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Financial Ratio of Malaysia Airlines System Berhad 1

Report of Financial Ratio of Malaysia Airlines System Berhad

FIN 670

Universiti Teknologi MARA

Prepared by:

A’imullah bin Abd Halim 2010336497

Eva Salmee Mohd Salleh 2009713479

Mohd Khairil bin Mahmood 2010177225

Nurunnadiah binti ab Aziz 2010532647

Shaila Shermin bt Kamaluddin 2010566071

Ruzaimah Rubain 2010710629

Supervised by:

Dr Jaafar Pyeman

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Objectives

Analysis and investigation of financial ratios for MAS has been done from five year annual

report starting from 2005 to 2009. Thus the objectives are:

1. Study of liquidity of MAS from 2005 to 2009

2. Study of activity of MAS from 2005 to 2009

3. Study of profitability of MAS from 2005 to 2009

4. Study of leverage of MAS from 2005 to 2009

5. Forecast the future performance of MAS in terms of liquidity, operating activity,

profitability, shareholders equity and leverage.

Introduction

Malaysia Airlines is listed on the stock exchange of Bursa Malaysia under the name

Malaysian Airline System Berhad (MYX: 3786). Its parent company is Penerbangan

Malaysia Berhad. The airline has suffered high losses over the years as a result of fuel price

increases and poor management. The Government of Malaysia overhauled the operations of

the airline and Idris Jala was appointed as the new CEO in 1st December 2005. Under his

leadership, Malaysia Airlines unveiled its Business Turnaround Plan (BTP) in February 2006

which highlighted low yield, an inefficient network and low productivity (overstaffing). The

airline headquarters building in downtown Kuala Lumpur has been sold. The new corporate

headquarters is now at Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Petaling.

The airline is owned by Penerbangan Malaysia Berhad (PMB) (69.34%), Employees

Provident Fund Board (10.72%), Amanah Raya Nominees (Tempatan) Sdn Bhd (5.69%),

State Financial Secretary Sarawak (2.71%) and Warisan Harta Sabah (2.4%). It has 19,546

employees (in March 2007)

In the past, MAS is believed to have over expanded its routes and airlines fleet. It is

also said to have embarked on aggressive cost cutting, which caused negative impact on its

service quality and marketing plan. A previous restructuring saw it disposing of aircraft assets

and domestic losses to a Khazanah Nasional Bhd owned entity.

Today, MAS fuel cost are insufficiently hedged. The airline also struggled to come up

with an effective pricing systems which would enable it to past on the fuel cost to customers.

To make matters more challenging MAS has faced intense competition from low cost airlines

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company, AirAsia, on the domestic front, which led MAS to cut fares, a move that had likely

affect its profitability.

Therefore this study will explore the MAS financial performance by using ratio

analysis that focus on liquidity, activity, debt and profitability ratio.

Results and discussions

1. Liquidity ratio

Liquidity ratio is used to measure a firm ability to satisfy its short-term obligations as they

come due. In addition, liquidity refers to solvency of the firm’s overall financing position- the

ease with which it can pay its bills. In short it reflects to answer; can the firm pay its bills?

The two basic measures of liquidity are the current ratio and the quick (acid-test) ratio.

1.1. Current ratio

The current ratio is the indication of company’s ability to meet short-term debt obligations.

The higher the ratio, the more liquid the company is. The current ratio is calculated as equal

to current assets divided by current liabilities. On others hand, the current ratio also can gives

an investor a better idea of how much safety a company has in paying its current liabilities

regardless of the size of the company.

Table 1.1: Current ratio of MAS from 2005 to 2009

Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009Current Ratio 0.81x 0.74x 1.35x 1.35x 0.85x

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Figure 1.1: Current ratio graph

As we can see in Table 1.1, the current ratio is decreasing from 0.81 times in year 2005 to

0.74 times in 2006. It indicate that the liquidity of the company become worst due to

increment of the total current liabilities. However, in 2007 and 2008; the trend is maintained

of 1.35 times for the respective year and the current ratio is slightly going down by 0.85 times

in 2009. Meaning that on the average MAS can cover only 74.08% of their existing 5-years

debt obligations with their current liquid assets. Clearly, MAS plan to meet these debt

obligations from their income, but the ratio suggests that their liquid fund still not enough to

cover their liabilities.

