Whitepaper: Visualisation of the 100 most important financial ratios
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The UBS guidebook "The 100 most important financial ratios" illustrates the increasing importance and interpretation of ratios in daily business life. Investors or lenders check the company's development on the basis of central key figures, such as EBIT, working capital or cash flow, in order to be able to make investment decisions in the shortest possible time. But what is behind these key figures? What is their significance? And why are they suitable for company analysis? The book summarises the most important ratios clearly and concisely.
On the basis of this guide, we - s-peers AG - have created a document that illustrates - using the 100 most important financial indicators as examples - how company data can be visualised in accordance with the IBCS®.
In their internal and external reporting, companies afford themselves the luxury of company-specific notation and presentation concepts or even the complete abandonment of notation and presentation forms. Uniform sets of rules or notation concepts are not applied at all or only inadequately worldwide. Companies run the risk of making suboptimal or poor decisions on the basis of missing, incomplete or misleading information.
Therefore, Prof. Dr. Rolf Hichert has set himself the goal of standardising corporate reporting and has developed the HICHERT®SUCCESS set of rules. This set of rules is intended to make both formal business communication and management reports and presentations more transparent.
With the aim of internationalising this set of rules, the International Business Communication Standards - IBCS® - were published by HICHERT+FAISST in 2013. The IBCS® can be understood as a further development of the SUCCESS rules. In essence, it is about a true-and-fair view in business communication through
- Reduction to the essentials,
- Consistent standardisation for a uniform visual language, as well as
- consistent structures and clear messages in reporting.
IBCS® as a guideline for a management information design concept has become increasingly important in recent years. Many international corporations now use this concept in internal and external business communication. In practice, companies are increasingly creating notation concepts that serve to standardise reporting and its visualisation.
Composers have used a uniform visual language to record melodies for generations. With this notation, musicians - no matter what language they speak - can play compositions together. It is similar with circuit diagrams, whose standardised elements can be read by engineers.
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