Category: Finance

What is CIBIL?

CIBIL is noth­ing but the mir­ror of your ear­li­er loan cred­it card repay­ment track. It stands for Cred­it Infor­ma­tion Bureau (India) Ltd. CIBIL gives A Cred­it Infor­ma­tion Report (CIR) which is a fac­tu­al record of a bor­row­er’s cred­it pay­ment his­to­ry com­piled from infor­ma­tion received…

Return on Capital Employed (ROCE)

ROCE is a  finan­cial ratio that mea­sures a com­pa­ny’s prof­itabil­i­ty and the effi­cien­cy with which its cap­i­tal is employed. Return on Cap­i­tal Employed (ROCE) is cal­cu­lat­ed as: ROCE = Earn­ings Before Inter­est and Tax (EBIT) / Cap­i­tal Employed “Cap­i­tal Employed” as…

Days Payable Outstanding — DPO

A com­pa­ny’s aver­age payable peri­od. Days payable out­stand­ing tells how long it takes that com­pa­ny to pay its trade cred­i­tors, such as sup­pli­ers on an aver­age. Days payable Out­stand­ing is typ­i­cal­ly cal­cu­lat­ed either quar­ter­ly or year­ly. The for­mu­la to calculate…

Credit growth up 11% but still lags deposits at 13%

After remain­ing sub-10 per cent for two con­sec­u­tive fort­nights, bank cred­it grew 11 per cent to Rs. 62,69,007 crore for the fort­night end­ed Octo­ber 3. In the cor­re­spond­ing fort­night last year, bank cred­it stood at Rs. 56,50,107 crore. In the last fort­night, the credit…

RBI may Increase CRR

RBI is expect­ed to increase CRR next month to sig­nal a rate increase. In what could be the first sign of a rise in inter­est rates, bulk deposit rates have start­ed ris­ing. Deposits of over Rs 5 crore are usu­al­ly clas­si­fied as bulk deposits. At…

September retail inflation comes down to 6.46%

Indi­a’s annu­al con­sumer price infla­tion eased for a sec­ond straight month in Sep­tem­ber to 6.46 per­cent, its low­est lev­el since the gov­ern­ment start­ed releas­ing the data in 2012. With core infla­tion com­ing off incre­men­tal­ly, RBI’s com­ments on con­trol­ling infla­tion may…

Merger &Acquisition hit a downfall of 65%

Merg­ers and acqui­si­tions deals in India have dropped 65 per cent sequen­tial­ly to $4.7 bil­lion in the quar­ter end­ing Sep­tem­ber, accord­ing to Merg­er­mar­ket, a glob­al M&A intel­li­gence ser­vice provider. Deals in the quar­ter were 20 per cent low­er than $5.9…