Capital adequacy ratio

Altman Z-Score The Altman Z-score is the output of a credit-strength test that gauges a publicly traded manufacturing company's likelihood of bankruptcy. The Altman Z-score is based on five financial ratios that can be calculated from data found on a company's annual report. It uses profitability, leverage, liquidity, solvency and activity to predict whether a company has a high degree of probability of being insolvent. Altman Z-Scores and the Financial Crisis In 2007, the credit ratings of…

Before the age of discovery and colonization, England was an "underdeveloped" country in relation to the standards of the developed countries of the period such as Germany, Italy and Low Countries. While the population of France and Italy were respectively over 15 and 11 million, the number of inhabitants in England and Wales were fewer than 4 million. Also, Carlo Cipolla points out that England was more backward than that of most of the Europe continent in terms of the technology and economy.…

LITERATURE REVIEW 2.0 Introduction This chapter provides a review of previous study which is related to generation Y, characteristics of generation Y, the differences between generation X and generation Y, level of income adequacy, and expenditure pattern. 2.1 Generation Y 2.1.1 Who is generation Y? The word of “Generation Y” comes from the Advertising Age magazine since 1993. Generation Y, Boomlets, Echo Boomers, Millennial Generation or Internet Generation (Cameron, 2007) are those…

6.5. FINANCIAL ANALYSIS TABLE 6.1: Differential costs associated with the year-long operation of 16 boxes. Differential costs are recurring incremental expenses incurred by Western because of Purple Recycling. Differential Cost Analysis For the year-long operation of 16 boxes Assumption Utilities Expense $0.84 USD / year / box [11] 17.07 Server Hosting Expense $50 / month [12] 600.00 Maintenance Expense $150/year/machine [13] 2,400.00 Wages Expense 10 minutes to empty each box, 4 times…

without effecting their current and quick ratios to an extreme. What Tesco considers to be its current assets amounts to a total of 15,417 million GBP. There is a total of 19,405 million GBP in current liabilities. The current ratio of company amounts to a rate of 0.79%. This means that for every 1 GBP of current liabilities Tesco has, it has 0.79 GBP of current liabilities that it is responsible for. A more reliable way to test Tesco’s solvency is to…

1. Introduction 1.1 Background on Financial Ratio Analysis Lenders and investors alike often use financial ratio analysis when determining the performance, solvency, and general business practice of a firm. Ratio analysis can serve as a tool to understand the relationship between quantities, and can be a useful benchmark in the comparison of two or more organizations within a common industry (Faello, 2015). The use of these ratios can determine factors such as asset and debt management, as well…

every $1 worth of goods produced $1.3 and $1.4 of Kohl’s revenue. In addition, Kohl’s has a better Return on Equity than others competitors of its industry. A lower equity multiplier means that a company is more favorable than one that has a higher ratio. For this reason, a lower rate does not has a high debt servicing costs and depends less on debt financing. Based on the results, Kohl’s has a smaller risk of debt than its competitors because it able to manage the principal repayment as well as…

Quick Ratio measures the ability of a company to fulfill its current liabilities with its most liquid assets. Overall, a rising quick ratio indicates that the company has enough cash to pay back its current liabilities. From the calculation, a decrease of Sleep Country’s quick ratios is prevalent between the 2014 to 2015 fiscal years. In 2014, the ratio reveals that Sleep Country had approximately $1.06 in quick assets for every $1 in current liabilities. However, in 2015 the quick ratio…

Mathematics is often defined as the science that studies the relations and properties of geometrical figures, symbols and numbers. One of those numbers is Phi, an irrational number also known as the golden ratio, with an approximate value of Φ= 1.618033988749895… Phi has many applications in several fields of study, including natural science. Through this work we will explore different cases in which a relation between the number phi and God can be witnessed, hoping to call the attention of the…

As Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, once said “Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king . . . but there are many places in the world where, as we 've seen, they just won 't do the job” (Daryl). Hydraulic electronic fuel injection units, turbochargers, and glow plugs—do the words mean anything to you? Car and truck motors are a mystery to many, but when diesel engines come into play, many can’t do anything except put them into gear and drive them. I will be…