The Financial Statements of Snapit Company Are Given Below

question 10

Multiple Choice

The financial statements of Snapit Company are given below. $\begin{array}{c} \text { Snapit Company } \\\text { Income Statement (2009) }\\\begin{array}{lrr} \hline \text { Sales } & \$ 4,000,000 \\\text { Cost of goods sold } & \underline {3,040,000} \\\text { Gross profit } & 960,000 \\\text { Selling \& administrative expenses } & \underline { 430,000} \\\text { Operating profit } & 530,000 \\\text { Interest expense } & \underline {160,000 }\\\text { Income before tax } & 370,000 \\\text { Tax expense } & \underline {148,000} \\ \text { Net income } & \underline {\$ 222,000} \\\end{array} \end{array}$
$\begin{array}{c}\begin{array}{lll} \text { Balance Sheet } &2009\\\\ \text { Cash } &\$ 60,000 \\ \text { Accounts receivable } & 550,000 \\ \text { Inventory } & \underline {690,000} \\ \text {Total current assets } &\$ 1,300,000 \\ \text {Fixed assets } & \underline {1,300,000} \\ \text { Total assets } & \underline {\$ 2,600,000} \\\\ \text { Accounts Payable } &\$ 270,000 \\ \text { Bank loan } & \underline {580,000 } \\ \text { Total current liabilities } & \$ 850,000 \\ \text {Bond payable } & \underline { 900,000} \\ \text { Total liabilities } & \underline {\$ 1,750,000 }\\ \text { Common stock ( 130,000 shares) } & \$ 2500,000 \\ \text {Retained earnings } & \underline {600,000}\\ \text { Total liabilities \& equity } & \underline {\$ 2,600,000} \\\end{array}\begin{array}{lll}2008\\\\\$ 50,000 \\500,000 \\ \underline { 620,000 }\\ \$ 1,170,000 \\ \underline { 1,230,000} \\ \underline { \$ 2,400,000 }\\\\\$ 250,000 \\ \underline { 500,000 } \\ \$ 750,000 \\ \underline {1,000,000} \\ \underline {\$ 1,750,000 }\\\$ 250,000\\ \underline {400,000} \\ \underline { \$ 2,400,000 } \\\end{array}\end{array}$
Note: The common shares are trading in the stock market for $100 each. Refer to the financial statements of Snapit Company. The firm's times interest earned ratio for 2009 is

• A) 2.26.
• B) 3.16.
• C) 3.84.
• D) 3.31.
• E) None of the options are correct.

---

Definitions:

Dollar Sales

Total revenue generated from the sale of goods or services, expressed in dollars.

Mixed Cost

A cost that contains both variable and fixed cost elements.

High-low Method

A technique in managerial accounting used to estimate the variable and fixed cost components of a cost formula, analyzing the highest and lowest levels of activity.

Scattergraph

A graphical method used in statistics to display the values of two variables for a set of data, helping to identify the relationship between them.