Working Capital and Current Ratio
Balance sheet data for HQ Properties Company follows:
2016 | 2015 | |||
Current assets | $2,175,000 | $1,900,000 | ||
Current liabilities | 1,500,000 | 1,250,000 |
a. Determine the working capital and current ratio for 2016 and 2015. If required, round "current ratio" answers to two decimal places.
2016 | 2015 | |||
Working capital | $ | $ | ||
Current ratio |
b. Does the change in the current ratio from
2015 to 2016 indicate a favorable or an unfavorable
trend?
a) | Working capital = total current assets- total current liabilities | |||||||
current ratio = total current assets/total current liabilities | ||||||||
2016 | 2015 | |||||||
Current assets | 2,175,000 | 1,900,000 | ||||||
Current liabilities | 1,500,000 | 1,250,000 | ||||||
working capital | 675,000 | 650,000 | ||||||
current ratio | 1.45 | 1.52 | ||||||
b) | Unfavoruable trend since current ratio decreased from last year | |||||||
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