Wild and Shaw Financial and Managerial Accounting 9e Solutions Manual: Chapter 13
Exercise 13-4 (25 minutes)
Analysis:
Cost of goods sold increase is most responsible for the income decline.
There is substantial decline in net income as a percent of sales for the current
Exercise 13-5 (25 minutes)
Answer: Net income decreased.
Supporting calculations: When the sum of each year’s common-size cost of
goods sold and operating expenses is subtracted from the common-size sales
percent, the net income percent is as follows:
2 Years Ago net income percent: 100.0 – 59.1 – 15.1 = 25.8% of sales
Next, if 2 Years Ago sales are assumed to be $100, then sales from 1 Year Ago
are $104.20 and the sales from the Current Year are $105.40. If the net income
percents for the three years are applied to these amounts, the net incomes are: