Financial Analysis To help CanGo better understand their financial condition, this section goes into details about the current financial condition of CanGo as well as give our recommendations for CanGo to better help them understand their financial position. This analysis will discuss the profitability, liquidity, efficiency, and debt ratios compared to its competitors. Knowing this will help CanGo make better financial decisions in the future.
Profitability Ratios Profitability ratios show us whether the companies has the ability to generate profits from its operations. These ratios are important to the company as well as its investors. Profitability ratios let us know the overall performance and efficiency of the company. This includes
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Comparing CanGo to its competitors and industry average, CanGo is lower than Amazon, Google, and Industry Average, but higher than Barnes and Noble,. CanGo needs to seek ways to increase return on equity by finding ways to lower its taxes by taking advantage of any government policies, subsidies, or incentives or even certain tax breaks (Robertson).
Liquidity Ratios Liquidity ratio lets us know whether the company is able to pay their short-term and long-term obligations. It measures how well the company can raise cash or convert assets into cash. Companies like to use this ratio to compare it against its competitors or industry average. Liquidity ratios include current ratio, quick ratio, and working capital.
Current Ratio Current ratio shows how well the company can pay off its short-term liability obligations. Short-term liabilities are debt due within the next year. Companies that have larger amounts of current assets are better able to pay off their current liabilities. The higher the ratio, the better able the company is to pay current obligations. A low ratio indicates the company is weighted down with current debt and the cash flow will suffer. The equation for current ratio
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Since the working capital is positive, the company is not expected to suffer from liquidity and the company is able to pay off its short-term obligations (Working Capital). Having a high working capital might mean the company can expand. However, in CanGo’s situation, we recommend that CanGo implement an effective working capital management plan first before considering expanding. This would involve cash management, inventory management, debtors’ management, and short-term financing (Working Capital Calculator).
Efficiency Ratios Efficiency Ratios tells us how well the company uses their assets to generate income. These ratios look at how long it takes to collect cash from customer and to convert inventory to cash. Efficiency ratios are connected with profitability ratios because if they are efficient, then they become profitable. The type of efficiency ratios include accounts receivable turnover and inventory turnover.
Accounts Receivable Turnover Accounts receivable turnover measures how many times a company can turn its accounts receivables into cash. This ratio shows how well the company is collecting credit sales from its customers. The equation for accounts receivable turnover
The current ratio directly relates the company’s current assets against its current liabilities. A good current ratio will be over 1. For example if the current ratio were 2.0 this would mean that the company’s current assets are twice as large as its current liabilities. For Tesla Motors the current ratio drops significantly over the years. It starts at 2.76 in 2010, then drops to 1.95 in 2011, and finally reaches 0.97 in 2012. As you can see the current ratio in 2012 is below one. The current ratio of 0.97 means that as of December 2012, Tesla Motors has more current liabilities than current assets.
1. Liquidity ratios are a class of financial metrics that is used to determine a company's ability to pay off its short-terms debts obligations. Generally, the higher the value of the ratio, the larger the margin of safety that the company possesses to cover short-term debts.
Financial leverage is the ability of the company to maneuver with financing options to meet the obligations (Investopedia, 2012). There are two leverage ratios that were analyzed for this financial statement 1) debt ratio and 2) debt-to-equity ratio.
Asset turnover depicts investment efficiency, because it shows how many sales dollars are generated for every dollar invested in the company’s assets. Lowe’s had relatively lower asset turnover ratios than Home Depot because their recent investment in PP&E.
We began with a look at your efficiency ratio, concentrating on your receivables turn over for the past year. This reflects the time between your sale and actual collection. If a company 's Turnover
CanGo’s financial status has been benchmarked against that of the industry leader, Amazon (See Appendix A). Amazon is the current leader in the book, video, and music retail industry and is extremely successful. The comparison between CanGo and Amazon will give a strong visual of where they are from a financial standpoint.
CanGo has experienced many financial problems due to poor decision making. For example, in 2009, CanGo used proceeds from IPO, better known as initial public offering, to buy an online gaming company. This was a poor investment based on two reasons. First of all, it can be very difficult to predict how a stock will fare off on its first day of trading versus upcoming days in the future. Second, initial public
Current Ratio is the measure of short-term liquidity. It indicates that the ability of an entity to meet its
The current ratio belongs to the liquidity ratios and determines the company 's ability to pay short-term obligations (Guru Focus, 2016). The current ratio indicates if a company has enough money to face its daily obligations. According to the information given in the balance sheet in
When comparing different organizations of all sizes within an industry, it is feasible to use financial ratios, especially liquidity ratios. Horngren, Harrison, and Oliver (2012) defines liquidity as a measure of the company’s ability to pay its short-term debt obligations. Some examples of basic liquidity ratios are the current ratio and quick ratio.
Profitability analysis helps investors decide whether to invest in a company or not such as with Johnson Matthey where their profitability has
When we compare the profitability ratios of Debenhams with Next, we can see that overall Next has done well than Debenhams throughout the years since there is a drop in the ratios throughout the year.
Ratios are used by management accountants to evaluate the process. Efficiency is a ratio where managers can decide whether the company can pay its debts. Another ratio is gearing, that shows the long-term financial position of the business and profitability ratio shows the progress of the business.
Liquidity ratio is the ability of the company to pay/close its liabilities. Also, it is the ability of a company to turn its assets into cash to pay off its current obligations. Liquidity ratios that we will be focusing on are: current ratio, quick ratio, account receivable turnover, and inventory turnover.
The current ratio is also a liquidity ratio that measures a company's ability to pay off their short-term debts with their current assets (Bethel University, 2017). The current ratio helps to provide understanding into a company’s ability to pay