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Keller Cosmetics maintains an operating profit margin of 8% and asset turnover ratio of 2.If its debt-equity ratio is 1, its interest payments and taxes are each $8,700, and EBIT is $23,500, what is its ROE? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a whole percent.)
20%
Working:
| a. | Sales | = | EBIT/Operating profit margin | = | $ 23,500 | / | 8% | = | $ 2,93,750 | |||
| EBIT is operating profit. | ||||||||||||
| b. | Assets | = | Sales /Assets Turnover | |||||||||
| = | $ 2,93,750 | / 2 | ||||||||||
| = | $ 1,46,875 | |||||||||||
| c. | Debt-Equity ratio | = | 1 | |||||||||
| It means, | ||||||||||||
| Liability | = | Equity | ||||||||||
| As per Balance Sheet equation, | ||||||||||||
| Assets | = | Liability + Equity | ||||||||||
| or, | ||||||||||||
| Assets | = | Equity + Equity | (Laibility is equal to Equity as per debt-equity ratio) | |||||||||
| or, | ||||||||||||
| Assets | = | 2 Equity | ||||||||||
| or, | ||||||||||||
| Equity | = | Assets /2 | ||||||||||
| or, | ||||||||||||
| Equity | = | $ 1,46,875 | /2 | |||||||||
| or, | ||||||||||||
| Equity | = | $ 73,438 | ||||||||||
| d. | EBIT | $ 23,500 | ||||||||||
| Less:Interest and Taxes | $ 8,700 | |||||||||||
| Net Income | $ 14,800 | |||||||||||
| e. | Return on equity | = | Net Income/Equity | |||||||||
| = | $ 14,800 | / | $ 73,438 | |||||||||
| = | 20% | |||||||||||