Abstract:
Financial standard ratio is commonly used for calibrating the operation status of business organizations to indicate their past administrative potential, which will lead to organization improvement and development and eventually they can compete with the others. The purpose of this study was to investigate the financial standard ratio and degree of operating leverage of 35 industrial business groups. The data were collected from the financial statements in the year 2003-2005 of 984 businesses via their www.dbd.go.th. Interviews were also made to those responsible for the businesses' financial statements. Arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Anova and scheffe analysis were employed to analyze the data. It was found that the financial standard ratio and degree of operating leverage of the industrial businesses, as a whole, was found that the current ratio was 1.58 times while the quick ratio was 0.96. The receivable turnover ratio was 7.05 rounds. The average collection period was 77 days. The inventory turnover ratio was 10.85 rounds, and the average day sales was 87. With respect to the standard debt ratios, the study revealed that the debt to equity was 3.07 :1 while the debt to total assets was 0.61 :1. The long term debt to equity was 1.08: 1, and the times interest
earned was 28.03. Regarding the standard profitability ratios, it was found that the gross profit margin was 20.24% whereas the operation profit margin was 8.95%. The net profit margin was
found to be 5.97%, the return on equity 18.1l%. The return on total assets 6.22% respectively, and degree of operating leverage was 5.57.
The comparison of the financial standard ratio and degree of operating leverage of 35 industrial business groups indicated that thirteen items were different at the statistical significance level of .05