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15- If you would like to measure the effectiveness of asset management of a company, which of the following ratios would be the least useful?     Average days in inventory     Times interest earned ratio     Average collection period     Inventory turnover ratio     Days sales outstanding

Suppose you are conducting an analysis of the financial performance of Cold Goose Metal Works Inc. over the past three years. The company did not issue new shares during these three years and has faced some operational difficulties. The company has thus pilot tested some new forecasting strategies for better operations management. You have collected the company's relevant financial data, made reasonable assumptions based on the information available, and calculated the following ratios. Price-to-cash-flow Inventory turnover Debt-to-equity Ratios Calculated Year 1 Year 2 1.40 0.98 2.80 2.24 0.40 0.32 Year 3 0.78 1.79 0.26 Based on the preceding information, your calculations, and your assumptions, which of the following statements can be included in your analysis report? Check all that apply. A decline in the inventory turnover ratio could likely be explained by operational difficulties that the company faced, which led to duplicate orders placed to vendors. A decline in the inventory…

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Which of the following statements is TRUE? a. According to the DuPont identity, all else held constant equal, an increase in the use of debt would increase a firm's ROE. O b. A decline in current ratio indicates an improvement in the degree of short-term liquidity. O C. In a common-sized balance sheet, inventory is represented as % of sales. O d. Time-series analysis or trend analysis compares various firms at a single point in time.

2. Calculate the projected inventory turnover, days sales outstanding (DSO), fixed assets turnover, and total assets turnover. How does Abiproffy's utilization of assets stack up against other firms in its industry? Calculate the projected current and quick ratios based on the projected balance sheet and income statement data. What can you say about the company's liquidity position and its trend? Calculate the projected debt ratio, the debt-to-equity ratio, liabilities-to-assets ratio, earnings multiplier, times-interest-earned, and EBITDA coverage ratios. How does Abiproffy compare with the industry with respect to financial leverage? What can you conclude from these ratios? Calculate the projected price/earnings ratio and market/book ratio. Do these ratios indicate that investors are expected to have a high or low opinion of the company? It is commonly recommended that the managers of a firm compare the performance of their firm to that of its peers. Increasingly, this is becoming a…

Interpreting liquidity and activity ratios The table, shows key financial data for three firms that compete in the consumer products market: Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, and Clorox. a. Calculate each of the following ratios for all three companies: current ratio, quick ratio, inventory turnover, average collection period, total asset turnover. b. What company is in the position of having greatest liquidity? c. Would you say that the three companies exhibit similar performance or quite different performance in terms of collecting receivables? Why do you think that might be? d. Which company has the most rapid inventory turnover? Which company appears to be least efficient in terms of total asset turnover? Are your answers to those questions a little surprising? If a company is best at inventory turnover and worst at total asset turnover, what do you think that means? a. For the three companies, the current ratios are: (Round to three decimal places.) Colgate-Palmolive Current…

Sales Cost of goods sold Receivable Inventory Procter & Gamble $65,235 32,973 4,732 4,795 25,568 28,901 117,030 Total current assets Total current liabilities Total assets (Note: All dollar values are in thousands.) Colgate-Palmolive $15,208 6,077 1,415 1,173 4,348 3,291 12,134 Clorox $5,873 3,227 517 500 1,544 2,043 4,579

10. Analyzing ratios One of the most important applications of ratio analysis is to compare a company's performance with that of other players in the industry or to compare its own performance over a period of time. Such analyses are referred to as a comparative analysis and trend analysis, respectively. A common size analysis requires the representation of financial statement data relative to a single financial statement item (or base account or value). What is the most commonly used base item for a common size balance sheet? O Earnings before interest and taxes O Net income Net sales Total assets Suppose you are conducting an analysis of the financial performance of Cute Camel Woodcraft Company over the past three years. The company did not issue new shares during these three years and has faced some operational difficulties. The company has thus pilot tested some new forecasting strategies for better operations management. You have collected the company's relevant financial data,…

Financial Ratio Analysis.  A financial ratio by itself tells us little about a company since financial ratios vary a great deal across industries.  There are two basic methods for analyzing financial ratios for a company: time trend analysis and peer group analysis.  Why might each of these analysis methods be useful?  What does each tell you about the company’s financial health?

Based on these calculations, which company appears to be more risky and which company appears to be more profitable?  How can you tell? (Keep in mind that the current ratio and debt to equity ratio are "risk ratios" and the gross profit ratio and return on equity ratio are "profitability ratios").

