Financial-ratio categories
Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) — Second Year
Subject: Fundamentals of Financial Management (MGT 215)
Unit 2: Financial Statement Analysis
Academic Year: 2083/84
Topic Objectives
After studying this topic, students should be able to:
- Explain the scope and key elements of financial-ratio categories.
- Apply the relevant financial model, calculation or analytical approach and explain its assumptions and decision implications.
Curriculum Scope
- Liquidity
- Asset management
- Debt management
- Profitability
- Market value
Detailed Microsyllabus
Liquidity and efficiency
- Current and quick liquidity measures.
- Inventory, receivable and asset-management ratios.
- Interpret using average balances where appropriate.
Financing, profit and market measures
- Debt-management and coverage ratios.
- Margins and return measures.
- Market-value ratios with consistently defined inputs.
Curriculum reference: Tribhuvan University, Faculty of Management, revised four-year BBS curriculum, PDF pages 41-43.
Source note: The curriculum scope above is retained from the existing TU syllabus breakdown. The numbered study subtopics are editorial elaborations for teaching and study, rather than a separately issued TU syllabus. Unit or component allocations apply at their stated level; no separate topic hours or marks are assigned here.