☺ The most critical financial component of working capital
☺ The franchisee should seek to minimize the risk of running out of cash
☺ The franchised business must ensure that bills due (accounts receivable) are collected in a timely manner
☺ The franchise owner may develop policies and practices
☺ Another way to significantly reduce working capital requ
of your company at the end of year under review.
(1) Current ratio
Current ratio = Current assets / Current liabilities
Year 2009 2008 2007
ratio 1.16 1.20 1.23
The first liquidity index, current ratio is slightly decreased during last 3 years. Maybe the current liabilities are more roughly increased than the current assets increase as time goes by so the current ratio shows the
Liabilities & Shareholder’s Equity
AMR Corp Korean Air AMR Corp Korean Air
2007 2007 2006 2006
Accounts Payable 4.1% 1.3% 3.7% 1.7%
Short-Term Debt 0.0% 3.5% 0.0% 2.7%
Accruals 7.9% 7.6% 7.9% 7.4%
Air traffic liability 13.9% 0.0% 13.0% 0.0%
Current maturities of
long-term debt 3.2% 11.7% 4.3% 10.3%
Current obligations under
capital leases 0.5% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0%
Total Current Liabili
of comprehensive income is using one-statement approach. (Components of profits and losses are presented in statement of comprehensive income.)
The way the items of the statement of financial position are presented. For example, non-current assets are presented before current assets, etc.
There are 3 basic sections presented on Statement of Financial Position : Asset, Liability, Equity. And a
of this objects, equity method stocks in balance sheet increase sharply.
As we can see from the table above, the most left figure of the equity method stocks is much bigger than the last year's one. This is simply because the process of separation.
And also, during the process of separation, some parts of Assets and Liabilities are transferred to the newly making company. The interest thing
of Enron, which was one of the main reasons of the crisis. After the Enron scandal, Andersen lost its major clients and got accused by its negligence in auditing Enron.
1.4. Mid- and long-term impacts on American energy industry
After Enron crisis, financial institutions raised the rate of interest on loans for energy-related corporations. Traditionally, energy industry’s liabilities are larg
of a company's ability to meet short-term debt obligations; the higher the ratio, the more liquid the company is. Current ratio is equal to current assets divided by current liabilities. Digital Cube's figure is higher than Cowan's in 2006. But, Digital cube's current ratio decreases -33.6% [=variation:(2007ratio-2006ratio)/2006ratio)] in 2007. And Cowan's current ratio increases 35.63% in 2007 a
of ‘Wage expense’, ‘Passenger revenue’, and ‘Fuel expense’ for Income Statement Analysis. For Balance Sheet Analysis we choose ‘Flight equipment’, ‘Air traffic liability’, and ‘Accumulated deficit’. Lastly, we went further on ‘Current Ratio’, ‘ROA’, and ‘Debt to asset’ among 5 Ratio analysis and recommended for these two companies.
1. Wag
of investment by comparing each company's financial ratios from their financial statements.
Ⅱ. Financial Ratio analysis
1. Liquidity
Liquidity refers to a company's ability to meet its current maturing debts. And it focuses on the relationship between current assets and current liabilities. With it, Creditors and analysts evaluate a company's short-term financial strength.
1.1. c
of its overall insurance business. Number of premiums written in South Korea automobile insurance industry has grown at a rate of more than 18 percent since 1983 when monopolized South Korean insurance market was made accessible to liability and property insurance companies. There are certain important factors behind this quick rise of automobile insurance industry of South Korea like sudden incr