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5. A) If You had $10,000 in liquid assets and $5,000 in current liabilities, you would have a liquidity ratio of?
b) What does it mean?
| 5. a) | ||||||||||||||||
| Liquidity ratio | = | Liquid assets / Current Liability | ||||||||||||||
| = | $ 10,000.00 | / | $ 5,000.00 | |||||||||||||
| = | 2.00 | |||||||||||||||
| 5. b) | ||||||||||||||||
| Liquidity ratio represent liquidity of company with respect to its current liability. | ||||||||||||||||
| Liquid assets are those assets which are readily convertible into cash. | ||||||||||||||||
| Any entity has many current assets.But, all current assets like Inventory and Prepaid Expenses are not readily | ||||||||||||||||
| convertible into cash like Cash balance at bank, short term marketable securities etc. | ||||||||||||||||
| So, in summary, it is the capability of company to have liquid assets which can be easily converted into cash and be used for the payment of its current liability. | ||||||||||||||||