Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Qualifying ratios are financial metrics that lenders use to assess a borrower's ability to ...

Financial matters need to be handled carefully for an organization to perform well. Your organization can use ratio analysis to evaluate its financial status and gauge its performance. Ratio analysis ...

Smart investors use financial ratios to analyze a company's financial performance before making an investment. Financial ratios reveal how a company is financed, how it uses its resources, its ability ...

Liquidity ratios are key financial ratios used by internal and external analysts to gauge a company's liquidity, which represents its capacity to pay its existing short-term liabilities if it needs to ...

Check both net and gross expense ratios when choosing funds; discounts may be temporary. Aim for funds with low expense ratios to enhance investment returns over time. Passively managed index funds ...

Marguerita is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor (CRPC), Retirement Income Certified Professional (RICP), and a Chartered Socially Responsible Investing ...