This week’s topics
Financial Performance Evaluation Using Ratios
- Liquidity and working capital ratios
- Efficiency and activity metrics
- Profitability and margin analysis
- Solvency and debt gearing in care providers
- Financial ratio analysis
- FINANCIAL RATIOS: How to Analyze Financial Statements
- Capital Structure and Financial Ratios – Financial Gearing - ACCA Financial Management (FM)
What you will be able to do
- 1.3 Describe how key financial ratios are used by health and social care organisations.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: describe how key financial ratios are used by health and social care organisations.
Study materials
Videos
- Financial ratio analysis · YouTube · The Finance Storyteller · 10 min · for registered students
- FINANCIAL RATIOS: How to Analyze Financial Statements · YouTube · Accounting Stuff · 24 min · for registered students
- Capital Structure and Financial Ratios – Financial Gearing - ACCA Financial Management (FM) · YouTube · OpenTuition · 27 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Principles of Finance 2e, ch. 6: Measures of Financial Health · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 175–200 · for registered students
- Introduction to Financial Accounting, Lyryx 2023-A, ch. 12: Financial Statement Analysis · PDF · Other, textbook chapter; pp. 489–532 · for registered students
- MIT 15.535 Business Analysis Using Financial Statements, lecture notes: Ratio Analysis and Bankruptcy Detection · PDF · Other, slides · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
