Artic Plc Case

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It is understood that Artic PLC is in a reasonable position to take a loan but the company needs to elaborate a strategy to improve important areas like net profit, return on capital investment, debtor collection and price per earnings that need attention in order to take proactive action to improve its financial performance. We are optimistic that the company tends to improve those underperformed ratios according to the recommendations throughout this report.

Conversely, the company enjoys positive financial performance such as: gross profit, current ratio, quick ratio, credit collection and dividend cover which is very good for the company, shareholders and potential investors and for the bank that will provide the loan. However, the gearing

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