Donna Jamison was brought in as assistant to Fred Camp, Computron’s chairman, who had the task of getting the company back into a sound financial position. Computron’s 2009 and 2010 balance sheets and income statements, together with projections for 2011, are shown in the following tables. The tables also show the 2009 and 2010 financial ratios, along with industry average data. The 2011 projected financial statement data represent Jamison’s and Campo’s best guess for 2011 results, assuming that some new financing is arranged to get the company “over the hump.”
a. Why are ratios useful? What three groups use ratio analysis and for what reasons?
Financial statement ratio analysis involves comparing a firm's performance with that of
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Current ratio measures a company’s ability to pay-off short-term liabilities such as debt and payables with short-term assets such as cash, inventories, and receivables. The higher the current ratio, the more capable the company is of paying its short-term liabilities (Current Ratio, 2013)
2011 Current Ratio = Current AssetsCurrent Liabilities = $2,680,112$1,039,800 = 2.58
2010 Current Ratio = 1.5
2009 Current Ratio = 2.3
As currents assets increase and current liabilities decrease, the current ratio increases. In 2010, the decrease in the current ratio occurred because the cash on hand and short-term investments decreased while the current liabilities increased. In 2011, the current assets increased by a larger percentage than the current liabilities so the current ratio was able to increase.
Quick ratio measures the company’s ability to meet its short-term liabilities using its most liquid assets, inventories. This ratio is more conservative than the current ratio because it excludes inventory from the current assets. Inventories are excluded because companies have a hard time turning their inventory into cash (Quick Ratio, 2013).
2011 Quick Ratio = Current Assets-InventoriesCurrent Liabilities = $2,680,112-1,716,480$1,039,800 = 963,6321,039,800 = 0.93
2010 Quick Ratio = 0.5
2009 Quick Ratio = 0.8
As with the current ratio, the 2010 quick ratio decreased because the cash on hand and short-term investments
The current ratio directly relates the company’s current assets against its current liabilities. A good current ratio will be over 1. For example if the current ratio were 2.0 this would mean that the company’s current assets are twice as large as its current liabilities. For Tesla Motors the current ratio drops significantly over the years. It starts at 2.76 in 2010, then drops to 1.95 in 2011, and finally reaches 0.97 in 2012. As you can see the current ratio in 2012 is below one. The current ratio of 0.97 means that as of December 2012, Tesla Motors has more current liabilities than current assets.
The current ratio measures the company’s ability to pay its short term obligations with its short term assets. Between Coca Cola and PepsiCo, PepsiCo has a higher current ratio implying that is more capable of paying its obligations. The debt management policies of Coca-Cola in conjunction with share repurchase program and investment activity resulted in current liabilities exceeding current assets. From the ratio Pepsi Co suddenly had to pay all its short-term
Current Ratio: Current ratio measures the capability of the company in paying current liability. Higher the current ratio, better the liquidity position of the company. Generally, a current
The current ratio shows the short-term debt-paying ability of the company also known as liquidity ratio. Components of the current ratio are current assets and current liabilities. To find the current ratio, divide current assets by current liabilities. For example if a current ratio was 2:1, then that company would be able to pay off its short term debt easily. But you should also look at the types of debt the company has because some assets might be larger. For the current ratio a rule of thumb is the ratio should be around 2:1. The company wants to at least make sure that the value of the current assets covers at least the amount of the short-term obligations. In 2013 the current ratio is 1.75 and in 2014 the current ratio is 1.8. This is showing a favorable
This ratio indicates a company’s liquidity. It depicts how many dollars of current assets exist for every dollar in current liabilities. The ratio is the higher, the better. Home Depot and Lowe’s has increasing current ratio while Home Depot has a slightly higher one.
Current ratio shows how well the company can pay off its short-term liability obligations. Short-term liabilities are debt due within the next year. Companies that have larger amounts of current assets are better able to pay off their current liabilities. The higher the ratio, the better able the company is to pay current obligations. A low ratio indicates the company is weighted down with current debt and the cash flow will suffer. The equation for current ratio
This ratio is similar to current ratio, except that it excludes inventory from current assets. Inventory is subtracted because it is considered to be less liquid than other current assets, that is, it cannot be easily used to pay for the company’s current liabilities. A company having a quick ratio of at least 1.0, is considered to be financially stable. It has sufficient liquid assets and hence, it will be able to pay back its debts easily (Qasim Saleem et al., 2011).
The Quick Ratio also known as Acid Ratio is used by firms to determine liquidity position. It explains if the firm is able to pay all of their current debt liabilities. (Dyson, 2010) The graph above illustrates that over the period from 2007 to 2011 quick ratio was not more that 1, which means that their debts might not be covered all. The graph also indicates that a peak was in 2011.
| This ratio measures a company’s ability to meet its short-term obligations with its most liquid assets, which is why inventory is omitted.
These ratios help company in determining its capability to pay short-term debts. Liquidity ratios inform about, how quickly a firm can obtain cash by liquidating its current assets in order to pay its liabilities. General liquidity ratios are: current ratio and quick ratio. Current ration can be obtain by dividing company’s current assets by its’ current liabilities. Generally a current ratio of two is considered as good (Cleverley et al., 2011). Quick ratio also known as acid test determines company’s liabilities that need to be fulfilled on urgent basis. Quick ratio can be obtained by dividing quick assets by current liabilities. Quick ratio is considered as stricter because it excludes inventories from current assets. Generally a quick ratio of 1:1 is considered as good for the company. Higher quick
As the creditors’ view, they prefer the high current ratio. The current ratio provides the best single indicator of the extent, which assets that are expected to be converted to cash fairly quickly cover the claims of short-term creditors. However, consider the current ratio from the perspective of a shareholder. A high current ratio could mean that the company has a lot of money tied up in nonproductive assets.
The quick ratio reflects on a company’s ability to meet its current liabilities without liquidating inventories that could require markdowns. It is a more stringent test of liquidity than the current ratio and may provide more insight into company liquidity in some cases. For Colgate-Palmolive, the quick ratio has declined from 0.73 in 2008 to 0.58 in 2010. While this does not necessarily mean a problem, a higher current ratio and quick ratio analysis will mean that the company will not have difficulty in meeting its short-term obligations from its operations and not by liquidating its assets.
The quick ratio of 1.46 is a further analysis into the actual monetary values that are highly liquid and excluding fixed assets as part of the assets. The CFO/Avg. current liabilities also show a healthy 73%, 28% in 2004, on average of which is still higher than the industry.
CURRENT RATIO show a company’s ability to pay its current obligations that is company’s liquidity. The current ratio position is lower for Honda at 0.33 than for Toyota at 1.22 in 2010. Honda has a large portion of receivables in assets both in trade, notes receivables and finance receivables. It has a huge portion of cash as well. This indicates the company has no problem in terms of generating a positive influx of assets. But in terms of liabilities it has a large portion of short term debt which makes almost 1/3rd of total Current liabilities. Also there is a significant portion of Long Term debt. The higher level of liabilities in the denominator reduces the overall ratio.