Saturday, November 29, 2014

Total Assets Turnover

Total Assets Turnover (or just ‘Assets Turnover’) is the amount of sales generated per dollar of your assets. It is an indicator of the efficiency with which your company is using its assets to generate revenue and is calculated as your net sales divided by average assets for the corresponding accounting period.

In the context of this formula, ‘net’ means sales net of returns, allowances for damaged or missing goods and any discounts allowed by your sales policies. Therefore, it is the same as the term Gross Sales used in this guide.

Generally speaking, the higher the ratio, the better it is, since it implies the company is generating more revenues per dollar of assets.  But since this ratio varies widely from one industry to the next, comparisons are only meaningful when they are made for different companies in the same sector.

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