the recent trend in debt management ratios and interest coverage ratio. In addition, we will also comment over the management’s discussion over ...

Introduction

The report discusses the outcome of the financial analysis of Fresh Fashion for the period of three years beginning 2014 .As part of this analysis, we will exclusively focus on liquidity assessment, and inventory and account receivable management of the company. While the sole objective of framing this report is to appraise the investment opportunity in the company’s stock, however, since we are only using financial ratios as the tool of assessment, we will also discuss some of the limiting factors of financial ratios.

Ratio Analysis

Financial ratios allow us to transform raw financial figures into useful multiples, which can ...

Introduction

The objective of this report is advise and recommend whether Restaurant Brand New Zealand Limited or Xero Limited is the better company to work for in relation to long-term employment. As companies that have the capacity to provide their employees with stable, long-term employment usually show strong growth and are thriving economically in their chosen market. This report is also based on the financial information provided by the NZX Company Research database from the past three years and articles sourced from NEWZTEXT in order to present a comprehensive view of how each company is performing in the current environment.

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Introduction

The Grand Formosa is a hotel that prides itself in providing the best atmosphere for its guests. The hotel is designed to provide the best relaxing environment so that guests enjoy their stay. The hotel’s business model looks very promising on paper. However, the previous management ran the hotel down through inefficiencies in its operations. The new management has been instituted and is in the process of turning the hotel’s business around. This paper will analyze the position of the hotel with the help of some performance measures. This is in an effort to determine whether there is ...

REPORT ON DAIRY CREST GROUP PLC

Report on Dairy Crest Group PLC
Question 1:

Dairy Crest Group plc is a U.K based dairy food establishment. The company processes branded daily products and market fresh milk. The establishment has a clear vision, well-established strategy, and robust values.
Dairy Crest Group plc produces butter and spreads. They concentrate on Country life and Clover brands. The establishment also sells and manufactures Frylight one calories spray.Dairy Crest Group PLC manufactures whey and Cheese. The Company has a global cheese supply chain. It has Davidstow creamery located in Cornwall. The creamery matures cuts, and wraps cheese. The establishment has a facility situated ...

- Investment analysis of the Emirate Airline
- The University
- [Instructor’s Name here]
- Table of Contents
- Financial highlights analyses, 2010-2014 .. 02
- Horizontal analyses 02
- Vertical analyses 04
- SWOT analysis .. 04
- Cash flow analyses, 2010-2014 . 06
- Cash flow statements analyses 06
- Profitability position 08
- Liquidity position 08

Horizontal analyses
The four-year revenue growth of Emirates Airlines was 90.4 percent, or an average annual growth of 22.5 percent. This growth performance is moderately high and impressive ...

COMPANY PROFILES

Greene King
Greene King Plc. is a UK pub retailer and brewer that brews, markets and sells beer. It has three operating segments; Retail, Pub Partners, and Brewing & Brands. It also operates restaurants and hotels. The company had about 1909 franchised pubs, hotels, and restaurants as of May 2015. It was founded in 1799 and has its headquarters in Bury St Edmunds.

Swot analysis of Greene King

Strengths:
Its strength lies in the high quality of products. It has sustained the high quality of its products.

The company also has strong local roots that have contributed to customer loyalty.

It also has a strong distribution and sales network.
Weaknesses:
Over-reliance on the UK market.
High costs of ...

Financial Analysis: United Health Inc.

Financial Ratios
Ratios are important tool of financial analysis that are primarily used by the analyst so as to know the pas trend in the financial performance of the company and also to unearth the real time financial position. However, analysts never base their decisions on just one set of ratios for conducting the financial analysis of the company, rather the following set of ratios is commonly used by them:
- Liquidity Ratios
- Profitability Ratios
- Solvency Ratios
- Efficiency Ratios

Ratio Analysis: United Health Care Inc.

In this section, we will conduct the financial analysis of the company ...

Avon financial analysis

Profitability analysis
Avon’s return on assets was -7.07 for the year ended December 31st, 2014 indicating that it suffered a net loss of $0.0707 for every dollar of total assets used during the period. The negative sign shows that the company’s operations were not profitable (Berry, 2011). ROA was -0.5757% in 2012 and -0.8687% in 2014. This trend shows that the firm’s return on assets declined in both 2013 and 2014 implying a decline in Avon’s profitability.
Its return on equity was -134.1% in the year 2014 meaning that it earned a loss of $1.34 ...