1.2. Quick Ratio

Quick ratio is also known as the acid test ratio. The quick ratio is a measure of the ability of a

company to pay its short-term debts.  As with all ratios, how high a quick ratio should be

varies among industries, but usually a quick ratio of 1:1 or higher is considered good. In other

words, a quick ratio of 100% tells creditors that the company could pay its immediate bills

even if no inventory is converted to cash.

Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009Quick Ratio 0.7x 0.67x 1.28x 1.27x 0.78x

Table 1.2: Quick ratio of MAS from 2005 to 2009

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Figure 1.2: Current ratio graph

Since the company’s net income is showing loss approximately RM 1.25 billion and RM

133.7 million in 2005 and 2006 respectively; indirectly it will affect the company ability to

pay their debt or liabilities in short term. Without considering the inventories, the company

only can perform 0.7 times in 2005 and 0.67 times in 2006. Therefore it represent that MAS

is doing fairly poor in managing their yield. However in 2007 and 2008, the company

liquidity is maintained at 1.28 times and 1.27 times for respective year. In 2008, the quick

ratio is higher thus the company financial performance in term of liquidity is considered

good. Moreover, due to large amount of current liabilities; the company quick ratio is totally

drops to 0.78 times in 2009. It indicates the company had a problem in managing their assets

fund. The overall liquidity of the firm seems to exhibit that MAS had a better improvement in

term of managing the cost or cost control. Even though the current assets are low and being

said as not efficiently manages; MAS still be able to meet its short term obligations.

2. Activity ratio

Activity ratio defines as an accounting ratio that measure a firm's ability to convert different

accounts within their balance sheets into cash or sales. Companies will typically try to turn

their production into cash or sales as fast as possible because this will generally lead to higher

revenues. Such ratios are frequently used when performing fundamental analysis on different

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companies. The asset turnover ratio and inventory turnover ratio are good examples of

activity ratios.

2.1. Total assets turnover

The amount of sales generated for every dollar's worth of assets. Asset turnover measures a

firm's efficiency at using its assets in generating sales or revenue - the higher the number the

better. It also indicates pricing strategy: companies with low profit margins tend to have high

asset turnover, while those with high profit margins have low asset turnover.

Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009Total Assets Turnover 1.40 x 1.89 x 1.46 x 1.49 x 1.33 x

Table 2.1: Total assets turnover ratio for 2005 to 2009

Figure 2.1: Graph for total assets turnover (2005 to 2009)

Based on the graph and value in the above table, it could be said that there is a steady and

almost similar trend for TATO of each year, 2005 to 2009. On 2006, TATO records the

highest value compared to others, 1.84 times. This may due to the improvement made by the

new CEO, Idris Jala who has been appointed on 1 December 2005. The changes made are in

term of MAS’s corporate culture and in operations definitely helps to increase TATO for year

2006. One of the most significant things done by MAS for the year 2006 is when MAS sell

their headquarters office which later helps to increase their cash balance. In 2009, MAS’s

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TATO records the lowest value ever as the economic crisis which occurred in 2008. Almost

every industry got affected due to the recession.

2.2. Inventory Turnover

A ratio showing how many times a company's inventory is sold and replaced over a period.

The days in the period can then be divided by the inventory turnover formula to calculate the

days it takes to sell the inventory on hand or "inventory turnover days”. This ratio should be

compared against industry averages. A low turnover implies poor sales and, therefore, excess

inventory. A high ratio implies either strong sales or ineffective buying.

High inventory levels are unhealthy because they represent an investment with a rate of

return of zero. It also opens the company up to trouble should prices begin to fall.

Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009Inventory turnover 19.5 34.1 40.2 39.6 29.4

Table 2.2 : Inventory turnover ratio for 2005 to 2009

Figure 2.2 : Graph for inventories turnover (2005 to 2009)

Based on the graph above, we can see that from the year 2005 to 2008, there’s been an

increment of ITO value. By referring to year 2005, we can see that it recorded the lowest ITO

value ever as MAS are struggling with their bad financial situations due to debts, higher costs

and poor sales. It starts to increase from year 2006 onwards and for the year 2007, ITO value

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for MAS records the highest value ever compared to 5 year period (2005-2009). This is due

to the changes made by the new management team led by Dato Sri Idris Jala. Year 2007 and

2008 is slightly similar in term of ITO thanks to the good management and business decision.

