Additional question 17
Paddy Power plc is a service business that provides sports betting services a chain of licensed betting offices principally in Ireland together with telephone and on-line interactive betting.
You are required to undertake a full review of Paddy Power's
- profitability
- rates of return
- liquidity
- asset usage
Consequently, you need to go to the database and obtain all of the information you need to evaluate the ratios under each of the above headings.
You should find the following additional information useful: include as much of this information as possible in your analysis of the business.
NOTE: all of Paddy Power's data are in Euro.
| Paddy Power plc Five Year Review (Euro '000) |
2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | 461,075 | 362,825 | 269,640 | 193,501 | 154,915 |
| Operating profit | 8,507 | 10,629 | 7,037 | 5,566 | 4,477 |
| Profit on ordinary activities before taxation | 9,092 | 10,950 | 7,065 | 5,585 | 4,521 |
| Profit on ordinary activities after taxation | 7,329 | 8,013 | 4,958 | 3,577 | 2,721 |
| Net assets | 30,733 | 26,088 | 16,207 | 14,122 | 10,678 |
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