Activity Ratios or Efficiency Ratios are used to measure the effectiveness of a firm's use of resources. Good companies would always put their resources to optimum utilization. Better the activity or efficiency ratio, the better it is for the company and it means the company is utilizing its resources properly and effectively.
The ratios that come under this category are:
1. Average Collection Period
2. Degree of Operating Leverage
3. Days Sales Outstanding Ratio
4. Average payment period
5. Asset Turnover Ratio
6. Stock Turnover Ratio
7. Receivables Turnover Ratio
1 - Activity ratios 2 - Profitability ratios 3 - Liquidity ratios
1 - Activity Ratios 2 - Liquidity ratios 3 - Profitability ratios
Liquidity, Profitability, Leverage, and Activity/Efficiency
Ratios are useful because they give people a mental image of important numbers. The ratios can be used for a variety of purposes such as to break down expenses, examine a diet, look at physical activity, or watch shopping habits.
It determines patient to RN ratios which have national guidelines for good patient outcomes.
It determines patient to RN ratios which have national guidelines for good patient outcomes.
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
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.
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The calculated ratios of product to reactant in the three parts of the activity demonstrated a consistent relationship that aligns with the law of mass action, which states that at equilibrium, the ratio of the concentrations of products to reactants remains constant. In each part, as the concentrations of reactants changed, the corresponding ratios adjusted accordingly, indicating a dynamic balance. This behavior illustrates that the system shifts to maintain equilibrium, reflecting the inherent principle that the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are equal at that point. Thus, the observed ratios effectively highlight the law of mass action in action.
equivalent ratios are different ratios that name the same comparison