FINANCIAL RATIOS Financial ratios are indicators of a company’s performance as discernable from the company’s Balance Sheet and income Statement. We will discuss some of the simple ratios of a company and talk about their significance. Liquidity Ratios: Show the company’s ability to pay of its current liabilities from its current assets. 1. Current Ratio Current assets should be significantly higher than current liabilities so that the current ratio is higher than 2:1. 2. Quick Ratio (Acid
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Competitive Rivalry The Competitive Rivalry in South Africa is high and will continue to increase as new Providers enter the industry. * The Competition is based on price and quality. The entry of every new Customer brings with a new set of price cuts and hence intensifies competition between cell phone provo=. Major threats currently: * Cell C‚ because they are a low cost service provider of many services‚ and this has helped Cell C to penetrate the market. * MTN and Vodacom offer
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Activity Ratios‚ which will be 19 key ratios. Secondly‚ these ratios will be interpreted to evaluate the current performance of the company with its historic figures of prior three years. Lastly‚ all these ratios will be compared with Cosmetics and Beauty Industry average and its competitor L’Oreal in 2012. Table # 1 Summary of Key Financial Ratios of Estee Lauder Estee Lauder Financial Ratios | RATIOS | (MRQ)2012 | FY 2011 | FY 2010 | Industry | L’Oreal SA. | Profitability Ratios % | |
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business prospective of growing industry and a high-ranking brand. As one of the hottest brand in America‚ the Hot Doughnut concept‚ it was a new popular and innovation idea brought the company performance to the top of the hills. However‚ the company management had faced with some failure and problem in their financial status and fundamentals. It leads to the stock price and the expectation plummeted. Consequently‚ the business was languished in the Doughnuts industry. In this case study‚ our main
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Ratio | Industry benchmark ratio | Woolworths’ ratio | Brief Comment | Current Ratio | 1.2:1 | 0.80:1 | The current ratio ofWoolworth is considerablybelow industry average themovement from it is 33.33% (1.2-0.8)/1.2*100) Which is not really good for business | Liquid ratio | 0.7:1 | 0.34:1 | The Liquid ratio of Woolworth is considerably below industry average. The movement is 51.43 %. It is showed that the business may have problem in paying their debt.(0.7-0.34/0.7*100) | Gross Profit ratio
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Herbalife Ltd are a global nutrition company founded in 1980 that sells weight management‚ healthy meals and snacks‚ sports and fitness‚ energy and targeted nutritional products as well as personal care products. Herbalife distributes and sells its products through a network of independent distributors‚ using the direct selling channel. As of December 31‚ 2012‚ Herbalife sold their products in 88 countries to and through a network of approximately 3.2 million independent distributors
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This paper evaluates the key financial challenges facing organizations in Risk Management‚ Managing International Acquisitions‚ and Managing Working Capital simulations. Secondly‚ an evaluation of Southwest Airlines (SWA) management of working capital and the optimal financial strategies employed is presented. Also evaluated are the potential improvements in financial performance along with long-term and short-term strategies. Lastly‚ considered in this paper is whether a merger or acquisition
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GROUP 1 REPORT FINANCIAL RATIOS Financial ratios are useful indicators of a firm’s performance and financial situation. Most ratios can be calculated from information provided by the financial statements. Financial ratios can be used to analyze trends and to compare the firm’s financials to those of other firms. In some cases‚ ratio analysis can predict future bankruptcy. SOURCES OF DATA FOR FINANCIAL RATIOS Balance Sheet Income Statement Statement of Cash Flows Statement of Retained
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Ratio‚ Vertical‚ and Horizontal Analyses XACC/280 May 8‚ 2012 Analyzing financial statements can help a company find out important financial information about itself and other competitors in the industry. There are three important tools that evaluate a company’s liquidity‚ profitability‚ and solvency. This information is relative to banks‚ creditors‚ and for internal gain. There are three commonly used tools to help investigate and generate the results using
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Wendy Galindo Southwest Airlines I. Introduction: Southwest airlines performance in recent years has been outstanding compared to the rest of the airline industry. The company has maintained a stable increase of income‚ having year over year profitability since 1973‚ despite the fact that industry where it competes is characterized by being vulnerable to the recent downward economics and an intense rivalry between competitors. Southwest is one of the US largest airline carriers in terms of domestic
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