How to Calculate Your Current Ratio
The current ratio measures whether your current assets can cover your current liabilities — a quick read on short-term liquidity that lenders and investors check before almost anything else. Because it’s a ratio rather than a dollar figure, it’s easy to compare across businesses of very different sizes, which is exactly what a side-by-side worked example is good for.
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Worked examples
Worked Example 1 — Above the Healthy Range
An e-commerce brand reports $220,000 in current assets against $110,000 in current liabilities. Current ratio = $220,000 ÷ $110,000 = 2.0 — comfortably above the 1.5 mark generally considered healthy, meaning the business could cover its short-term obligations twice over.
Worked Example 2 — Below 1.0
A construction contractor reports $95,000 in current assets against $120,000 in current liabilities. Current ratio = $95,000 ÷ $120,000 ≈ 0.79 — below 1.0, a sign that near-term obligations exceed what the business can currently cover from liquid and near-liquid assets, and a red flag lenders would notice immediately.
The two examples land on opposite sides of the healthy range using the exact same formula, which is the point of checking your own ratio regularly rather than once: a single current ratio tells you little without knowing which side of 1.0 — and how far from it — your business sits. Finmap calculates your current ratio automatically from your connected accounts and tracks it over time, so a slide from 2.0 toward 1.0 shows up as a trend long before it becomes a crisis.
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Finmap calculates it from your connected accounts and shows the trend over time — no spreadsheets to rebuild each month.
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