Following the birth of his first child, bill simpson, a software designer for microsoft, wished to spend more time with his family. he asked his employer if he could perform a portion of his work at home and come into the office only tuesday through thursday. microsoft allowed it. by allowing bill to work at home on mondays and fridays, microsoft practices as a motivational technique.

Pettijohn inc. the balance sheet and income statement shown below are for pettijohn inc. note that the firm has no amortization charges, it does not lease any assets, none of its debt must be retired during the next 5 years, and the notes payable will be rolled over. balance sheet (millions of $) assets 2016 cash and securities $ 1,554.0 accounts receivable 9,660.0 inventories 13,440.0 total current assets $24,654.0 net plant and equipment 17,346.0 total assets $42,000.0 liabilities and equity accounts payable $ 7,980.0 notes payable 5,880.0 accruals 4,620.0 total current liabilities $18,480.0 long-term bonds 10,920.0 total debt $29,400.0 common stock 3,360.0 retained earnings 9,240.0 total common equity $12,600.0 total liabilities and equity $42,000.0 income statement (millions of $) 2016 net sales $58,800.0 operating costs except depr'n $54,978.0 depreciation $ 1,029.0 earnings bef int and taxes (ebit) $ 2,793.0 less interest 1,050.0 earnings before taxes (ebt) $ 1,743.0 taxes $ 610.1 net income $ 1,133.0 other data: shares outstanding (millions) 175.00 common dividends $ 509.83 int rate on notes payable 1. what is the firm's current ratio? (points : 6) 0.97 1.08 1.20 1.33 2. what is the firm's quick ratio? (points : 6) 0.49 0.61 0.73 0.87 3. what is the firm's total assets turnover? (points : 6) 0.90 1.12 1.40 1.68 4. what is the firm's inventory turnover ratio? (points : 6) 4.38 4.59 4.82 5.06 5. what is the firm's debt ratio? (points : 6) 45.93% 51.03% 56.70% 70.00% 6. what is the firm's roa? (points : 6) 2.70% 2.97% 3.26% 3.59% 7. what is the firm's roe? (points : 6) 8.54% 8.99% 9.44% 9.91%

< back to assignment attempts: 1 1 keep the highest: 1 / 2 2. determining opportunity cost juanita is deciding whether to buy a suit that she wants, as well as where to buy it. three stores carry the same suit, but it is more convenient for juanita to get to some stores than others. for example, she can go to her local store, located 15 minutes away from where she works, and pay a marked-up price of $102 for the suit: store travel time each way price of a suit (minutes) (dollars per suit) local department store 15 102 across town 30 88 neighboring city 60 65 juanita makes $42 an hour at work. she has to take time off work to purchase her suit, so each hour away from work costs her $42 in lost income. assume that returning to work takes juanita the same amount of time as getting to a store and that it takes her 30 minutes to shop. as you answer the following questions, ignore the cost of gasoline and depreciation of her car when traveling. complete the following table by computing the opportunity cost of juanita's time and the total cost of shopping at each location. store opportunity cost of time price of a suit total cost (dollars) (dollars per suit) (dollars) local department store 102 across town 88 neighboring city 65 assume that juanita takes opportunity costs and the price of the suit into consideration when she shops. juanita will minimize the cost of the suit if she buys it from the . grade it now save & continue continue without saving

Warner inc. sells a high-speed retrieval system for mining information. it provides the following information for the year. budgeted actual overhead cost $965,700 $905,000 machine hours 58,570 49,200 direct labor hours 107,300 104,200 overhead is applied on the basis of direct labor hours. compute the predetermined overhead rate. predetermined overhead rate $ per direct labor hour link to text determine the amount of overhead applied for the year. the amount of overhead applied $