SHELL PLC

Assignment

Royal Dutch Shell Plc

[Instructor's Name]

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Part # 1 (a)1

Growth and Performance Overview1

Part # 1 (b)7

Environmental Factors That Influence Royal Dutch Shell Plc at Present7

Future Impact of Environmental Factors on Royal Dutch Shell Plc9

Part # 210

Interpretation of Royal Dutch Shell Plc10

1.Gross Profit Margin10

2.Net Profit Margin10

3.Return on Capital Employed11

4.Asset turnover Ratio12

6.Asset Test Ratio13

7.Trade Receivables Ratio13

9.Capital Gearing Ratio15

References16

Appendices18

Assignment

Royal Dutch Shell Plc

Introduction

Royal Dutch Shell Group RDSG is an international group of petrochemical and energy organizations, having approximately 104, 000 employees in above 110 countries across the globe. It is known as the second largest firm in the private sector of energy and petrochemicals industry of the world and is also amongst the six largest energy companies of the world. The headquarters of the Shell Group is located in The Hague, Netherlands (Cummins and Beasant, 2005, pp. 1-10). Shell plays a significant part in helping to meet growing demand of energy around the globe and that also in ways that are environmentally, socially, and economically responsible. In the year 2007, Forbes Global 2000, positioned the Shell amongst one of the eight leading companies around the world. The Fortune magazine, in the year 2007, ranked Shell, as the third largest corporation across the globe.

Part # 1 (a)

Growth and Performance Overview

Shell is a public limited ensemble, which is a sort of limited outfit that is allowed to offer its shares to the public. Under the leadership Jeroen van der Veer, Head Official, Shell comprises of the upstream markets of Investigation & Generation and Gas & Capacity and the downstream specialties of Oil Features, Chemicals, and Oil Sands. With 104,000 workers in above and beyond 110 nations for example United States, Japan, and Mexico Shell has a Business sector cap of US$ 256.03 Billion.

Shell has been investigating for and preparing oil and gas for above and beyond a century. Investigation & Processing (EP) helps out the upstream exercises through some of the universe's most impressive and most complex energy activities. For above and beyond 40 years, Shell has been sinking money into and transporting some of the planet's most imposing and most complex gas activities. They investigate for and prepare natural gas, process it and transport it to business sectors. Additionally, they improve wind capacity and finance sun based capacity engineering. Shell's Oil Items business makes moves and pitches a reach of petroleum-based features around the globe for local, mechanical and transport utilize. As a feature of their responsibility to tolerability, it is advancing more level-carbon fills and working towards building energy productivity. The chemicals business processes petrochemicals for streamlined clients. They incorporate the raw materials for plastics, coatings, and detergents. A considerable number of regular features are created out of petrochemicals for example machines, cellular telephones, pharmaceuticals, and iceboxes. Shell's Oil Sands business concentrates bitumen at the Athabasca Oil Sands Task in Alberta, western Canada (Shell offer 60%), and changes over it to synthetic unrefined oil. They are one of the vastest artists of Canada's oil sands, utilizing the most recent extraction and updating innovation ...