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This 10 page paper looks at a music company that is going to invest in one of three albums. The paper assesses the investment, starting by looking at the returns of the different investments, creating a profit and loss account for each and assessing several ratios, such as return on capital employed. The paper then looks at the break even point, the margin of safety, the accounting rate of return and the return on investment. The last part of the paper considers the way a questionnaire may be out together to assess the potential market for each album. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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for income and costs we can then add them together for the total profit and loss for the company. This is shown in table 1, all calculations are shown, it
is worth noting that the royalties for X and Y are 15% but only 10% for Z. It should also be noted that there are long term loans with the
bank, these would also have interest payments due that should be deducted as a cost, but as we do not have an interest rate we cannot include this in the
calculations. Table 1 Profit and loss account. X Y Z Total Revenue 1,890,000 1,800,000 2,850,000 6,540,000 Cost of goods sold 1,080,000 1,100,000 1,050,000 3,230,000 Gross profit 810,000
700,000 1,800,000 3,310,000 Other costs Distribution costs 94,500 90,000 142,500 327,000 Royalties paid out 283,500 270,000 285,000 838,500 Promotions 200,000 150,000 235,000 585,000 Total outgoings 578,000
510,000 662,500 1,750,500 Net profit 232,000 190,000 1,137,500 1,559,500 With this we can then calculate some ratios for each album. 1). Return on capital employed. This is a basic profitability measure
of a company and looks at the efficiency of the company and it also interested as a measure of the effectiveness of management. This may also be referred to as
the return on investment (ROI). The traditional way of calculating the return on capital employed is the net profit before interest and tax divided by the capital employed (Elliott and
Elliott, 2003). Capital employed is the fixed asses plus working capital, less any current liabilities. Working capital is usually the current assets, such as stock, cash in hand, work in
progress and debtors, less the current liabilities. The net profit above is before tax and interest and we are given the capital employed as well as the loans, but the
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