CASE 1: PLASTIC COLOR PROBLEM QN. A small plastic product made of Bakelite is black and has a good sales record for years; however sales have begun to drop off significantly. The competition is using bright colors in their product and is taking over the market. In what way can the first company improve its product, add color and increase productivity to lower the price? Answer The Bakelite plastic was created in 1909 by Leo Baekelan, a Belgian chemist. Bakelite has revolutionize the way consumer…
PROFITABILITY Profitability is the dexterity of a business yield profit. Profitability is responsible for the business to stay in the market or not. Profit itself is what left of the turnover a business beget after it pays all expenditures which contributed in the generation of the turnover (like product production, overheads, wages and other expenditures) related to the management of business operation. If the business is generating the turnover equal to its expenditure, making neither a profit…
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…
and weaknesses of the company is ratio evaluation. Ratio analysis as a method of analysis and interpretation of financial statements. It is the technique of setting up and interpreting various ratios for assisting in making positive selections. “Financial ratio evaluation is the calculation and contrast of ratios which might be derived from the information in a organization 's financial statements. the extent and historical traits of these ratios may be used to make inferences…
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…