Specific Financial Ratios
Lets look at this from specific ratios that address each business and the ones that would specifically look different due to the nature of the business. Any ebusiness (in my mind one similar to www.newegg.com) will have a lower profitability ratio as there is a huge system built in place with online and reduced costs AND lower profitability per sale but increased number of sales. I would also suspect that the e-organization would have an increased asset turnover ratio as many times payments are made quickly to deliver a product. A health care business (such as a hospital) would have an increased profitability ratio due to the nature of health care. A global business may have many combinations of concerns from ratios dependent on the nature of the business. I would suspect them to have both increased profitability, increased asset turnover, and lower liquidity ratio. The reason for the lower liquidity ratio is because a organization that requires to be in many countries can be very expensive to run and I would suspect increased short term debt.