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Quick Ratio Calculator
Quick Ratio Calculator is part of Toolspire and is ready as soon as this page loads. ₹200 of current assets, ₹50 of inventory and ₹100 of current liabilities leave ₹150 of quick assets. 150 ÷ 100 is 1.5.
On this page
What you can do here
Stock comes out
The subtraction is the whole point. Cash, receivables and other current assets stay.
The current ratio is named beside it
The detail reminds you what the looser ratio would have been.
No prepaid-expense debate
Anything you leave inside current assets, other than the inventory you type, stays in the quick total.
The sequence
How to use the Quick Ratio Calculator
- 1
Make sure inventory is part of the asset total
If stock is already excluded from the asset box, type 0 for inventory or you will subtract it twice.
- 2
Use current liabilities only
A five-year loan is not a bill the quick ratio is meant to cover.
- 3
Compare 1.5 with 2
The sample’s gap is the stock. If your gap is most of the assets, the business is a warehouse.
Worth knowing
- Quick Ratio Calculator on Toolspire: quick ratio = (current assets − inventory) ÷ current liabilities.
- 200 − 50 = 150, and 150 ÷ 100 = 1.5.
- Inventory larger than current assets is rejected, because the quick assets would be negative from a typing error.
- The current ratio on the same numbers is 2, because it keeps the ₹50 of stock.
The acid test ignores the warehouse
The quick ratio asks whether short-term bills could be met without selling inventory. On the sample, ₹50 of a ₹200 asset pile is stock, so only ₹150 is treated as quick, and the ratio is 1.5 rather than 2. Receivables that will not be collected still count, because you did not tell the page they are doubtful.
FAQ
Questions about Quick Ratio Calculator
Where does Quick Ratio Calculator run?
What is the quick ratio for assets 200, stock 50, bills 100?
How is that different from the current ratio?
What if inventory is zero?
Can stock exceed current assets?
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