A company reports accounting data in its financial statements. This data is used for financial analyses that provide insights into a company's strengths, weaknesses, performance in specific areas, and trends in performance. These analyses are often used to compare a company's performance to that of its competitors or to its past or expected future performance. Such insight helps managers and analysts improve their decision making. Consider the following scenano: You work as an analyst at a credit-rating agency, and you are comparing firms in the construction and engineering sector. One company in the portfolio of companies you are analyzing is a Chinese firm. This firm stands out in the ratio analysis, because the company's financial ratios are substantially lower than identical financial ratios of the other firms in the sector. You do not dissect the results of the ratio analysis and report this form as an under performing company. Which of the following statements about your analysis report is true? The analysis likely includes incorrect and misleading conclusions. The ratios provide an accurate and thorough representation of the Chinese company's performance, There are several groups of ratios most decision makers and anialysts use to examine diferent aspects of a company's performance. Based on the descriptions of ratios Insted, deny the relevant category of racios . Ratios that help determine whether a company can access its cash and pay its short term obligations are called