Let D&B's Key Business Ratios help you to assess how your business is doing. With just a few clicks, you can assess your firm's strengths and weaknesses as compared to those of competing businesses or your entire industry. Use this information to investigate potential problem areas and what changes you might employ to improve your net profit. In addition, comparing changes in a business' ratios over time can highlight improvements in performance or problem areas that require attention.
Using D&B's Financial Information Database, consisting of financial statements of U.S. corporations, partnerships, and proprietorships, you can calculate key business ratios that identify key relationships between financial data and allow you to monitor the state of your business.
Key business ratios provide you with deeper insight as to the true meaning of the figures on your financial statements by comparing items rather than a direct reading of the financial figures. The 14 key business ratios cover all critical areas of business performance—solvency, efficiency and profitability. They are broken down into median figures, with upper and lower quartiles, providing you with a more refined set of figures to work with. These ratios provide a profound and well-documented insight into all aspects for everyone involved in the financial workings of a business—business executives and managers, credit executives, bankers, lenders, investors, academicians and students.
Ratios are arranged by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes—a four-digit number that classifies business establishments by defining the industries in which they do business. These codes make it easy to compare a business' operating results with those of specific competitors or the industry as a whole.
So take the time to let D&B's Key Business Ratios help you to see the whole picture.