Ratios

2. Value Creation – Ratio Analysis There are four key ratios that are detrimental in evaluating the market value of a company’s stock: Equity to Book Value Ratio, Price-Sales Ratio, Price-Earnings Ratio, and Earnings Per Share. The first ratio mentioned, Equity to Book Value Ratio, measures the market value of a company’s stock. It is determined through dividing the current price of the stock by the book value per share. Price-Sales Ratio compares the company’s stock to their total revenue or…

quick ratios, with a current ratio of 5.39 and a quick ratio of 4.53 it is pretty clear that CanGo could easily pay of their debt if need be and still be able to keep running. CanGo has a working capital of 164,820,000 on again this shows that CanGo is more than capable of paying off its debts. When looking at CanGo’s level of solvency they seem to be doing very well in this area as well with a current debt ratio is40.23%. According to the Risk Management Association the average debt ratio for…

With ABC in 2014 taking on average 64 days to sell its stock, it achieved a 5.7 times inventory turnover ratio (365 days divided by 64) which can be considered an appropriate for the company with similar nature of the business. Days debtors has been decreasing by one day on year by year basis since 2012. This would suggest that the company is getting better in collecting its debts. Section k in notes 1 of ABC’s annual report 2014 stipulates that ‘trade receivables are due for settlement no…

myriad ratio analyses can be performed to examine the financial health of the company. Analysis There are four categories of ratio analysis that measure different aspects of a company’s operations: profitability, short-term liquidity, long-term solvency, and market valuation. For this assessment, I calculated five financial ratios: gross profit margin, current ratio and quick ratio, and debt ratio and debt to equity ratio (Heisinger & Hoyle, 2012). Profitability Ratios Profitability ratios…

Benefits and Limitations of Ratio Analysis In order to make economic decisions, business owners and investors need to gather information, summarize the details, and interpret the results of the data. It is the basic flow of the accounting cycle wherein the products are the financial statements, which the management prepares and issue for the use of the public. Furthermore, performance of other financial analysis techniques could help users of the financial report evaluate the overall…

 3.3 Short- term Solvency: The Short term solvency ratio computes whether the income of an organization is adequate to deal with the fleeting commitments (Droms & Wright 2015). It incorporates current ratio, Acid Test ratio and Cash Flow from Operations to Liabilities. I have computed all the three proportions for the organization. Firstly, Current Assets measure the liquidity which is truly imperative to manage liabilities inside a year (Droms & Wright 2015). The standard is 2:1; lower than…

Volkswagen and BMW increased in debt to equity ratio indicates that both company has been aggressive in financing their growth with debt, while BMW able to maintain a steady cash flow over the years, this is not the case for Volkswagen. Overall, Solvency and liquidity analysis are equally important in financial statement analysis. Volkswagen low debt to equity ratio combined with low financial leverage and its ability to meet long-term obligations indicates lower risk of insolvency. On the…

California 's ratio has opened the door to improvement. Public concern with hospital facilities, errors in care, and lack of staffing led to the state of California mandating that a minimum patient to nurse ratio be administered and begin in 2004 (Scott). The California Department of Health took a multiple years to process and determine what the minimum ratios needed to be set based on research and other factors (Dorning). After doing so, California implemented different ratios ranging from the…

Should the government require hospitals to meet specified staff to patient ratios, or allow the hospital to make decisions about staffing levels, even if it means fewer staff working longer hours? This is a question that affects millions of hospitals and also effects protocols in hospitals all over the world. I rarely visit the hospital, but if I go to the hospital and it’s a very serious case will I be treated quickly enough? Registered nurses have long recognized and continue to…

where span of control reaches its maximum capacity to be effective, and if you add more to this, then that adds no value or could even be damaging. For example, span of control of 5 indicate that 5 employees report to one manager. This also can be a ratio by dividing the organizational total number of non-managers by the total number of managers. For example, a unit…