What is the Operating Cash Flow Ratio?
Operating Cash Flow Ratio
A liquidity ratio that measures a company's ability to pay off its
current liabilities with its cash flow
Operating Cash Flow Ratio equals. Cash flow from operations
divided by Current Liabilities.
What is the Operating Cash Flow Ratio?
The Operating Cash Flow Ratio, is a liquidity ratio, its a measure of
how well a company can pay off its current liabilities with the cash
flow generated from its core business operations.
Cash flow from operations can be found on a company’s cash
flows statement .
Current liabilities are obligations due within one year. Examples
include short-term debt, accounts payable, and accrued liabilities.
Accrued liabilities are liabilities that reflect expenses that have
not yet been paid or logged under accounts payable
( Money Owed to suppliers) during the accounting period.
What is Cash Flow From Operations?
It is important to understand Operating Cash Flow as this is
the numerator of the operating cash flow ratio.
Operating cash flow, is one of the most important numbers
in a company’s accounts.
It reflects the amount of cash that a business produces
solely from its core business operations.
What does it all mean?
Operating cash flow is intensely scrutinised by investors, as
it provides vital information about the health and value of a company.
If a company fails to achieve a positive Operating Cash Flow,
the company cannot remain solvent in the long term.
A negative Operating Cash Flow, indicates that a company is not
generating sufficient cash flow from its core business operations,
and therefore needs to generate additional positive cash flow from
either financing or investment activities.
Interpretation of Operating Cash Flow Ratio
A ratio less than ONE indicates short-term cash flow problems.
This signals short-term problems and a need for more Cash.
A ratio greater than ONE indicates good financial health.
Indicating the cash flow is more than sufficient to meet the
short-term
financial obligations.
Companies with a high operating cash flow are generally
considered to be in good financial health.
This liquidity ratio is considered an accurate measure of
short-term liquidity, as it only uses cash generated from
core business operations rather than from all income sources.
Cash is Blood to a Business.. No Blood and You die
Next, The Leverage Ratios.
What are they? How to evaluate them? and how to use this
information to support you to be the greatest you can be.
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