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Quick Ratio or Acid Test Ratio

A quick ratio or acid ratio determine the company ability to meet its short term obligation by converting current assets into cash at short period of time of one month. The need of quick ratio arise to measure the liquidity of the company more accurately by eliminating the some current assets from current assets as mentioned below.

Formula

Acid or Quick Ratio = Current assets – Inventory / Current liabilities

The reason for removing inventory from the current assets because sometimes it take lot of time to convert itself into cash. The pile up inventories in the company most of the times increase the current ratio which show wrong indication for this reason it is preferred to use quick ratio in combination of current ratio to determine the difference. Incase if the difference between current ratio and quick ration is huge than it means company majority current assets are in the form of inventory.

In this example company have total current assets of $1000 dollars out of which $400 are inventory and having total liabilities of $1200, the quick ratio will be:

Acid or Quick Ratio = $1000 – $400/ $1200

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