Individuals performing ratio analysis include (1) banks evaluating potential loan applications from small businesses (2) investment analysts evaluating the investment quality of a firms stock and (3) internal management assessing the firms current strengths and weaknesses. Select one of the three parties above and for that party identify which of the five ratio groups (liquidity activity debt profitability or market) would be of most value and which would probably be of least value. Explain the reasons behind your choices.
