Use of accounting ratios in business
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Use of accounting ratios in business
Accounting ratios
Accounting ratios, an essential subset of financial ratios, are metrics used to measure the efficiency and profitability of a company based on its financial reports. They provide a way of expressing the relationship between one accounting data point to another and are the basis of ratio analysis.
What Do Accounting Ratios Tell You?
An accounting ratio compares two line items in a company’s financial statements: the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. These ratios can use to evaluate a company’s fundamentals and provide information about the company’s performance over the last quarter of the fiscal year.
Examples of financial ratios include the following:
- Gross margin
- Operating margin
- Debt-to-equity ratio
- Quick ratio
- Payout ratio
- Checking Gearing
Each of these ratios requires the most recent data to be relevant
Examples of Accounting Ratios
Gross Margin and Operating Margin
The income statement contains company sales, expenses, and net income information. It also provides an overview of earnings per share and the number of shares outstanding used to calculate it. These are some of the most popular data points analysts use to assess a company’s profitability.
Gross profit as a percent of sales is referred to as gross margin. It is calculated by dividing gross profit by sales.
Gross profit/Sales = Gross profit margin
Operating profit/sales = Operating profit margin
Debt-to-Equity Ratio
The balance sheet provides accountants with a snapshot of a company’s capital structure; one of the most critical measures is the debt-to-equity (D/E) ratio. It is calculated by dividing debt by equity. For example, if a company has an obligation equal to $100,000 and equity equal to $50,000, the debt-to-equity ratio is 2 to 1.
Debt/Equity = Debt to equity ratio
The Quick Ratio
The quick ratio checks all current assets and liabilities, also known as the acid-test ratio. This indicator of a company’s short-term liquidity, cash or near cash, measures its ability to meet its short-term commitments with its liquid assets. Because we are only concerned with liquid assets, the ratio excludes assets such as stock, and work in progress may be challenging to sell and convert into cash; these are inventories from current assets.
Quick assets/Current Liabilities=Quick ratio
Dividend Payout Ratio
The cash flow statement provides data for ratios dealing with cash. For example, the payout ratio is the percentage of net income paid out to investors. Both dividends and share repurchases are considered outlays of money and can find on the cash flow statement.
(Dividends+ Share repurchases)/sales= Dividend payout ratio
Checking Gearing
The ratio of money a business loans to the capital invested in the industry by shareholders or company owners. It is referred to as the Gearing of the business and includes its profit, not withdrawn. It is calculated as follows.
Total borrowed/Owner’s capital= Gearing
Gearing is guidance to show how much the business should allow borrowing. Banks use this ratio for their lending purposes.
Using these ratios, you can check the trend, and your business’s financial health can compare with similar companies.