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1. Ratio analysis Aa Aa 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 scenario: 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 categorize report this firm as an under-performing company Which of the following statements about your analysis report is true? The ratios provide an accurate and thorough representation of the Chinese company's performance. O The analysis likely includes incorrect and misleading conclusions. There are several groups of ratios most decision makers and analysts use to examine different aspects of a company's performance. Based on the descriptions of ratios listed, identify the relevant category of ratios. Ratios that help determine whether a company can access its cash and pay its debts that mature in less than a year are called ratios. These ratios, which help determine how efficiently a firm is using its assets to generate sales are called ratios. Ratios that help assess a company's ability to service the interest and repayment obligations on its long-term debt and the degree to which it uses borrowed versus invested financial capital are called ratios. ratios help measure a company's ability to generate income and profits based on its invested capital. ratios examine the market value of a company's share price, its profits and cash dividends, and the book value of the firm's assets and relate them to other data items to determine how the firm is perceived in the stock market