balance sheets into cash or sales. DISCRIPTION: Companies will typically try to turn their production into cash or sales as fast as possible because this will generally lead to higher revenues. EXXAMPLE: Such ratios are frequently used when performing fundamental analysis on different companies. The asset turnover ratio and inventory turnover ratio are good examples of activity ratios.
ANALYSIS Asset turnover measures a firm's efficiency at using its assets in generating sales or revenue - the higher the number the better. It also indicates pricing strategy: companies with low profit margins tend to have high asset turnover, while those with high profit margins have low asset turnover.
PAYABLE TURNOVER
MEANING A short-term liquidity measure used to quantify the rate at which a shortcompany pays off its suppliers. FORMULA: Accounts payable turnover ratio is calculated by taking the total purchases made from suppliers and dividing it by the average accounts payable amount during the same period. PURCHASES/AVG.ACC.PAYABLE
ANALYSIS The measure shows investors how many times per period the company pays its average payable amount.
365/2.439=149.65 365/1.545=236.245
OPERATING CYCLE
MEANING: Expressed as an indicator (days) of management performance efficiency, the cycle. operating cycle is a "twin" of the cash conversion cycle. While the parts are the same - receivables, inventory and payables - in the operating cycle, they are analyzed from the perspective of how well the company is managing these critical operational capital assets, as opposed to their impact on cash. FORMULA: INVENTORY TURN OVER IN DAYS+RECIEVABLE TURN OVER IN DAYS CALCULATION: FOR 2007 FOR 2008 50.137+47.236=97.37 37.05+45.625=82.675
CASH CYCLE
MEANING: A metric that expresses the length of time, in days, that it takes for a company to convert resource inputs into cash flows. The cash conversion cycle attempts to measure the amount of time each net input dollar is tied up in the production and sales process before it is converted into cash through sales to customers. This metric looks at the amount of time needed to sell inventory, the amount of time needed to collect receivables and the length of time the company is afforded to pay its bills without incurring penalties. Also known as "cash cycle". CALCULATED AS: OPERATING CYCLE AVG.PAYMENT PERIOD CALCULATION: 2007 97.3797.37-149.65= -52.28 2008 82.67582.675-192.947= -110.272 DISCRIPTION: Usually a company acquires inventory on credit, which results in accounts payable. A company can also sell products on credit, which results in accounts receivable. Cash, therefore, is not involved until the company pays the accounts payable and collects accounts receivable. So the cash conversion cycle measures the time between outlay of cash and cash recovery. ANALYSIS This cycle is extremely important for retailers and similar businesses. This measure illustrates how quickly a company can convert its products into cash through sales. The shorter the cycle, the less time capital is tied up in the business process, and thus the better for the company's bottom line.
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RATIOS INVENTORY TURN OVER INVENTORY T.0 IN DAYS RECIVEABLE TURN OVER RECIEVABLE T.O IN DAYS FIXED ASSET T.O TOTAL ASSET T.O OPERATING CYCLE CASH CYCLE PAYABLE TURNOVER PAYABLE T.O IN DAYS
STATUS INCREASE DECREASING INCREASE DECREASING STABLE INCREASING INCREASING DECREASING INCREASING INCREASING
RESULT FAVOURABLE FAVORABLE FAVORABLE FAVORABLE FAVOURABLE FAVOURABLE FAVOURABLE UNFAVOURABLE UNFAVORABLE UNFAVOURABLE
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4.5 80.5