Talk:Financial ratio

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Article concerning distributional properties of financial ratios and proportionality is needed.

[edit] Indexes?

I have been searching high & low for the Indexes of industry ratio norms, such as S&P or Dunn and Bradstreet. It's often necessary to compair... Need to know what the typical ROI, Liquidity, etc levels for your class/segment. Otherwise how do you contextualise the ratios you derive? This should be explained and linked to germane pages. Very nice if there are links to good data sets or actual enhanced sofisticated tables/indexes organicly within the walls of wikidom. Pretty please? They will need to have link roots in the reference, index, and tables sections. hopefully point to directions & topics pages and extend to the actual tables themselves, or alternatly have a prominent directions "help" link at the top of the structure of the data array. I appologize for the afterthought here; but I finally found an example of what I mean: http://www.amazon.com/Bradstreet-Industry-Norms-Business-Ratios/dp/1592740715/sr=1-7/qid=1163393039/ref=sr_1_7/104-2644820-4249568?ie=UTF8&s=books

Here is a personal experience with D&B ratios. I worked for a private company who was repeated asked to submit its financial information. Finally, my boss gave them the numbers because they would give us the industry stats in exchange. When we got them, they were completely bogus. Obviously all the other people had fudged their numbers (may be my boss did as well). I would not rely on their ratios.Retail Investor 00:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)