Which of the following is not a driving force of the operating profit margin?
a. The average selling price for each productb. The ability to control all of the firm’s expenses
c. The ability to control general and administrative expenses
d. The number of units of product sold
Finance
- There are those that believe that the analysis of financial statements has limitations. Which of the statements below would qualify as a limitation of financial statement analysis?
- Which of the following is not a method of "benchmarking"?
- Return on Equity: In the latest year, Photon, Inc. reported $276,000 in net income. The firm maintains a debt ratio of 30% and has total assets of $3,000,000. What is Photon's return on equity? (Round off to the nearest 0.1%)
- Why is the quick ratio considered by some to be a better measure of liquidity than the current ratio?
- Which of the following is a benefit of a common-size income statement?
- DuPont equation: Sorenstam Corp has an equity multiplier of 2.34 times, total assets of $4,512,895, a ROE of 17.5 percent, and a total assets turnover of 3.1 times. Calculate the firm's ROA.
- DuPont equation: Saunders, Inc., has a ROE of 18.7 percent, an equity multiplier of 2.53, sales of $2.75 million, and a total assets turnover of 2.7 times. What is the firm's net income?
- DuPont equation: Andrade Corp has debt of $2,834,950, total assets of $5,178,235, sales of $8,234,121, and net income of $812,355. What is the firm's return on equity?
- Profitability ratios: Tigger Corp. has reported the financial results for year-end 2006. Based on the information given, calculate the firm's gross profit margin and operating profit margin. Net sales = $4,156,700 Net income = $778,321 Cost of goods sold = $2,715,334 EBIT = $1,356,098
- DuPont equation: GenTech Pharma has reported the following information: Sales/Total assets = 2.89; ROA = 10.74%; ROE = 20.36% What are the firm's profit margin and equity multiplier?
- Profitability ratio: Juventus Corp has total assets of $4,744,288, total debt of $2,912,000, and net sales of $7,212,465. Their net profit margin for the year is 18 percent. What is Juventus's ROA?
- Market-value ratios: Perez Electronics Corp. has reported that its net income for 2006 is $1,276,351. The firm has 420,000 shares outstanding and a P-E ratio of 11.2 times. What is the firm's share price?
- Market-value ratio: RTR Corp. has reported a net income of $812,425 for the year. The company's share price is $13.45, and the company has 312,490 shares outstanding. Compute the firm's price-earnings ratio.
- Leverage ratio: Dreisen Traders has total debt of $1,233,837 and total assets of $2,178,990. What are the firm's equity multiplier and debt-to-equity ratio?(Round to nearest whole percent)
- Leverage ratio: What will be a firm's equity multiplier given a debt ratio of 0.45?
- Leverage ratio: Your firm has an equity multiplier of 2.47. What is its debt-to-equity ratio?
- Coverage ratios: Fahr Company had depreciation expenses of $630,715, interest expenses of $112,078, and an EBIT of $1,542,833 for the year ended June 30, 2006. What are the times interest earned and cash coverage ratios for this company?
- Coverage ratios: Sectors, Inc., has an EBIT of $7,221,643 and interest expense of $611,800. Its depreciation for the year is $1,434,500. What is its cash coverage ratio?
- Coverage ratio: Trident Corp. has debt of $3.35 million with an interest rate of 6.875 percent. The company has an EBIT of $2,766,009. What is its times interest earned?
- Efficiency ratio: Deutsche Bearings has total sales of $9,745,923, inventories of $2,237,435, cash and equivalents of $755,071, and days' sales outstanding of 49 days. If the firm's management wanted its DSO to be 35 days, by how much will the accounts receivable have to change?
- Efficiency ratio: Ellicott City Manufacturers, Inc., has sales of $6,344,210, and a gross profit margin of 67.3 percent. What is the firm's cost of goods sold?
- Efficiency ratio: Jet, Inc., has net sales of $712,478 and accounts receivables of $167,435. What are the firm's accounts receivables turnover and days' sales outstanding?
- Efficiency ratio: Ellicott City Manufacturers, Inc., has sales of $6,344,210, and a gross profit margin of 67.3 percent. What is the firm's cost of goods sold?
- Efficiency ratio: Gateway Corp. has an inventory turnover ratio of 5.6. What is the firm's days' sales in inventory?
- Efficiency ratio: Jason Traders has sales of $833,587, a gross profit margin of 32.4 percent, and inventory of $178,435. What is the company's inventory turnover ratio?