...providing satisfactory information to the stakeholders of the companies about the financial position and the performance of the business activities. Credibility of the business can be increased in the capital market if it provides all the relevant disclosures required by the CMA. Investors and other stakeholders of the companies keenly observe the areas of the financial statements in which voluntary and mandatory disclosures are mentioned. Some of the important voluntary disclosures required by the CMA are information about the size of the corporation and capital invested in it, leverage of the company, size of the auditor appointed, profitability state of the company, and aging analysis of the debtors. Other mandatory disclosures required by CMA from the company are changes in the holdings of the share capital and debentures, change in the capital of the company, declaration of dividend and any other decision if dividend is not declared, changes in the rights of the shareholders and debt holders, decision to redeem the securities, decision not to pay ant debt of the company, changes in the articles of the association of the company, registered office or auditor of the company, information about the annual general meeting and its agenda, any resolution made for dissolving the company, and if any event reduces the worth of the net assets of the business. These all are required...
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...providing satisfactory information to the stakeholders of the companies about the financial position and the performance of the business activities. Credibility of the business can be increased in the capital market if it provides all the relevant disclosures required by the CMA. Investors and other stakeholders of the companies keenly observe the areas of the financial statements in which voluntary and mandatory disclosures are mentioned. Some of the important voluntary disclosures required by the CMA are information about the size of the corporation and capital invested in it, leverage of the company, size of the auditor appointed, profitability state of the company, and aging analysis of the debtors. Other mandatory disclosures required by CMA from the company are changes in the holdings of the share capital and debentures, change in the capital of the company, declaration of dividend and any other decision if dividend is not declared, changes in the rights of the shareholders and debt holders, decision to redeem the securities, decision not to pay ant debt of the company, changes in the articles of the association of the company, registered office or auditor of the company, information about the annual general meeting and its agenda, any resolution made for dissolving the company, and if any event reduces the worth of the net assets of the business. These...
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...Analysis Week 6 Assignment 1. Introduction In this paper, we will be interpreting and analyzing a company’s health from an investor’s point of view using financial statements. For the purpose of decision making, two retailer companies featured in Fortune is the focus of this analysis. Fortune 100 best companies to work for ranks at 58 Recreational Equipment, INC., (REI) at (Fortune, 2015 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, 2015). Fortune 500 ranks 393 Dick’s Sporting Goods, INC. (Dick’s), (Fortune, Fortune 500, 2015) Decision making from an investor or leadership role explores reliable sources such as Fortune. Investment decision based on business practice influenced by business regulations are the investor's goal. Financial tools of ratios analysis used to determine profitability, liquidity, and solvency are used to evaluate performance. Ratio tools assist in the decision-making reasons for choosing to invest or not to do so. Annual Report Financial Statement The annual report introduces financial statement reports formatted for investor’s analysis. The main forms of interpretation include; Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, Income, Stockholders Equity or Member’s Equity. The Balance Sheet reports critical information of assets and liabilities to determine profitability, liquidity, and solvency. Specific tools used to analyze financial statements to make a meaningful evaluation of the report’s form are financial ratio classifications of; profitability ratios measures the operating success...
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...these principles within your business. By the very nature of retailing, markets and customers will change over time. Retailers must understand and mange this information through category management. Due to the limited amount of time available in the review, the principles will be limited in there scope to generic retail principles. Managing your retail business through category management improves your knowledge and ability to react quicker to the customer’s wants and needs. As a retail owner you need to have at least 15 categories based on product groupings within your store. You can also break down each category into sub categories for further analysis. The categories that you establish will be the basis of ongoing management across key performance indicators (KPI’s) that you want to manage within your business. The categories you chose should be based on product types or groupings. If you are in food for example your categories would be your menu offer for example: sandwiches, cold drinks, coffee, cakes, salads, donuts. If you are in home wares categories like: gadgets, dinnerware, saucepans, kitchen ware, and glass ware are some examples. How good is your collection of data? To collect information on categories you need to ensure that you have a suitable cash register or point of sale program that will show the various indicators of the business. By defining your categories you are laying the foundations on which to build your retail business. These principles reflect my own...