10. Analyzing ratios One of the most important applications of ratio analysis is to compare a company’s performance with that of other players in the industry or to compare its own performance over a period of time. Such analyses are referred to as a comparative analysis and trend analysis, respectively. A common size analysis requires the representation of financial statement data relative to a single financial statement item (or base account or value). What is the most commonly used base item for a common size balance sheet? Total assets   Net income   Earnings before interest and taxes   Net sales     Suppose you are conducting an analysis of the financial performance of Cute Camel Woodcraft Company over the past three years. The company did not issue new shares during these three years and has faced some operational difficulties. The company has thus pilot tested some new forecasting strategies for better operations management. You have collected…

1. In financial statement analysis, what is the basic objective of observing trends in data and ratios? 2. Distinguish between trend percentages and component percentages. Which would be better suited for analyzing the change in sales over a term of several years?3. What is the quick ratio? Under what circumstances are short-term creditors most likely to regard a company’s quick ratio as more meaningful than its current ratio?4. Identify the ratios or other analytical tools used to evaluate profitability. Explain briefly how each is computed.5. Net sales of Major General Store have been increasing at a reasonable rate, but net income has been declining steadily as a percentage of these sales. What appears to be the problem?6. Why might earnings per share be more significant to a shareholder in a large corporation than the total amount of net income?7. ABC Co. has a current ratio of 3 to 1. Ono Corp. has a current ratio of 2 to 1. Does this mean that ABC’s operating cycle is longer than…

Which of the following assumptions are necessary for AFN equation to work? 1) The ratios A0/S and LO/S, the profit margin, and payout ratio are stable. 2) Common stock and long-term debt are tied directly to sales. 3) None of the firm's ratios will change. 4) Fixed assets, but not current assets, are tied directly to sales. 5) Last year's total assets were not optimal for last year's sales.

Bob's Inc has the following balance sheet and income statement data  see image... The new CFO thinks that inventory are excessive and could be lowered to cause the current ratio to equal industry average 3.00 w/o affecting either sales or net income. assuming that inventories are sold off and not replaced to get the current ratio to the target level and that the funds generated are used to buy back common stock at book value, by how much would the ROE change?

6. Market value ratios Ratios are mostly calculated using data drawn from the financial statements of a firm. However, another group of ratios, called market value ratios, relate to a firm’s observable market value, stock prices, and book values, integrating information from both the market and the firm’s financial statements. Consider the case of Cute Camel Woodcraft Company: Cute Camel Woodcraft Company just reported earnings after tax (also called net income) of $9,250,000 and a current stock price of $39.50 per share. The company is forecasting an increase of 25% for its after-tax income next year, but it also expects it will have to issue 3,000,000 new shares of stock (raising its shares outstanding from 5,500,000 to 8,500,000).   If Cute Camel’s forecast turns out to be correct and its price/earnings (P/E) ratio does not change, what does the company’s management expect its stock price to be one year from now? (Round any P/E ratio calculation to four decimal places.)…

6. Market value ratios Ratios are mostly calculated using data drawn from the financial statements of a firm. However, another group of ratios, called market value ratios, relate to a firm's observable market value, stock prices, and book values, integrating information from both the market and the firm's financial statements. Consider the case of Cute Camel Woodcraft Company: Cute Camel Woodcraft Company just reported earnings after tax (also called net income) of $9,750,000 and a current stock price of $28.50 per share. The company is forecasting an increase of 25% for its after-tax income next year, but it also expects it will have to issue 2,900,000 new shares of stock (raising its shares outstanding from 5,500,000 to 8,400,000). If Cute Camel's forecast turns out to be correct and its price/earnings (P/E) ratio does not change, what does the company's management expect its stock price to be one year from now? (Round any P/E ratio calculation to four decimal places.) O $23.35 per…

1. Calculate Computron’s market value ratios—that is, its price/earnings ratio and its market/book ratio. What do these ratios tell you about investors’ opinions of the company? 2. Use the DuPont equation to provide a summary and overview of Computron’s financial condition. What are the firm’s major strengths and weaknesses?

Company X is competing with company Y. These are their ratios:   x y Total Asset Trunover .462 .361 Inventory Turnover 30.23 37.40 Accounts Receivable n/a n/a Based on Asset Utilization/Management Efficiency, which company is doing better when compared to the other?

A firm's ROE is above the industry average, but its profit margin and equity multiplier are both below the industry average. Which of the following statements is correct? A. It's total assets turnover is above the industry average B. Its total asset turnover is below the industry average C. Its TIE ratio is below the industry average D. It's ROA equals the industry average E. Its total assets turnover equals the industry average

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