Boral Limited

1) When it comes to investing in property, it is generally a huge decision to be made by Australian households. What are the important factors that a person needs to consider before going ahead with such purchase?

Working capital is positive, meaning that the company has enough cash, accounts receivable, inventory, and short time investments to cover the current liabilities.

CBA’s cash ratio is exceedingly low. Its ratio of 0.021 would mean that CBA is able to pay only 2.1cents for every dollar of its liabilities.

The current ratio has slightly decreased by 0.7 cents from 4.2:1 to 3.5:1. The main reason for this trend, because the current assets contained too many accounts receivables and inventories, and even though it was no cash available in 2015. Therefore, it indicates indirectly the company liquidity was very poor. In fact, majority of companies expected a healthy current ratio of 2:1, which reflects they should be able to meet its current debts with current assets as the trend is satisfactory (Smart, Awan, & Baxter, 2013).

The current ratio has increased by 0.0534 from 0.9900 to 1.434. As the current ratio is a measure of liquidity and ability to meet short-term debt requirements, BP was more able to meet their short term debt obligations in 2005 than 2004. From 2001 to 2003 the current ratios were 1.0767, 0.9733, and 0.9600 respectively. In 2001, 2002, and 2004, BP 's current liabilities were greater than current assets, indicating that BP may have faced some difficulty in meeting short-term debt

When determining the overall financial strength of a company, businesses rely on their current assets to show value. Current assets are defined as assets that can or will be converted into cash quickly. The value of the asset’s will vary and may be used at any time as collateral for loans or other investment business development plans. Current assets will include, of course, cash and cash equivalents, which is the amount of money the company has in its bank accounts including savings bonds, certificates of deposit, and money market funds. Assets must always be calculated as net assets, that is, less any debt owed by the organization.

Working or functioning capital is the extent at which the organization’s cotemporary possessions enhanced from the liabilities. In this scenario group A evaluate the financial statement of Wal-Mart that includes balance sheets, cash flow statements, and suggestion by the managerial administration along with the postscripts to the financial statements of account that needs to demonstrate how every existing resource as well as liability has influenced the tactics that are concerned with the cash management administration. Moreover perceiving the upcoming year’s prediction of Wal-Mart’s profitability or income would boost up by 20%, we then give a diversified suggestion concerning working

This research examines and analyses the foreign investment in London on the domestic sector of construction residential market, explaining and examining why London city has become an interest city to invest and how the 2008 financial crisis has changed the way to fund the residential in particular, but the construction in general & how this money has impacted in the market both ways, prices and JVC partnership on the funding side.

For Boral LTD, under the book value condition, the total asset is 5865.4 million. The liabilities are 2341.3 million. The total equity is 3524.1 million. Using the formula above, the D/E ratio equals to 39.91 percent.

Working capital is the excess of a company’s current assets over its current liabilities. Financially healthy firms have positive working capitals.

The third ratio mirroring the company’s efficiency is the creditors’ days ratio, which measures, according to Atrill, the number of days in which the business pays its debts to suppliers. Britvic PLC’s financial statements recorded in 2009 a 20 days increase in the above mentioned ratio compared to the 2005-2008 average that had a value of 149 days. Therefore, Britvic PLC paid in 2009 its debts 169 days after the enclosure of the transactions. Taking into consideration the fact that Britvic PLC is operating in the soft drinks industry, which has a medium pace of generating cash, it may be stated that this ratio’s value is high enough to reflect that Britvic PLC is risking the creditors’ goodwill. On the other hand, the company paid its short-term liabilities in approximately four months after receiving the supplies

Problem StatementInadequate Working Capital • Stagnant growth: It becomes difficult for the company to take advantage of new opportunities or develop new products or adapt to alteration of production techniques needed when new opportunities arise. • Loss of credit opportunity: The inadequacy of working capital funds make firms unable to secure attractive credit opportunities. A company with working capital need not seek for credit opportunities because the firm will be able to finance large stock and can therefore place large orders. • Loss of cash discount: Companies try to persuade their debtors to pay early by offering them a cash discount off the actual price. A company with inadequate working capital funds will not be able to enjoy this benefit. • Loss of goodwill: A company with good reputation can expect cooperation from the trade creditors at the time of financial difficulties. A firm will lose its reputation when it is not in position to honor its short-term obligations. As a result, the firm faces tight credit

Conducted highly successful property management seminars with high-profile companies, including Gilligan Rowe, Westpac, BNZ, Kensington Swan, Davenports Harbour, RSM Prince, and New Zealand Home Loans. Received recognition from BNZ chief economist, Tony Alexander.

Working capital is a financial metric that represents the operational liquidity of a business (Working Capital Management Analysis, 2015). Along with fixed assets (property, plant, and equipment etc.) working capital is considered a part of operating capital. The more positive a company’s working capital is, the more they are required to certify that they are able to continue its processes and has sufficient funds to cover both, growing short-term debt and upcoming expenses. It is stated by Watson and Head (2013) that decisions relating to working capital and short term financing are referred to as working capital management, which involve managing the relationship between a firm 's short-term assets and its short-term liabilities. Morrison’s (Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc) was founded in 1899 and with a market share of 11% and listed on the London stock exchange - they have now become the fourth largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom (Morrisons-corporate.com, 2015). Throughout this report, it is going to show Morrison’s calculated capital management to date, involving an evaluation of ratios and competitor ratios too.

The competitive business environment in which companies develop their activity determines them to focus on strategies intended to improve their performance. This is because their performance on the market can be attributed to creating competitive advantage. This objective can be reached with different strategies, some of them based on reducing costs, others based on differentiation of companies' products and services. However, these strategies are affected by working capital of these companies. It is important to analyze how these companies manage their working capital in order to improve their performance.