Question 1

Answer the following questions related to liquidity ratios.

a.	What does liquidity mean?

b.	List two reasons liquidity is important to companies.

c.	What is the difference between working capital and current ratio?

d.	What could cause a company’s current ratio to be high, but its acid-test ratio to be low?

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Question 2

Most companies use a combination of debt and equity to obtain the assets needed to fund their operations.Two leverage ratios are the debt ratio and the debt-to-equity ratio.What do each of these measure,and how are they each calculated?

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Question 3

Two measures of liquidity are the accounts receivable turnover and the inventory turnover.What do each of these measure,and how are they each calculated?

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Question 4

Investors,employees,managers,and creditors are all interested in a company's ability to remain profitable over the long-run.ans the following questions relating to profitability ratios.
a.What does the gross margin percentage measure and how is it calculated?
b.What does the return on assets measure and how is it calculated?
c.What does the return on common stockholders' equity measure and how is it calculated?

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Question 5

Managers look at the financial statement to see how well a company is doing,but the account balances alone do not tell managers enough.Horizontal and trend analyses are commonly used by managers to help assess the company's financial strengths and weaknesses.
Required:

Explain what horizontal analysis and trend analysis are and how the numbers are used. What are the steps in preparing horizontal and trend analysis?

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Question 6

Most companies use a combination of debt and equity to obtain the assets needed to fund operations. 
Required:

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using debt versus equity financing.

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Question 7

Three measures of liquidity are working capital,current ratio,and acid-test ratio.What do each of these measure,and how are they each calculated?

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Question 8

ans the following questions related to common-size financial statements?
a.What are common-size financial statements? How are common-size financial statements used?
b.What is the base for a common-size income statement?
c.What is the base for a common-size balance sheet?

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Question 9

Dun and Bradstreet's Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios and the Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios are two publications relevant to managers interested in understanding a company's performance relative to its competitors.
a.What is the meaning of SIC and NAICS?
b.Explain how the SIC and NAICS codes were developed.

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Quiz 12: Financial Statement Analysis

Most companies use a combination of debt and equity to obtain the assets needed to fund their operations.Two leverage ratios are the debt ratio and the debt-to-equity ratio.What do each of these measure,and how are they each calculated?

Two measures of liquidity are the accounts receivable turnover and the inventory turnover.What do each of these measure,and how are they each calculated?

Most companies use a combination of debt and equity to obtain the assets needed to fund operations. Required: Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using debt versus equity financing.

Three measures of liquidity are working capital,current ratio,and acid-test ratio.What do each of these measure,and how are they each calculated?

ans the following questions related to common-size financial statements? a.What are common-size financial statements? How are common-size financial statements used? b.What is the base for a common-size income statement? c.What is the base for a common-size balance sheet?