(a)
Annual Report: It is a comprehensive financial report that shows all the business activities that takes place throughout the previous financial year. Its purpose is to provide the complete financial information of a company’s financial activities to its users in order to help them analyze and take well informed decisions.
Financial Ratios: Financial ratios are the metrics used to evaluate the overall financial performance of a company during a specific period of time.
To Compute: the return on common
To Compute: the debt to assets ratio for Incorporation A and Incorporation W.
To Compute: the return on assets ratio for Incorporation A and Incorporation W.
(b)
To explain: the conclusions concerning the companies’ profitability ratios can be drawn on these ratios.
To find: the company that relies more on debt to boost its return to common shareholders.
(c)
To Compute: the payout ratio for Incorporation A and Incorporation W.
To find: which company pays out a higher percentage of its earnings.

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