This can allow a firm to operate with a low current ratio.

Some types of businesses usually operate with a current ratio less than one.

But analysts do not consider the current ratio excessively high.

To be sure, the stock market's current ratio is lower than it was before the bubble burst in March 2000.

Money would mean more than one guidance counselor for every 620 pupils, the current ratio.

The current ratio of about 25 cows to an acre here is among the highest in the world.

If a company's current ratio is in this range, then it generally indicates good short-term financial strength.

A measure of the company's ability to meet its obligations is the current ratio:

Although the Justice Department has a member on the commission, it offered no alternative to the current ratio.

The current ratio in Alaska actually reflects a slight improvement, from the single man's perspective, over 10 years ago.

The CT is typically described by its current ratio from primary to secondary.

The current ratio of students to full-time-equivalent teachers in the Mountain View public elementary schools is 20.4 to one.

Mr. Waldman said the current ratio was about 50 cases a worker, with some workers handling 70 or more.

The current ratio is an indication of a firm's market liquidity and ability to meet creditor's demands.

Ratios of risk such as the current ratio, the interest coverage and the equity percentage have no theoretical benchmarks.

"This 40 percent relationship," the proposal said, "approximates current ratio of player payroll to operating revenues."

By then, he said, the company will have either improved its current ratio, or "we'll negotiate with the noteholders themselves" to revise the note terms.

The current ratio of sergeants to patrol officers is about 1 to 8, which is considered optimal.

A usual technique to analyze illiquidity risk is to focus on ratios such as the current ratio and interest coverage.

The current ratios are a maximum of 15 percent foreign ownership in television companies and up to 25 percent in radio concerns.

Improvement on these models in the past few years have been made to field-effect mobility and on-off current ratios.

In contrast the current ratio of public assistance cases to workers in Suffolk County is 265 to 1.

For example, if inventory turns over much more rapidly than the accounts payable become due, then the current ratio will be less than one.

The market's current ratio is in the mid-teens only if it is calculated by using projected operating earnings.

Current ratio - current assets divided by current liabilities.