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...MALAYSIADATE : 7th FEBRUARY 2015 | Assignment: 1) Calculate the key financial ratios for Company High Profits Berhad for the year 2013. (20 marks) | Category | Financial Ratio | Formula | | | | | | | Liquidity | 1) | Current Ratio | Current Assets / Current Liabilities | | | | | | | | 2) | Quick Ratio | (Current Assets – Inventory) / Current Liabilities | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3) | Net Profit Margin | (Profit After Tax / Sales) x 100 | | | | | | | Profitability | 4) | Return on Total Assets | (Profit After Tax / Total Assets) x 100 | | | | | | | | 5) | Return on Equity | (Profit After Tax / Shareholders Equity) x 100 | | | | | | | Debt | 6) | Debt Ratio | (Total Liabilities / Total Assets) x 100 | | | | | | | | 7) | Debt-Equity Ratio | (Long Term Liabilities / Shareholders Equity) x 100 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8) | Inventory Turnover | Cost of Goods Sold / Inventory | | Asset | | | | | | 9) | Fixed Asset Turnover | Sales / Net Fixed Assets | | Management | | | | | | | | | | | 10) | Total Asset Turnover | Sales / Total Assets | | | | | | | | | | | 2) Evaluate the financial performance of Company High Profits Berhad for 2013 against the Industry Average. (20 marks) | Category | Financial Ratio | Industry Average | | | | | | | Liquidity | 1) | Current Ratio | 2.05...
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...Diploma in Management Studies Measuring organisational performance ACFI 5030 Financial Planning Alexandra Charles Department of Accounting and Finance Scott Flatters P08103408 Date: 23/01/10 Assignment part A.docx Scott Flatters P08103408 Table of Contents 1 Introduction 5 2 Financial report overview 6 2.1 What are the 2008 figures showing? 6 2.1.1 Business Review 6 2.1.2 Risks and Uncertainties: 7 2.1.3 Turnover 7 2.1.4 Profit Loss and Balance sheet 8 3 Ratio Analysis 9 3.1 Liquidity Ratios 9 3.1.1 Current ratio 9 3.1.2 Acid Test / Quick Ratio 11 3.2 Profitability Ratios 12 3.2.1 ROCE Ratios 12 3.2.2 Gross Profit Ratio 13 3.2.3 Mark-up Ratio 15 3.2.4 Net Profit Ratio 16 3.3 Efficiency Ratios 18 3.3.1 Stock Turnover Ratio 18 3.3.2 Fixed Asset Turnover Ratio 19 3.3.3 Trade Debtor Collection Period 20 3.4 Investment Ratios 22 3.4.1 Earnings per Share 22 3.4.2 Dividend Cover 23 3.4.3 Gearing 24 4 Key issues 26 4.1 Current state of business 26 4.2 Looking forward 26 5 Conclusions 28 6 Appendices 30 6.1 Profit and Loss details and Balance Sheet details 2005-2008 31 6.2 2008 figures for AMPY Automation Digilog Ltd. 39 7 References 59 Table of Figures Figure 21 Key Performance indicators 2008 6 Figure 22 Turnover by segment and geographical market of destination 7 Figure 31 Current Ratio 10 Figure 32 Cash flow cycle example 10 Figure 33 Acid Test Ratio 11 Figure 34 ROCE Ratio table 12 Figure 35 ROCE Ratio 13 Figure 36...
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...ACCOUNTANCY, FINANCE AND BUSINESS Coursework: BBMF3023 Corporate Treasury Management Programme: Bachelor of Business (Honours) Accounting and Finance Academic Year: 2016/2017 Group coursework Corporations must strike a balance between current dividends and future growth which maximise the price of stock. Discuss the corporate dividend policy. You are required to include a public company listed in Bursa Malaysia and determine is there any obvious pattern to the dividend decision? Notes to Students 1. For the Group Coursework, the maximum is 5-6 students to a group. 2. The approximate length for the Group coursework should be around 3,000 words. Report in excess of 10% of the required words will be penalized. Include the word count at the end of report. Students are to use Harvard referencing in this assignment. 3. The coursework should be type written using Times New Roman font (size 12) with line spacing of 1.5. Use simple binding and no need for plastic cover. 4. Students are to submit a Group Member Appraisal form to ensure total participation of each member and a plagiarism statement. It is compulsory to submit your assignments to Safeassign. 5. Be mindful of plagiarism. Referencing and bibliography are expected if any part of your assignment is borrowed from any particular source. You may be penalized for non-referencing to the source. Please fill up plagiarism statement form and attach it with your report. 6. The deadline...
