The current ratio (CR) measures the extent to which an organization can transform assets into cash to meet short-term liabilities (p.3). FirstRate’s (FR) CR is trending down and is a low value indicating ratios lending risk ("Liquidity Ratio", n.d.). FR current ratio is still in"safe zone" as it exceeds 1 (p.6). The CR is the extent which current assets exceed current liabilities and so it is a measure of short-term ability to meet obligations (p.6). The acid-test (AT) ratio is a more exact measure
also can sort out their working capital issues. 2 Overview 2.1 NPV gives explicit consideration to the time value of money. It is used in capital budgeting of project to analyse the profitability of an investment. NPV is used to make accept or reject decisions. If NPV > $0, accept the project. If NPV< $0, reject the project. IRR is defined as the discount rate which equates NPV of all cash flow of a project to zero. If IRR is equal to or greater than cost of capital, accept the project. If
long-term goals of a corporation. Their main goal is to maximize the value of stock shares. Stockholder wealth maximization is the appropriate goal for management decisions. The risk and timing associated with expected earnings per share and cash flows are considered in order to maximize the price of the firm’s common stock. Maximizing shareholder wealth
alternatives affect the performance of the firm? 2. What are the principal risks facing the firm? Sales The majority of the company’s sales are to integrated steel producers who value relationships with their suppliers; however, Rosario Acero decided to pay sales personnel a straight salary in order to cut costs. Not offering a sales commission does not incent sales personnel to develop or maintain relationships with their clients
creating storage waste. Walmart earned 352,297 million in profit in 2013 with two million seven hundred and with fifty-nine million in inventory loss. This is less than 1% (.78%) of the profit. This shows Walmart made momentous profit this year with reduced waste. Their inventory spent a whole year on the shelf before selling. In 2014, Amazon.com made $62,758 million from the products they have sold. The cost of goods is when the company profits from the product that have been sold, minus the cost it
business leaders to consider the company’s stakeholders during the decision making process, and to fully understand how a decision may impact the stakeholder’s value in the company. A stakeholder’s value is defined differently amongst the various stakeholder groups, and will depend upon what they are willing to sacrifice in the pursuit of the value they seek. For example, a community may be willing to sacrifice an increase in local noise levels in pursuit of the economic benefit a company would bring
economy, or government policy just to name a few. Another top concern within our nation is the current state of our higher education: its affordability and its overall impact on poverty levels and the unemployment rate. According to the U.S. Department of Education: Creating a clear path to the middle class and ensuring our nation 's economic prosperity means opening the doors of higher education to more Americans. Today, three-quarters of the fastest-growing occupations require education and training
consumption. The degree to which a person or economy will spend more of their income on consumption is called the marginal propensity to consume (MPC). The MPC depends on the individual's economy's savings characteristics. As regards in inflation rate are higher that income rate, the increase of income will no positive effect in economy. Interest Rates: Interest rate have been decreased both the first quarter (0.18%) as well as second quarter (0.09 %) Interest rates are defined in several different ways
Portfolio Project Part 1: Chapter 6 Wall Street Journal Questions 1) Why are sports teams considering switching to a variable–pricing strategy for tickets? Sports teams are switching to a variable-pricing strategy for tickets so that they can get a higher profit on games with record attendance numbers. They feel the need to do so because the marginal costs, such as construction payment and players’ salaries, did not equal to the marginal revenue, since attendance was severely dropping. To pay for the marginal
Problem Set 9 (75 points) 1. A student argues, "If a monopolist finds a way of producing a good at lower cost, he will not lower his price. Because he is a monopolist, he will keep the price and the quantity the same and just increase his profit." Do you agree? Use a graph to illustrate your answer. The argument is incorrect. As the graph shows, a reduction in marginal cost will cause a monopolist to reduce his price. 2. Economist Harvey Leibenstein argued that the loss of economic efficiency