1. Introduction of the project
1) Purpose of project
Through the project, we want to build extensive knowledge about cruise industry and accounting analysis (common size analysis, comparative analysis, and ratio analysis). We believe that the project makes us accounting experts.
Cruise Industry has grown and continues to grow enormously in scale. It is frequently regarded as a small but sig
Luciano Benetton
1935 Born in Treviso, Italy
1944 After the death of his father
1955 Started the business with his younger sister
to attain a target income from operations of €300 million?
target profit
€300million - €217million = €83 million
Total Sales – Break Even Sales
Margin of safety in 2003
1859million-1241million = 618million
Margin of safety in
Component of Shareholders’ Equity in a Corporation
Stock – Authorized, Issued, and Outstanding
Authorized shares
shares of stock that are available to issue per its corporate charter
Issued shares
shares of stock that have been offered and sold to shareholders
Outstanding shares
shares of stock that are owned by stockholders
Treasury shares
shares of
I. Introduction
1. Purpose of the Project
The purpose of this our group was to analyze two similar hospitality companies by using tools learned in accounting class. Based on annual reports of two companies, our group members learned how the terms learned in class is actually used in the report. We hope to understand how certain variation affects accounting items and identify why certain does
situation. In addition to that, the president of one carrier in the States said that a cash flow from its operations won’t meet liquidity needs and that it could run out of cash before year’s end.
Furthermore, FSCs have been spoiled by the increase of fuel cost which takes a big share of their operational cost and the decrease of the number of frequent flyers or long-distance customers.