1. Compute the following ratios for 2016 and 2015:
a. Current ratio
b. Quick (acid-test) ratio
c. Receivables turnover and days’ sales outstanding (DSO) (round to the nearest whole
day)
d. Inventory turnover and days’ inventory outstanding (DIO) (round to the nearest whole
day)
e. Accounts payable turnover and days’ payable outstanding (DPO) (use cost of goods
sold in the numerator of the turnover ratio and round DPO to the nearest whole day).
f. Cash conversion cycle (in days)
g. Times-interest-earned ratio
h. Return on assets (use DuPont Analysis)
i. Return on common stockholders’ equity (use DuPont Analysis)
j. Earnings per share of common stock
k. Price-earnings ratio
2. Decide whether (a) Sanfield’s financial position improved or deteriorated during 2016
and (b) whether the investment attractiveness of Sanfield’s common stock appears to
have increased or decreased.
3. How will what you learned in this problem help you evaluate an investment?