Ratios provide an extremely effective method of understanding company accounts. At their most basic this usually involves taking one figure from the published accounts and dividing it by another - however, this seemingly simple process can reveal an enormous amount about both the nature and performance of a company. 'Ratios Made Simple' looks at ratios from the perspective of an investor, providing a toolkit for investors to use to accurately analyse a company from its accounts. This book is divided into nine chapters, with each chapter looking at a different aspect of potential concern to an…mehr
Ratios provide an extremely effective method of understanding company accounts. At their most basic this usually involves taking one figure from the published accounts and dividing it by another - however, this seemingly simple process can reveal an enormous amount about both the nature and performance of a company. 'Ratios Made Simple' looks at ratios from the perspective of an investor, providing a toolkit for investors to use to accurately analyse a company from its accounts. This book is divided into nine chapters, with each chapter looking at a different aspect of potential concern to an investor: 1. Profitability Ratios 2. Investment Ratios 3. Dividend Cover 4. Margins 5. Gearing 6. Solvency Ratios 7. Efficiency Ratios 8. Policy Ratios 9. Volatility For each ratio, financial expert Robert Leach provides a detailed definition, explains how it works, describes its use. Investors are also given a simple explanation of how to calculate each ratio, what the ratio means and how the investor should apply the answers in making investment decisions. This book provides the investor with an essential guide to the use of these powerful analytical tools - tools that should form a vital part of an investor's decision-making process.
Robert Leach is an academic, a writer and a freelance theatre director. He has a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, and has been Reader in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham and Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Edinburgh University. His professional theatre work has included acting in the USA and directing in Moscow, where he staged the Russian premiere of I Want a Baby in 1990.He has written over a dozen books on the theatre, including Revolutionary Theatre (Routledge 1994) and Russian Futurist Theatre: Theory and Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), and he co-edited with Victor Borovsky A History of Russian Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 1999). He is also a poet, and five collections of his poetry have been published. He has specialised in the work of Sergei Tretyakov, whose daughter, Tatyana Tretyakova, he worked with. A volume of Sergei Tretyakov's plays, I Want a Baby and Other Plays, in his and Stephen Holland's English translation, is also available from Glagoslav.
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About the Author Introduction 1. Profitability Ratios 1.1. Earnings per Share (EPS) 1.2. Price-to-Earnings Ratio (P/E) 1.3. Enterprise Value/Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization Ratio (EV/EBITDA) 1.4. Price-to-Sales Ratio (PSR) 2. Investment Ratios 2.1. Dividend Yield 2.2. Total Return 2.3. Return On Capital Employed (ROCE) 2.4. Return On Equity (ROE) 2.5. Premium To Asset Value (PAV) 2.6. Internal Rate Of Return (IRR) 2.7. Return On Assets (ROA) 2.8. Dividend Payout Ratio 3. Dividend Cover 3.1. Dividend Cover 4. Margins 4.1. Gross Margin and Net Margin 4.2. Overheads To Turnover 5. Gearing 5.1. Gearing Ratio 5.2. Interest Cover 6. Solvency Ratios 6.1. Acid Test 6.2. Current Ratio 6.3. Cash Burn 6.4. Defensive Interval 6.5. Fixed Charges Cover 7. Efficiency Ratios 7.1. Stock Turn 7.2. Price-To-Book Value (PBV) 7.3. Overtrading and Undertrading 7.4. Item Comparison 8. Policy Ratios 8.1. Creditor Period 8.2. Debtor Period 8.3. Fixed Asset Spending Ratio 9. Volatility 9.1. Volatility Ratio 9.2. Standard Deviation Appendix
