PROPOSAL: In today’s economy, information and accountability have assumed a larger role in our society As a result the financial statement with an independent audit report are of vital services to investors, creditors and other participants in economic exchange. Financial statements can only be valuable to those who know how to use them. As a result of their key role in business, the researcher has been spurred to embark on this work. Financial ratios have been used to analyze and interpret the financial statements or the selected companies. That is in an effort to sow, for the benefit of those who should like to be in business, how the financial statement could be used to aid in investment decisions and business growth.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
- Background of the study
- Statement of problems
- Objective of the study
- Significance of the study
- Historical background of the firms under study
Note
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
- Financial information and its users
- The nature of financial accounting conventions
- The concepts and conventions
- Development of generally accepted accounting principles
- A review of working capital
- The contents of financial statement
- The statement of souces and application of fund
- The auditors report on financial statements
- Cash burgets
- Financial analysis
- Finaancial ratios
- Empirical studies on ratios as predictive of business
- Leverage in business