For the year 2009, ITO value for MAS declined as it was the effect of the global economic

crisis for year 2008.

2.3. Average collection period

The average collection period has to do with the relationship between Accounts Receivable

and the time frame in which those outstanding payments are received. The information of

ACP allows the company to anticipate cash flow generated by services rendered. It is easier

for the company to schedule payments for services rendered to their own vendor partners, as

well as arranges to keep funds on hand to handle day to day operations, meet payrolls, and

other important aspects of doing business. The collection period or average collection

period must be compared to competitors to see whether the credit given, and customer risk, is

in line with the industry.  A high collection period shows a high cost in extending credit to

customers.

Financial Year 2,005 2,006 2,007 2,008 2,009ACP (days) 73.2 51.3 45.1 45.2 45.0

Table 2.3: average collection period for 2005 to 2009

Figure 2.3 : Graph for average collection period for 2005 to 2009

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In the year 2005, MAS was having the highest ACP which is 73.2 days. However, it was

declining to 51.3 days on 2006 as well as year 2007 onwards which they maintain the ACP

around 45 days. During this period, MAS had a lot changes in their account policy where

they had adopted of new and revised Financial Reporting Standard (FRS). However, in year

after 2006, the revision made is lesser.

3. Profitability ratio

A class of financial metrics that are used to assess a business's ability to generate earnings as

compared to its expenses and other relevant costs incurred during a specific period of time.

For most of these ratios, having a higher value relative to a competitor's ratio or the same

ratio from a previous period is indicative that the company is doing well.

3.1. Net profit margin

Net profit margin is after-tax net income divided by net sales which is a measure of management's

ability to carry a dollar of sales down to the bottom line for the stockholders. In other words, net

profit margin refers to that which is left for the owners from a dollar of sales after all expenses and

taxes have been paid.

Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009GPM -13.9% -2.5% 3.8% 2.0% -5.4%NPM -14.0% -1.0% 5.8% 1.6% 4.6%

Table 3.1: GPM and NPM of MAS for 5 years

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Figure 3.1: Graph of Net Profit Margin

Based on the figure above, it shown that MAS incur highest losses on 2005 where the net

profit margin for year 2005 is -14%. In 2005, MAS identified several weaknesses which

cause RM1.3 billion loss. The weaknesses include escalating fuel price, increased

maintenance and repair cost, staff cost, low yield per available seat kilometers via poor

yield management and inefficient route network. On 1st December 2005, Government of

Malaysia appointed Idris Jala as the new CEO of MAS. The sales and profit had increased

then, year by year. The highest net profit margin is in 2007 where the profit in 2007 is the

highest compared to other 5 years. However, in 2008 the net profit slightly decline due to

the global economic crisis and affected our country.

3.2. GPM versus NPM

Figure 3.2: Graph of GPM versus NPM

Referring to the figure above, NPM and GPM for 5 years are almost the same except for year

2009. This situation is due to derivative gain incurred by MAS on 2009. Derivative gain

consists of realized gain or loss on settlement of hedging contracts during the quarter and the

fair value changes due to movement mark-to-market (MTM) position on non-designated

hedging contracts and ineffective portion of cash flow hedges at 31st December 2009

compared to 1st January 2009.

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3.3. Return on assets

Return on assets (ROA) is a measure of asset intensity which is , it will indicates how much

profit a company generated for each dollar in assets brought to the company. In other word, it

showed an effectiveness of a company in generating profits with its available assets.

YEAR RETURN ON ASSET RETURN ON EQUITY 2005 -20.0% -62.1%2006 -1.9% -7.1%2007 8.5% 21.6%2008 2.4% 5.9%2009 5.8% 66.0%

Table 3.3 : Return on assets and return on equity of MAS for 2005 to 2009

Figure 3.3: Graph of Return on Assets

Like MAS (as an aircraft company) considered as a very asset-intensive, meaning they

required big, expensive machinery or equipment to generate more profit. A measure of profit

show how a percentage of the capital that is handled. The lower the profit per dollar of

assets, the more asset-intensive a business is. High profit margin indicates good cost control,

whereas a high asset turnover ratio demonstrates efficient use of the assets on the balance

sheet. If refers to Figure 3.3, in year of 2005 ROA of MAS is -20.0%, indicates inefficient

use of the assets in the company since the net income in that year is the lowest compare with

others 5 years. During that year, MAS is concentrate more in escalating fuel price, increased

maintenance and repair cost, staff cost, low yield per available seat kilometers via poor yield

management and inefficient route network instead of focusing on utilising their assets to

generate more profits. After taken over by Idris Jala on 1st December 2005, MAS started to

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recover from 2005 until 2009. Year of 2007 shown huge improvement of assets handling in

MAS since in that year ROA value is the highest (8.5%) due to very high net income

generated from the wisely utilization of assets in the company.

