Essays on General Electric Company

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Nightlife Hospital, a leading health facility in the United States seeks a capital expenditure justification for the purchase of an MRI machine. This design of the machine will utilize the current technology so as to ensure best services to the customers. The machine will solve the current problems caused by referring patients to other hospitals and waiting for test results in before treating them. The machine should meet the demand by patients for better and more comfortable scanning operations. It should also be cheap, sustainable, and safe for the patients and the clinicians. The best MRI machine the ...

Liquidity ratios

Current ratio = Current Assets / Current Liabilities

Current ratio = 405,763 / 166,210 = 2.44

Current ratio = 419,673 / 145,320 = 2.89 Asset turnover ratios Inventory Turnover = Cost of Sales / Average Inventory

Inventory Turnover = 51,455 / 13,792 = 3.73 Times

Inventory Turnover = 46,005 / 11,526 = 3.99 Times Financial leverage ratios Debt-to-Equity Ratio = Total Debt / Total Equity

Debt-to-Equity Ratio = 599,108 / 118,134 = 5.07

Debt-to-Equity Ratio = 623,595 / 124,198 = 5.02 Profitability ratios Return on Assets = Net Income / Total Assets

Return on Assets = 14,151 ...

Introduction

General Electric is by far one of the most diversified companies in the delivery of technological, financial, and media services. This can be evidenced from the wide range of their products and services that include power generation, household appliances, aircraft engines, water processing, consumer financing, media content, medical imaging, business and consumer financing among other industrial products (Datamonitor Report, 2011). Primarily, General Electric operates in six operating regions that include Australia, Asia, Europe, North America, Africa, and South America. It is headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, and it has approximately 439 manufacturing plants, 219 of these plants being located ...