AMFAC Inc. Essay

Favorable liquidity ratios are critical to a company and its creditors within a business or industry that does not provide a steady and predictable cash flow. They are also a key predictor of a company’s ability to make timely payments to creditors and to continue to meet obligations to lenders when faced with an unforeseen event.

Interpretation: 53% of the total assets are financed through debts; the remaining 39% is financed through equity.

The liquidity ratios indicate a firm's ability to carry out enough revenue in order to cover its obligations and continue its operations.

7. Debt-to-Equity Ratio: We can find this by taking total debt divided by total equity. This ratio analysis measures/shows a company’s financial leverage.

Increase in current liabilities Substantial increase in current liabilities weakened the company’s liquidity position. Its current liabilities were US$2,063.94 million at the end of FY2010, a 48.09% increase compared to the previous year. However, its current assets recorded a marginal increase of 25.07% - from US$1,770.02 million at the end of FY2009 to US$2,213.72 million at the end of FY2010. Following this, the company’s current ratio declined from 1.27 at the end of the FY2009 to 1.07 at the end of FY2010. A lower current ratio indicates that the company is in a weak financial position, and it may find it difficult to meet its day-to-day obligations.

11. Accounts receivable turnover and days sales in accounts receivable for the last three years:

This is due to the fact that inventory and accounts receivable are left out of the equation. Based on the cash ratio, this company carries a low cash balance. This may be an indication that they are aggressively investing in assets that will provide higher returns. We need to make sure that we have enough cash to meet our obligations, but too much cash reduces the return earned by the company.

Liquidity In analyzing liquidity of the company, the current ratio is not very telling of a falling company. The company increased its ratio throughout the period of the income statement thus building upon its company assets and allowing for a 6-1 ratio of assets over its liabilities. This implies the company is still able to operate sufficiently even though it did not make its optimum current ratio of about 8-1. However, when one takes the inventory out of the equation with the quick ratio, the numbers show the true strength of short term liquidity. The numbers are still good, and do not indicate failure – but are

| This ratio measures a company’s ability to meet its short-term obligations with its most liquid assets, which is why inventory is omitted.

The debt-to-equity ratio (D/E) is a financial ratio indicating the relative proportion of shareholders' equity and debt used to finance a company's assets. Star River’s last year (2001) standing D/E ratio was 2.2 which is higher than its industry practice. A high debt/equity ratio generally means that the company has been aggressive in financing its growth with debt. This can result in volatile earnings as a result of the additional interest expense.

The final ratio we will analyze is the average collection period which measures the time it takes a firm to receive payments after a sale has been made. The average collection period was 55 days for 2001 and 42 days for 2000. While these numbers seem to be very high the reader needs to remember that they are dealing with a large ticket item and financing is usually arranged and payments from the finance company could take more time than cash payments that are normal in the traditional retail marketplace.

When analyzing Microsoft’s capital structure the percentage of liabilities that construct the firm’s total assets is 42.87%. Showing that less than half of the firm’s total assets are represented by liabilities. Now the percentage of the total assets that are represented by stockholders’ equity is 57.12%. Showing that stockholder’s equity represents slightly more than half of

Already in 1958, Modigliani and Miller have pointed the discussion of capital structure towards the cost of debt and equity. According to their first proposition, in a world of no corporate taxes and with perfect markets, financial leverage has no effect on a firm’s value. In their second proposition, they state that the cost of equity equals a linear function defined by the required return on assets and the cost of debt (Modigliani and Miller, 1958).

CURRENT RATIO show a company’s ability to pay its current obligations that is company’s liquidity. The current ratio position is lower for Honda at 0.33 than for Toyota at 1.22 in 2010. Honda has a large portion of receivables in assets both in trade, notes receivables and finance receivables. It has a huge portion of cash as well. This indicates the company has no problem in terms of generating a positive influx of assets. But in terms of liabilities it has a large portion of short term debt which makes almost 1/3rd of total Current liabilities. Also there is a significant portion of Long Term debt. The higher level of liabilities in the denominator reduces the overall ratio.

Furthermore, if an organisation does not have enough cash resources in order to settle its current liabilities, this will highlight great inefficiency with stock turnover not being sold. A good company such as Sainsbury’s we see is healthy because revenue is recognised from inventories sold – this revenue allows cash to flow in order to pay for short term and long-term liabilities. It is evident that there are insufficient cash flowing into the company from investing activities and financing activities, which are shown by the brackets.