financialratioanalysis

=Financial Ratio Analysis=

Financial Ratios and Comparative Ratio analysis
[|Financial Ratios and Comparative Ratio Analysis.doc]

Financial Management Dashboard
The best way to maintain financial ratios for your business or your investments is to maintain a spreadsheet "dashboard". This allows you to update information as you receive it, and see the effects on financial ratios [|financial management dashboard.xls]
 * 1) Take your own copy of this spreadsheet and use it to keep track of financial ratios as we learn them.
 * 2) You are much more likely to remember these ratios if you have used them "live," taking information from a real example.

Basic accounting concepts
View the video (in class) on financial terms. Complete this worksheet [|financial terms.doc] Then visit the Queensland business development website and complete the [|exercises] on basic accounting concepts. Build up a glossary of terms; you might include:
 * 1) Money out
 * 2) Purchases
 * 3) Cost of goods sold
 * 4) Sales
 * 5) Determining a Selling price
 * 6) Mark-up
 * 7) Gross profit, gross profit margin
 * 8) the trading account
 * 9) operating expenses
 * 10) net profit

Financial ratio analysis 3
[|BizEd] has descriptions of financial ratios in various categories and a number of exercises.

Financial Ratio Analysis 2

 * 1) Enjoy the Financial Ratio tutorial at [|Investopedia.com]
 * 2) Visit the American Express [|financial ratios analysis page] and enter some financial figures in the instant calculators available there. Ignore any encouragements to apply for an AMEX credit card.

Financial Ratio Analysis 1
Financial ratios are used to give a "snapshot" of a certain aspect of a business's financial affairs. No single ratio can tell us the whole story, but together the ratios can give an indication of strengths and areas of possible concerns. Follow the link to BizEd for exercises on [|Financial Ratio Analysis]

Corporation case studies
McDonald's Worldwide -- financial data [|spreadsheet] BHP Billiton -- [|financial statements]