Refer to Nabisco Companys financial information in Exercises 13-6 and 13-8. Additional information about the company follows.

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Refer to Nabisco Company’s financial information in Exercises 13-6 and 13-8. Additional information about the company follows. To help evaluate the company’s profitability, compute and interpret the following ratios for 2010 and 2009:

(1) Return on common stockholders’ equity,

(2) Price-earnings ratio on

December 31, and

(3) Dividend yield.

Common stock market price, December 31, 2010 . . . . . . . $30.00

Common stock market price, December 31, 2009 . . . . . . . . 28.00

Annual cash dividends per share in 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.28

Annual cash dividends per share in 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.24


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Managerial Accounting

ISBN: 978-0073379586

2010 Edition

Authors: John J. Wild, Ken W. Shaw

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