1The ratio of the liquid assets of a company to its current liabilities.
现金比率（公司流动性资产与其流动负债之比）
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If neither inventories nor receivables are liquid, the cash ratio may be the better indicator of solvency, because it is the most conservative solvency measure.
The precautionary motive for cash holdings appears to explain the increase in the average cash ratio.
For if the drop in inflows of business receipts exceeds the ability of companies to cut their outflows by reducing spending for capital goods, inventories and labor, cash ratios will worsen, and business failures will mount.
With emotions now running near optimistic extremes and fund cash ratios near record lows, there is no room for error at all!
The value of cash ratio is within the recommended range.
1.1The ratio of cash to deposits in a bank (for which minimum values are generally set officially).
（银行）现金准备率，现金比率
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Minimum cash ratios were stipulated for the banks in the mid-1970s on the basis of their total deposit liabilities, but since such cash ratios were usually lower than those voluntarily maintained by the banks, they proved less effective as a restraint on their credit operations
Banks like to keep the cash ratio higher than the minimum for various understandable reasons.
It was also important to make the statutory cash ratio deposit scheme transparent, so that the Bank was accountable to the institutions placing deposits with it.