CURRENT RATIO It is a liquidity ratio that measures a company’s ability to pay short-term obligations. Also known as "liquidity ratio"‚ "cash asset ratio" and "cash ratio". By putting to test a company’s financial strength‚ deduces company’s ability to pay back its short-term liabilities (debt and payables) with its short-term assets (cash‚ inventory‚ receivables). The higher the current ratio‚ the more capable the company is of paying its obligations. An acceptable current ratio varies
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Benefits and Limitations of Ratio and Financial Statement Analysis July 25‚ 2013 MGMT640 Executive Summary In corporate finance‚ both ratio and financial statement analysis are important tools that can be used in order to assess a company’s strength financially. They can be used in order to forecast a business’ prospective cash flow and ability to grow in the future‚ as well as a company’s strengths and weaknesses. Income statements‚ balance sheets
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Liquidity Ratio Current ratio depicts how the company’s ability to payback its current liabilities and current assets. In 2011 the ratio is at its highest of 3.32 since the company put in capital. During this year they tested the waters on whether they could pay off short term debt. It went on a decreasing rate from 2012 to 2014 but had a slight increased on 2015. During 2012 to 2014 the company is struggling to pay back its liabilities and assets while financial health was at risk because
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the accounting ratios you have calculated in P3 (M2) Profitability Profitability ratios measure the profit of the firm in relation to another by comparing profit with sales. Profitability ratios figures shows how profitable a business is and it’s another great way to analyse the company’s overall performance compare to other businesses. If the company is making more profit shows that they are performing well and are good at managing their cost. These are 3 different ratios under profitability
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at Midnight Each question is worth 3.33 points 1. Financial statement ratios support informed judgments and decision making most effectively: a. when viewed for a single year. b. When viewed as a trend of entity data. c. When compared to an industry average for the most recent year. d. When the trend of entity data is compared to the trend of industry data. 2. When comparing entity financial ratios with industry ratios: a. it should be assumed that the data result from the consistent application
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conduct a comparative ratio analysis of the financial statements of J. Sainsbury PLC and Tesco PLC for the year-ending 2013. The financial information that is provided from each company’s annual report and the comparison between them will help possible users of this analysis to understand not only the differences between these two companies but also each company’s weaknesses and strengths. Below‚ the profiles of the two companies will be referred as well as eight accounting ratios for each company will
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Short-term Liquidity Current ratio: Coke’s current ratio have growth constantly during the period (2014 - 2016). In 2016‚ the current ratio is 1.28 which is higher than the previous year ratio‚ 1.24. It means that Coke has more $1.28 current assets to cover every dollar of its short-term debt. In this year‚ the current asset in the total assets increases 1.84%. The factor that contributes to the increase of Coke’s current asset is the significant increase of the Cash and cash equivalent account which
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Financial Ratios Cassandra Brown‚ Diana Smiley‚ Patricia Ramirez FIN/370 - FINANCE FOR BUSINESS 11/23/14 Michael Rodriguez The Industry Averages and Financial Ratios In today’s market business really look at what the others in their competitive market are doing to compare how they are doing as a business or corporation. They do this by evaluating the industry averages and the financial ratios. When corporations and financial advisors look at the industry average and the ratios it helps
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manufacturing facilities located throughout the United States‚ Canada‚ Mexico and Europe. The company’s financial ratios for 2004‚ 2005‚ and 2006 were analyzed and indicates that the company is not without problems. The current ratio for the company has been on a steady decline over the last three years. From the standpoint of a creditor‚ the reduction of the company’s current ratio is not good as the company’s short term liabilities is outgrowing its current assets. However‚ when you look at the
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