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• Financial Ratios Home Page
• Reference Room Resources
• Finding Books in MaagNet & OhioLINK
• Business Databases: Finding Ratio Information
• Web Resources

Reference Room Resources

The sources listed below, located in Maag Library’s Reference Room, are useful sources for financial ratio research. They contain the financial ratios calculated for various companies and industries. If you have questions about what the ratios mean, check the introduction to each volume to find a description of the different ratios and how they are calculated. Reference materials are for in-library use only.

Ready Reference materials are held at the Reference Desk. Reference materials are shelved alphabetically by call number in the Reference Room on the main floor of the library.

• Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios: 2009 Edition / Leo Troy
  READY REF HF5681.R25 A45 2009 + CD-ROM (Held at Reference Desk)
  This comprehensive resource puts 50 comparative performance indicators at the practitioner’s command and covers all of North America using NAICS data. Provides financial information that is calculated and derived from the latest available IRS data on over five million U.S. and international companies. Gives you accurate performance data for 50 operating and financial factors in nearly 200 industries. Data for each industry is divided into 13 categories based on company size, so you’ll find a precise industry-wide benchmark against which to measure any company’s performance.
  Previous issues (1992 through 2008) can be found in General Collection OVERSIZE HF5681 .R25 A45 (Floor 3A).

• Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios: Statistics on Over 800 Lines of Business / Dun & Bradstreet
  READY REF HF5681 .R25 I53 2007-2008 (Held at Reference Desk)
  Calculations of the Industry Norms; Calculation of the 14 Key Business Ratios; Industry Norms for Financial Analysis; and Applications by Functional Areas. Made possible through over one million financial statements in the D&B Financial Information Base. This file consists of U.S. corporations, partnerships and proprietorships both public and privately owned, in all size ranges, and includes over 800 different lines of business as defined by the U.S. SIC code numbers.
  Previous issues (1982/1983 through 2005/2006) can be found in the Reference Room REF HF5681 .R25 I53.

• RMA Annual Statement Studies: Financial Ratio Benchmarks 2008/2009 / Risk Management Association
  READY REF HF5681.B2 R6 2008/2009 (Held at Reference Desk)
  The industry standard for comparison financial data. Features data for over 710 industries derived directly from more than 190,000 statements of financial institutions’ borrowers and prospects.
  Previous issues (1974 through 2007/2008) can be found in the General Collection HF5681 .B2 R6 (Floor 3A).
  
• Introduction to Annual Statement Studies: Financial Ratio Benchmarks 2008/2009 (PDF)
• Sample Financial Ratio Benchmarks (PDF)
• Listing of Industies in the Annual Statement Studies 2008/2009 (PDF)

• Mergent Industry Review REF HG4961 .M68 Semiannual Publication
  Comprehensive statistical reference containing key financial information, operating data, and ratios on approximately 6,000 companies. The information is arranged by industry, in 137 industry groups, so that not only may the companies be compared with each other, they may also be measured against certain averages for that industry. The statistics are updated twice each year
  A special feature of the Review is the rankings section. All companies in every industry are ranked by eight standard criteria: size is measured by revenues; profitability, by operating profit margin, net income and return on capital; market evaluation of the stock, by price/earnings ratio and yield; and price behavior of the stock, by Mergent 7-Year and 12-Month Price Scores. The financial criteria for rankings in some industries includes working capital, current ratio, cash and marketable securities, inventory turnover, accounts receivable turnover, and spending for research and development as a percentage of sales.

• Dictionary of Financial Formulas and Ratios REF HG151 .M24 2008
  The book is organized by topics (such as liquidity, profitability or inventory ratios). Each chapter discusses the topic’s formulas and ratios, how they are calculated and how they can be used in corporate management.
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• 101 Business Ratios: A Manager’s Handbook of Definitions, Equations, and Computer Algorithms: How to Select, Compute, Present, and Understand Measures of Sales, Profit, Debt, Capital, Efficiency, Marketing, and Investment
  REF HF5657.4 .G38 1993
  Directed primarily to managers of small and medium-sized businesses. The work is organized into two parts. The first introduces the reader to ratio analysis and then describes 101 specific measures, as well as formulas for their computation. The second part is a “how to” section dealing with practical matters associated with the use of ratios.

• Handbook of Business and Financial Ratios REF HF5681 .R25 T97 1986
  Presents numerous ratios that represent useful and important guidelines in assessing, interpreting, and planning financial data to meet the objectives of managing a business more effectively. Shows you step-by-step how-to-use ratios as a prime tool in isolating, identifying, and highlighting operating performance and financial position events. Complete with 50 models that illustrate how ratios are used for analysis and comparison by period, data element, account description, item variance by management.