Difference between revisions of "Financial Ratios"

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* Project Life Coverage Ratio (PLCR)
 
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* [[Debt To Equity Ratio]]
* Loan To Value Ratio (LTV)
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[[Category:Financial Ratio]]
 
[[Category:Financial Ratio]]

Revision as of 16:03, 12 April 2021

Definition

Financial Ratios are derived measures (ratios) capturing the economic and financial condition of an entity starting from more primary financial inputs (e.g. from Financial Statements, balance sheets or other formal representations).

Motivation

The key desired objective and benefit of using a ratio instead of the underlying absolute measurements, values or metrics is to obtain a scale independent metric. That means an indicator that does not depend explicitly on the size of an entity (where size can be any indicator such as turnover, number of employees etc). This allows for sharper insights into the state of an entity and its profile in relation to peers.

Usage

Ratios are used widely in financial analysis of companies, valuations, also in the Risk Analysis of Credit Risk

Types


List of Financial Ratios