Financial & Managerial Accounting
14th Edition
ISBN: 9781337119207
Author: Carl Warren, James M. Reeve, Jonathan Duchac
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 14, Problem 14.3TIF
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Financial Ratios: Financial ratios are the metrics used to evaluate the liquidity, capabilities, profitability, and overall performance of a company.
To prepare: Memo to the company’s president
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Assume that the president of Freeman Industries Inc. made the following statement in the Annual Report to Shareholders:
"The founding family and majority shareholders of the company do not believe in using debt to finance future growth. The founding family leamed from hard experience during Prohibition and the Great Depression that debt can cause loss of flexibility and eventual loss, corporate control. The company will not place itself at such risk. As such, all future growth will be financed either by stock sales to the public or by internally generated resources."
As a public shareholder of this company, how would you respond to this policy?
The president of Freeman Industries Inc. made the following statement in the annual report to shareholders: “The founding family and majority shareholders of the company do not believe in using debt to finance future growth. The founding family learned from hard experience during the Great Depression that debt can cause loss of flexibility and eventual loss of corporate control. The company will not place itself at such risk again.As such, all future growth will be financed either by stock sales to the public or by internally generated resources.”Write a brief memo to the company’s president, Boss Freeman, outlining the errors in his logic.
Which of the following statements is true?
a. High liquidity means a company is short on cash and may be unable to pay its debts.b. When a company decides to go public through an IPO, it is typically targeting to sell its shares to only a handful of shareholders. c. If the company has a higher than expected extremely high profit this year, equity holders will benefit more than debt holders as debtholders are the residual claimers for the cash flows of the company.d. In the extreme case, the debt holders take legal ownership of the firm's assets through a process called bankruptcy.e. Equity holders expect to receive dividends and the firm is always legally obligated to pay them.
Chapter 14 Solutions
Financial & Managerial Accounting
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