3.4 Return on equity

Return in equity (ROE) reveals how much profit a company earned in comparison to the total

amount of shareholder equity found on the balance sheet. A business that has high return on

equity is more likely to be one that is capable of generating cash internally. Companies that

boost a high return on equity with little or no debt are able to grow without large capital

expenditures, allowing the owners of the business to withdrawal cash and reinvest in

elsewhere.

Figure 3.4: Graph of Return on Equity

From the graph in Figure 3.4, it shown a recovering process in MAS from 2005 until 2007

but drop in 2008 and huge increase ret in year of 2009 (66%) which shown a highest ROE

compared to others 5 years. During the year of 2009 most of the assets of MAS are financed

by the debt which is using the long term borrowing, RM2 billion. This is shown that MAS are

trying to increase their profit by adding more assets in the company in order to expand their

business also. This can be proven by the higher debt ratio detected in year of 2009 which is

91.2% (Refers debt ratio analysis). Shareholder`s equity is the lowest in year of 2009 might

be due to shareholders had sell their share in the company and this is able to generate high

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return in equity with slightly increase in the net income in that particular year. The reason for

the ROE increase in 2009 is to attract the investors after the losses of shareholders in 2009.

From the ROA and ROE calculation, it can be conclude that MAS are trying to improve their

assets management in order to get higher returns from year to year by using internal and

external financial sources.

4. Leverage ratio

The financial leverage of a company is to get an idea of the company's methods of financing

or to measure its ability to meet financial obligations. There are several different ratios, but

the main factors looked at include debt, equity, assets and interest expenses.

4.1. Debt to total assets ratio

Debt to total asset ratio indicates the financial leverage of the company.it is percentage of

total asset that financed by creditor, liabilities and debt. High debt ratio shows that a

corporation has a high level of financial leverage.

Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009DAR 67.8% 72.9% 60.8% 58.3% 91.2%Table 4.1 : Debt to Total Assets ratio for 2005 to 2009

Figure 4.1 : Graph of debt to total assets ratio

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From the table and figure above, it can be seen that MAS has high level of financial leverage.

It is showed by the percentage of the debt to total asset ratio from year 2005 to year 2009.

The debt ratio of this company is more than 50%. In year 2005 the debt ratio is 67.8% and it

is slightly increase for the next year which is 72.9%. For the year 2007 and 2008 the debt

ratio of MAS are slightly decrease but in the year of 2009 there is a high increasing in the

debt ratio. The debt ratio in that year is quite high with 91.2%. This indicates that in year

2009, most of the assets of the company are financed by the debt. MAS are increasing their

long – term borrowing from 987,270 in 2008 to RM 2,004,062 in 2009. This is because MAS

are trying to expand their business by adding more assets in the company as well as their

shareholders are decreasing thus they need borrowing to finance the business. The debt ratio

in year 2009 indicates that MAS are facing the high risk of the bankruptcy because they are

depending too much on debt in order to finance their assets.

4.2 Time interest earn

Time interest earned (TIE) used to measure company ability to meets its obligation. It

indicates how many times a company can cover the interest charges on pretax basis. The high

ratio can indicate the company has an undesirable lack of debt or is paying down too much

debit with earning that could be used for other project.

Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009TIE -214.6 x 6.13 x 18.67 x 5.03 x 1.47 x

Table 4.2: Time interest earn for 2005 to 2009

Figure 4.2: Graph of time interest earn

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Figure above shows the Time Interest Earned of MAS from year 2005 to 2009. The TIE for

the year 2005 shows that this company is making loss. The TIE for that year is -214.60 times

showing that the losses cannot cover the interest charge for that year. In year 2006, the TIE

was increase but still making a loss. The TIE for that year is -6.13. The company is improved

but still makes a loss. The TIE for the year 2007 is increase to 18.67 and this indicates that

the company able to pay 18.67 times the interest using their earning. For the year 2008 and

2009 the TIE slightly decrease. From the year 2005 until 2009, we can see that the company

is growing and keep making the profit since they can cover their interest using their earned

except for the earlier year 2005 and 2006. However, in 2009 TIE is declining and it indicates

the high interest of the borrowing that they made in 2009. Thus, it leads to the high risk of

bankruptcy.

