5.5.1 Profitability:
• The concept and importance of profitability
5.5.2 Liquidity: • The concept and importance of liquidity
5.5.3 How to interpret the financial performance of a business by calculating and analysing profitability ratios and liquidity ratios:
• Gross profit margin
• Profit margin
• Return on Capital Employed
• Current ratio
• Acid test ratio
5.5.4 Why and how accounts are used: • Needs of different users of accounts and ratio analysis
• How users of accounts and ratio results might use information to help make decisions, e.g. whether to lend to or invest in the business
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IGCSE Business Studies (Units 4 - 6)
4 Operations management 5 Financial information and decisions 6 External influences on business activity
5. Financial information and decisions (IGCSE Business Studies - Unit 5)
5.1 Business finance: needs and sources 5.2 Cash-flow forecasting and working capital 5.3 Income statements 5.4 Statement of financial position 5.5 Analysis of accounts
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