Asset turnover

Asset turnover

Asset turnover is a financial ratio that measures the efficiency of a company's use of its assets in generating sales revenue or sales income to the company. [cite book |last = Bodie |first = Zane |coauthors = Alex Kane and Alan J. Marcus |title = Essentials of Investments, 5th ed |publisher = McGraw-Hill Irwin |date = 2004 |pages =459 |isbn = 0072510773 ]

Asset Turnover = frac{Sales}{Average Total Assets}

* "Sales" is the value of "Net Sales" or "Sales" from the company's income statement
* "Average Total Assets" is the value of "Total assets" from the company's balance sheet in the beginning and the end of the fiscal period divided by 2.

ee also

* Assets turnover
* Total asset turnover

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