...FIN 6406 A Financial Ratio Quarterly Trend Analysis of: Kellogg Co. Stock Symbol: K Listed on NYSE Exchange Prepared for: Dr. Edward Lawrence Department of Finance Florida International University In partial fulfillment of the requirements of Course: FIN 6406 By: Ana Carolina De Obaldía Rogemif Fuentes Cesar Giovanni Santos Fábrega Introduction For this project we decided to choose Kellogg’s Company (NYSE: K) to elaborate a financial quarterly trend analysis because it is a big, stable company with 108 years in the market and its products are sold in more than 180 countries worldwide. The ready to eat cereals first appeared in the late 1800’s when a group of vegetarians wanted to expand their food options and decided to create the wheat and corn flakes. It wasn´t until 1906 that Kellogg’s Co. entered the market and has stayed latent through many generations until these days. It is interesting that it survived two world wars and the depression of the United States in the 1930’s. Being this long in the market also means that they have known how to evolve in this world with constant changes, adapting to the behavioral changes in people and their likes remaining competitive and appealing. It is more of a mature company rather than growing company and has many brand-loyal customers. Regarding the sources of information consulted for this report, we used some financial websites to get the financial statements of Kellogg’s and its main competitor General Mills, which we will...
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...FIN 6406 A Financial Ratio Quarterly Trend Analysis of: The Boeing Company BA Listed on New York Stock Exchange Prepared for: Dr. Deanne Butchey Corporate MBA Program Florida International University By: Justin Papcun Computations Financial Trend Comparison Liquidity: The Boeing Company financial data shows that the company is in place to settle up its obligations in the short term business strategy. As it appears right now, 1.20 is the current ratio and the company’s assets offset its liabilities by 1:2. The quick ratio of 0.37 is lower than the current ratio due to the variance from competition forming from the industry average. The current ratio posted a value of 1 or above consistently, but the same cannot be said for the quick ratio which posted below the value one for Q1-Q4. This decline comes from a recession, a decrease in airline traffic, and the instability of fuel cost. Despite this the current ratio was able to increase value while the quick ratio decreased while still posting a positive number. This was due to an inventory and production decrease. In current liabilities to inventory sector, the numbers did not suffer. In Q1-Q4 Boeing did not post a value below 1, varying between 1.13-1.21. The cash ratio saw numbers between 0.13 and 0.14 for Q1-Q3, and increasing to a 0.21 for Q4. Assets Utilization: This asset ratio shows Boeing is competently generate profitable sales revenues by properly using investments. Looking at the ratio turnover...
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...XOM Listed on New York Stock Exchange Prepared for: Dr. Edward Lawrence Department of Finance and Real Estate Florida International University In partial fulfillment of the requirements of Course: FIN 6406 By: Nicole Suarez Panther ID # 1101809 1.0 Introduction ExxonMobil Corporation and its affiliated companies operate in the United States and most other countries. Headquartered in Irvine, TX, ExxonMobil was formed following the merger of Mobil and Exxon. It is the world’s largest publicly traded international Oil and Gas Company. They hold an industry-leading inventory of global oil and gas resources. They are the world’s largest refiner and marketer of petroleum products, and their chemical company ranks among the world’s largest. They are also a technology company, applying science and innovation to find better, safer and cleaner ways to deliver the energy the world needs. The company has more than 82,000 employees across the world. ExxonMobil’s stock is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol “XOM.” This report provides a quarterly trend analysis for ExxonMobil for fiscal year 2011. Financial information was obtained from the company’s website by examining the 10-Q SEC filings for Quarters 1 through 3 and the 10-K SEC filing for Quarter 4. Additional financial information was also found on Yahoo! Finance, MSN Money and Bloomberg. Main areas of focus are liquidity, asset utilization, profitability, debt...
