Your examination of the company should have convinced you that the key issue is that of survival. The company has £675 in the bank and running expenses of more than £110k each month. The most urgent priority is to generate some cash immediately. Then you need to think about other prompt changes that will at least stop the haemorrhage of more cash until a longer term solution can be found. Your report must focus on the existing situation and cost and efficiency changes that could quickly be made
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Co., Inc. has seen revenues shrink from $50705M USD to $45085 USD, and the company‘s net income from $1317USD to -441M USD. * Activity: * Poor Inventory Management * Total assets turnover is 2.99 in 2013, total assets management of the company is seems higher than Store competitors Radioshack, hhgregg , Aaron’s, Inc. * Inventory Turnover is turn down year to year 7.19 to 6.08 * Low Account Receivable Turnover ratio implies, the company should re-assess its credit policies in
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Introduction Inventory serves as a useful purpose in the supply chain. Many supply chain managers say firms can help decrease the need for inventory by carefully managing factors that cause inventory levels to increase. Inventory can be defined as the result of imbalance between supply and demand. The term inventory drivers comes from the consequences of certain supply or demand characteristics, such as: product desirability, responsiveness, information, collaboration, and visibility (St. John,
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Current ratio Shinepukur: From 2009 to 2010, current ratio of Shinepukur has increased by 0.24 because of increase in total current assets and decrease in total current liabilities. The increase in total current has occurred for increase in accounts-and-other-receivables, advances-deposits-and-prepayments and cash. Among these elements, the increase in advances-deposits-and-prepayments is significant (from 82182270 to 278773841). On the other hand, the element that has decreased total current liabilities
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materiality. During an audit plan, auditors normally estimate the scope of misstatements that would be considered material to BZ limited. However, as it is impossible to visit the Regional Processing Centre (where balance sheets that consist of inventories, trade receivables etc. are found), it would be very difficult to use an auditor’s professional judgement if they are unfamiliar and have limited access to information based on BZ. D) The contractual agreement between BZ and its supplier will
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ASIA e UNIVERSITY - ASIAN COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION/EMBA GROUP ASSIGNMENT No: 01 |Names and Student ID Numbers: | |Nuwan Gunathilaka : AeU/14/13/195 | |Title of the Assignment:
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Modeling and Solving LP Problems in a Spreadsheet Chapter 3 C.T. Ragsdale. 2008. Spreadsheet Modeling & Decision Analysis, 5th E. Revised, Thompson 1 Section 1 EXCEL SOLVER 2 Introduction • Solving LP problems graphically is only possible when there are two decision variables • Few real-world LP have only two decision variables • Fortunately, we can now use spreadsheets to solve LP problems 3 LP Solvers • Conventional – MPS (IBM) – LINDO, GINO – GAMS – AMPL • Algebraic
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Financial Analysis TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 INTRODUCTION 4 I. Liquidity Ratios 4 A. Working Capital 4 B. Current Ratio 5 C. Acid Test Ratio 5 D. Inventory Turnover Ratio 6 E. Days in Inventory 6 F. Receivables Turnover Ratio 7 G. Average Collection Period 8 II. Solvency Ratios 8 A. Debt to Assets Ratio 8 B. Times Interest Earned 9 III. Profitability 9 A. Earnings Per Share 9 B. Gross Profit Rate 10 C. Profit
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| 37.5% | 37.5% | 37.5% | 37.5% | | | | | | | | | | | Cash & ST Inv/Sales | | 3.9% | 3.9% | 4.1% | 4.1% | 4.5% | 4.5% | | Receivable turnover | | 133.5 | 133.5 | 133.5 | 133.5 | 133.5 | 133.5 | | Inventory turnover | | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.0 | | P&E Turnover | | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 3.2 | 3.2 | | Payables/COGS | | 10.9% | 10.9%
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liabilities were due today, we would only have assets to cover less than half of those liabilities. Since our Acid-Test falls below the 3rd quartile ratio of 0.6, this is weakness. We have also fallen considerably from Year 11’s ratio of 0.64. Inventory
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