Accounting › Section O · Cash flows and statement analysis › Topic O.6
An overview of financial ratios
A ratio packs a financial relationship into a single number. This topic gathers the main ratios met across the course into one toolkit, grouped by the question each answers, and shows how DuPont analysis explains where a company's return on equity really comes from.
In this topic
- Ratios grouped by question
- Liquidity ratios
- Efficiency ratios
- Solvency ratios
- Profitability and market ratios
- Worked example: Saltmarsh's liquidity, efficiency and solvency
- Worked example: Saltmarsh's profitability
- DuPont analysis
- Reading ratios well
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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