Current Assets to Proprietor’s Fund Ratio:

Current Assets to Proprietors’ Fund Ratio establishes the relationship between current assets and shareholder’s funds.

The purpose of this ratio is to calculate the percentage of shareholders funds invested in current assets.

Formula:

Current Assets to Proprietors Funds = Current Assets / Proprietor’s Funds

Example:

This may be expressed either as a percentage , or as a proportion. To illustrate, if the value of current assets is $36,000 and the proprietors funds are $180,000 the relevant ratio would be calculated as follows:

Current Assets to Proprietors Funds = 36,000 / 180,000

= 0.2

This may also be expressed as 20%. It means that 20% of the proprietors funds have been invested in current assets.

Significance:

Different industries have different norms and therefore, this ratio should be studied carefully taking the history of industrial concern into consideration before relying too much on this ratio.

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2. Ratios Analysis
3. Horizontal Analysis or Trend Analysis
4. Trend Percentage
5. Vertical Analysis
6. Accounting Ratios Definition, Advantages, Classification and Limitations:
7. Gross profit ratio
8. Net profit ratio
9. Operating ratio
10. Expense ratio
11. Return on shareholders investment or net worth
12. Return on equity capital
13. Return on capital employed (ROCE) Ratio
14. Dividend yield ratio
15. Dividend payout ratio
16. Earnings Per Share (EPS) Ratio
17. Price earning ratio
18. Current ratio
19. Liquid/Acid test/Quick ratio
20. Inventory/Stock turnover ratio
21. Debtors/Receivables turnover ratio
22. Average collection period
23. Creditors/Payable turnover ratio
24. Working capital turnover ratio
25. Fixed assets turnover ratio
26. Over and under trading
27. Debt-to-equity ratio
28. Proprietary or Equity ratio
29. Ratio of fixed assets to shareholders funds
30. Ratio of current assets to shareholders funds
31. Interest coverage ratio
32. Capital gearing ratio
33. Over and under capitalization
34. Financial-Accounting- Ratios Formulas
35. Limitations of Financial Statement Analysis