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a. Affiliate has the highest return on sales
Personal Foreign
Net income Software Computer Operation
Sales 5.0% 3.3% 8.0%
The foreign operation affiliate has the highest return on sales.
b. Affiliate has the lowest return on assets
Personal Foreign
Net income Software Computers Operations
total assets 40.0% 8.0% 13.3%
The personal computers affiliate has the lowest return on assets.
c. Affiliate has the highest total asset turnover
Personal Foreign
Sales Sofetware Computers Operations
total assets 8.0 2.4 1.7
The software affiliate has the highest total asset turnover.
d. affiliate has the highest return on stockholders’ equity
Personal Foreign
Net income Software Computers Operations
Stockholders ' equity 50.0% 20.0% 16.0%
The Software affiliate has the highest return on stockholders’ equity.
e. affiliate has the highest debt ratio
Personal Foreign
Debt Software Computer Operations
Total Assets 20.0% 60.0% 16.7%
The Personal computers has the highest debt/total assets ratio.
f. This is because of its high total turnover ratio of 8.0x times in part c.
g. This is because of the personal computers affiliate has a higher debt ratio (60.0%) than foreign
operations affiliate (16.7%).