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Ratio analysis

 

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Meaning of term ratio analysis :

 

Ratio analysis is a tool for analysing the financial performance of a company by calculating ratios from their published accounts. The main types of ratio are performance ratios (looking at the profitability and trading performance of the firm - ROCE and profit margin), activity ratios (looking at how effectively the firm are using their assets - stock turnover and debtor days), liquidity ratios (looking at how liquid the firms assets are - current ratio and acid test ratio), gearing ratios (looking at the way the capital of the firm has been financed - gearing and interest cover ratios) and shareholder ratios (looking at the performance of the company from the perspective of an investor - earnings per share, price earnings ratio and dividend yield / cover).

 

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