MGT 239: Topics in Accounting - Financial Statement Analysis: Financial Ratios

Covers nearly 250 operational criteria and offers clear, easy-to-understand explanations. This book is intended as an authoritative resource. It helps the process of measuring corporate performance, by allowing its users to pick and choose the tools they need to best assess their organization's performance. This most recent edition added twenty measurements.

This book covers the full scope of business. It uses a model, the Enterprise Stewardship Model which has received international acclaim, to illustrate the power - and the limitations - of financial ratios and explore the tangible and intangible aspects of creating value in a business. It shows how ratios can be used to describe, measure, and help to maximize, value and success. And it includes worked examples to illustrate how to generate and calculate key financial ratios.

This book guides readers through the key ratios at the heart of business practice.

Presents numerous ratios that represent guidelines in assessing, interpreting and planning financial data to meet the objectives of managing a business entity more effectively. It shows how to calculate and use ratios in analyzing past performance results and making industry comparisons.