Saturday, November 29, 2014

Efficiency Ratios

As I mentioned before, efficiency (‘activity’) ratios measure the efficiency of the firm's use of resources (in terms of converting these resources to cash, of course). Efficiency ratios are used to measure the relative efficiency of a firm based on its use of its assets, leverage or other such balance sheet items. These ratios are important in determining whether a company's management is doing a good enough job of generating revenues, cash, etc. from its resources.


There are many activity ratios, but the most widely used are eight of them: Receivables Turnover, Average Collection Period, Inventory Turnover, Inventory Conversion Period, Total Assets Turnover, Stock Turnover, Degree of Operating Leverage and Days Sales Outstanding

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