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Name: Profitability Ratios
ID: m15556
Language: English (en)
Summary: Profitability ratios are used to assess a business' ability to generate earnings as compared to expenses over a specified time period. These tutorials define the ratios and walk you through the calculations, including where on the financial statements the numbers can be found.
Subject: Business
Keywords: BEP Ratio, college-cram, financial ratios, profitability ratio, Profit Margin, return on assets, return on equity, ROA, ROE
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 2.0)

Authors: Rudy Lopes (rudyl@college-cram.com)
Copyright Holders: Rudy Lopes (rudyl@college-cram.com)
Maintainers: Rudy Lopes (rudyl@college-cram.com)

Version: 1.6 (history)
Created: Nov 20, 2007 11:03 am US/Central
Revised: Feb 15, 2008 11:19 am US/Central

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