(Rated A+)
Accounting Earnings - Answers Earnings of a firm as reported on its income statement.
Acid Test Ratio / Quick Ratio - Answers A measure of liquidity similar to the current ratio except for
exclusion of inventories.
Average Collection Period / Days sales in receivables - Answers Accounts receivable per dollar of daily
sales.
Balance Sheet - Answers An accounting statement of a firm's financial position at a particular time.
Cash Ratio - Answers Another liquidity measure. Ratio of cash and marketable securities to current
liabilities.
Current Ratio - Answers Current assets/current liabilities.
Days sales in receivables / Average Collection Period - Answers Accounts receivable per dollar of daily
sales.
DuPont System - Answers Decomposition of profitability measures into component ratios.
Economic Earnings - Answers The real flow of cash that
a firm could pay out with- out impairing its productive capacity.
Economic value added / Residual Income - Answers A measure of the dollar value of a firm's return in
excess of its opportunity cost.
fair value accounting / Mark-to-Market accounting - Answers Use of current market values rather than
historic cost in the firm's financial statements.
FIFO - Answers The first-in, first-out accounting method of valuing inventories.
income statement - Answers A financial statement showing a firm's revenues and expenses during a
specified period.
interest coverage ratio / Times interest earned - Answers A financial leverage measure arrived at by
dividing earnings before interest and taxes by interest expense.
International financial reporting standards - Answers A principles-based set of accounting rules adopted
by about 100 countries around the world, including the European Union.
inventory turnover ratio - Answers Cost of goods sold divided by average inventory.