James will make sure that he will consider ______________ in working out the financial plan for his firm sometime next week.

I. the net working capital needs

II. the products to be sold in Mexico

III. the employees to be hired locally

IV. the customers to whom the firm's products are sold

Bob is planning on buying shares of Facebook stock, he might be more interested in knowing the firm's ______________ ratios.

• return on equity and price-earnings

• return on assets and profit margin

• long-term debt and times interest earned

• price-earnings and debt-equity

• market-to-book and times interest earned

To enable his determination of the amount of fixed assets that is required to support each dollar of sales for his firm, Dave has to collect information related to the firm's :

I. current amount of current assets

II. current level of current liabilities

III. current level of interest expenses

IV. maximum sales over the past 10 year sales

• I, II, and III only

• II, III, and IV only

• I, II, III, and IV

• none of the given options is required

• I and III only