Managerial Accounting
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Author: Stacey M Whitecotton Associate Professor, Robert Libby, Fred Phillips Associate Professor
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Chapter 13, Problem 5.2GAP
To determine
Introduction:
Ratio analysis, horizontal analysis and vertical analysis are the analytical tools used by the analyst to measure the financial performance of the company. They are used to compare the performance of a company over a period of time.
To compare:
The liquidity of the given companies and stating the ratios used to arrive at this decision.
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Interpreting liquidity and activity ratios The table, shows key financial data for three firms that compete in the consumer products market: Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, and Clorox.
a. Calculate each of the following ratios for all three companies: current ratio, quick ratio, inventory turnover, average collection period, total asset turnover.
b. What company is in the position of having greatest liquidity?
c. Would you say that the three companies exhibit similar performance or quite different performance in terms of collecting receivables? Why do you think that might be?
d. Which company has the most rapid inventory turnover? Which company appears to be least efficient in terms of total asset turnover? Are your answers to those questions a little surprising? If a company is best at inventory turnover and worst at total asset turnover, what do
you think that means?
a. For the three companies, the current ratios are: (Round to three decimal places.)
Colgate-Palmolive
Current…
Sales
Cost of goods sold
Receivable
Inventory
Procter & Gamble
$65,235
32,973
4,732
4,795
25,568
28,901
117,030
Total current assets
Total current liabilities
Total assets
(Note: All dollar values are in thousands.)
Colgate-Palmolive
$15,208
6,077
1,415
1,173
4,348
3,291
12,134
Clorox
$5,873
3,227
517
500
1,544
2,043
4,579
5. Profitability ratios
Profitability ratios help in the analysis of the combined impact of liquidity ratios, asset management ratios, and debt management ratios on the
operating performance of a firm.
Your boss has asked you to calculate the profitability ratios of Diusitech Inc. and make comments on its second-year performance as compared with its
first-year performance.
The following shows Diusitech Inc.'s income statement for the last two years. The company had assets of $4,700 million in the first year and $7,518
million in the second year. Common equity was equal to $2,500 million in the first year, and the company distributed 100% of its earnings out as
dividends during the first and the second years. In addition, the firm did not issue new stock during either year.
Diusitech Inc. Income Statement For the Year Ending on December 31 (Millions of dollars)
Year 2 Year 1
2,540
2,000
1,610
1,495
127
80
1,737
803
80
723
181
542
Net Sales
Operating costs except depreciation and…
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Managerial Accounting
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