Indicate whether each of the following statements about financial statement analysis is true or false.________ a) Working capital is a measure of the amount of current assets a company would have left after paying its current liabilities.________ b) If a transaction causes a company's working capital to increase, the transaction caused the company to become less liquid.________ c) Interpretation of a company's current ratio can be difficult because it is an absolute amount.________ d) The quick ratio is a more conservative variation of the current ratio.________ e) The quick ratio is usually calculated by using the following equation: (cash + receivables + current marketable securities) ÷ current liabilities.

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a) T b) F c) F d) T e) T
a) Working capital is a measure of the amount of current assets a company would have left after paying its current liabilities. 
b) If a transaction causes a company's working capital to increase, the transaction may have caused the company to become more liquid. 
c) Interpretation of a company's working capital can be difficult because it is an absolute amount. 
d) The quick ratio is a more conservative variation of the current ratio. 
e) The quick ratio is usually calculated by using the following equation: cash + receivables + current marketable securities ÷ current liabilities.

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