5. Forecast of ratios

There are a few factors in order to forecast the financial ratio of MAS based on reports,

expectations, strategy, annual reports, present economic situations, share price and etcetera.

The good factors that effected the decision of forecasting MAS are:

i. KLCI is boomed from July 2010 to December 2010 between 1300 to 1500 points

respectively. Within year 2011, it maintained at approximately slightly more than 1500.

Thus, it indicates a good economic situation and stability.

ii. There is growth in Asia Pacific region in airlines industry as well as other region

especially Middle East Asia showed rapid growth of airlines industry.

iii. MAS bought new aircrafts Airbus A330-300s and A330-300.

iv. “Everyday low fares” had been introduced in May 2008 in order to increase the average

capacity seated, 70%.

v. Partnership codeshare agreement with 31 Airlines companies in July 2010.

vi. A330-300s will reduce cost 15% by 2015 as it has fewer seats, low fuel and

maintenance cost. With fewer seats it can turn around faster, ply more routes and longer

range.

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vii. Newly changes in boardroom, thus it gives fresh and new air within the company.

viii. Increased 11% passengers in India, and MAS are targeting 20% increase a year.

The bad factors that MAS has to face and might affect the performance of the company are:

i. Jet fuel surcharges are soared at 10%.

ii. Japan tragedy of earthquakes, tsunami and nuclear in March 2011 and MAS had to stop

the flight from 7 to 11 times a week.

iii. MAS share price fell to RM 1.84 in March 23th, 2011. However, the trends showed that

it always drop at 1st quarter or the year and increase back in 2nd quarter and so on.

iv. Internal Air Travel Association predicted that in 2011, the airlines company net profit

decrease 50% due to many factors such as increasing of fuel, Japan’s disaster and many

more.

5.1 Forecast of Quick Ratio

Figure 5.1: Quick Ratio for 2011 onwards (including 2009 and 2010)

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From the graph above, it can be seen the quick ratio of 2009 declined from 0.78 times to 0.65

times after being calculated from 4th quarter of annual report of 2010. The declining is

because of the highly debt of MAS from previous year to finance the new investment of

assets bought to the company. However, in 2011 onwards it will keep increasing as they

manage to finance the current asset with current liability, however due to the increase in fixed

assets by increasing the large number of airbus in 2011 as well as long-term debt to but with

maintaining the current assets, the quick ratio decline slightly in 2013 and 2014. The quick

ratio at average 0.68 times because MAS has less account payable due to the cash

transactions and operations as well as less cash in hand. The current liability is more sensitive

towards changes because they are in period of expanding, thus including short term

borrowing that finance the assets. However, if the forecast extended, it will increase from

year to year and will exceed more than 1 times in significant year.

5.2 Forecast of Total Assets Turnover

Figure 5.2 : Total Assets Turnover for 2011 onwards (including 2009 and 2010)

From the figure above, total assets turnover is decreased in 2010 as they are in period of

expanding. And it keeps decreasing in 2011 but TATO will increase back in 2012 onwards.

A330-300 costs USD 222.5 million per each, as they will receive 6 airbuses in 2011, which

costs approximately USD 1.3 billion thus leads to the total assets increase but due to the

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expectations of Internal Air Travel Association that predicted net profit will decrease in 50%

as well as Japan’s tragedy leads to the revenue to increase or decrease slightly from 2010

with highly increasing of total assets. So does 2012, MAS will obtain 4 more airbuses, thus

the TATO will increase just slightly as if the economic is stable and KLCI maintain above

1500 leads to the revenue to be higher with the higher total assets in 2012. With the cost of

reductions, growth in airlines industry especially Asia Pacific, more aircrafts that offers more

potential revenue, strategy and partnership TATO can keep increasing and will maintain at

certain level until economic situation changes.

