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The annual sales for Salco, Inc. were $4.57 million last year. The firm's end-of-year balance sheet was as follows:
Current assets
$509,000
Liabilities
$997,000
Net fixed assets
1,485,000
Owners' equity
997,000
Total Assets
$1,994,000
Total
$1,994,000
Salco's income statement for the year was as follows:
Sales
$4,570,000
Less: Cost of goods sold
(3,492,000)
Gross profit
$1,078,000
Less: Operating expenses
\(503,000)
Net operating income
$575,000
Less: Interest expense
(97,000)
Earnings before taxes
$478,000
Less: Taxes
(35%)
(167,300)
Net income
$310,700
a. Calculate Salco's total asset turnover, operating profit margin, and operating return on assets. b. Salco plans to renovate one of its plants and the renovation will require an added investment in plant and equipment of $1.03 million. The firm will maintain its present debt ratio of 50 percent when financing the new investment and expects sales to remain constant. The operating profit margin will rise to 13.5 percent. What will be the new operating return on assets ratio (i.e., net operating income divided by ÷total assets) for Salco after the plant's renovation? c. Given that the plant renovation in part (b ) occurs and Salco's interest expense rises by $52,000 per year, what will be the return earned on the common stockholders' investment? Compare this rate of return with that earned before the renovation. Based on this comparison, did the renovation have a favorable effect on the profitability of the firm?
total asset turnover | sales/total of assets | 4570000/1994000 | 2.29 | |
operating profit margin | operating profit/sales | 575000/4570000 | 12.58% | |
operating return on assets | operating profit/sales | 575000/1994000 | 28.84% | |
New operating profit margin | 575000*(1.135) | 652625 | ||
operating return on assets | 652625/3024000 | 21.58% | ||
new level of total assets after renovation | 1994000+1030000 | 3024000 | ||
before renovation | after renovation | |||
Operating profit | 575000 | 652625 | ||
less interest expense | 97000 | 149000 | ||
profit before tax | 478000 | 503625 | ||
les tax-35% | 167300 | 176268.8 | ||
net income | 310700 | 327356.3 | ||
total of equity | 997000 | 1512000 | ||
ROE = net income/total of equity | 31.16% | 21.65% | ||
total of equity = total assets-total of liabilities | 997000 | 997000+(1030000/2) | 1512000 | |
No this renovation does not results in favorable effect on profitability of the company |