Financial ratios are the finance tools of any manager and accountant. Used correctly, they are the greatest aid to mastering the financial performance of a company, and the key to sound business management. Part of the Perfect series, this book explains what financial ratios are, provides step-by-step instructions for using them to monitor the performance of a business, and is intended to be of practical help to working managers, accountants and investors. Terry Gasking provides a general introduction to financial ratios followed by a jargon-free look at the various categories of ratios (ratios for cash management, ratios for profit management, personnel ratios, ratios for shareholders' interests) and the individual types of ratio within these groups. Each ratio is given a working example, showing what it is, what it reveals, what it means to an operation. Step-by-step instructions are provided for each ratio, so that all the reader has to do is plug in the necessary figures. By the author of How to Master Finance.