Net sales, net income, and total assets for Urbana Shipping, Inc., for a five-year period follow: 1.

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Net sales, net income, and total assets for Urbana Shipping, Inc., for a five-year period follow:
Net sales, net income, and total assets for Urbana Shipping,

1. Compute trend percentages for each item for 2013 through 2016. Use 2012 as the base year and round to the nearest percent.
2. Compute the rate of return on net sales for 2014 through 2016, rounding to three decimal places. Explain what this means.
3. Compute asset turnover for 2014 through 2016. Explain what this means.
4. Use DuPont Analysis to compute rate of return on average total assets (ROA) for 2014 through 2016.
5. How does Urbana Shipping's return on net sales for 2016 compare with previous years? How does it compare with that of the industry? In the shipping industry, rates above 9% are considered good, and rates above 11% are outstanding.
6. Evaluate Urbana Shipping, Inc.'s, ROA for 2016, compared with previous years and against an 18% benchmark for the industry.

Asset Turnover
Asset turnover is sales divided by total assets. Important for comparison over time and to other companies of the same industry. This is a standard business ratio.
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Financial Accounting

ISBN: 978-0134127620

11th edition

Authors: Walter Harrison, Charles Horngren, William Thomas, Wendy Tietz

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