Problem 13-2B (Concluded)
Part 3
Balance Sheet Data in Trend Percents
December 31, 2015, 2014, and 2013
Current assets ………………………………..……
Long-term investments …………………..……
Plant assets …………………………………………
Total assets …………………………………………
Current liabilities …………………………….……
Common stock ……………………………….……
Other paid in capital ……………………….….
Retained earnings …………………………..
Total liabilities and equity ……………….……
Part 4
Significant relations revealed
Bluegrass’s cost of goods sold took a larger percent of sales each year.
Selling and administrative expenses and income taxes took a somewhat
smaller portion each year, but not enough to offset the effect of cost of
goods sold. As a result, income became a smaller percent of sales each
year.
The large expansion of plant assets in 2014 was financed by a reduction in
current assets, an increase in current liabilities, a large reduction in long–
term investments, and apparently by a stock sale. One effect of this plan
was to reduce the current ratio. However, the current ratio recovered in
2015. This apparently resulted from profits, limiting the amount of