UNIVERSITÉ NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS Institut d'Administration des Entreprises Campus Saint-Jean d’Angély 24, Avenue des Diables Bleus – 06357 NICE cedex 4 Tél. : 04 92 00 11 01 – Fax : 04 92 00 11 43 Academic Year 2012/2013 Internship report submitted in order to obtain the Master’s Degree in “International Business / Affaires Internationales” Major: “Affaires et Management International” FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND SOLUTION TO IMPROVE FINANCIAL SITUATION: THE CASE OF BK INVESTMENT JOINT STOCK COMPANY Submitted by: DANG MANH HUNG Internship carried out at: Company Supervisor: BK INVESTMENT JSC Ms NGUYEN DO THUY TRANG Academic Supervisor: Full Professor Nguyen Dinh Tai from June to September Acknowledgments First of all, I would like to express my deep gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Nguyen Dinh Tai. I appreciate his vast knowledge, skill and his guidance in writing the thesis report. I would like to thank the other lectures and professor of Nice Sophia Antipolis University who have brought worth knowledge to me during the course.
They have provided me so much knowledge what I could apply to this thesis. They not only are lecturers who taught us enthusiastically, they are also persons who shared with us many interesting opinions. A very special thanks goes to Ms. Thuy Trang, Chief Executive Officer, without her help I could not finish my report.
She provided me with direction, information and played a role as a mentor, a supervisor. She introduced me to many departments to build a relationship in the Company. Besides, I received assistance from the office staffs, so I would like to thank all of employees in BK Investment JSC. I would also like to thank my family members for the support they provided me during the time of my internship.
Without their love, encouragement and assistance, I would not have finished this thesis. In conclusion, I recognize that this thesis would not have been possible without the assistance of friends, teachers of Thang Long University and the International Cooperation and Relation Department. Thư viện ĐH Thăng Long Abstract The thesis applies financial analysis tools to assess the financial performance of BK Investment JSC. The goal is achieved through the implementation of different financial analysis tools and techniques, mainly financial ratio analysis.
Furthermore, comparisons are made between the past and current period. The ratio analysis showed that the Company had problems with the absolute liquidity. Profitability of the Company was poor. The activity ratios that define the company’s market strategies were not good figures.
It was connected with the low returns on assets and the inadequate profit margins. In conclusion, the thesis provides useful recommendations and makes a small contribution in financial situation improvement of BK Investment JSC. Keywords: financial analysis, ratio analysis, liquidity ratio, profitability ratio, activity ratio, solutions Table of contents Acknowledgements Abstract Introduction Chapter 1: Introduction of BK Investment Joint Stock Company 1.2 Company's sector of activity 1.3 Products and services 1.5 Financial standing of the Company Chapter 2: Company structure diagram 2.2 Functions of company’s departments 2.3 Board of directors and management Chapter 3: Mission 3.1 Tasks assigned to intern position 3.2 Goal to be reached 3.3 Theoretical knowledge applied to the Company Chapter 4: Financial analysis and solutions proposed 4.1 Analysis of financial statements 4.1 Balance sheet analysis 4.2 Income statement analysis 4.3 Cash flow analysis 4.4 Generalized analysis of the financial situation 4. Solutions to improve the financial situation 4.1 Basis of the solutions proposed 4.2 Purpose of the solutions 4.3 Description of the specific solutions 4.4 Financial situation after the solutions implemented Chapter 5: Conclusion 5.1 Summarizing the major finding and the elements of importance for the Company 5.2 Evaluation of the internship 5.3 Recommendation References Appendix 4 Thư viện ĐH Thăng Long Introduction The current financial crisis and difficult market circumstance almost impacted directly in many companies in the world.
What companies should do to exist and growth in the fierce competitive environment. In fact, a successful company need produces valuable products and services, capital resource and human resource. In order to improve these factors, the enterprise has to understand obviously its financial situation. Financial index can reflect correctly about abilities of an enterprise.
This provide useful information to managers do decision making. I realized the importance of this thesis topic. I would like to apply to analyses the specific case of BK Investment JSC. This research begin with company introduction.
Chapter 1 presents an overview of company as history, sector activity, main product and service and the market. The company organization and structure was present in chapter 2. It is in chapter 3 that method of analyzing, goal of the research need to be achieved. Financial analysis was provided in chapter 4.
Chapter 4 also discusses more detail about strength, weakness, resource limitation of BK Investment Company by analyzing balance sheet, income statement and financial ratio. The development in chapter 4 is to raise solutions to improve financial situation. Conclusion and recommendation are draws in chapter 5. 5 Chapter 1: Introduction of BK Investment Joint Stock Company • History Company name: BK Investment Joint Stock Company Head office: 6th floor, Sun Red River building, 23 Phan Chu Trinh Str., Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi Trading office: 8th floor, No 19, TTC building, Duy Tan Str., Cau Giay District, Hanoi Website: www.vn Form of ownership: BK Investment JSC was established under the Vietnam’s Enterprise Law.
Business registration No 0103007015 was provided by Hanoi Department of Planning and Investment on 14 March 2005. From 2005 to 2008, BK Investment JSC operated in two major fields: investment and financial consultancy. The investment operation includes stock investment, venture capital and real estate. The diversity of the investment activity has created potential finance, ability to attract capital investment, strategic relationship, business partners and potential customers.
