Current Ratio Calculator

Calculate the ratio of your or your businesses' liabilities to assets to assess the overall health of yourself or your business.

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What it is

What is Current Ratio?

Create Date: July 16, 2024

Last Modified Date: November 26, 2024

Current ratio is a number that helps show liquidity of a business or person, which can be used to determine their ability to cover short-term obligations with their current assets.

How do you Calculate Current Ratio?

Calculating current ratio is rather simple, the variables that are required include:

  • Current value of assets

  • Current liabilities
You can then use these variables in the following formula to find the current ratio:
An image showing the formula for calculating current ratio.
Where:
  • CR = Current ratio

  • CA = Current assets

  • CL = Current liabilities

Understanding Your Results

With your current ratio value you can determine if you are satisfied with the current state of your assets versus your liabilities. This result is shown as a single number that will represent your assets compared to your liabilities. It is often believed that a good current ratio is somewhere between 1.2 and 2.

How to Use the Current Ratio Tool

Current ratio can easily be calculated with this tool. The steps involved include:

  1. Enter the total value of assets.

  2. Enter the total amount of liabilities.

  3. Hit calculate and get your current ratio answer instantly!

Example Calculation

Let's say you want to make sure your business is in a good financial standing by assessing your current ratio. Currently, the assets are totaled up to $450,000 and current liabilities is $125,000. Using this tool we can find the current ratio, first we will be entering 450,000 into the assets field and then 125,000 into the liabilities field.

We can now hit calculate and find that we have a current ratio of 3.6. This is considered to be above average and is a positive sign.

Current Ratio - Frequently Asked Questions

Having a good current ratio can be important. What is generally considered good is a current ratio between 1.5 and 3.0, so yes, a current ratio of 1.5 can be considered good.

Current ratio should not be too high, if it is higher than 4 or 5, it may be a sign that your business is holding onto too much cash or assets where you could use them to maximize profits instead. This is all dependent on your industry, business model, and other factors. It is advised that you talk to a business accountant or similar professional to learn more about your businesses' current health.

Technically, current ratio can not be negative. This is because your assets value should always be over zero, if it is below zero it is not an asset making the calculations not correct.

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