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Making Accounting Ratio Analysis More Powerful.  

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Making Accounting Ratio Analysis More Powerful INTRODUCTION: Accounting information users assess the companies' financial and operational performance mainly by analysis their financial statements. The most popular and traditional way is using accounting ratios to approach the analysis results. However, many academicians tested and reported its limitation based on previous dates and presented some alternative ways to do financial analysis. Should accounting ratios analysis be replaced by the other better methods? Or should we still regard it as the most powerful tool and use it more efficiently in ameliorated way? In the first part of this article, the advantages and limitations of ratio analysis will be listed. Then empirical studies about alternative way such as regression analysis will be introduced. In the third place, the shortcoming points of two key ratio figures will be discussed as examples, and some relative solutions around them will be presented. At last, a full exposition of...

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