A Company Has $56,000 in Cash; $12,000 in Accounts Receivable;

question 86

Short Answer

A company has $56,000 in cash; $12,000 in accounts receivable; $25,000 in short-term investments; and $100,000 in merchandise inventory. The company also has $60,000 in current liabilities. The company's quick ratio is __________.

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Definitions:

Equilibrium Quantity

The supply and demand of goods or services at the price where they are balanced.

Marginal Productivity

The additional output derived from the use of one more unit of a variable input while other inputs remain constant.

Equilibrium Wage Rate

The equilibrium wage rate is the wage level at which the quantity of labor supplied by workers equals the quantity of labor demanded by employers in the market.

Marginal Productivity

The change in output resulting from employing one more unit of a particular input, keeping all other inputs constant.