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How would you measure the solvency of the non-profit organisation?

What are ratios to be used? What are the market norms for non profit organisation?

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Question added by Usman Masood , Chief Financial Officer , Siddiqi Group
Date Posted: 2013/09/22
Nitin Gupta, ACA
by Nitin Gupta, ACA , FP&A , Rockwell Automation

Quick ratio and Current ratio for short term solvancy 

From solvency stand point  theses should typically same as any other commercial enterprise. The not-profit set ups also have liabilities and commitments therefore all the Solvency ratios should apply. As far as profit is concerned this could be replaced with surplus of inflows vs outflow or net of expenditure account. Key solvency ratios are debt to equity ratio, debt to capital ratio, debt to assets ratio, times interest earned ratio, fixed charge coverage ratio, etc.

 

Konain Abbas Khan
by Konain Abbas Khan , Field Operations Officer , USAID's Small Grants and Ambassador's Fund Program (SGAFP) www.sgafp.org.pk

Solvency of non-profit organizations can be calculated with two ratios.

1) Operational Solvency (comparing incomes with all the cash costs)

2) Financial Solvency (Adding costs of any subsidies (like cost of inflation on Equity) to expense in the above ratio

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