Due date: On Wednesday at 11:00p.m. Each one at least 100 words. Discuss how financial ratios facilitate financial analysis, and be able to compute and use them to analyze a firm’s performance. Describe the DuPont system of analysis and be able to use it to evaluate a firm’s performance and identify corrective actions that may be necessary. Explain what benchmarks are, describe how they are prepared, and discuss why they are important in financial statement analysis. What are some qualitative factors analysts should consider when evaluating a company’s likely future financial performance? What are some potential problems and limitations of financial ratio analysis? Due date: On Thursday at 9:00p.m. 4-1 DAYS SALES OUTSTANDING Baker Brothers has a DSO of 40 days, and its annual sales are $7,300,000. What is its accounts receivable balance? Assume that it uses a 365-day year. 4-2 DEBT RATIO Bartley Barstools has an equity multiplier of 2.4, and its assets are financed with some combination of long-term debt and common equity. What is its debt-to-assets ratio? 4-3 DuPONT ANALYSIS Doublewide Dealers has an ROA of 10%, a 2% profit margin, and an ROE of 15%. What is its total assets turnover? What is its equity multiplier? 4-4 MARKET/BOOK RATIO Jaster Jets has $10 billion in total assets. Its balance sheet shows $1 billion in current liabilities, $3 billion in long-term debt, and $6 billion in common equity. It has 800 million shares of common stock outstanding, and its stock price is $32 per share. What is Jaster’s market/book ratio? 4-5 PRICE/EARNINGS RATIO A company has an EPS of $2.00, a book value per share of $20, and a market/book ratio of 1.2×. What is its P/E ratio? 4-6 DuPONT AND ROE A firm has a profit margin of 2% and an equity multiplier of 2.0. Its sales are $100 million, and it has total assets of $50 million. What is its ROE? Intermediate Problems 7–18 4-7 DuPONT AND NET INCOME Ebersoll Mining has $6 million in sales, its ROE is 12%, and its total assets turnover is 3.2×. The company is 50% equity financed, and it has no preferred stock outstanding. What is its net income? 4-8 BASIC EARNING POWER Duval Manufacturing recently reported the following information: Net income $600,000 ROA 8% Interest expense $225,000 Duval’s tax rate is 35%. What is its basic earning power (BEP) ratio? 4-9 M/B AND SHARE PRICE You are given the following information: Stockholders’ equity = $3.75 billion, price/earnings ratio = 3.5, common shares outstanding = 50 million, and market/book ratio = 1.9. Calculate the price of a share of the company’s common stock. 4-10 RATIO CALCULATIONS Assume the following relationships for the Brauer Corp.: Sales/Total assets 1.5× Return on assets (ROA) 3.0% Return on equity (ROE) 5.0% Calculate Brauer’s profit margin and debt-to-assets ratio assuming the firm uses only debt and common equity. ...