Financial Accounting (12th Edition) (What's New in Accounting)
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ISBN: 9780134725987
Author: C. William Thomas, Wendy M. Tietz, Walter T. Harrison Jr.
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 12, Problem 12.59AP
LO 4
(Learning Objective 4: Use ratios to evaluate a stock investment) Comparative financial statement data of Hamden Optical Mart follow:
Other information
- 1. Market price of Hamden Optical Mart common stock: $48.15 at December 31, 2018, and $39.96 at December 31, 2017
- 2. Common shares outstanding: 17,000 during 2018 and 16,000 during 2017
- 3. All sales on credit
- 4. Cash dividends paid per share: $1. 10 in 2018 and $0.80 in 2017
Requirements
- 1. Calculate the following ratios for 2018 and 2017:
- a.
Current ratio - b. Quick (acid-test) ratio
- c. Receivables turnover and days’ sales outstanding (DSO)-round to the nearest whole day
- d. Inventory turnover and days’ inventory outstanding (DIO)-round to the nearest whole day
- e. Accounts payable turnover and days’ payable outstanding (DPO)-use cost of goods sold in the numerator of the turnover ratio and round DPO to the nearest whole day
- f. Cash conversion cycle (in days)
- g. Times-interest-earned ratio
- h. Return on assets- use DuPont Analysis
- i. Return on common stockholders’ equity- use DuPont Analysis
- j. Earnings per share of common stock
- k. Price-earnings ratio
- 2. Decide whether (a) Hamden Optical Mart’s financial position improved or deteriorated during 2018 and (b) whether the investment attractiveness of the company’s common stock appears to have increased or decreased from 2017 to 2018.
- 3. How will what you learned in this problem help you evaluate an investment?
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Comparative financial statement data of Garfield, Inc. follow:
Market price of Garfield’s common stock: $69.36 at December 31, 2018, and $38.04 at December 31, 2017.
Common shares outstanding: 14,000 on December 31, 2018 and 12,000 on December 31, 2017 and 2016.
All sales are on credit.
Compute the following ratios for 2018 and 2017:
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2017
a. Current ratio
b. Cash ratio
c. Times-interest-earned ratio
d. Inventory turnover
e. Gross profit percentage
f. Debt to equity ratio
g. Rate of return on common stockholders’ equity
h. Earnings per share of common stock
i. Price/earnings ratio
Decide (a) whether Garfield’s ability to pay debts and to sell inventory improved or deteriorated during 2018 and (b) whether the investment attractiveness of its common stock appears to have increased or decreased.
Using ratios to evaluate a stock investment
Comparative financial statement data of Garfield Inc. follow:
Market price of Garfield’s common stock:$69.36 at December 31 2018 and $38.04 at December 31, 2017.
Common shares outstanding 14, 000 on December 31, 2018 and 12,000 on December 31 2017 and 2016.
All sales are on credit.
Requirements
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d. Inventory turnover
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g. Rate of return on common stockholder’s equity
h. Earnings per share of common stock
i. Price/earnings ratio
2. Decide (a) whether Garfield’s ability to pat debts and to sell inventory improved or deteriorated during 2018 and (b) whether the investment attractiveness of its common stock appears to have increased or decreased.
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