Dear sir /madam
I am doing my project in ratio analiysis were my company balance sheet is showing lose account .so weather I can take a net lose instead of net profit to calculate profitebilty ratio or I should ignore the profitabilty ratio . Please guide me



Yours faithfully
Surendra kumar

If you have Net Loss, you use that number.

So if you are calculating Return on Assets or Equity for example, you would have a negative amount.

And it should be negative because overall, you LOST money, not GAINED any.