There are dozens of financial ratios and their meanings help business owners evaluate the financial health of a company. Financial ratios can be broken into six key areas of analysis: liquidity, ...

Financial statements present a standardized overview of a company's financial position for a specific period of time. These statements serve a variety of purposes and are created for a range of ...

Bruns, William J., Jr. "Introduction to Financial Ratios and Financial Statement Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 193-029, August 1992. (Revised September 2004.) ...

Managing a business without a clear handle on your financial data is like flying blind. You may be moving quickly, but you can’t see if you're on course or heading for turbulence. Over the years, in ...

J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. David ...

Following every bankruptcy, a company's investors, suppliers, customers, and employees invariably ask themselves: "Could we have seen it coming? Could we have predicted that the company was in big ...

Financial ratios are useful tools for investors to better analyze financial results and trends over time. These ratios can also be used to provide key indicators of organizational performance, making ...

Financial ratios are relationships determined from a company’s financial information and used for comparison purposes. Examples include such often referred to measures as return on investment (ROI), ...