{"id":17621,"date":"2023-02-27T07:52:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T06:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/statistique\/economic-and-financial-data-bank-fiscal-year-2019-7th-edition\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T07:52:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T06:52:16","slug":"economic-and-financial-data-bank-fiscal-year-2019-7th-edition","status":"publish","type":"statistique","link":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/statistique\/economic-and-financial-data-bank-fiscal-year-2019-7th-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic and Financial Data Bank, Fiscal Year 2019, 7th Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"page3R_mcid13\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">In 2019,<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the economic return<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">stood at<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">8.1%<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">compared to<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">7.4%<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">in 2018, while the profitability of<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">stable resources<\/span><br role=\"presentation\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"> The <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">financial rate of return recovered to<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">2.1%,<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">thanks to the increase in the net profit margin.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span id=\"page3R_mcid14\" class=\"markedContent\"><br role=\"presentation\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Capital productivity continued to increase in 2019, approaching the<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">14%<\/span> mark<span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">. This performance is co<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">following the<\/span><br role=\"presentation\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">increase in the rate of value added by +1.4 percentage points.<\/span><\/span><span id=\"page3R_mcid15\" class=\"markedContent\"><br role=\"presentation\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Gross<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">business investment for the 2019 financial year fell overall by<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">&#8211;<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">23.6%<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">compared to the year<\/span><br role=\"presentation\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">In the wake of this, the investment rate, which relates<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">investment to value added, fell to<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">56.7%,<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">i.e.<\/span><br role=\"presentation\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">&#8211;<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">21.9 points compared to 2018.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span id=\"page3R_mcid16\" class=\"markedContent\"><br role=\"presentation\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The analysis of the main balances of companies&#8217; balance sheets shows a negative net cash position in 2019, following<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">a<\/span><br role=\"presentation\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">cash surplus<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">in 2018<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">.<\/span><\/span><span id=\"page3R_mcid17\" class=\"markedContent\"><br role=\"presentation\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Corporate debt, assessed by the financial independence ratio, which relates financial debts to capital<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><br role=\"presentation\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">represented<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">1.3 times<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">shareholders&#8217; equity in 2019.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span id=\"page3R_mcid18\" class=\"markedContent\"><br role=\"presentation\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">The broader debt ratio, which relates<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">total debt to equity, fell slightly to<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">5.3<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">from<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">5.9<\/span><br role=\"presentation\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">in 2018. Corporate debt is more than <\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">70%<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">of short-term debts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":[626],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"annee":[],"region":[],"domaines":[],"class_list":["post-17621","statistique","type-statistique","status-publish","hentry","format-data"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/statistique\/17621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/statistique"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/statistique"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/statistique\/17621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"annee","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/annee?post=17621"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=17621"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=17621"},{"taxonomy":"domaine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ins-cameroun.cm\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/domaines?post=17621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}