Financial investigation of J.D Wetherspoons PLC.

... Financial investigation of J.D Wetherspoons PLC Contents Introduction Background information............................................................................................ 3 Current aims and objectives..................................................................................... 4 Future aims and objectives...................................................................................... 4 Ratios and analysis Profit and loss account............................................................................................. 5 Analysis of continuing operations............................................................................. 5 Cash flow statement.................................................................................................. 6 Creditors.................................................................................................................... 6 Balance sheet............................................................................................................ 7 Interest...................................................................................................................... 7 Ratios......................................................................................................................... 8 Ratio analysis............................................................................................................ 9 Conclusion Evaluation................................................................................................................... 10 Bibliography and sources........................................................................................... 11 Background information Tim Martin, 44 is the chairman of J D Wetherspoon. A maverick that is well respected and the envy and inspiration of the entire pub industry. He opened his first pub in north London in 1979, which he named Wetherspoons after one of his schoolteachers. He did not have the best of luck with this despite his hard work. For over 20 years, Martin has built up Wetherspoons from a quirky ' real ale, no juke box' pub in north London' s Muswell Hill into a nationwide chain of over 600 super pubs with unit sales of £16,000-£17,000 a week. In 1992 Wetherspoons now has

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