a.
Introduction: The return on assets is a financial ratio which states that how profitably a company has employed its assets. In other words, how the company has utilized its assets to generate income.
Requirement 1
The return on assets of S company for the current year and the prior year.
b.
Introduction: Multiple factors can be responsible for causing the financial ratios to change from one year to another. The reasons for such change are then further analyzed in order to take appropriate action.
Requirement 2
Whether S’s return on assets has shown a favorable or unfavorable change.
c.
Introduction: Comparison between similar companies in the same industry is crucial to the assessment of the company’s performance. A company’s financial ratios, when compared with the industry data, can reveal lots of valuable information which the financial statements can not reveal.
Requirement 3
The S company’s return on assets for the current year is better or worse than companies A and G’s return on assets.
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