Running a Profitable Business: Understanding Financial Ratios

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Running a Profitable Business: Understanding Financial Ratios is an Intermediate level study on Business, created by the author, Jim Stice. This study is an essential pillar for anyone who needs to sharpen his/her Business talent. It gives you a thorough grip on Business, Business Skills, Marketing, Finance, Business, Business Skills, Marketing and Finance.

Financial ratios—such as ROI (return on investment) or ROA (return on assets)— are a valuable tool for measuring a company’s progress against a financial goal, a certain competitor, or the overall industry. In this course, professors Jim and Kay Stice explain the financial ratios found on balance sheets, income statements, and cash-flow statements and provide examples from real-world companies such as Walmart, Nordstrom, and McDonald’s. They help you understand how to use financial ratios to analyze or benchmark your company against other companies.

Topics include:

• Identify the financial statement where you can find the source of financing for a company to buy assets.
• Name the category that liabilities must be paid from.
• Explain what you want to see when you look at a company’s operating income percentage.
• List the steps to calculate accounts receivable turnover.
• Identify the two components to use when calculating current ratio.
• Recall the pitfall you need to avoid when performing financial ratio analysis.

Running a Profitable Business: Understanding Financial Ratios : Video Lessons

• Gain financial insights1m 36s
• Introduction to financial ratio analysis2m 52s
• What are the financial statements?1m 23s
• The balance sheet6m 29s
• The income statement3m 44s
• The statement of cash flows4m 32s
• The DuPont company: creating accounting history1m 35s
• Return on equity3m 34s
• DuPont framework3m 31s
• DuPont framework: Target and Walmart4m 34s
• Problem description to explanation2m 5s
• Olympic medals and GDP per capita2m 7s
• Common size overview5m 3s
• Target's common-size income statement3m 27s
• Target's common-size balance sheet3m 29s
• Mark-up vs. profitability: Harry Winston vs. Walmart2m 1s
• Number of days' sales in inventory4m 46s
• Average collection period4m 21s
• Length of the operating cycle3m 44s
• Fixed asset turnover and other utilization ratios4m 43s
• Singapore Airlines' low leverage1m 38s
• Current ratio3m 14s
• Leverage ratios6m 33s
• Historical data pitfalls and baseball1m 57s
• Excess data and comparability issues5m 53s
• "Smoking gun" and historical data biases3m 19s
• What financial ratio analysis can NOT do2m 16s

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