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    Assessment of Financial Soundness: A Case Study of Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd
    (CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, 2007-08) Islam, Serajul; Alam, Zahangir; Chowdhury, Abdul Hamid
    The main objective of the study was to assess the financial soundness of Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd (BP L) by using Du Pont Equation &Altman's Model, The finn's management can use the Du Pont system and Altman's model to analyze ways of improving the firm's performance. By applying Altman's Model, it revealed that BPL would be financially unhealthy and would like to go bankruptcy in the near future. The main reasons for such state of affairs are shortage of adequate working capital, shortage of raw materials and their irregular supply, instability in raw material price, lack of requisite research & development activities, shortage of skilled manpower, lack of proper responsibility and accountability, limited market for products, absenteeism of workers from jobs, adverse factory environmental factors, power disruption and troubles in machinery. Therefore in order to improve the financial soundness of the company and to save it from bankruptcy proper steps should be taken to remove those reasons
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    Performance Measurement of Distribution Management System: A Case Study on Unilever (BD) Ltd.
    (CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, 2007-08) Mawla, Masrurul; Karim, Mohammed Shamsul; Rabbi, Mohammed Yasir
    The purpose of business is to create and retain customer. But, the question is how? While business thinks in terms of products and derived values, customer is looking to meet their needs. Among the customers' need factors, getting the right product at the right time in the right place is one of the basic needs. In a sellers market like Bangladesh, it is difficult for the companies to develop competitiveness in distribution to provide products as per customers needs considering the customers different buying tendency. The success of a distribution system depends on the meeting of customers' time and place utility effectively. In an underdeveloped infrastructural conditions meeting all these are very difficult task. Unilever (BD) Ltd is the best known for its wide array of product portfolio and strong distribution system of consumer goods. Considering this, the study has been conducted to understand the performance Of Unilever ill distribution. For this purpose, Craven's model has been followed. The study identified that Unilever was meeting seventy percent of the place and time related utility. This study will help the business theoreticians to understand the distribution need in a developing country and will help to develop a comprehensive structure of distribution. The study will also help the companies operating in a developing country to develop their distribution system