Corning Inc. operates in an evolving industry due to which the industry goes through rapid changes. As the industry is mainly driven by consumers’ demand, the spending trends of average consumers also plays a vital role.
The display technologies industry faced a problem of oversupply as the consumer demand did not grow as much as it was forecasted by the industry expert owing to which the companies operating in this industry had to reduce their capacity in accordance with the demand. They also had to decrease the prices considerably in order to sell the excess inventory.
The continues growing ...

Abstract

Phillips Morrison International is one of the most iconic brand in the tobacco and cigarette industry. Rated as the most innovative company in the industry,over the years, Phillips Morrison has diverted their focus on emerging markets that account for 80% of the global demand,while the westernized consumers are being introduced to next generation products. However, the focus of the company remains in Asia Pacific region as it looks to target growing population of India, China and other Asia Pacific regions. Even on the financial terms,the company is performing better than its core rival, British American Tobacco ...

Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc.: Financial Ratio Analysis

Introduction
Financial ratios divulge valuable information to the management of a firm that guides them in making significant operational and strategic decisions for their organizations. Financial ratio analysis is a significant technique that is used to analyze financial statements. Accounting ratios are a source of valuable information that helps the management of a firm to understand the financial state of their companies and be able to formulate strategies that will help them achieve the desired financial goals. Activity ratios, for instance, are used to judge the efficiency of the firm in using various assets that it has to generate ...

Introduction

Kindred Healthcare Inc. is a company that provides healthcare services through its transitional care hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals and assisted living facilities, among other healthcare services across the United States. This paper gives a detailed financial and operating analysis of the company to assess its liquidity, profitability, operating efficiency, as well as solvency.
1. RATIO ANALSYS
a) Liquidity ratios
The current ratio of Kindred Healthcare for the year 2013 was 1.510 implying that it had adequate current assets to repay its current liabilities. Although this value is less that the ideal 2:1, the organization’s liquidity is strong. The ratio ...

a) Liquidity Ratios:
These ratios analyse the ability the short term ability of a firm to meet its debt obligations. Generally two measures of Liquidity Ratios are used by analyst to adjudge the liquidity position of the company:
- Current Ratio
- Quick Ratio

Current Ratio: Current Assets/ Current liabilities

Calculated as ratio of Current Asset and Current liability, this liquidity ratio is considered to be true indicator of a firm’s liquidity. The average industry current ratio is 2:1.
As for Breadtalk, the current ratio of the company during 2012 was 0.60 which is below the industry level of 1.78.

Quick Ratio: (Current Asset – Inventory – Prepaid Expenses)/ Current liabilities

This ratio is a ...

Introduction

Business expansion needs careful planning. The decision for one to extend his or her business must in fact come from thoughtful consideration of a number of factors including the logistical, financial, and even emotional readiness. As a rule of thumb, one should expand his or her business when untapped opportunities are present so as to benefit the business enterprise. Softly Pty Ltd is essentially an established business since it has been in operation for fifteen years. This report describes what the management of Softly Sofas Pty Ltd needs to consider for them to be successful in their expansion goal.

Possible sources of finance

One of ...

Chapter 1

Nature of the Organization’s Business
Under Armour is a multinational sports clothing and accessory company headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The company suppliers casual apparel and sportswear, and in 2006, it started offering footwear. The company sells its products worldwide targeting athletes at all levels as well as consumers having active lifestyles. To date, the company has opened various stores as well as factory outlets in various states and nations including Canada and China.

Organization’s History

1996-1998: Early Milestones
1996: Founding of the Company
Kevin Plank founded the company in 1996 when he was 23 years old. He was the former ...

About the paper

The paper is commissioned to conduct a comprehensive financial analysis of UK based telecommunication company, BT Group PLC for the year 2011-2015. As part of this analysis, we will be using the tools of common-size statements and financial ratios. In addition, to perform the cross-sectional analysis, we will also compare the financial performance of the company with its competitor entities, Vodafone Group and Sky PLC.
Along with analysis of the financial performance using the above stated criteria, we will also perform broad economic environment analysis to adjudge the company’s performance in relation to the economic trends and will ...

