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Hi John,
I’ve been doing some practice questions on ratios and I’m understanding most of them except the gearing ratio.
How come sometimes we do Debt/Equity but other times we do Debt/Debt & Equity?
It’s frustrating because I do it one way and the answers do it the other. Is this something we would be marked down for, or will the examiner specify which I should use? In one of your lecture examples, the question stated which method to use, so I understood that.
Thanks and sorry for being a pest!
Sophie
Both are standard measures and so usually the examiner specifies which one he wants.
If he doesn’t specify then you will get the marks for using either.
Thank you so much! 🙂
You are welcome 🙂