You are analyzing two companies that manufacture electronic toys-Like Games Inc. and Our Play Inc. Like Games was launched eight years ago, whereas Our Play is a relatively new company that has been in operation for only the past two years. However, both companies have an equal market share with sales of $200,000 each. You've collected company data to compare Like Games and Our Play. Last year, the average sales for all industry competitors was $510,000. As an analyst, you want to make comments on the expected performance of these two companies in the coming year. You've collected data from the companies financial statements. This information is listed as follows: (Note: Assume there are 365 days in a year.) Accounts receivable Net fixed assets Total assets Data Collected (in dollars) Like Games Our Play Industry Average 5,400 7,800 7,700 110,000 160,000 433,500 190,000 250,000 469,200 Using this information, complete the following statements to include in your analysis. 1. A days of sales outstanding represents an efficient credit and collection policy. Between the two companies, cash from its customers faster than is collecting ,,but both companies are collecting their receivables less quickly than the industry average. than that of Like Games. This could be because Our Play is a relatively new company, so the than the recorded cost of Like Games's net fixed assets. which is than the industry's average total assets turnover ratio. In general, a 2. Our Play's fixed assets turnover ratio is acquisition cost of its fixed assets is 3. Like Games's total assets turnover ratio is higher total assets turnover ratio indicates greater efficiency.

Last year, Company A reported profits of about $47 billion on sales of $282 billion. For that same period, Company B posted a profit of about $22 billion on sales of $113 billion. So Company A is a better marketer, right? Sales and profits provide information to compare the profitability of these two competitors, but between these numbers is information regarding the efficiency of marketing efforts in creating those sales and profits. Using the following information from the companies' income statements (all numbers are in thousands), calculate profit margin, net marketing contribution, marketing return on sales (or marketing ROS), and marketing return on investment (or marketing ROI) for each company. Hint: See the Marketing Profitability Metrics section of Appendix 3: Marketing By The Numbers in your textbook. Sales Gross Profit Company A $281,822,000 $66,558,000 $8,264,050 $46,962,000 Profit Margin Marketing Expenses Net Income (Profit) Fill in the table below. (Round the NMC to the…

Jill Barksalot owns Jill's Jams, a condiment conglomerate focused on world dominance. She sells a variety of jellies and jams that are just to die for mwhahaha. Using the provided data on her last several years of sales, prepare a statement of trend percentages using 2017 as the base year.  (in millions)  2017 2018 2019 2020 Sales             13,241          14,122            11,957              13,244 Cost of goods sold               8,987             9,534              8,272                9,101 Gross margin               4,254             4,588              3,685                4,143     2017    2018      2019 2020 Sales         Cost of Goods Sold         Gross Margin

Charle's Furniture Store has been In business for several years. The firm's owners have described the store as a "high-price, high- service" operatlon that provides lots of assistance to Its customers. Margin has averaged a relatively high 29% per year for several years, but turnover has been a relatively low 0.6 based on average total assets of $800,000. A discount furniture Store is about to open in the area served by Charlie's, and management Is considering lowering prices to compete effectively. Required: a. Calculate current sales and ROI for Charlie's Furniture Store. b. Assuming that the new strategy would reduce margin to 20%, and assuming that average total assets would stay the same, calculate the sales that would be required to have the same ROl as Charlie's currently earns. c. Suppose you presented the results of your analysis in parts a and b of this problem to Charle, and he replied, "What are you telling me? If I reduce my prices as planned, then I have to Increase my…

You are trying to prepare financial statements for Bartlett Pickle Company, but seem to be missing its balance sheet. You have Bartlett's income statement, which shows sales last year were $300 million with a gross profit margin of 30 percent. You also know that credit sales equaled three-quarters of Bartlett's total revenues last year. In adlon, Bartlett had a collection period of 40 days, a payables period of 30 days, and an inventory turnover of 7 times based on cost of oods sold. Calculate Bartlett's year-ending balance for accounts receivable, inventory, and accounts payable. Note: Round your answers to 1 decimal place. Bartlett's year-ending balance (million) Accounts receivable Inventory Accounts payable BV3

[The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] Mears and Company has been operating for five years as an electronics component manufacturer specializing in cellular phone components. During this period, it has experienced rapid growth in sales revenue and in inventory. Mr. Mears and his associates have hired you as Mears's first corporate controller. You have put into place new purchasing and manufacturing procedures that are expected to reduce inventories by approximately one-third by year-end. You have gathered the following data related to the changes: Inventory (dollars in thousands) Beginning of Year $585,700 End of Year (projected) $392,310 Current Year Cost of goods sold P7-7 Part 1 (projected) $7,018,984 Required: 1. Compute the inventory turnover ratio based on two different assumptions: Note: Round your answers to 1 decimal place. a. Those presented in the above table (a decrease in the balance in inventory). b. No change from the beginning-of-the-year…

Treynor Pie Company is a food company specializing in high-calorie snack foods. It is seeking to diversify its food business and lower its risks. It is examining three companies—a gourmet restaurant chain, a baby food company, and a nutritional products firm. Each of these companies can be bought at the same multiple of earnings. The following represents information about all the companies.   Company Correlation withTreynor PieCompany Sales($ millions) Expected Earnings($ millions) Standard Deviationin Earnings($ millions) Treynor Pie Company +1.0 $ 151 $ 8 $4.0                 Gourmet restaurant +0.6 63 7 1.2                 Baby food company +0.3 59 3 1.9                 Nutritional products company −0.8 75 5 3.4                   a-1. Compute the coefficient of variation for each of the four companies. (Enter your answers in millions (e.g., $100,000 should be entered as ".10"). Round your answers to 3 decimal places.)         a-2. Which company is the least risky?…

Ready Electronics is facing stiff competition from imported goods. Its operating income margin has been declining steadily for the past several years. The company has been forced to lower prices so that it can maintain its market share. The operating results for the past 3 years are as follows: Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Sales 14,500,000 9,500,000 9,000,000 Operating income 1,200,000 1,145,000 945,000 Average assets 15,000,000 15,000,000 16,750,000 For the coming year, Ready's president plans to install a JIT purchasing and manufacturing system. She estimates that inventories will be reduced by 70% during the first year of operations, producing a 20% reduction in the average operating assets of the company, which would remain unchanged without the JIT system. She also estimates that sales and operating income will be restored to Year 1 levels because of simultaneous reductions in operating expenses and selling prices. Lower selling prices will allow Ready to expand its market share. 1.…