TABLE 14-5 A Microeconomist Wants to Determine How Corporate Sales Are Influenced

question 10

Multiple Choice

TABLE 14-5
A microeconomist wants to determine how corporate sales are influenced by capital and wage spending by companies. She proceeds to randomly select 26 large corporations and record information in millions of dollars. The Microsoft Excel output below shows results of this multiple regression.
-Referring to Table 14-5, one company in the sample had sales of $21.439 billion (Sales = 21,439) . This company spent $300 million on capital and $700 million on wages. What is the residual (in millions of dollars) for this data point?

• A) 790.69
• B) 648.31
• C) -648.31
• D) -790.69

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Definitions:

Inventory

The total amount of goods and materials a company holds for the purpose of resale or production, including raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods.

Profit Margin

A financial ratio that calculates the amount of net income earned with each dollar of sales by dividing net profit by total revenue.

ROE

Return on Equity, which measures a corporation's financial productivity, is computed by dividing the net income by the total equity of shareholders.

D/E Ratio

The debt-to-equity ratio, a measure of a company's financial leverage calculated by dividing its total liabilities by stockholders' equity.