Financial Analysis of Amcor Plc

Running Head: ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Table of Contents
Overview of the Company.................................................................................................. 3
Insight of Board of Directors............................................................................................... 4
Board of Directors: Characteristics and Composition.................................................................6
Investment..................................................................................................................... 6
Corporate Governance....................................................................................................... 6
Auditor’s Opinion............................................................................................................ 7
Ethics and its incorporation................................................................................................ 7
Investors of AMCOR........................................................................................................ 8
Financial Analysis............................................................................................................ 9
Liquidity.................................................................................................................... 9
Profitability................................................................................................................. 9
Capital structure and Asset Efficiency..............................................................................10
Cash Flow Management............................................................................................... 11
Market value............................................................................................................. 11
References................................................................................................................... 12
Appendix 1.................................................................................................................. 13

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Overview of the Company
Amcor Plc is one of the globally recognized packaging companies. The major focus of the
company is to produce the flexible packaging, rigid containers which also includes the cartons
closures, services for food beverage as well as pharmaceutical, medical-device, personal as well
as personal care. The company is listed on the Australian stock Exchange and its office is located
in Warmley Bristol, United Kingdom. As on the date of the 30th June 2017, the company
employed total of 35211 people and generated more than US$9.3 billion in sales from the
business across 200 locations in roundabout 40 countries. The company is also focused in
protecting the environment along with the leadership skills and strategized decisions. The current
after tax profit of the company was USD 724 million (Amcor Limited, AR. 2018).
The overall performance of the company is sound; however the year tends to be the tuff for the
company from the point of view of the market conditions as well. In terms of the earning per
share the company were 62.6 cents comparable to the last year. Despite the heavy market
conditions the free cash flow of the company was super strong to the company. Further the news
was also regarding the acquisition of the Amcor with the Bemis which is one of the largest
suppliers of the flexible of plastic packaging in the Americas. This would be a great example of
the extended leadership skills and in development of the recyclable packaging materials which is
reusable by 2025. The significant values are provided to the customers on behalf of the company
via products and the services. The declaration of the dividends also saw an increase of 4.7%
which represents 73% of the Earnings per share. Overall the performance of the company is
sound (Amcor Limited, AR. 2018).

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Insight of Board of Directors
Names of the
Directors
Career History Remuneratio
n
Number of
shares held
as at the
balance
sheet date
Graeme Liebelt
Bec Hons,
FAICD,FTSE
Managing director and CEO of
Orica Limited for a period of 6 and
half years. He also served as the
Chairman of Dulux Group limited.
He is also knows or his fellow
membership with Australian
Academy of Technological
Sciences and Engineering. He also
served in the position of the
Directos for the ANZ banking
Group Limited since July 2013. He
is director since 2014.
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Dr Armin Meyer
Dr. Sc. Techn Dipl.
El. ETH
For the period of 9 years Meyer
was Chairman of the Board of Ciba
Limited. Till 2000 Meyer was the
Executive president of ABB
Limited and a member of the
committee as well. In the year
2013, he was also known for his
directorship of Zurich Financial
Services, one of the global
insurance companies
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Ron Delia Mr Delia became the part of the
Amcor Limited in the year 2005.
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