Ratio Analysis: Debt Utilization Ratios in Financial Statements

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What does the return on equity ratio measure?

  • How many times a firm sells and replaces inventory in a year
  • How quickly a firm collects payments on credit sales
  • How well a firm uses its assets to generate sales
  • How much income is generated per dollar invested by the owners (correct)

Which ratio is used to indicate how efficiently a firm collects its accounts receivable?

  • Total asset turnover
  • Receivables turnover (correct)
  • Return on equity
  • Inventory turnover

What does the inventory turnover ratio measure?

  • How well a firm uses its assets to generate sales
  • How quickly a firm collects payments on credit sales
  • How many times a firm sells and replaces inventory in a year (correct)
  • How much income is generated per dollar invested by the owners

Which ratio is used to evaluate how efficiently a company uses its assets to generate each dollar of sales?

<p>Total asset turnover (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of asset utilization ratios?

<p>To assess how efficiently assets generate sales (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How is the Receivables turnover ratio calculated?

<p>$\text{Sales} / \text{Receivables}$ (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which ratio demonstrates how many times a firm sells and replaces its inventory over a year?

<p>Inventory turnover (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why do managers use asset utilization ratios?

<p>To identify inefficiencies in operations (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of the Total Asset Turnover ratio?

<p>To assess how well assets generate sales (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which ratio is used to show how many times a firm collects its accounts receivable in one year?

<p>Receivables turnover (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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