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industrial goods and produces and sells farm and construction machinery. The three ratios that I believe are important in determining a company’s financial situation are the quick ratio, the inventory turnover ratio, and the net profit margin ratio. To find the quick ratio, we add cash, cash equivalents, short term investments and current receivables and divide them by the current liabilities. I found that the quick ratio is 1.86, we use this to find the companies liquidly position, which the…

interestingly, why people are considered more attractive over others. The Golden Ratio is a mathematical number that is a determinant factor of why some people are considered more good-looking than others. Although the accuracy of the Golden Ratio is constantly and understandably questioned, it does offer up a respectable amount of evidence as to why some individuals are immediately labeled attractive over others. The Golden Ratio should be considered accurate to determine beauty because of…

Sun Studios has lagged behind our competitors in the market for the past 5 years. Our box office receipts have fallen short and the success of our pictures has been moderate. To address our performance in the market and surpass investment goals we must strive to offer top decile entertainment and blockbuster movie offerings. To guide us in developing a higher level of entertainment and potential blockbuster production we compiled data from the top 50 movies during the years of 1937 - 2012.…

Net sales for the month ended September 31, 2016 decreased approximately 3.7% to $573k from $594k in September 2015. Bimba sales comprised 62.1% of total sales in September 2016 versus 75.1% in September of 2015. Lyon & Healy and Ocenco sales exceeded prior year by $53k collectively. Net purchases in September 2016 were $119k or 20.7% of sales compared with $160k or 26.7% of sales. Lower volume and considerably lower metal pricing contributed to the 25.2% decrease. September 2016 net…

With ABC in 2014 taking on average 64 days to sell its stock, it achieved a 5.7 times inventory turnover ratio (365 days divided by 64) which can be considered an appropriate for the company with similar nature of the business. Days debtors has been decreasing by one day on year by year basis since 2012. This would suggest that the company is getting better in collecting its debts. Section k in notes 1 of ABC’s annual report 2014 stipulates that ‘trade receivables are due for settlement no…

c. The reason the cost of OS-367 increased under the ABC system while the cost of GS-157 decreased is due to the total allocated cost for each product was different from the allocated cost under the Traditional costing system. Traditional allocation methods divide cost by departments and distribute the costs between the departments as they relate to volume-based cost drivers (Edmonds, Tsay, & Olds, 2011). However, ABC allocation methods differs by dividing the cost by activity centers and…

In the prompt it is stated that a recent study with several adverstising executives evinces that companies whose executives need to sleep less than 6 hours tend to have a higher profit margin and faster growth. The study indicated an association between the average hours of sleep and the professional performance reported by 300 pooled executives. Therefore, the prompt recommends that in order to ensure that its business to prosper, companies should refrain from hiring executives that sleep more…

The Life-Cycle Hypothesis posits that pre-retirees should be at their peak earnings potential, maximizing savings, and reducing liabilities at this stage of life (Ando & Modigliani, 1963). Yet, the indebtedness of pre-retirees has increased at an alarming rate (Anguelov & Tamborini, 2010; Butrica & Karamcheva, 2013). Even more troublesome, while numerous individuals are comfortable with the usage of credit cards and other forms of borrowing, a limited number of consumers possess fundamental…

Amazon.com, Inc. Furthermore, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has higher number of employees which is mostly due to having physical stores and Amazon.com, Inc. being an electronic retailer. Inventory turnover for both companies are nearly the same which this ratio means the number of times inventory is sold or used in a time period. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has a higher asset…

Current Situation Current Performance "The Maersk Group delivered a profit of USD 925m and an underlying profit of USD 3.1bn. After a satisfactory result in the first half of the year with a ROIC of 10.2%, Maersk Group was severely impacted by a widening supply-demand gap across most of the business, leading to significant oil price and freight rate reductions. ROIC for the second half of the year was negative 6.3%, impacted by impairments of USD 2.5bn after tax in Maersk Oil and for Q4 there…