To see the Firms Financial position
Firms Performance
Trend analysis
Describe the four approaches to using financial ratios?
Steps in 'Ratio Analysis'Step 1: Collection of information, which are relevant from the financial statements and then to calculate different ratios accordingly.Step 2: Comparison of computed ratios with the past ratios of the same organisation or with the industry ratios.Step 3: Interpretation, drawing of inferences and report-writingClassification of Ratios
1. Liquidity Ratios - Ability of the company to pay off debt 2. Activity Ratios - How quickly a firm can convert its non-cash assets to cash assets 3. Debt Ratios - Ability of the firm to repay long-term debt 4. Profitability Ratios - To Measure the firms use of its assets and control of its expenses to generate an acceptable rate of return 5. Market Ratios - To Measure the investor response to owning a company's stock and also the cost of issuing stock
Indicate the usefulness and limitations in using ratios to do a trend analysis Sheryl Smith
It can be related to unqualified or unskilled management, to inaccurate record keeping resulting in inaccurate ratios to be calculated from the balance sheet and income statement, or just generally not having enough information at hand to make the decision.
The ratios are percents, which can be calculated by a punnett square.
there are many profitability ratios which are calculated. some of them are:profit marginoperating margintotal asset turnoverreturn on assets (ROA)return on equity (ROE)
you add your weighted premiums and divide by your weighted claims. (you do not weight the loss ratios )
when a number of ratios give the same answer after solving the ratios the ratios are said to be equivalent ratios
Ratios are often classified using the following terms: profitability ratios (also known as operating ratios), liquidity ratios, and solvency ratios.
Ratios
The accounting ratios are calculated as per last reported financial statements and are re-calculated for present financial reports. The change is noted and then a reason is sought for the change.For example last times gross profit margin may be 20% but this time it might be 15% due to increased cost of labor etc
1 - Activity ratios 2 - Profitability ratios 3 - Liquidity ratios
1 - Activity Ratios 2 - Liquidity ratios 3 - Profitability ratios
Financial ratios of all company's can be calculated based on their financial statements that would be declared during their quarterly result announcement. Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Statement of Cashflows, Statement of Earnings etc are some of the documents from which the information required for calculating these financial ratios can be picked up. Also, if the company is listed in the stock market, its current stock price too is used for calculating some of these ratios.
equivalent ratios are different ratios that name the same comparison
1 - Actiivty raios 2 - turnover ratios 3 - Profitability ratios 4 - Liquidity Ratios