Use the following Singapore Airlines weblink For each of the categories – Liquidity, Leverage, Asset Management Profitability and Valuation ratios, compute and compare financial ratios: Finance Assignment, NUS, Singapore

Question 1

Use the following Singapore Airlines weblink:

• https://www.singaporeair.com/saar5/pdf/Investor-Relations/FinancialResults/SGXNET/sgxann-q4fy2021.pdf
• https://www.singaporeair.com/saar5/pdf/Investor-Relations/FinancialResults/presentation/slide-q4fy2021.pdf

to read the Full Year Financial Results for 2019/20 and 2020/21. At the Group level, perform the following:

• For each of the categories – Liquidity, Leverage, Asset Management Profitability and Valuation ratios, compute and compare financial ratios (excluding inventory turnover ratio) that are important to investors for both FY 2019/20 and FY 2020/21, then analyse the changes.

(Note: The item Trade Debtors is account receivables; The share price is $5.74 for 1st Mar 2020 and $5.55 for 1st Mar 2021. The total number of shares outstanding is 1,199,851,018 for 2020 and 2,977,543,504 for 2021.)

• Appraise the method of financial ratio analysis in (a) for decision-making.