[kts1010]

I was wondering if any of the ratios can be found in the Authoritative Literature. I am doing the becker SIMS and am doing great on all of them except for the ratio ones? If they are in the Literature could someone please point me to where they are?

Thanks for the help.

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[ty58527]

I do not think they are in the literature (as far as I know). I would recommend memorizing them however sometimes you may get lucky and AICPA will provide them to you as a part of a SIM. Sometimes they will give extra explanatory info tabs and I think this is the kind of information that could be in it. But, there is no guarantee this info will be in it or you could get a MC question on it so I think it is best to have the common ones memorized.

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[LittleMoe]

They are not in Auth Lit (that I have been able to find). You may very well need them for AUD so I would know them.

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[mena je twa]

memorizing will not help…Understand the cause & effect relationship between the numerator & the denominator. If liability is decreased what happens to the overall ratio etc, etc….

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[Anonymous]

I agree with mena. They will ask if one thing increases, how will it affect ROI? And they won't just ask if NI increases but maybe a component of one of those items. They might ask how ROI will be affect if an expense increases (which reduces NI), which will drive ROI down.

I think the ones that are in Jeff's ninja notes are sufficient.

[Anonymous]

Don't waste too much time with ratios; you're much better off studying the major topics.

[kts1010]

Well the Becker SIMS for chapter 4 seem to be almost all ratio's or at least half and I am just bombing those SIMS. I do fine on the rest of them but there is just so many different ratio's to know them all along with the other information. I am not sure what to do with a week and a half left till the test should I take a few days to memorize all the ratios or just memorize the four in the NINJA notes and hope that will be enough?

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[Anonymous]

a few days? I just counted. There are 30 ratios. Certainly quite a few but with concerted effort, it shouldn't take more than an hour of studying especially since a lot of them are familiar/common sense.

[momto5]

I would concentrate on the ones in the NINJA Notes if you don't have a lot of time. I hated ratios too and fortunately didn't get anything on the exam related to ratios, but I know many do. Hoping I'd be done with them, but they show up again in BEC. Best to know the relationships, but I'd have to have them memorized so I had something to work with. Answering how paying off a mortgage with cash affects your current ratio isn't easy if you don't know what a current ratio is.

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[kts1010]

I guess I will give it a shot trying to memorize them. I don't want to get them on the exam and wish I had.

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