Ratio Analysis
Ratios are a method of summarising and presenting financial information in an easily understandable form. They are used to assist us in assessing the performance of a business by identifying relationships between different figures that are considered to be significant. Ratios can be split into five groups, these five groups are: 1. Cash Flow – These ratios measure the businesses ability to meet financial commitments from cash flow.
2. Liquidity – These assess the businesses ability to meet the current liabilities as they fall due.
3. Asset Management – These show the speed of funds through the business operating cycle and how effectively working capital is managed.
4. Stake – These
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b) Interest Cash Cover
The Interest Cash Cover is an indication of the businesses ability to service total interest commitments from cash generated from operations. Compared to the Interest Cover ratio in the stake section this ratio gives a far better indicator, given that profit is not equivalent to cash.
The interest cash cover figure for 2004 shows that Allied Waste
Disposal plc can meet its interest commitments just over 63 times from its operations. This is a decrease f just under 7%, this can be due to two reasons; the first is an increase in the amount of interest paid, the second is an increase in the cash flow from operations or it can be both of these factors.
Liquidity
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Liquidity has an immediate bearing on the financial profile of a business and therefore its ability to survive. A business that cannot turn its current assets into cash runs the risk of failing. It is essential therefore that when we look at a business, that they are appropriate i.e. long-term facilities are used for longer term/fixed assets, and short-term facilities for working capital. This should ensure an acceptable structure to the balance sheet and mean that the business should have sufficient cash to ensure the servicing and repayment of its short-term debts.
a) Current Ratio (also known as the Liquidity Ratio)
The current ratio gives an indicator of the number of times the
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Reduced inventory by 1.8 million pair. Based on the COGS of 45%, this could mean a reduction in inventory of close to $10M.
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values were not great enough to absorb the entire reduction, an extraordinary gain was recognized.
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quantity of net income dollars of company earned for each dollar invested by the owners was 8.5% in 2010 and 10.4% in 2011 reflecting an increase of 1.9%. After analyzing the solvency ratios the following highlights were found: Riordan’s debt of totals assets ratio indicates company’s capability to survive losses without spoiling the interests of creditors. For 2010 was 14% and during 2011 was 29.4%, showing an increase of risk of 15.4% (higher the number, higher the risk that leads the company to be unable to meet its maturing obligations). The company’s time’s interest earned ratio that determines company’s capability to meet interest payments as they come due was 26.9 in 2010 and 8.3 in 2011. A high ratio on times interest earned may lead to investors to think that a company has an undesirable lack of debt or is paying down too much debt with earnings that could be used for other projects (Investopedia, 2013). Subsequently evaluating our performance and efficiently of the collected data, it reveals that Riordan Manufacture has displayed remarkable progress in comparison between years 2011 and 2010. The company liquidity demonstrates that we are capable to