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Financial Metrics — Ratios & Analytics Inline

Computes standard financial ratios from Numeric report data and layers them inline on your source statement. Covers profitability, covenant/liquidity/solvency, and operational/working-capital metrics — margins, EBITDA, current ratio, DSO, DPO, DIO, and more.

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Financial Metrics — Ratios & Analytics Inline

Computes standard financial ratios from Numeric report data and layers them inline on your source statement. Covers profitability, covenant/liquidity/solvency, and operational/working-capital metrics — margins, EBITDA, current ratio, DSO, DPO, DIO, and more.

Before You Begin

  • Numeric MCP connected.
  • Numeric Toolkit installed.

How It Works

  1. Ask Claude for ratios. Example prompts:
    • "Add financial ratios to this report."
    • "What's our gross margin?"
    • "Check covenant compliance."
    • "Full financial health check."
  2. Claude detects mode: IS mode (margins, EBITDA), BS mode (liquidity, working capital), or Full (both).
  3. Claude pulls IS and BS data plus the chart of accounts for ratio mapping.
  4. Claude computes only the requested ratios (or all three categories for "full" / "health check").
  5. Claude produces an Excel workbook with the source statement + inline metric rows (blue background, italic text).

What You Get

An Excel workbook with inline ratios organized in three categories:

Profitability / Margin

Metric Formula
Gross Margin
(Revenue − COGS) / Revenue
Operating Margin
Operating Income / Revenue
Net Margin
Net Income / Revenue
EBITDA
Operating Income + D&A
EBITDA Margin
EBITDA / Revenue
Staff Cost Ratio
Personnel / Revenue

Liquidity / Solvency

Metric Formula
Current Ratio
Current Assets / Current Liabilities
Quick Ratio
(Current Assets − Inventory) / Current Liabilities
Debt-to-Equity
Total Liabilities / Total Equity
Interest Coverage
EBIT / Interest Expense
Net Debt / EBITDA
(Total Debt − Cash) / Annualized EBITDA

Working Capital

Metric Formula
DSO
Days Sales Outstanding. Average days it takes to collect cash after a sale.
(AR / Revenue) × Days in Period
DPO
Days Payable Outstanding. Average days you take to pay vendors.
(AP / COGS) × Days in Period
DIO
Days Inventory Outstanding. Average days inventory sits before being sold.
(Inventory / COGS) × Days in Period
Cash Conversion Cycle
DSO + DIO − DPO

Troubleshooting

Issue What to Check
Required account couldn't be identified
The skill will ask you directly rather than guessing (e.g., "Which account should I use for Interest Expense?"). Answer and re-run.
Trend arrows feel wrong
Direction is interpreted per metric (higher GM = good, higher D/E = bad). If you're seeing the wrong direction on a custom metric, confirm the ratio definition.
Wrong account feeding a ratio
Check the "Account Mapping Notes" section at the bottom of the sheet. Tell Claude which account to use and re-run.

FAQ

  • Custom ratios? Yes — ask Claude to add the metric definition.
  • Trend mode? Use month_over_month_3 or _6 comparison to compute ratios across periods.
  • Industry-specific ratios (SaaS, manufacturing)? Ask Claude to add ARR multiples, MRR growth, CAC ratio, etc.
  • Covenant reporting? Yes — add thresholds as input; skill color-codes passing/failing.

Download & Install

Download the full Numeric Toolkit (15 community skills, including this one):

🔗 numeric-mcp-toolkit.zip

Install via Claude Code CLI:

/plugin marketplace add geoff-lew/numeric-toolkit
/plugin install numeric-mcp-toolkit

Need help? Reach out to support@numeric.io.

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