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ra·tio
/ ˈrāshō; ˈrāshēˌō/
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n.
(pl. -tios)
the quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other:
the ratio of men's jobs to women's is 8 to 1.
∎ the relative value of silver and gold in a bimetallic system of currency.
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Conquering financial ratios: the good, the bad, and the who cares?
Magazine article from: Business Credit; 2/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...firm. Those key ratios and their standards are: Current ratio 2 to 1 Quick ratio...to learn about ratio analysis is that while some ratios offer fairly solid...need it? Current Ratio: Current Assets...granddaddy of financial ratios is a basic measure...
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Financial Ratios: How You Are Judged
Magazine article from: Flooring; 9/1/1993; 700+ words
; ...their investments. The ratios covered here are the key ratios necessary to make such evaluations. Current ratio = current assets / current...mainstreet. FINANCIAL RATIOS TYPE OF FIRM All Firms Retail Contract Current Ratio 2.1 2.7 2.0 Quick...
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Ratio Master, version 1.0. (Evaluation)
Magazine article from: Business Credit; 5/1/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...Solutions, Inc. Ratio Master analyzes...key financial ratios that indicate...particular data and ratios. During the data entry phase, Ratio Master makes excellent...specification behind all ratios and graphs and...s" of many of Ratio Master functions...
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Combined ratios don't tell story on int'l solvency.
Magazine article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management; 11/13/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...world. Noting that the ratios were "remarkably stable...Unlike the combined ratio results, the distribution...sometimes use survival ratios - ratios of reserves to current...average E&A survival ratio is 6.9, Lloyd's E...
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Hedge ratios: keeping up with a maturing market. (includes four ages of hedge ratios and measuring price responsiveness to yield change)
Magazine article from: Futures (Cedar Falls, Iowa); 1/15/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...importance of hedge ratio. Hedging a physical...need not bother with ratios. They just match...volatility-adjusted ratio drops that to 82...factor-adjusted ratios, the Quantitative...define other hedge ratios and in practice provide...the duration hedge ratio produces the factor...
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Viewpoint: Ratios May Be Holding Mortgage Market Down.(Viewpoint essay)
Magazine article from: American Banker; 10/5/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...is the leverage ratio. The other is the capital-adequacy ratios. These guidelines...and the leverage ratio. The Federal Reserve also applies these ratios to large bank holding...indeed, the leverage ratio and the other two ratios are acting as a...
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Ratio analysis. (printing estimation) (column)
Magazine article from: Graphic Arts Monthly; 11/1/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...estimator Please discuss ratios and how they are...relationships. Ratio analysis is a fundamental...the more common ratios. 1. Profit to sales. This ratio is computed by dividing...establish a sound ratio. There are many other ratios that you can compute...
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Financial Ratio Selection for Default-Rating Modeling: A Model-Free Approach and Its Empirical Performance
Magazine article from: Journal of Applied Finance; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Financial ratios are important factors in predicting corporate failure. In this...innovative statistics procedure to identify informative financial ratios and use those ratios to predict default rating. I use three types of different default...
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CAPITAL RATIOS AS PREDICTORS OF BANK FAILURE.
Magazine article from: Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...suggests that two simple ratios--the leverage ratio and the ratio of capital...leverage, and gross revenue ratios. For each ratio, we examine what makes...the most complex of the ratios--the risk-weighted ratio--is the most effective...
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Performance Ratio Benchmarking of the Top UK General Insurers 2008.
M2 Presswire; 2/25/2009; 700+ words
; ...improvement in their loss ratios in 2007 - Performance ratio benchmarking in UK...improvement in their expense ratios - The average combined ratio of the top 10 UK motor...increases in their expense ratios in 2007 - The average combined ratio of the top 10 UK pecuniary...
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Ratio, Rate, and Proportion
Book article from: Mathematics
...proportion, together with ratio, are used for solving...quantities. Calculating Ratios Suppose a parking garage...two green cars. The ratio of blue cars to green...different units, then a ratio is called a rate. A...equality between two ratios.
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initial strontium ratio
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
...the initial strontium ratio and the age of the rock...measured present-day ratios of the constituent minerals...initial 87 Sr: 86 Sr ratios are very much smaller...have initial strontium ratios close to 0.703. At...years BP, the bulk Earth ratio is thought to have been...
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odds ratio
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
...ps) then the odds ratio is defined as pe (1...relation. In sociology odds ratios have been most widely...characteristics of the odds ratio are perhaps easiest understood...societies (the odds ratio is approximately 9 in...societies in question. Odds ratios, in the context of a...
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Odds Ratio
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
...estimates the incidence-density ratio or the cumulative incidence ratio that would have been observed...identical to one of the incidence ratios or is close to them if the disease...done (e.g., prevalence odds ratio, exposure odds ratio, or disease...
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current ratio
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management
current ratio ( working-capital ratio ) The ratio of the current assets of a business to the current liabilities , expressed as x :1 and used as a test of liquidity. For example, if the current assets are £250,000 and the current...
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