Chapter 5 Financial Analysis
Chapter 5 Financial Analysis
Chapter 5 Financial Analysis
Financial Ratios
composed of a numerator and a denominator. It expresses the relationship between specific
financial statement data. The resulting ration may be interpreted as a percentage, a rate or a
proportion.
Profitability Ratios
measures the ability of the company to control costs and generate income from the use of its
assets and invested capital.
measured based on the company’s ability to generate sales from its utilization of assets, as a
whole or individually.
Solvency
refers to the company’s capacity to pay their long term liabilities
Liquidity ratio
measures the company’s ability to pay short-term debts
Historical performance may provide an indication but will not ensure future performance
A good financial analysis will be worthless if the financial statements are erroneous and
fraudulent
Financial statements of companies may not be directly comparable if there are differences in
the accounting treatment of like transactions.
Financial analysis deals only with quantitative data.
Management can take short-run actions to influence ratios.
Different companies may use different accounting principles though they came from the same
industry.
Different formulas can be used in computing financial ratios