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What are the ideal slandered number in measuring the Liquidity Ratio for a company ?

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تم إضافة السؤال من قبل Tamer Elbeshbishy , Financial and Administration Manager , Muscat Towers Holding Group
تاريخ النشر: 2016/02/15
Fathi Matbaq
من قبل Fathi Matbaq , Senior Purchasing Officer , Alghanim Industries

Achieve a current ratio above 1:1 and as close to 2:1 as possible.

 

The higher the  Quick ratio, the higher the level of liquidity for your business.

The optimal quick ratio is 1:1 or higher, which means that current liabilities can be met from current assets without the need to sell inventory.

Muhammad Mujtaba Shafique
من قبل Muhammad Mujtaba Shafique , RJ , Dream Fm106

I absolutely agree with the above given answer .

Raja Gonugunta
من قبل Raja Gonugunta , Chartered Accountant and Credit Analyst , State Bank of India (SBI)

Liquidity ratio is nothing but current assets/current liabilities. Higher the ratio, higher the liquidity position. In general for manufacturing companies minimum indicative level of current ratio is 1.33. It represents current assets worth of Rs.100.00/- is financed by current liabilities of Rs.75/- and long term funds of Rs.25.00/-. So that the company can smoothly turnaround its current assets. By maintaining minimum current ratio of 1.33, 25% of its current assets is financed with long term funds. So that the company will be having some cushion in turnaround its current assets to repay its pressing liabilities. One fundamental principle in financial management is short term funds should not be utilised for long term purpose. However, the minimum indicative level varies from one industry to another. Hence there is no bench mark level for current ratio.

Frank Mwansa
من قبل Frank Mwansa , ACCOUNTING LECTURER , FREELANCER

Thanks for the invitation

 The current ratio is the ratio of current assets to current liabilities. It is sometimes suggested that there is an 'ideal' current ratio of two to one.

This is not necessary true and in some industries, much lower current ratios are normal. It is important to assess the liquidity ratios by considering:

          *   Changes in the ratio over time

          *   The liquidity ratios of other companies in the same period

          *   The industry average ratios

Liquidity should be monitored by looking at changes in the ratio over time.

The quick ratio or acid test ratio is the ratio of current assets excluding inventory.

Also here it is suggested that there is an ideal quick ratio of one to one.

This also is not necessary true in some industries, much lower quick ratios are normal. As indicated earlier,it is important to assess liquidity  by looking at changes in the ratio over time, and comparisons with other companies and the industry norm.

georgei assi
من قبل georgei assi , مدير حسابات , المجموعة السورية

Current ratio

Current assets / liabilities traded

Standard ratio 1: 2

Rapid Current Ratio

(Current assets - inventory) / liabilities traded

Standard ratio of 1: 1

Cash ratio

Cash and cash equivalents / commitments traded

Standard ratio of 1: 1 or a little less

Working capital

Current assets - current liabilities

Indicator of management efficiency

The cash coverage

(Current assets - inventory) / average daily operating costs

For the monitoring period required for funding

Self-funding period

(Liquid assets - current liabilities) average daily operating costs

More than the previous reserve ratio

Tamer Elbeshbishy
من قبل Tamer Elbeshbishy , Financial and Administration Manager , Muscat Towers Holding Group

Thank you all. You have provided excellent answers. In fact Liquidity ratio as you told

=Current assets/Current Liabilities. The ideal  number or standard is vary from a filed of business to another field of business. For example,  in most of the fields of business a percentage of 2/1 could be a good indicator that every due amount of 1 pound, will have 2 pounds to pay from our current assets. However less than this number means lack a or a financial risk. But at the same time a bigger number more than 2/1 means that the cash is not managed well in business and the company management is not professional enough  and as a result could have problems in the future due to bad profitability.

 

Another important issue as we said at the beginning.some of the industries could need higher numbers  in liquidity and 2/1 liquidity , or 1/1 as a Quick ratio (CA-Inventory/CL) could be very weak indicator. These industries like Banking for example  and other cash business units. Thank you all

Rehan Qureshi
من قبل Rehan Qureshi , Financial Consultant , Self Employeed

: frank mwansa   has given a good answer of your question