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What are efficiency ratios?
What is meant by stock turnover?
What are the two ways to calculate the stock turnover ratio?
What is credit control and why is it important?
Explain whether a high or low figure is preferable for:
a) debtor days; b) creditor days.
What is the gearing ratio?
How is capital employed calculated?
Why are highly geared firms generally considered to be risky?
This ratio is particularly common in the retail industry and it looks at how successful a firm is at unitizing their inventory assets.
Debtors are the customers who have purchased items on trade credit and therefore owe money to the firm.
This is done by examining the firm's capital employed that is financed by long-term debt, such as mortgages and debentures