Comparative financial statement data of Hamden Optical Mart follow: Other information: 1. Market price of Hamden common
Question:
Other information:
1. Market price of Hamden common stock: $102.17 at December 31, 2012, and $77.01 at December 31, 2011
2. Common shares outstanding: 18,000 during 2012 and 17,500 during 2011
3. All sales on credit
Requirements
1. Compute the following ratios for 2012 and 2011:
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) (round 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) Hamdens financial position improved or deteriorated during 2012 and (b) the investment attractiveness of Hamdens common stock appears to have increased or decreased.
3. How will what you learned in this problem help you evaluate aninvestment?
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: 978-0132751124
9th edition
Authors: Walter T. Harrison Jr., Charles T. Horngren, C. William Thom