Exercise 09-15 Return on investment LO A1, A2 ZNet Co. is a web-based retail company. The company reports the following for the past year. Sales $ 5,000,000 Operating income 1,000,000 Average invested assets 12,500,000 The company’s CEO believes that sales for next year will increase by 20% and both profit margin (%) and the level of average invested assets will be the same as for the past year. 1. Compute return on investment for the past year. 2. Compute profit margin for the past year. 3. If the CEO’s forecast is correct, what will return on investment equal for next year? 4. If the CEO’s forecast is correct, what will investment turnover equal for next year?

Steele bicycle manufacturing company currently produces the handlebars used in manufacturing its bicycles, which are high-quality racing bikes with limited sales. steele produces and sells only 10,000 bikes each year. due to the low volume of activity, steele is unable to obtain the economies of scale that larger producers achieve. for example, steele could buy the handlebars for $31 each: they cost $34 each to make. the following is a detailed breakdown of current production costs: after seeing these figures, steele's president remarked that it would be foolish for the company to continue to produce the handlebars at $34 each when it can buy them for $31 each. calculate the total relevant cost. do you agree with the president's conclusion?

The rybczynski theorem describes: (a) how commodity price changes influence real factor rewards (b) how commodity price changes influence relative factor rewards. (c) how changes in factor endowments cause changes in commodity outputs. (d) how trade leads to factor price equalization.

Adisadvantage of corporations is that shareholders have to pay on profits.