ROE ? Accounting Last year Rennie Industries had sales of $305,000,assets of $175,000, a profit margin of 5.3%, and anequity multiplier of 1.2. The CFO believes that thecompany could reduce its assets by $51,000 withoutaffecting either sales or costs. Had it reduced itsassets by this amount, and had the debt/assets ratio,sales, and costs remained constant, how much wouldthe ROE have changed?

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