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Evaluates your financial statements, balance sheets, and other information
Benchmarks your financials against hundreds of other printing and packaging organizations and the profit leaders.
Provides instant feedback on your firm’s financial health using over 100 key printing and packaging industry ratios & benchmarks.
Articulates your performance in a clear and understandable way using an effectiveness score and graphs, highlighting your strengths, and providing recommendations for improving shortcomings.
Select the criteria of the companies that you wish to benchmark against.
Helps your organization establish credit lines, secure loans, and pursue investors.
Advanced security keeps your data safe, secure, and confidential.

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Compare your firm against hundreds of others and the profit leaders!

Compare your firm’s income statement ratios against prior years, other firms, and the profit leaders.
Compare ratios as a percentage of sales or a percentage of value added.
Paper, paperboard, plastic, substrates, ink, click charges, and outside services and other materials.
Factory payroll, depreciation expenses, and other factory expenses.
Selling, general & administrative payroll, depreciation expenses, and other SG&A expenses.
Gross profit, interest expenses, net income (loss) before income taxes.

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Rate your firm's financial health with key industry ratios & benchmarks!

Many business owners look at gross sales or net income on a regular basis, but those figures can only tell you so much. FinancialRatiosAdvisor.com helps you read between the lines, providing insight into virtually every financial aspect of your business. Just enter your financial statement, balance sheet, and other information into our easy online forms and you will instantly receive a detailed analysis and recommendations using key industry ratios and benchmarks.

Income Statement Ratios

Percentage of Sales and Value Added
Paper and Substrates
Click Charges
Outside Services
Factory Wages and Expenses
Gross Profit
Sales Wage and Commissions
Selling Expenses Ratio
General & Administrative Wages and Expenses
Interest Expense
Net Profit (Loss) Before Income Taxes

Balance Sheet Ratios

Current Assets
Current Cash
Current Accounts Receivable
Current Inventory
Fixed Assets
Factory Machinery Fixed Assets

Liquidity & Activity Ratios

Current Working Capital Ratio
Quick Acid Test Ratio
Cash Asset Ratio
Days Cash For Operating Expenses
Days Sales Outstanding Collections
Return on Net Assets (RONA) Ratio
Inventory Turnover Ratio
Number of Days of Inventory Ratio
Assets Turnover Ratio

Employee Ratios

Percentage of Factory Employees
Percentage of Administrative Employees
Percentage of Sales Employees
Sales per Employee
Sales per Factory Employee
Payroll per Factory Employee
Payroll per Administrative Employee
Payroll per Sales Employee

Operations Benchmarks

Estimates Per Estimating Employee
Estimate Win / Loss Rate
Orders Per Order Entry Employee
Orders Created via a Web Storefront
Spoilage Costs as a Percentage of Sales
Spoilage Costs as a Percentage of Value Added
Spoilage Costs as a Percentage of Factory Expenses
Training Costs as a Percentage of Sales
Training Costs as a Percentage of Value Added
Employee Training Cost per Employee

Purchasing & Accounts Payables Practices

Purchasing Practices
Inventory Management Practices
Accounts Payables Practices
Vendor Payments Practices

Invoicing & Accounts Receivables Practices

Job Costing Practices
Invoicing Practices
Accounts Receivables Practices
Vendor Payments Practices

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Select the criteria of the companies that you wish to benchmark against.

You can broaden or narrow down the list of participants you want to compare your ratios with. Compare yourself to other commercial printers, quick printers, label printers, companies with web offset presses, companies in your region, and many other possibilities.

By type of company
By geographic region
By sales volume
By business type
By market segment
By production processes or equipment

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Gain insight into your balance sheet ratios.

Compare your firm’s balance sheet ratios against prior years.
Cash, accounts receivable, inventory, work in process, marketable securities, and other current assets ratios.
Factory machinery & equipment, furniture and fixtures, vehicles, real estate, and other fixed assets ratios.
Notes payable, mortgages, balances owed to creditors, accrued expenses, federal and state income taxes, and other liabilities ratios.
Shareholders' & proprietors' equity, capital and retained earnings, treasury stock, and other equity ratios.

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Compare your financial ratios across multiple years.

Enter income statements, balance sheets, and other financial information for multiple periods
Compare your financial performance, ratios, and benchmarks across multiple years
Identify trends in your company’s financial performance over the years
Helps you predict the direction of future financial performance
Proactively recognize and correct potential financial issues

Financial Performance Across Multiple Years

Benchmark's your firm’s liquidity & activity ratios.

Liquidity ratios show your company’s ability to turn assets into cash quickly. While activity ratios show how efficiently your company is leveraging the assets to generate revenues and cash.

Current Ratio
Quick Ratio (Acid Test Ratio)
Cash Ratios
Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)
Return on Net Assets (RONA)
Inventory Turnover, and other Ratios
and many more..

Get detailed recommendations for improving your business.

You receive a detailed explanation of each ratio including:

Provides the formula used to calculate each ratio
The purpose of the ratios and benchmark
What it means to your company
Advice on how you can improve your business in the area

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The intuitive user interface makes it easy for virtually anyone to use.
The online survey form is short and simple, and steps you through the setup.
Don’t have all the answers? You can exit the form without losing your entries and return later.
The form automatically checks your answers for problems as you enter your data.
Online Help is specific to each screen and entry, reducing the time to find the answers to your questions.
Reports are easy to read and includes a detail explanation of each ratio.

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Benchmark Your Labor Force

One of the most analytical and manageable areas of the ratios are those computed in the employee profile section. Employee ratios offer the best common denominator that can be easily managed to produce higher profits.

Number of Factory Employees
Number of Administrative Employees
Number of Sales Employees
Sales per Employee
Sales per Factory Employee
Payroll per Employee
Payroll per Factory Employee
Payroll per Administrative Employee
Payroll per Sales Employee
Estimates Per Estimating Employee
Orders Per Order Entry Employee
Employee Training Investment Cost Per Employee

Implement Industry Best Practices

FinancialRatiosAdvisor.com benchmarks your business practices against industry accepted best practices. Best business practices are techniques, methods, processes, procedures, or systems that have proven successful by industry leaders and experts. Embracing best practices will help your organization reduce costs and become more efficient in administrative processes, ultimately leading to higher profit margins.

Purchasing Practices
Inventory Management Practices
Inventory Valuation Practices
Accounts Payables Practices
Job Costing Practices
Invoicing Practices
Cash On Delivery (COD) Practices
Accounts Receivables Practices
Collections Practices

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For decades, the Financial Ratios program has been a trusted resource for the industry. By analyzing data from hundreds of printing and related graphic arts firms, this program has consistently helped organizations nationwide boost their bottom line and identify operational inefficiencies.

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The financial ratios provide a clear picture of our company's financial performance.

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The financial ratios help our management and shareholders benchmark our company's performance against similar companies and the industry profit leaders.

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The ratios allow us to predict the future performance of our company so we can proactively make improvement adjustments.

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The income statement, balance sheet and cash flow ratios provide vital information about the strengths of our company, and where we need to make improvements, before its too late.

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