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1.
Taxes are among the expenditures on an income statement.
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True. Taxes are subtracted from income.
2.
If a company with a beta of 3.0 is expected to get a return of 15 percent, what can we expect the return of the overall market to be?
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5 percent. A beta of three indicates three times the earnings possibility of the overall market. Thus, the overall market's return would be only one-third that of our company.
3.
Which source of company information includes the costs of producing the company's goods?
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The income statement. This statement includes income and costs.
4.
If a stock's market price at the moment is $100 per share, and its net earnings for the past 12 months are $5 per share, what is the stock's price/earnings ratio?
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$20. Divide market price ($100) by net earnings ($5) to get the price/earnings ratio (20).
5.
If Wilma's Widgets, Inc., earns $5 million after taxes and makes $10 million in sales, what is its net profit margin?
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50 percent. Net profit margin is earnings after taxes divided by sales. In the case of Wilma's Widgets, Inc., that amounts to 0.5, or 50 percent.
6.
There are reasons why a low price-to-book ratio may not be a good thing for investors. Which of the following is not one of those reasons?
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The company is earning a high return on its assets. This is actually a good thing for investors.
7.
Fixed asset turnover measures _______.
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The amount of sales a company generates from its fixed assets. It is used as a measure of sales success.