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... |Marks |Credit | | |Business Communication and Report Writing (In English) |100 |4 | | |Computer and Information Technology |100 |4 | | |Taxation in Bangladesh |100 |4 | | |Business Statistics (In English) |100 |4 | | |Macro Economics |100 |4 | | |Human Resource Management |100 |4 | | |Viva-Voce |100 |4 | | |Total = |700 |28 | |Course Code | |Marks: 100 |Credits: 4 | Class Hours: 60 | |Course Title |BUSINESS COMMUNICATION AND REPORT WRITING (In English) | 1...
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...University of Birmingham MSc International Business International Finance and Accounting Group ID Number - 1318585 Group ID Number - 1397851 Group ID Number - 1398597 Group ID Number - 1397574 content Introduction 2 Background of the two companies 2 Tesco 2 Sainsbury 3 Background to the industry 4 Ratio analysis 5 Conclusion 17 Reference 18 Appendix: Ration Calculation 20 Introduction Tesco and Sainsbury are two retailer companies that were founded in the UK. Now Tesco becomes one of the world’s largest retailer companies operating in 14 countries and Sainsbury becomes the third largest retailer company in the UK. This report aims to produce a business report on these two companies and the retailer industry. Therefore, this report contains three parts: background of two companies, background of the industry and 20 ratio analyses of both companies. Every ratio analysis includes three stages: calculation of the ratio, analysis of each company’s change in this ratio during the two-year period and the compare of these two companies’ financial performances. Background of the two companies Tesco Tesco is a famous supermarket in the world and was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen in London. Until now Tesco is 94 years old and it is one of the world’s largest retailers with over 530,000 staffs. Tesco served customers reaching 75 million every week in store or online. Tesco’s success is due to understanding customers’ needs and then innovating...
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...Letter of Transmittal September 2, 2013. Ms. Tamanna Islam Shaon Lecturer Bangladesh University of Business and Technology Subject: Financial Performance Evaluation of Mutual Trust Bank Limited. Dear Sir, With due respect, I would like to thank you for assisting me to prepare the internship report. This task has given me the opportunity to explore the activities of banking sector. The report contains a working procedure of General Banking Department which is based on its operational activities. It was a great pleasure for me to have the opportunity to work on this bank which remains a very well position than other bank in Bangladesh. I endeavor my best to come out with a good one. I would be very happy to provide you with any clarification regarding the report. Please contact with me if you have any query. Therefore, I pray and hope that you would be kind enough to accept my Internship Report and oblige thereby. Sincerely Yours, Acknowledgement At the very beginning, I am solemnly thanking the Almighty Allah. Completion of anything requires supports from various sources. I am very much fortunate to get the sincere guidance and supervision from a number of persons. I am sincerely thankful to my academic supervisor, Ms. Tamanna Islam Shaon, Lecturer of Finance Department, Bangladesh University of Business of Technology; who permitted and supported me to work on Financial Performance Evaluation of Mutual Trust Bank...
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...AN ANALYTICAL BUSINESS REPORT ON WHAT ETHICAL CONSUMERISM MEANS FOR BUSINESSES Name Course Professor/ Tutor University City/ State Date Executive Summary This paper presents an analytical business report on ethical consumerism. The aim of this assignment is to reveal the meaning of ethical consumption in markets. To this end, Adidas Company is critically reviewed. Adidas manufactures sportswear and equipment. This report uses a survey design where a questionnaire or an opinion survey is the data collection instrument. Ethical consumerism is influenced by several factors some of which are, the quality of the products, advertisements, brand image and the moral value that users attach to different products. Corporate social responsibility and appropriate advertising are some of the activities that improve ethical consumerism. The data collected in this study is analyzed and presented in tables and figures. Contents Executive Summary 2 List of Tables 4 List of Figures 5 1.0 Background of the Study 6 1.1 Introduction 6 2.0 Literature Review 6 2.1 Overview of Ethical consumerism 6 2.2 Review of Adidas Company 9 2.2.1 Adidas Mission, Vision and Values 10 3.0 Methodology 12 4.0 Results of Survey 12 4.1 Response rate 12 4.2 Price of Adidas products 13 4.3 Quality of Adidas products 15 4.4 Brand Image of Adidas 16 4.5 Convenience for purchasing Adidas products...
