Check my work check my work button is now enabled4item 15item 15 0.5 points time remaining 2 hours 48 minutes 6 seconds02: 48: 06 this exercise is built around whole foods market’s financial statements from the chapter. average common shareholders’ equity for 2012 was $3.397 billion, and a 40% income tax rate should be used as needed. refer to exhibits 5.1 and 5.6 from the chapter. required: whole foods earned an roa of 9.7% in 2012. what was roce that year? (round your answer to 1 decimal place.) roa at the company fell to 9.4% in 2015. what was roce that year? (round your answer to 1 decimal place.) did financial leverage or hurt whole foods market in 2015?

Acme published a story about paul and as a result paul sued acme for damage to his reputation, emotional distress, and punitive damages. paul won an award of $20,000 for damages, $5,500 for emotional distress, and $50,000 for punitive damages. what amount must paul include in his gross income

Consider a firm with a contract to sell an asset for $149,000 four years from now. the asset costs $85,000 to produce today. a. given a relevant discount rate of 14 percent per year, calculate the profit the firm will make on this asset. (a loss should be indicated by a minus sign. do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. at what rate does the firm just break even?

Make or buy eastside company incurs a total cost of $120,000 in producing 10,000 units of a component needed in the assembly of its major product. the component can be purchased from an outside supplier for $11 per unit. a related cost study indicates that the total cost of the component includes fixed costs equal to 50% of the variable costs involved. a. should eastside buy the component if it cannot otherwise use the released capacity? present your answer in the form of differential analysis. use negative sign represent a net disadvantage answer; otherwise do not use negative signs with your answers. cost from outside supplier $answer variable costs avoided by purchasing answer net advantage (disadvantage) to purchase alternative $answer b. what would be your answer to requirement (a) if the released capacity could be used in a project that would generate $50,000 of contribution margin? use negative sign represent a net disadvantage answer; otherwise do not use negative signs with your answers.