Which of the following is an appropriate goal for the firm?
A) profit maximization
B) revenue maximization
C) shareholder wealth maximization
D) tax minimization
Answer: C
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?