Effective planning and financial management are the keys to running a financially successful small business. Ratio analysis is critical for helping you understand financial statements, for identifying ...

Financial ratios are useful tools for investors to better analyze financial results and trends over time. These ratios can also be used to provide key indicators of organizational performance, making ...

Financial ratios provide business owners and managers with an easy way to analyze a business to determine if it is operating efficiently and at a profit. Despite the fact that most financial ratios ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Risk ratios. They’re at the core of every financial analysts’ research. And while there’s far too many of them for most non-finance people to use on a consistent basis, it could at least help to know ...

In last week’s article, I stressed the importance for a company to have sufficient equity to maintain reasonable levels of leverage. International credit rating agencies typically use a defined ...

When you’re evaluating a potential investment, you likely look at profitability and growth, but there is one fundamental concept you must master first: liquidity. Just as a household needs enough cash ...