Key Management Ratios: The Clearest Guide to the Critical Numbers That Drive Your Business, Fourth Edition

Chapter 13. Financial leverage and corporate valuation

Introduction • Financial leverage • V chart • Market to book ratio

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Introduction

This chapter will integrate material from previous chapters into one single web supporting corporate value and it will show the relationships that exist between many of the ratios covered so far. Specifically it will:

1. establish the financial leverage links between ROTA and ROE

2. examine further the great importance of ROE

3. tie together – operating efficiency ...