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The following financial statements relate to the ABC Company Required: a) Calculate: i) Inventory turnover ratio; ii) Times interest earned ratio; iii) Total assets turnover; iv) Net profit...

      

The following financial statements relate to the ABC Company
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Required:

a) Calculate:
i) Inventory turnover ratio;
ii) Times interest earned ratio;
iii) Total assets turnover;
iv) Net profit margin
(Note: Round your ratios to one decimal place)

b) The ABC Company operates in an industry whose norms are as follows:

Ratio Industry Norm
Inventory turnover 6.2 times
Times interest earned ratio 5.3 times
Total assets turnover 2.2 times
Net profit margin 3%

Required:

Comment on the revelation made by the ratios you have computed in part (a) above
when compared with the industry average.


  

Answers


Martin
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Industrial analysis

- Industrial analysis involve comparison of firm performance with the industrial
average performance or norms.
- This analysis can only be carried out for a given year. i.e
Times series/trend analysis
- This involve analysis of the performance of a given firm over time i.e ratio of
different year of a given Co. are compared in order to establish whether the
performance is improving or declining and in case a weakness is detected e.g
decline in liquidity ratio, this will force the management to take a corrective
action.
- When commenting on industrial and trend analysis the following 4 critical
points should be highlighted:

a) In case of individual ratio classify them in their immediate category e.g
when commenting on TIER indicate this in a gearing ratio.
When commenting on a given category of ratio identify the ratios in
that category e.g if required to comment on liquidity position identify
the liquidity ratio from the ratios computed.

b) State the observation made e.g total asset turnover is declining or
increasing over time (in case of trend analysis) or the ratio is lower or
higher than the industrial norms (in case of industrial analysis).

c) State the reason for observation i.e. explain why the ratio is declining
or increasing.

d) State the implication for observation e.g decline in liquidity ratio means
that the ability of the firm to meet in short term financial obligation is
declining over time.
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Inventory turnover

- This is a turnover or efficiency ratio
- The rate is lower than industrial norm
- A low stock turnover could be attributed to:

i) Charging higher price than competition
ii) Maintenance of slow moving/obsolete goods
iii) Where the firm is selling strictly on cash while
competitors are selling on credit.

- The firm is not efficiently utilizing its inventory to
generate sales revenue.

i i) Times interest earned ratio (TIER)
- This is a gearing ratio
- It is lower than industrial average or norm
- This could be due to low operating profit due to high
operating expenses or high interest charges due to
high level of gearing/debt capital.
- This implies that the firm is using a relatively high
level of fixed charge capital to finance the acquisition
of assets.

iii) Total asset turnover

- This is efficiency ratio/activity
- Lower than industrial average
- This could be due to holding large non-operational or
fully depreciated asset which are not utilized by the
firms.
- This implies inefficiency in utilization of total assets to
generate sales revenue.
Net profit margin
- Is a profitability ratio
- Lower than industrial norm
- This could be due to low level of net profit of the
firm relative to sales revenue.
- This implies that the firm has a low ability to control
its cost of sales, operating & financing expenses e.g in
case of ABC Ltd selling & admin expenses are equal
to 82.5% of gross profit
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marto answered the question on February 12, 2019 at 09:40


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