Selected Current Year End Financial Information for a Company Is

question 108

Essay

Selected current year end financial information for a company is presented below.Calculate the following company ratios:
(a)Profit margin.
(b)Total asset turnover.
(c)Return on total assets.
(d)Return on common stockholders' equity (assume the company has no preferred stock).
Net income……………………………….. $ 325,000
Net sales………………………………….. 4,700,000
Total liabilities,beginning-year………….. 550,000
Total liabilities,end-of-year……………… 530,000
Total stockholders' equity,beginning-year. 760,000
Total stockholders' equity,end-of-year….. 745,000

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Definitions:

Economies of Scale

Cost benefits that companies gain from their operation size, where the cost for each unit of production typically falls as the scale expands.

Constant Returns to Scale

A situation in production where increasing all inputs by a certain factor results in output increasing by the same factor.

Average Total Cost

The total cost divided by the quantity of output produced; it includes all variable and fixed costs.

Minimum Efficient Scale

The smallest scale of production at which long-run average total costs are minimized.