Accounting for Managers
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Accounting for Managers
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Financial Ratios
73 Just Do It It doesn’t matter how you start using financial ratios. Just start using them. Depending on your primary managerial responsibilities, some ratios may be more relevant than others. Start with those. If you’re in operations, the turnover ratios will be of immediate interest. If you’re in sales, knowing about liquidity and profitability ratios will help you assess a client. How many times have you chased after a business, only to find out they couldn’t or wouldn’t pay? If you’re in purchasing, it helps to know how stable your vendors are. Have any ever failed to deliver? Webster04.qxd 8/29/2003 5:39 PM Page 73 Inventory to Net Working Capital This ratio tells how much of the company’s funds are tied up in inventory. inventory to net working capital = inventory net working capital If this number is high compared with the industry average, it could mean the business has too much inventory on hand . It’s preferable to run your business with as little inventory as possi- ble on hand, as long as it doesn’t mean losing out on potential sales opportunities. Debt Ratios Debt ratios measure the extent to which a firm relies on debt to finance its operations. Various types of debt from the liabilities section of the balance sheet are compared with various assets. These ratios are useful for comparing changes—growth or decline—in a company’s performance from one period to anoth- er and within an industry. They’re also commonly called leverage ratios, in reference to the power that can come from the appro- priate use of debt financing. Debt-to-Assets Ratio This ratio, sometimes known simply as debt ratio, shows the extent to which a company is financed with debt. debt-to-assets ratio = total liabilities total assets The higher this ratio, the more the business is financed by outside creditors. The firm is more highly leveraged (debt) and a higher risk for creditors. Generally, this calculation ignores short-term obligations (e.g. current liabilities) in calculating debt ratios based on the prior four quarters of financial performance. Download 3.03 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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