Financial Analyst
Ratio and working capital analysis questions
196 questions on Ratio and working capital analysis for financial analysts, easiest first.
Easy 58
- Calculating the current ratioeasy
- Gross margin percentageeasy
- Calculating the quick ratioeasy
- Net profit margineasy
- Finding operating profit (EBIT)easy
- From EBIT to EBITDAeasy
- Net working capital amounteasy
- Return on equityeasy
- Inventory turnovereasy
- Classifying trade payableseasy
- Interest coverage ratioeasy
- Receivables went upeasy
- DSO from receivables and revenueeasy
- Operating margin from EBITeasy
- EBITDA margineasy
- Return on assetseasy
- What ROCE measureseasy
- Calculating ROCEeasy
- Using average balances in returnseasy
- Dividend payout ratioeasy
- Retention ratioeasy
- Operating profit after taxeasy
- Equity multipliereasy
- Total liabilities to total assetseasy
- Employee cost as a share of saleseasy
- Fixed asset turnovereasy
- Thin margins at a supermarketeasy
- Average interest rate on debteasy
- Cash ratioeasy
- Receivables turnovereasy
- Payables turnovereasy
- Working capital turnovereasy
- When a current ratio is too higheasy
- Liquidity versus solvencyeasy
- Purpose of an ageing scheduleeasy
- Year-end ratios in a seasonal businesseasy
- Inventory days risingeasy
- Length of the operating cycleeasy
- Meaning of net 30 termseasy
- Why set customer credit limitseasy
- Advances and working capital needeasy
- Working capital as a share of saleseasy
- Defensive interval ratioeasy
- Operating cash flow ratioeasy
- Cash flow to total debteasy
- Net interest margin of a bankeasy
- Gross NPA ratioeasy
- What a CASA ratio showseasy
- Purpose of capital adequacyeasy
- Choosing a benchmark for ratioseasy
- IFERROR in a ratio sheeteasy
- Why look at five-year trendseasy
- Equity to total assetseasy
- Cost to income ratio of a bankeasy
- Sales per square footeasy
- Provision coverage ratioeasy
- Investment grade cut-offeasy
- Loan to value ratioeasy
Medium 80
- Days sales outstandingmedium
- Cash conversion cyclemedium
- Operating cash flow, indirect methodmedium
- Debt to equity ratiomedium
- Days payable outstandingmedium
- Days inventory outstandingmedium
- Total asset turnovermedium
- DuPont analysis of ROEmedium
- Unlevered free cash flowmedium
- Free cash flow to equitymedium
- Profit up, cash downmedium
- Cash runwaymedium
- Net debt to EBITDAmedium
- Markup versus marginmedium
- Working capital needed for growthmedium
- Forecasting receivablesmedium
- Inventory from inventory daysmedium
- Days of cash tied upmedium
- Cash impact of working capitalmedium
- Sustainable growth ratemedium
- Return on invested capitalmedium
- Growth when ROIC is below WACCmedium
- Operating leverage and EBIT changemedium
- Degree of financial leveragemedium
- Combined leverage and EPSmedium
- Wide gap between ROA and ROEmedium
- Like-for-like sales in retailmedium
- Incremental margin on new revenuemedium
- ROE with a one-time gainmedium
- ROCE after a big expansionmedium
- ROE with negative equitymedium
- Dividend covermedium
- Return on tangible equitymedium
- EBITDA to cash conversionmedium
- Capex compared with depreciationmedium
- Fixed charge coveragemedium
- Debt to total capitalmedium
- Net gearingmedium
- Annualising a quarterly ROEmedium
- Cost of skipping a 2/10 net 30 discountmedium
- Borrow to take the discountmedium
- DSO from a quarter's numbersmedium
- GST inside the receivables balancemedium
- DSO drop after factoringmedium
- Paying MSME suppliers in Indiamedium
- Economic order quantitymedium
- Reorder point with safety stockmedium
- Paying suppliers before year-endmedium
- Buying stock on creditmedium
- Inventory turnover on sales or COGSmedium
- Cash freed by faster collectionmedium
- Cash from longer supplier creditmedium
- Cash from lower stock daysmedium
- Refinancing a short-term loanmedium
- Old stock in the current ratiomedium
- Offering longer credit to win salesmedium
- Use of a 13-week cash forecastmedium
- Receivables growing faster than salesmedium
- Big gap between current and quick ratiomedium
- DSO query returns zeromedium
- Reading an Excel ratio formulamedium
- DSO bug on quarterly datamedium
- Net NPA ratiomedium
- Credit cost of a lendermedium
- Debt maturity profilemedium
- FFO to debtmedium
- Reading a Piotroski F-scoremedium
- What the Beneish M-score detectsmedium
- Accruals ratiomedium
- EBITDA in a loan covenantmedium
- ROE rise from a smaller equity basemedium
- Calculating a bank's CRARmedium
- Comparing ratios across peersmedium
- Gearing after including leasesmedium
- Airline unit revenue versus costmedium
- Telecom ARPUmedium
- Operating cash flow marginmedium
- A negative rating outlookmedium
- Cash interest coveragemedium
- Working capital at project endmedium
Hard 58
- Debt service coverage ratiohard
- Headroom under a leverage covenanthard
- Earnings quality warning signhard
- Splitting the first EMIhard
- Growth with negative working capitalhard
- Annual plan billed in Octoberhard
- Profitable but short of cashhard
- Receivables in a seasonal businesshard
- Raising the bad debt provisionhard
- Drawing power on a cash credit linehard
- Cash paid to suppliershard
- Cash received from customershard
- Reverse factoring and operating cashhard
- Five-step DuPont ROEhard
- ROE from ROA and gearinghard
- ROE when debt costs less than ROIChard
- High operating leverage in a downturnhard
- ROIC including goodwillhard
- ROE adjusted for idle cashhard
- Margin fall from business mixhard
- Margins up but ROCE downhard
- Operating leverage from actualshard
- ROE in a group with minority holdershard
- Reading interest and tax burdenhard
- Lease and pension adjusted leveragehard
- Making margins comparablehard
- Reading an Altman Z-scorehard
- Coverage when interest is capitalisedhard
- Countback method for DSOhard
- Paying late on 2/10 net 30hard
- Cash freed across the whole cyclehard
- Days ratios in a fast-growing companyhard
- Selling invoices on TReDShard
- Funding seasonal working capitalhard
- Drawing power on a cash credit limithard
- Turnover method for MSE lendinghard
- Signs of overtradinghard
- Liquidity sources versus useshard
- DSO when sales come at quarter-endhard
- Working capital peg in a dealhard
- Receivables turnover with cash saleshard
- Inventory days after a big write-downhard
- Interest owed on late MSME paymenthard
- Leverage just after an acquisitionhard
- CASA falling as rates risehard
- Implied rate reveals year-end debt diphard
- Days sales in receivables indexhard
- Can cash fund capex and dividendshard
- Loan life coverage ratiohard
- ROCE with old versus new plantshard
- Covenant with a cap on cash nettinghard
- Falling NPAs from write-offshard
- Funding long loans with short paperhard
- Cost formula and ratios under inflationhard
- Guarantees for group companieshard
- Averaging margins across storeshard
- YoY growth query mixes companieshard
- Cost of skipping a cash discounthard