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Naturally there are many other things to consider, like the nature of the assets and liabilities, whether the company is currently making profits or losses, and the ratio of its liabilities to its equity.
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Problems may be worse for smaller companies and the subsidiaries of foreign firms, where pension funds usually have a lower ratio of assets to liabilities, says Stephen Yeo of Watson Wyatt.
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The ratio of short term liabilities to short term assets has never been lower.
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Leverage is the ratio of capital to liabilities (or to assets perhaps) but it is not, never has been and never will be any ratio of assets to umm, assets, as is being claimed here.
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Liquidity for major non-financial corporations has never been better as measured by the high ratio of liquid assets to current liabilities.
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Debt-service ratios are lower, and their liquidity ratio the ratio of short-term assets to liabilities is historically high.
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Its current ratio, a measure of liquidity, is low, with current liabilities often bigger than current assets.
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This is why a high current ratio (current assets divided by current liabilities) raises my level of skepticism when I look at a company.
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The June funded ratio, which measures assets to liabilities. is only 74% for CalPERS even using a high-rate of return assumption for its investments.
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