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Financial Ratios

Key financial ratios like ROA, ROE, and profitability metrics for measuring business performance

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The Quick Ratio (Acid-Test Ratio): The Liquidity Number Lenders Trust More Than Your Current Ratio

The quick ratio (acid-test ratio) measures whether a business can cover current liabilities using only cash, marketable securities, and receivables — deliberately excluding inventory and prepaid expenses. Covers the formula with a worked example, why loan covenants often set a quick-ratio minimum instead of a current-ratio one, why 1.0 is the textbook benchmark but fast-turn retailers healthily run 0.3–0.4, and the mistakes that make the ratio misleading.

Mike Thrift

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Asset Coverage Ratio: The Solvency Number Lenders Check Before You Ever See a Term Sheet

The asset coverage ratio measures whether tangible assets could repay total debt in a liquidation — [(total assets − intangibles) − (current liabilities − short-term debt)] ÷ total debt. Below 1.0 is a red flag, 2.0 is a common healthy benchmark, and lenders often write a minimum ACR into loan covenants that can trigger technical default.

Mike Thrift

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Return on Equity (ROE) Explained: What It Measures, What Counts as Good, and How to Break It Down

Return on Equity (ROE) divides net income by owner's equity — a 15% ROE means the business earned 15 cents per dollar of the owner's capital. This guide covers healthy benchmarks (12–15% baseline, 15–20%+ strong), the three-part DuPont breakdown of margin, asset turnover, and leverage, and the pitfalls — debt-inflated returns, negative equity, one-time items — that distort the ratio.

Mike Thrift

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Operating Margin, Explained: Formula, Industry Benchmarks, and How to Improve It

Operating margin — operating income divided by revenue — shows whether a business's core operation makes money before interest and taxes. Here's the formula with a worked example, 2026 benchmarks by industry (SaaS 15–35%, services 15–25%, manufacturing 8–15%, retail under 5%), how it differs from gross and net margin, and the bookkeeping errors that distort it.

Mike Thrift

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Fixed Asset Turnover Ratio, Explained: Is That New Equipment Actually Pulling Its Weight?

The fixed asset turnover ratio — net sales divided by average net fixed assets — measures revenue generated per dollar of PP&E. Capital-intensive businesses typically run 1–3, asset-light ones 5+, and the trend matters more than the level. Here's how to calculate it, benchmark it, and avoid the bookkeeping errors that distort it.

Mike Thrift

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Inventory Turnover Ratio Explained: Formula, Industry Benchmarks, and How to Improve It

Inventory turnover ratio = COGS ÷ average inventory, and it shows how many times a business sells through its stock each year. This guide covers the formula, converting turnover to days sales of inventory, industry benchmarks from 2–4 turns (industrial parts) to 10–20+ (grocery), and why slow-moving stock costs 20–30% of its value annually to hold.

Mike Thrift

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The Quick Ratio (Acid-Test Ratio): The One Number That Catches a Cash Crunch Before It Happens

The quick ratio (acid-test ratio) strips inventory and prepaid expenses from current assets to test whether cash, receivables, and marketable securities alone can cover current liabilities. Includes the formula, a worked example where a 2.5 current ratio hides a 1.0 quick ratio, industry benchmarks, and the aged-receivables blind spot.

Mike Thrift

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Коефициент на покритие на фиксираните разходи: формула и работен пример

Научете формулата за коефициента на покритие на фиксираните разходи с пример, как FCCR се различава от DSCR и как кредитните споразумения определят наем, данъци и

Mike Thrift

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Return on Invested Capital: The One Number That Tells You If Your Business Is Actually Worth Running

ROIC measures how efficiently a business turns debt and equity into after-tax operating profit — NOPAT divided by invested capital. Learn the formula, why it beats ROI and ROE, the WACC benchmark that separates value creators from value destroyers, and the five calculation mistakes owners make most.

Mike Thrift

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