The relationship between financial leverage and profitability pelican paper, inc., and timberland forest, inc., are rivals in the manufacture of craft papers. some financial statement values for each company follow use them in a ratio analysis that compares the firms' financial leverage and profitability. a. calculate the following debt and coverage ratios for the two companies. discuss their financial risk and ability to cover the costs in relation to each other. (1) debt ratio (2) times interest earned ratio b. calculate the following profitability ratios for the two companies. discuss their profitability relative to each other. (1) operating profit margin (2) net profit margin (3) return on total assets (4) return on common equity c. in what way has the larger debt of timberland forest made it more profitable than pelican paper? what are the risks that timberland's investors undertake when they choose to purchase its stock instead of pelican's?

You decide that structural changes must be made at holden evans immediately to deal with the additional product lines. equipment and employees will have to be moved around to optimize production of all of the products in house. this shouldn't be too difficult because many of the vitamins and supplements are produced using similar processes. you have several options available to facilitate this process. which of the following methods do you think is the best choice? select an option from the choices below and click submit. because the changes may result in the loss of several key employees, you hire outside consultants who specialize in hr law. this way any employee terminations will not result in lawsuits. you select an outside consulting firm that your company has never worked with before, but it has a reputation for using new technology in product lines that are similar to yours. you select several trusted managers to facilitate the transition of operations from overseas. these individuals can gather information and also smooth any rough spots that may occur.

For the past six years, the price of slippery rock stock has been increasing at a rate of 8.21 percent a year. currently, the stock is priced at $43.40 a share and has a required return of 11.65 percent. what is the dividend yield? 3.20 percent 2.75 percent 3.69 percent

Which of the following is not a characteristic of enterprise applications that cause challenges in implementation? a. they introduce "switching costs," making the firm dependent on the vendor. b. they cause integration difficulties as every vendor uses different data and processes. c. they are complex and time consuming to implement. d. they support "best practices" for each business process and function. e. they require sweeping changes to business processes to work with the software.