Current Assets Current Liabilties: Tests of Liquidity
Current Assets Current Liabilties: Tests of Liquidity
Current Assets Current Liabilties: Tests of Liquidity
Financial Ratios:
Tests of Liquidity:
Test of Solvency
Times Interest Earned EBIT / Interest Expense It determines the extent to which
operations cover interest expense.
Debt-Equity Ratio Total Liabilities / Total Equity Proportion of assets provided by
creditors compared that provided
by owners
Debt Ratio Total Liabilities / Total Assets Proportion of total assets provided
by creditors
Equity Ratio Total Equity / Total Assets Proportion of total assets provided
by owners.
Test of Profitability
Market Tests
Price-Earnings Ratio Price Per Share / Earnings Per It indicates the number of pesos
Share required to buy P1 of earnings.
Dividend Yield Dividend Per Share / Price Per Measures the rate of return in the
Share investor’s common stock
investments.
Dividend Pay-Out Dividend Per Share / Earnings Per It indicates the proportion of
Share earnings distributed as dividends.
Stability Ratios
Fixed Assets to Total Equity Fixed Assets / Total Equity Measures the proportion of
owners’ equity to fixed assets.
Indicative of over or under
investment by owners and
weakness in trading the equity.
Fixed Assets to Total Assets Fixed Assets (net) / Total Assets Indicates the possible over-
expansion of plant and equipment
Sales to Fixed Assets (Plant Net Sales / Fixed Assets (Net) Tests roughly the efficiency of
Turnover) management in keeping plant
properties employed.
Book Value per share – CS Common Shareholders’ Equity / Measures recoverable amount by
Common Shares Outstanding stockholders in the event of
liquidation if assets are realized at
their book values.
Times Preferred Dividend Earned Net Income After Taxes / It indicates ability to provide
Preferred Dividends dividends to preferred
stockholders.
Capital intensity ratio Total Assets / Net Sales Measures efficiency of the firm to
generate sales through
employment of its resources.
Times fixed charges earned Net income before taxes & fixed Measures ability to meet fixed
charges / (Fixed charges + sinking charges
fund payment)
Rate of return on average current Income / Average Current Assets Measures the profitability of
assets current assets invested
Operating Profit Margin Operating profit / net sales Measures profit generated after
consideration of operating costs.
Cash flow margin Operating cash flow / net sales Measures the ability of the firm to
translate sales to cash.
Other data:
Inventory Turnover 3.50
Beginning inventory 850
Ending inventory 810
Rate of return on net sales 0.11
Gaddi’s current ratio is 0.80 and its acid test ratio is 0.40.
We are given the following information for the Coleman Machine Tools Corporation:
Current assets are composed of cash, marketable securities, accounts receivable, and inventory.
Calculate the following balance sheet items:
a. A/R
b. Marketable Securities
c. Fixed Assets
d. Long-term debt
Nickoly of N Company found these pieces of her average balance sheet and key ratio report in her Herschel
bag:
Required: Add as much to her balance sheet as possible from the data provided.
Assume that net income was P 6,000. No other information is known, except the following: