Financial Analysis Using Ratios
Financial Analysis Using Ratios
Revenue
Credit Sales *
Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)
Gross Profit - - - - -
Marketing
Technology & Development
General, and administrative expense
Operating Income (EBITDA) - - - - -
Interest expense
Earning before tax (EBT) - - - - -
Taxes
Net income - - - - -
* If the figure of "Credit sales" is not available, enter the "Revenues" figure again
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Liquidity ratios A firm is financially liquid if it is able to pay its bills on time
(1) Current Ratio(CR) We measure the firm Current Assets/Current
ability to meet its Liabilities = xx times
short term obligation
Profitability ratios Measure the income or operating success of a company for a given period of time.
(1) Net profit margin Measuring how the Net Income / Net Sales = xx
firm controlling costs %
and earning
reasonable profit
margin?
To evaluate
Management
performance
To evaluate
Management
performance
For each 1 $ as a current liabilities, the company can cover it by XX as a cash assets .
Case 1 :Accepted : Acid Test Ratio is high
A higher number is preferred because it suggests a company has a strong ability to
service short-term obligations.
In general, quick ratios between 0.5 and 1 are considered satisfactory, as long as the
collection of receivables is not expected to slow
In case of production company : The company can produce and sell all inventory in xx
times per year
In case of merchendising company : The company can purchase and sell all inventory
in xx times per year
In case of Service Company : No inventory
Case 1: Accepted : High Inventory turnover ratio or Inventory turnover > Industry
Average
A high ratio indicates inventory is selling quickly and that little unused inventory is
being stored which implies either strong sales and / or large discounts
If this have a very high value, we should check the storage area, may be it is not that
big which lead to a small inventory value
Case 2: Not Accepted : Low Inventory turnover ratio or Inventory turnover < Industry
Average
If the ratio is low, indicates inventory is selling slowly which implies weak sales or low
product quality
The company has ability to sell all inventory items during xx days on average
Just in case I have more details in the case about inventory items, I can prepare
inventory analysis by item, so this is a limitation in the case
Case 1: Accepted:
A less number of days indicate inventory is selling quickly
Case 1: Accepted :
A higher ratio indicates a shorter time between making a sale and collecting the cash.
If it exceed than 10, then you should check only the client satisfaction, because
collecting the money with this high ratio may cause to client dissatisfaction.
Case 1: Accepted :
The goal as a business is to keep the number of days your accounts receivable are
outstanding as low as possible. After all, you need the cash to build your company
(increase cash flow), not finance your customers!
Case 1: Accepted :
Higher percentage is much preferred
Case 1:
for high turnover industry --> look for investment turnover,
Case 2:
for low turnover industry --> look for profit margin
Each $100 as an investment (asset invested) generate $ x as a return
Case 1 :
Higher percentage is much preferred
Case 2:
If percentage is low, it means there’s poor management performance due to utilizing
its assets in a inadequate way
Each shareholder
If the DPS trend decrease but the total investment trend is increased so the company
take the expansion strategy, this strategy can be a thread to the company because not
all people can read this situation accurately so the company need to announce such
strategy and assume that the stockholders are not expert . The announcement should
say : " The company has an investment agenda in the future with a direction to
expansion and to be regular in annual meeting or company news"
If the DPS Tread decrease and the BVS Trend increase, this means that the company is
growing .
If the DPS Tread decrease and the BVS trend decrease, this means that the company is
not stable and this is a big threat .
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Note:-
If Current ratio = 1 to 1.4 ........ Bad
If Current ratio = 1.5 to 2 ...…… Slightly bad to Good
If Current ratio > 2 .…….. Strong situation
A ratio of 1:1 means that the company can pay its bills without
having to sell inventory
This could be conducted for each product in the company, and for
the products that had extra Day’s of inventory, we could make
some sales promotion to increase the Inventory turnover
Sometimes the problem is not with inventory as the inventory
turnover is quick but may be the liquidity problem is due to cash
collection
If the trend of net profit margin is increasing and at the same time
we have a problem in the inventory so the company has a
problem in pricing .
If the industry type imposes high profit share rather than high
turnover , then the company has two strategies :
(1) Cost Management strategy
(2)