BYP14-3 As the CPA for Bonita Inc., you have been asked to develop some key ratios from the comparative financial statements. This information is to be used to convince creditors that the company is solvent and will continue as going concern. The data requested and the computations developed from the financial statements follow.

	2014	2013
Current ratio	3.4 times	2.1 times
Acid-test ratio	0.8 times	1.3 times
Asset turnover	2.6 times	2.2 times
Net income	Up 32%	Down 9%
Earnings per share	$3.20	$2.50

Instructions

With the class divided into groups, complete the following.

Bonita Inc. asks you to prepare a list of brief comments stating how each of these items support the solvency and going-concern potential of the business. The company wishes to use these comments to support its presentation of data to its creditors. You are to prepare a collective inference that may be drawn from the individual items about Bonitas solvency and going-concern potential

Source, Book: Managerial Accounting (sixth edition) - Weygandt - Kimmel - Kieso