How to Calculate Current Ratio

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">The current ratio measurement tells us about the ability of the company&&num;8217&semi;s short term debt paying&period; This ratio is computed by dividing total current assets by total current liabilities&period; Current ratio shows whether the current assets of a company are greater or less than its current liabilities&period; Formula for calculating current ratio is given as&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Current Ratio&equals; Current Assets &sol; Current Liabilities<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">For example&colon; Asifo Company has total current assets of &dollar;1&comma;000&comma;000 and the total current liabilities of &dollar;550&comma;000&period; The current ratio of Asifo Company is 1&period;82 to 1&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Current Ratio &equals; 1&comma;000&comma;000&sol;550&comma;000 &equals; 1&period;82<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">A current ratio of 1&period;8 to 1 indicates that the Asifo Company&&num;8217&semi;s current assets are 1&period;82 times greater than its current liabilities&period; It also indicates that the company has 1&period;8 times ability to pay its short term debts or company has &dollar;1&period;8 to pay the short term debt of &dollar;1&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Solvency of the company is identified from its current ratio&period; Higher the current ratio the more solvent company is&comma; whereas lower the current ratio the lower solvent company appears&period; Many short term creditors and bankers believe that retailers must have current ratio of 2 to 1 to qualify for good credit risk&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p align&equals;"center"><strong>Average current ratios of different industries are given below for recent years<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"center"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-lectures&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2010&sol;12&sol;image1&period;png"><img style&equals;"border-right-width&colon; 0px&semi; display&colon; inline&semi; border-top-width&colon; 0px&semi; border-bottom-width&colon; 0px&semi; border-left-width&colon; 0px" title&equals;"image" border&equals;"0" alt&equals;"image" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-lectures&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2010&sol;12&sol;image&lowbar;thumb1&period;png" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"135" &sol;><&sol;a> <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"center">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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