I. Introduction
In today’s world, with the transition to a market economy many entrepreneurs and business leaders start to think more carefully about the way of efficiently organizing financial activities of the company, improving the management of financial resources and differentiating company’s policies and performance for firm’s future prosperity. This term paper addresses such issues for KazMunaiGas Exploration Production Company by the analysis of firm’s structure, corporate governance, financial statement and all other important factors that determine a financial condition of the company.
A. Objective The main goal of this work is to obtain a small number of the key and most informative parameters that give objective and
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E. Significance of the issue
The significance of this study lies in illustrating to the company’s management the weaknesses in firm’s policies regarding use of financial resources, selection of sources or amount of acquired external funding and stock performance on the market. Therefore, the ultimate findings of this project are important for the company’s administration in a sense that they may assist to identify inefficiencies in firm’s performance and eliminating these weaknesses for the further successful development of the company. Finally, this project is valuable for potential investors who consider investing in local companies as it will allow them to learn and evaluate investment opportunity in stock of KazMunaiGas.
II. Findings and Analysis
Brief description of the company
KazMunaiGaz Exploration Production JSC is a subsidiary of National Company KazMunayGas, which belongs to National Wealth Fund «Samruk-Kazyna». KMG EP was founded in March 2004 by the merger of two hitherto joint stock companies, Uzenmunaigas and Embamunaigas. JSC “EP “KazMunaiGaz” is a leading company in the field of hydrocarbon exploration and production in Kazakhstan, and among the leaders of the oil and gas sector in the Caspian region. The main activities of oil and gas properties carried out in the Caspian and Mangistau basins of western Kazakhstan. JSC KMG EP has production branches UzenMunaigas and EmbaMunaigas, also Kazgermunai
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The capital structure of a company changes the risks exposure highlighting the need to determine the impact of debt levels on financial risk (Pearson Learning, 2014). The dividend payout is the ratio of dividends per share to the earnings per share, and both ratios increased for the three years. The increase in the DPS rose at a decreasing rate resulting in slower growth in the dividend payout. The dividend per share is dependent on the total number of dividends paid out in an interim year, and the increase in the DPS was in line with the management’s efforts to reward the investors as the earnings improved. The dividend yield representing the dividend paid out relative to the share price, and the lower divided yield in December 2014 can be attributed to the higher share price hovering over $40, which was more than double the share price in the previous
Also, according to its leverage ratios, the company’s debts are not only very high, but are also increasing. Its decreasing TIE ratio indicates that its capability to pay interests is decreasing. The company’s efficiency ratios indicate that despite the fact that its fixed assets are increasingly being utilized to generate sales during the years 1990-1991 as indicated by its increasing fixed asset turnover ratio, the decreasing total assets turnover indicate that overall the company’s total assets are not efficiently being put to use. Thus, as a whole its asset management is becoming less efficient. Last but not the least, based on its profitability ratios, the company’s ability to make profit is decreasing.
In the Journal of Alcohol & Drug Education is the letter “Tapping into College Football: The Need for Research Examining the Impact of Stadium Alcohol Sales on Drinking Behaviors and Incidents” written to the editor by Adam E. Barry, Texas A&M; Steven M. Howell, Northern Illinois University; and Steven Salaga, Texas A&M University. Barry, Howell, and Salaga give background information on the alcohol sales and alcohol related incidents. They focus on the West Virginia University Case findings heavily. The research provided shows a decrease in alcohol related incidents in 2010 which was the year before allowing alcohol to be sold in the West Virginia stadium (Tapping into College Football). According to Jenni Carlson, a sports columnist for the Oklahoman, “West Virginia decided to start selling beer at concession stands in 2011. That was its final season in the Big East before jumping to the Big 12. The first year that it sold alcohol in the stadium, sales added $700,000 to the athletic department coffers. But there were more benefits, benefits that should interest other schools. In 2011, the campus police at West Virginia reported an across-the-board drop in game-day incidents. Calls. Cases. Arrests. Charges. All of them went down, including a 35 percent drop in arrests,” (Cheers to Selling Beers at Football Games).
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