Bat Financial Analysis Report

Analysis of Financial Statements

* British American Tobacco Bangladesh Company Limited

2014

Date of Submission: 2nd December 2014

1/1/2014

Introduction

British American Tobacco Bangladesh Company Limited is one of the largest multinational corporations, operated by British American Tobacco in Bangladesh. They are listed on the stock index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange and Chittagong Stock Exchange. It is doing its business over 100 years in this region. It was founded in Bangladesh on 1910. It had established its first depot at Armanitola in Dhaka. After partition in 1947, it was established in 1949.

After the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan, it was renamed as Bangladesh Tobacco Company (BTC) in 1972. But in 1998, it is again renamed as British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATB). In Bangladesh, British American Tobacco Bangladesh has more than 1,200 people as direct employees and more than 50,000 people as indirect employees (mostlyfarmers).

British American Tobacco Bangladesh's motto is "success and responsibility go together". Shehzad Munim is the current Managing Director of BATB. He is serving as the first ever Bangladeshi Managing Director in the history of BATBCL.

Liquidity Ratios

This is the most fundamentally important set of ratios, because they measure the ability of a company to remain in business. Liquidity ratios are used to determine how quickly a company can turn its assets into cash if it experiences financial difficulties or bankruptcy. It essentially is a measure of a company's ability to remain in business. A few common liquidity ratios are the current ratio and the quick ratio. The current ratio is current assets/current liabilities and measures how much liquidity is available to pay for liabilities. The quick ratio is same as the current ratio, but does not include inventory. 

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