By the end 2008, the Company researched into Vietnam’s logistic market and realized the weaknesses and disadvantages of the local logistic companies. There was a big difference between the Vietnam’s companies and the foreign ones. The advantage of logistic field in Vietnam is that it is still a service inside the country. The demand on logistic services is over ability of the local suppliers.
In this period, BK Investment JSC decided to expand business to the logistic field and developed its infrastructure to support for logistic business. The first project was a logistic center – ICD Tien Son local port. The strength of Company at that time was just experience and knowledge about logistic field of its chairman, Mr. Le Tien Nam.
Shortly after going into operation, ICD Tien Son has cooperated with dozens of business partners of the same field such as: Nissin Logistics Co.; Seeds CP-VN; Yusen Logistics Solution, Panalpina World Transport, K Logistics VN-line. and also with some big customers such as: Samsung, Canon, Ikea. The Company is aiming to build a One Stop logistic Market, creating advantages of this type of transportation business and warehousing. 6 Thư viện ĐH Thăng Long In the current trend of development, ICD Tien Son intends also to develop a complete logistics supermarket with participation of many partners and business entities.
The Roads Agreement between Vietnam and China has been agreed. This allows Chinese transportation partners run deeply into ICD Tien Son freight forwarding. Further more, Vietnam’s government will build a new railway from Lim district to Pha Lai district. This is a big change for railway transportation service.
At present, many FDI companies have invested into Tien Son Industrial zone, Yen Phong industrial zone and Que Vo industrial zone. Therefore, IDC Tien Son has big opportunities to develop transportation services, warehousing and container yard. • Company’s sector of activity At present, the Company provides the following activities: - Logistic services; - Investment consultancy; - Brokerage and trading promotion; - Brokerage and real estate business; - Construction of civil works, transportation projects, irrigational works, industrial projects and infrastructure; - Trading and providing services associated with housing, urban area, industrial area and office building; - Providing rental service of housing, office, yard, plant, passenger transportation on fixed routes; - Construction of public projects, civil engineering works; - Installation of electrical systems, industrial equipment, providing wholesale machinery, spares parts; - Providing rental service of machine, equipment construction, office equipment, industrial machine. • Product and services Warehousing service and making good service in the warehouse (covering 43.7% to total revenue) consist of: - Rental stock by m2 at price of the class A standard; 7 - Receiving, storing and preserving goods; - Order received, delivery; - Controlling goods in the warehouse by unit and product serial; - Exporting and importing goods; - Providing facilities and infrastructure as distribution center, retail and distribution directly to customers; - Stock-taking to verify the quantities and condition of goods held in inventory; - Making sure that the difference between number of physical goods and statistic figure in system less than 2%; - Other added value services: packing, labeling, quality control.
Transportation service (covering 40% to the total revenue) The advantage of transportation services is that BK Investment Company has a logistics hub located at ICD Tien Son. Others logistic companies often have hub located near the sea port. This new model utilizes depot for both way full container load (Haiphong port to Hanoi and back). The Company may save about 30% to 40% transportation cost.
The import-export container shipping services include: - Oversize cargo and overweight cargo; - Collection of exported goods from factories to focusing points; - Distribution service from the main warehouse to the retail shop system; - Transportation service carries container shells to the destination port for international carriers. Custom declaration service (occupying 7.7% to the total revenue) The advantage of this service is that the Customs Department is located near the ICD Tien Son. The staffs of the IDC Tien Son are professional of foreign trade, customs and trade, and also are knowledgeable about import-export procedures and regulations. Further more, the Company has good relationship with the Customs Department.
Therefore, the 8 Thư viện ĐH Thăng Long Company always provides customs declaration and clearance of import and export goods quickly and most reliably to its clients. Yards container rental services These services cover: - Yards container for rent; - Container lifting service; - Maintaining, repairing, upgrading, washing service for carriers owned containers; - Service of management, running, controlling containers in global scope by a modern management system which is applied since January of 2010; - Security system service for container yards with a system of cameras and guards. Company is researching into the trading, and the rental container service to adapt to the demand of carriers. This is added value service that container owners desire to optimize by raising cost whenever their containers arrive in the land.
Services of canteen, kitchen and others These services are provided for customers who rent the warehouse of BK Investment Company Conclusion: With this kind of package logistics services towards customers, the Company is following the goal to become a strong center of the distribution of materials and production of industrial consumer goods for the domestic market with the advantage of having a destination port, a warehouse system and standards for convenient transportation of trucks and containers. The Company has provided customers with all the outsourcing services that help production companies saving investment capital for warehouse system and operational logistics. Storage systems, information technology systems and infrastructure security are always its priority to achieve perfection and best standards for customers in the inventory management. 9 • Market The combination of different types of transportation services, warehousing and yards brought to Company on the advantage of cost, time and utilities.
Not only logistic companies, transportation companies, import and export companies use the combined services, but also multinational shipping companies such as Maersk, CMA CGM, Evergreen, APL, Hapag Lloyd, MOL, NYK, Hanjin and many other FDI firm have also chosen these services. We can divide customer network into three groups.