Compute the following ratios for Liberty and Kimco. (Round return on assets and asset turnover values to 2 decimal places, e.g. 52.22% or 0.52 and profit margin to 1 decimal place, e.g. 52.5%)       Liberty   Kimco                                       (3)   Asset turnover

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Companies following international accounting standards are permitted to revalue fixed assets above the assets’ historical costs. Such revaluations are allowed under various countries’ standards and the standards issued by the IASB. Liberty International, a real estate company headquartered in the United Kingdom (U.K.), follows U.K. standards. In a recent year, Liberty disclosed the following information on revaluations of its tangible fixed assets. The revaluation reserve measures the amount by which tangible fixed assets are recorded above historical cost and is reported in Liberty’s stockholders’ equity.

Liberty International

Completed Investment Properties

Completed investment properties are professionally valued on a market value basis by external valuers at the balance sheet date. Surpluses and deficits arising during the year are reflected in the revaluation reserve.

Liberty reported the following additional data. Amounts for Kimco Realty (which follows GAAP) in the same year are provided for comparison.

    Liberty
(pounds sterling, in thousands)
  Kimco
(dollars, in millions)
 
Total revenues     £706       $564    
Average total assets     5,492       4,481    
Net income     117       308    

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Compute the following ratios for Liberty and Kimco. (Round return on assets and asset turnover values to 2 decimal places, e.g. 52.22% or 0.52 and profit margin to 1 decimal place, e.g. 52.5%)

      Liberty   Kimco  
                 
                 
(3)   Asset turnover      
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