Financial Ratio Comparison of Tesco Plc and Sainsbury Plc Introduction Abraham Brilloff once said, “Financial statements are like a fine perfume-to be sniffed but not swallowed.” This means to make rational decisions in keeping with objectives of the firm by busing the financial statements (Helfert, 2003), it is important to critical and analytical sniff but to simply swallow the statistical information from the statements. Using what tools to get into the deep sight of financial statement and
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years 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 to analyze the ratios, and conduct a DuPont analysis to find the competitive position and the level of performance of both the organizations in respect to the calculated ratios. In addition we have done index analysis of both balance sheet and income statement to find the position of the organizations in respect of profitability. The organizations are pharmaceutical companies. The reason behind calculating the ratios of different years of a company gives us a complete
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Griffith University, Gold Coast | Group Assignment for 2204AFE Financial Institutions Management | Comparative Analysis of ANZ and Westpac | | s2758329, s2762895, s2773847, s2784238Diamond, E., Dong, G., Huang, Y. & Lin, B.Due: 5th April 2012Tutor: Sonja Kobinger | | | The following report is a brief comparative analysis of two of Australia’s largest deposit-taking financial institutions (FI), Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. (ANZ) and Westpac Banking Corporation
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COMPETITOR ANALYSIS Exxon Mobil’s leading competitors are Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, Chevron and ConocoPhillips. 1. Royal Dutch Shell: (Shell) is an independent oil and gas company. Shell is engaged worldwide in the principal aspects of the oil and gas industry and also has interest in chemicals and other energy-related businesses. Similar to Exxon Mobil, Shell operates in three different segments: Upstream, Downstream and Corporate. 2. British Petroleum: (BP) is an international
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PROJECT 2 FINANCIAL RATIO ANALYSIS: 2 Purposes and considerations of ratio analysis 2 PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IN PAKISTAN 3 FEROZSONS LABORATORIES LIMITED 4 LIQUIDITY ANALYSIS RATIOS 4 Current Ratio: 4 Quick Ratio 5 Working Capital: 6 Absolute Liquid Ratio: 8 SOLVENCY RATIOS (Capital Structure Analysis Ratios) 9 Debt Ratio 9 Debt to Equity Ratio 9 Interest Coverage Ratio 10 Equity Ratio 12 Assets to Equity Ratios 13 PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS RATIOS: 14 GENERAL
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) 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 the same industry. Managers use ratio analysis to identify situations needing attention; potential leaders use financial analysis to determine whether a company is creditworthy; and stockholders use ratio analysis to help
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Objective: Ratio analysis expresses the relationship among selected items of financial statement data. A ratio expresses the mathematical relationship between one quantity and another. The relationship is expressed in terms of a percentage, a rate or a simple proportion. Ratios can provide clues to underlying that may not be apparent from individual financial statement component. However, a single ratio by itself is not very meaningful. For discussion making the companies use the following types
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L18 GROUP 5 2005-2006 FALL SEMESTER Financial Ratio Analysis Content Introduction………………………………………p.3 Overview of AT&T………………………………p.4 Overview of China Mobile (HK) Ltd…………….p.5 Overview of Hutchison…………………………..p.6 Overview of New World Mobility……………….p.7 Overview of SmarTone…………………………..p.8 Overview of Sunday……………………………...p.9 Overview of Verizon…………………………….p.10 Financial Ratio Analysis…………………..…p.11-19 Conclusion…………………………………...p.20-22
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Financial Ratio Analysis By 107,108,109,158,159,161 Group 3 MBA (Tech) IT 4Th Year Table of Contents 1.0 Liquidity Ratio…..……………………………………………..………………………………………………………..……………3 1.1 Current Ratio 4 1.2 Quick Acid Test 5 2.0 Debt Ratio…..…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..………9 2.1 Debt to Equity Ratio 6 2.2 Total Debt to Equity Ratio 6 2.3 Debt to Total Assets Ratio 7 2.4 Capital Gearing Ratio 8 2.5 Proprietors funds to total assets 8 2.6 Long term debt-total capitalization
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Interpretation of the Ratios 1) Current Ratio-It is a test of solvency or of short-term financial strength of a concern. It is an index of working capital and shows the ability of the concern to meet its obligations and also the capacity to carry on effective operations. Generally, if current assets are twice that of current liabilities, the concern’s working capital position is considered to be satisfactory. 2) Quick Ratio-It shows the amount of cash available to meet immediate payments. Stock-in
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