Attached are the financial statements for Smith Company, Inc. Use the financial statements to answer the questions below

• Calculate and interpret the return on assets using the Dupont Method for the four years of data.
• Calculate and interpret the return on equity using the Modified Dupont Method all four years of data.

Information for calculating the ROA and ROE using the Dupont Method for three competitors to Smith Company, Inc. is also provided below.

Format Table

(2018)	Competitor 1	Competitor 2	Competitor 3
Net Profit Margin	0.082	0.11	0.03
Total Asset Turnover	0.88	0.9	0.55
ROA	0.07216	0.099	0.0165
FLM	3.3	2.5	5.5
ROE	0.238128	0.2475	0.09075

NOTE: The five-factor DuPont method is as follows:

= Tax Burden * Interest Burden * Operating Margin * Asset Turnover * Equity Multiplier