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Manager accounting
C202 chapt 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| analysis of financial statement numbers can be used | to diagnose existing problems and forecast how a company will perform in the future |
| financial statement is used | to predict a company's future profitability and cash flows from its past performance, to evaluate the performance of a company with an eye toward identifying problem areas |
| debt ratio | percentage of company funding that is borrowed |
| current ratio | indication of a company's ability to pay its short term debts |
| return on sales | pennies in profit on each dollar of sales |
| asset turnover | measure of efficiency; number of sales dollars generated by each dollar of assets |
| return on equity | pennies in profit for each dollar invested by stockholders |
| price earnings ratio | number of dollars an investor must pay to 'buy' the future rights to each dollar of current earnings |
| common size financial statements allow | comparison of financial statements across years an between companies |
| common size financial statements are prepared by | dividing all financial statement numbers by sales for the year |
| profitability means | return on sales is computed as net income divided by sales and is interrupted as the number of pennies in profit generated from each dollars of sales |
| efficiency means | asset turnover is computed as sales divide by assets and is interpreted as the number of dollars in sales generated by each dollar of assets |
| leverage means | assets to equity ratio is computed as assets divided by equity and is interpreted as the number of dollars of assets a company is able to acquire using each dollar invested by stockholders |
| the best tool for detecting a company's profitability problem | is the common size income statement |
| financial statements don't contain | relevant information |