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...Syllabus Corporate Finance 1148-FIU01-FIN-6406-SECRXQ_AP_1148-86029 GENERAL INFORMATION | IMPORTANT INFORMATION | COURSE DETAIL | COURSE CALENDAR GENERAL INFORMATION PROFESSOR INFORMATION Instructor: Prof. Edward R. Lawrence Phone: (305) 348-0082 Office: RB 207A Fax: (305) 348-4245 Office Hours: By Appointment E-mail: elawrenc@fiu.edu Website: Professor's Bio COURSE DESCRIPTION AND PURPOSE The course is covered in two parts. In part one; we will have an overview of financial management and financial environment. We will analyze firm’s financial performance using financial ratio analysis. We will then discuss the time value of money (TVM) and use the concept of TVM in the valuation of bonds and stocks. In part two we will understand the methods for computing cash flows and the company’s cost of capital and then use them to learn capital budgeting which involves project selection decisions. COURSE OBJECTIVES The objective of this course is to give the students an operational knowledge of corporate finance by combining theory and applications. Introduce the concepts or risk, return, and time-value-of-money as applied to valuation of securities and capital budgeting. Here are the course level learning outcomes: 1. Perform Internet research and find relevant financial data. 2. Use information technology to assess the financial position of organizations. 3. Learn how to perform financial statement analysis. 4. Learn the mathematics of Time Value of Money...
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...FIN 6406 A Financial Ratio Quarterly Trend Analysis of : Wal-Mart WMT Listed on New York Stock Exchange Liquidity Liquidity ratio measures the financial health of the company for the payment of short term obligation. Current ration is a general and quick measure of liquidity it represents margin of safety or cushion available to creditors. It is the index of company’s financial stability, technical solvency and strength of working capital. Quick ratio eliminates the inventories from current assets it is beet measure of liquidity. Good current ration accompanied by low quick ration indicates disproportion of high investment in inventories. Net working capital is conversion cycle of the company that is used to purchase material and convert in to finished goods and then in return get money form the customer from the sale of product or services. Cash rations is the percentage of cash available to payoff the liabilities. Current ration is much less than standard. Company has more current liabilities as compare to currents assets this ratio is not satisfactory. Further this is below than industry average. Company has the declining trend in the liquidity category. Liquidity of the company is much less as compare to industry average for the recent trend. This shows liquidity performance is poor as compare to other organization. Age of the creditors is greater than the age of the company debtors and unable to pay off current obligation quickly that is due to working capital...
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...Dream Dare Win www.jeywin.com Annual Report 2007-08 Ministry of Finance Government of India Dream Dare Win 1 www.jeywin.com Dream Dare Win www.jeywin.com FOR PUBLIC CONTACT PURPOSE: Ministry of Finance Department of Economic Affairs North Block, New Delhi - 110 001 Phones: 23095120, 23092453 Website: http://www.finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_eco_affairs/index.html Department of Expenditure North Block New Delhi - 110 001 Phones: 23095661, 23095613 Website: http://www.finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_expenditure/index.html Department of Revenue North Block New Delhi - 110 001 Phones: 23095384, 23095385 Website: http://www.finmin.nic.in/the_ministry/dept_revenue/index.html Department of Disinvestment Block 11 & 14, CGO Complex Lodhi Road, New Delhi -110 003 Phones: 24368528, 24368523, 24368044 Website: http://www.divest.nic.in Department of Financial Services Jeevan Deep Building, Parliament Street, New Delhi 110 001 Phones: 23748721, 23748734 Website: http://www.finmin.nic.in Dream Dare Win 2 www.jeywin.com Dream Dare Win www.jeywin.com Contents Paragraph No. INTRODUCTION Page No. 1 CHAPTER - I Department of Economic Affairs 9 Economic Division 1 11 Budget Division 2 12 Capital Markets Division 3 15 Infrastructure Division 4 19 Fund Bank Division (including UN Branch) 5 23 Foreign Trade Division 6 26 Aid Accounts & Audit Division ...
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