Quick Ratio
Date created: Oct 12, 2022 • Last updated: Oct 12, 2022
What is Quick Ratio?
The Quick Ratio measures the ability of your organization to meet any short-term financial obligations with assets that can be quickly converted into cash. It considers the ability for Current Assets, less inventory, to cover Current Liabilities.
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What is a good Quick Ratio benchmark?
1.5 to 3
How to visualize Quick Ratio?
Ratios are usually expressed as single-digit numbers so it would be optimal to visualize Quick Ratio with a summary chart. Summary charts compare current values to a previous time period.
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Measuring Quick RatioMore about Quick Ratio
This ratio offers a more conservative assessment of your fiscal health than the Current Ratio because it excludes inventories from your assets. Like your Current Ratio, a Quick Ratio greater than 1 indicates that your business is able to pay off all of your accounts payable.
The Quick Ratio gets its name from the fact that it demonstrates your ability to quickly generate cash to pay off your financial obligations. The reason inventory is excluded from this ratio is that it's assumed that you may not be able to quickly convert your inventory into cash. Quick Ratio is an important financial measure, but may not give you the complete picture. For example, your organization may have a large amount in account receivables causing your Quick Ratio to be low while your financial health is actually quite strong.
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