Comparative financeial statement data of Sanfield Optical Mart follow: Other information: 1. Market price of Sanfield common
Question:
Other information:
1. Market price of Sanfield common stock: $89.38 at December 31, 2016, and $85.67 at December 31, 2015
2. Common shares outstanding: 15,000 during 2016 and 10,000 during 2015
3. All sales on credit
Requirements
1. Compute the following ratios for 2016 and 2015:
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) Sanfield's financial position improved or deteriorated during 2016 and (b) whether the investment attractiveness of Sanfield's common stock appears to have increased or decreased.
3. How will what you learned in this problem help you evaluate an investment?
Cash conversion cycle measures the total time a business takes to convert its cash on hand to produce, pay its suppliers, sell to its customers and collect cash from its customers. The process starts with purchasing of raw materials from suppliers,...
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Financial Accounting
ISBN: 978-0134127620
11th edition
Authors: Walter Harrison, Charles Horngren, William Thomas, Wendy Tietz