There’s a lot more you can learn from the balance sheet, apart from balancing assets and liabilities. It is used to calculate ratios that show the liquidity, efficiency and financial structure of your business. In this episode, I’ll take a look at a few of these ratios.
The first ratio, I’ll be talking about is known as current ratio. The current ratio is defined as total current assets divided by total current liabilities.
The next ratio is called the quick ratio. This defines your business’ ability to meet its short-term obligations while making the best out of its liquid assets. The quick ratio is equal to the sum of cash, cash equivalents, short term investments and current receivables divided by current liabilities.
The third ratio I’d like to mention is the asset turnover ratio. It tells you about the efficiency with which your business utilizes its assets. It shows if your business can generate sales from its assets by comparing net sales with average total assets.
The Inventory turnover ratio is another key ratio which indicates the number of times your business sells and replaces its stock during a given period of time.
And last, but not least, you can use the balance sheet to calculate debt-to-equity ratio. This ratio is equal to your business’ total liabilities divided by the owner’s equity. The debt-to-equity ratio helps investors or bankers to decide if they want to lend money to your business.
In conclusion, I can say that the balance sheet is an informative document. Therefore, investors and creditors give a look at it and its ratios for getting detailed insights about the business and making right decisions.
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