5.3 Debt to Assets Ratio

Figure 5.3 : Debt to Assets Turnover for 2011 onwards (including 2009 and 2010)

From Figure 5.3 above, Debt to Assets ratio is the highest in 2009 as we discussed above due

to the increase in borrowing as well as decline in shareholders. However, in 2010 it decreased

to 71.7% calculated from 4th quarter report of MAS. It will slightly increase in 2011 as they

obtain 6 new airbuses but in 2012 it will decrease significantly due to the higher assets as 4

new airbuses obtain that year and make it as total of 10 new airbuses bought. Thus, it leads to

the lower debt to assets turnover. It will maintain at certain level as only one to two airbuses

will be received in each year. Eventually, the debt to assets ratio can be slightly increased if

they loss shareholders as it happened in 2009 thus, in order to finance the incoming assets,

they have to make borrowing. But if there will be rapid increase in shareholders the debt to

assets ratio will decrease significantly.

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5.4 Net profit ratio

Figure 5.4: Net Profit Margin for 2011 onwards (including 2009 and 2010)

The net profit of 2010 is declined because the expenditure is much higher in 2010 and it has

less derivative gain in 2010 compared to 2009. However, it maintain at low level of NPM in

2011 because of the expectation of Internal Air Travel Association (IATA), Japan’s tragedy

and soar of fuel surcharges. Those factors leads to the lower increase of revenue and higher

expenditure and results lower net profit margin. However, from 2012 onwards it is expected

for net profit margin to be increase because by new airbuses bought, MAS can increase the

revenue as well as profit due to its less seats and more frequent travel as it turn around faster

and increase the average sold seats above 70% per airbus. The new airbuses also have lower

fuel costs and maintenance cost, so it reduces the expenditure as well as increase NPM.

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5.5 Forecast of Return on Assets

Figure 5.4: Return on Assets for 2011 onwards (including 2009 and 2010)

The graph above shows the return on assets from 2009 to 2011. ROA in 2010 is declined

based on 4th quarter of report. It is predicted that in 2011 ROA will decline as well due to the

new airbuses bought and increase the total assets in MAS but with the IATA expectations and

tragedy in Japan, the net profit will reduce 50% so it indicates that the total revenue of MAS

will probably just slight increase or decrease thus leads to lower ROA in 2011. However, in

2012 onwards ROA will keep rising each year. It indicates that the total revenue of those

following years will increase significantly as the assets increase and bought into the

company. With the growth of Asia Pacific region in airline business as well as Middle East

would help MAS to increase the revenue. Furthermore, with the new airbuses it helps MAS

to increase the frequent of travelling; more routes and “Everyday low fares” can be

successfully done. With partnership and codeshare agreement with 31 airlines, it also

increases the revenue of MAS. It was 11% passengers increase in India as well as expected to

be increase 20% each year. There is also increase in passengers domestically approximately

around 11.1%. Thus, all these factors help MAS to increase its revenue as well as ROA.

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Conclusions

From the discussions and results, it can be seen MAS having a problem especially in 2005

but it had redeem back the reputation after Idris Jala being selected as a new director, and

several changes had made and MAS is improving from 2006. However, in 2008 and 2009 it

seems like a slight downfall of MAS due to the global economic crisis and leads to loss of

shareholders in 2009. Thus, in order to finance its assets, MAS have high leverage by

borrowing the long-term debts. Even though it indicates MAS having high leverage as well as

high risk of bankruptcy, it is actually have slight advantages where its ROE is much higher. It

happened because to attract the investors after several losses of shareholders in 2009.

The performance of MAS is quite fluctuating, both internal and external factors that lead to

the fluctuation of MAS performance. When MAS change its policy and cost reduction, it

shows some improvement but external factors such as global crisis can also affected the

performance of MAS. Thus, in order to forecast, external factors is one of the important role

as well as internal factors that can be changed anytime due to the strategies, policies and

investments. Whereas, external factors like global crisis, natural disaster and expectation

cannot be determined accurately but with assumptions, forecast can be done approximately

accurate. Policy and strategy need to be adjusted from time to time depends on economic

situations, competitions, opportunities, visions, and input price that effected the expenditures

and inventories.

Now, MAS shows some positive side and potential to be successful as they move forward

and growth. From enormous investment in 2009, they see the clearer picture of the vision that

they made and expanding it to concur the airlines industry. With the suitable strategies and

policies, perhaps, MAS will continue to expand as well as give highly appraisable and

comfortable services

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