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Case

DG Khan Cement Company Limited: The Load Rescheduling Decision

Muhammad Junaid Ashraf

INDUSTRY : Cement

AREA : Finance

ORGANIZATION : D G Khan Cement Co. Ltd.

LENGTH : 10

LUMS No : 02-589-2002-1

PUBLICATION YEAR : 2002

KEYWORDS:

DG Khan,Cement,Company,Limited,Loan,Rescheduling,Decision,Finance,Analysis

DESCRIPTION:

The case deals with financial statement analysis of D G Khan Cement Company Limited, the largest cement manufacturing company of Pakistan during a very turbulent period, 1995-1999. It describes various management and financial reporting strategies adopted by the organization to deal with the situation. The case allows the students to analyse the impact of these strategies on the financial statements of the organization.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

The case can be used to familiarize the students with some basic financial analysis tools such as common size financial statement analysis, concept of ratios, their calculations and interpretations, bankruptcy prediction, or going one step ahead, the case can also be used to understand as to how prevalent economic environment and accounting choices adopted by the organisation affect the analysis.

SUBJECTS COVERED:

Finance