Answer 1)

Marks and Spencer PLC, popularly known as M&S, is a UK-based multi-channel retailer. While the company is largely known for its clothing business as part of which it caters Womenswear, Menswear and Kidswear market, it also offers home necessities and luxury food products such as, cooking and dining products, flowers, and wine, et cetera. Rated as one of the leading retailers in the UK, the company offers its products through 852 stores in the United Kingdom and 480 stores in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Answer 2)

Outcome of Auditors’ Report:
The independent external audit of the company has been ...

Intel Corporation

In this paper, I use the annual report for Intel Corporation for the year ended 31st December, 2014 to answer the said questions.

Relevant information revealed by the income statement

The income statement for Intel gives valuable information on the total revenue for the company in the last three years. Total revenue is important since it directly determines the net profit and the profitability of the company. In the year ended December 2014, Intel total revenue was $55,870 million. In 2013, the company’s total revenue was $52,708 million while in 2012; the figure was $53,341 million. This information is important in determining ...

Analyzing Financial Statements 2013

Ratio analysis makes it possible to compare performance within the current year against performance in previous year. A trend can be established to determine areas which are expanding and the ones contracting.
The profit margin ratio is one of the profitability ratios and indicates the extent to which costs of goods sold are being controlled in relation to sales income.
The inventory turnover ratio is one of the efficiency rations and measures the efficiency of the business in keeping its inventory as low as possible in relation to sales; the more time the inventory is turned over, ...

Background

Nike Corporation is an international organization whose core business activity entails the sale of footwears, sport equipments and other accessories. The company is well known for being an aggressive marketer and dominant designer of sporting equipments. In addition to marketing, designing footwears and sporting equipments, the corporation is famous for distributing its products across the globe. The performance of the corporation is highly esteemed and is usually termed as the best among various companies in the same industry.

The company was founded in the year 1964. Back then, it was not known as Nike Inc. but was known as ...

Introduction

In classical conditioning of behavior, acquisition results from the pairing of Conditional Stimulus (CS) like tone with the Unconditioned Stimulus (US) like shock. This is performed through several trials resulting in the capability of the CS to induce a new behavior described as Conditioned Response (CR) which is similar to the Unconditioned Response (UR). In the experiment of Sniffy Pro, CS’s available are Bell, Tone and Light.

Method

1. The experiment was run on Sniffy to receive 10 pairings of tone CS of medium-intensity coupled with shock US of medium-intensity.
2. New file is opened on the menu and “ ...

About the paper

The paper is commissioned to conduct financial analysis of UK based retailer, Morrisons PLC. As part of this analysis, we will be using the raw financial figures for the year 2014 and 2015, and will take the assistance of ratio analysis to unearth the financial trend in the company. In addition, we will also calculate the intrinsic value of the stock using the dividend discount model, and will then culminate the paper with a final conclusion on the financial standing and stock valuation of the company.

About the company

Founded in the year 1899, Morrisons Supermarket is a UK based food retailer. ...

Solvency Ratios:

These ratios indicate the long term solvency of the company, i.e., if the company will be able to honor its long term obligation. Furthermore, it also helps in understanding the capital structure of the company. Below discussed are the solvency ratios of Debenhams Inc:
i) Debt to Equity: Debt/ Equity
(Debenhams, 2013)
ii) Interest Coverage Ratio: Operating Earnings/ Interest Expense
iii) Debt to Capital Employed Ratio: Debt/ Capital Employed (Mckeith, Collins, 2013)
*Debt= Total Debt
*Capital Employed: Total Assets- Current Liabilities

Analysis:

The above analysis of the company using Solvency Ratios indicates that, over a year, ...

Abstract

Concrete acts as one of the most essential and cost-effective construction material made from a mixture of sand, cement, aggregates, and water. Cement acts as a binder for holding all the components together. Engineers working in the construction site must understand the purpose of the construction because different structures require different concrete strengths. The strength of cement paste used controls the overall strength of concrete that depends on the water-cement ratio. The following experiment was conducted to investigate different mechanical and physical properties of concrete.

Objective: To determine mechanical properties of concrete.

Materials used: Aggregate (coarse and fine), sand, cement, water, compressive machine, cylindrical and rectangular molds, timer, ...