Marketing educators must ensure that their marketing majors investigating career opportunities in retailing understand the dynamics of key retail financial ratios. This article reports the results of a study designed to determine the most important retail financial ratios used to measure corporate health and vitality and to describe a pedagogy which effectively teaches students how to compute and interpret these and other important retail financial ratios.
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