Practices of Corporate Governance: Analysis of Pharmaceuticals companies -A study on The ACME Laboratories Ltd.

Abstract

In this report I have tried to analayze the practices of corporate governance in pharmaceuticals industry as wells as the practices of corporate governance in the Acme laboratories ltd.The main purpose of this study is that how fimrs are practicing corporate governannce and the effects of this on firm perfromance.For analyzing I have selected 32 listed pharmaceuticals companies under Dhaka Stock Exchange. I have also collected two years data for each company along with The ACME Laboratories Ltd. For the purpose of preparing report I have collected data from company's annual report from year 2016 to 2017. From the annual report I tried to find some information such as Company's ownership percentage ,Financial Expense, Operating profit, Total assets, Total assets to Equity ratio, Retained Earnings, Capital Expenditures.Then we figured out the industry average total assets, average Financial Expense, average Operating profit, average Retained Earnings, average capital expenditure, average total assets to Equity ratio and also tried to calculate the average of same components of The ACME Laboratories ltd.I also compared this findings between all pharmaceuticals companies and The ACME laboratories ltd.