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...CONTENTS Executive Summary 1 Introduction and Company Overview 1 Data Flow Diagram 3 Process of Candidate Selection 8 a) SAP Business One 9 b) UFIDA U8 9 c) NetSuite 9 Candidate Comparason 10 d) Point Scoring Matrix 10 * SAP Business One 11 * UFIDA U8 16 * NetSuite 19 Department Scoring Matrix 24 e) Economic Feasibility Analysis 25 Discussion of Selection Process 25 Reflection of Selection Process 26 Reference List 28 Appendix A. Final Scoring Matrix 32 Appendix B. Economic Feasibility Analysis 34 Appendix C. Seminar Work 38 Appendix D. Meeting Minutes 42 1. Executive Summary This report sets out to introduce the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software selection process in the purchasing department of a company “Choc & Choc”, which is a chocolate wholesaler established by the graduates from the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China. Considering the company’s future operation, Accounting Information System (AIS) which will help the company store, process data and make business decisions is recommended. Aims at comprising the whole AIS in the company, purchasing department plans to choose the software that could satisfy its own needs. ERP system, which is multi-module transaction-based system management software, is taken into account under this condition (Bagranoff, 2008). The purchasing department needs to summarize and categorize supplier...
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...Inventory Quantities 1. Merchandising Inventory (items held for sale to customers): a. In a merchandising company, inventory consists of many different items. These items have two common characteristics: i. They are owned by the company, and ii. they are in a form ready for sale to customers. iii. Only one inventory classification, merchandise inventory, is needed to describe the many different items that make up the total inventory. 2. Manufacturing Inventories: a. In a manufacturing company, some inventory may not yet be ready for sale. Inventory is usually classified into three categories: i. finished goods inventory—items that are completed and ready for sale, ii. work in process—that portion of manufactured inventory that has been placed into the production process but is not yet complete, and iii. raw materials inventory—the basic goods that will e used in production but have not yet been placed into production. b. By observing the levels and changes in the levels of these three inventory types, financial statement users can gain insight into management’s production plans. 3. Inventory systems (Periodic and Perpetual Inventory Systems) a. No matter whether they are using a periodic...
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...An Internship Report On “Financial Performance Analysis of Uttara Bank Limited” (Maijdee Court Branch, Noakhali) A study based on Uttara Bank Limited "Nourished by the age old heritage of Bengal” [pic] Comilla University An Internship Report On “Financial Performance Analysis of Uttara Bank Limited” An Internship Report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Supervised By Shamem Ara Mili Assistant Professor Department of Accounting & Information Systems Faculty of Business Administration & Management Studies Comilla University . Submitted By Trina Saha Class Roll: 03; Exam Roll: 0806003 Batch: BBA (3rd Batch); Session: 2008-2009 Department of Accounting & Information Systems Comilla University Date of Submission: 10.08.2014 Dedication Letter of Transmittal August 10, 2014 Shamem Ara Mili Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting & Information Systems Comilla University, Comilla. Subject: Submission of the Internship Report. Dear Madam, With due respect, I would like to inform you that, I am Trina Saha bearing student ID: 0806003, a student of Department of Accounting & Information Systems have completed my 3 (Three) month internship at the Uttara Bank Ltd, Maijdee Court Branch under your supervision. It is my great pleasure to inform you that I have the opportunity to submit an internship...
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...Digital Business Management Setting the Internet revenue contribution at Sandvik Steel Case Instructions D.R. © Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Digital Business Management Case Instructions Read and analyze the case “Setting the Internet revenue contribution at Sandvik Steel” on pages 213 and 214 from the textbook Digital Business and E-commerce Management. 6th edition. If necessary read it two or three times until you understand and become familiar with the case. Step 1 Answer the following questions individually: 1. Summarize Sandvik Steel’s digital business strategy as described in the article. The extension for this answer should be half a page. (45 points) 2. Explain in detail why the proportion of online purchases varies in the different countries in which Sandvik trades. (45 points) References: At least two references and citations using the APA style. (10 points) Required: cover page, good writing and clear presentation. Total = 100 points Step 2 Answer the following questions as a team: 1. What Cultural/Legal/Ethical issues do you think Sandvik faced in different countries? List and explain 3 issues of each aspect, and recommend a solution for each one. The professor is expecting a clear explanation with a deep analysis and a well-documented answer. (90 points) References: At least two references and citations using the APA style. (10 points) Required Annex: Agreement log format. (You can find...
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