A company reports accounting data in its financial statements. This data is used for financial analyses that provide insights into a company's strengths, weaknesses, performance in specific areas, and trends in performance. These analyses are often used to compare a company's performance to that of its competitors, or to its past or expected future performance. Such insight helps managers and analysts improve their decision making. Consider the following scenario: You work as an analyst at a credit-rating agency, and you are comparing firms in the construction and engineering sector. One company in the portfolio of companies you are analyzing is a Chinese firm. This firm stands out in the ratio analysis, because the company's financial ratios are substantially lower than identical financial ratios of the other firms in the sector. You do not dissect the results of the ratio analysis and categorize report this firm as an under-performing company. Which of the following statements about your analysis report is true? The analysis likely includes incorrect and misleading conclusions. The ratios provide an accurate and thorough representation of the Chinese company's performance There are several groups of ratios most decision makers and analysts use to examine different aspects of a company's performance. Based on the descriptions of ratios listed, identify the relevant category of ratios. Ratios that help determine whether a company can access its cash and pay its debts that mature in less than a year are called ratios. These ratios, which help determine how efficiently a firm is using its assets to generate sales are called ratios. Ratios that help assess a company's ability to service the interest and repayment obligations on its long-term debt and the degree to which it uses borrowed versus invested financial capital are called ratios. ratios help measure a company's ability to generate income and profits based on its invested capital. ratios examine the market value of a company's share price, its profits and cash dividends, and the book value of the firm's assets and relate them to other data items to determine how the firm is perceived in the stock market. Ratio analysis is an important component of evaluating company performance. It can provide great insights into how a company matches up against itself over time and against other players within the industry. However, like many tools and techniques, ratio analysis has a few limitations and weaknesses. Which of the following statements represent a weakness or limitation of ratio analysis? Check all that apply. Seasonal factors can distort data. Window dressing might be in effect. Market data is not sufficiently considered. 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 Spandust Industries Inc. and make comments on its second-year performance as compared to its first-year performance. The following shows Spandust Industries Inc.'s income statement for the last two years. The company had assets of dollar4, 700 million in the first year and dollar7, 518 million in the second year. Common equity was equal to dollar2, 500 million in the first year, and the company distributed 100percentage 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. Calculate the profitability ratios of Spandust Industries Inc. in the following table. Convert all calculations to a percentage rounded to two decimal places. Decision makers and analysts look deeply into profitability ratios to identify trends in a company's profitability. Profitability ratios give insights into both the survivability of a company and the benefits that shareholders receive. Identify which of the following statements are true about profitability ratios. Check all that apply. If a company has a profit margin of 10percentage, it means that the company earned a net income of dollar0.10 for each dollar of sales. An increase in a company's earnings means that the profit margin is increasing. if a company's operating margin increases but its profit margin decreases, it could mean that the company paid more in interest or taxes. If a company issues new common shares but its net income does not increase, return on common equity will increase