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Rron Case

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a) Return on equity measures a company’s profitability by calculating how much profit a company generates with the money shareholders have invested. It is important to consider ROE and not just net income in dollar term because it helps for making comparisons among different investment amounts.

b) ROE uses shareholder’s investments to measure the effectiveness and profitability of the company. RNOA uses the total asset base invested by both creditors and shareholders to measure the effectiveness and profitability of the company. The portion of a company’s income that is resulting from activities not related to its core operations is called non-operating income. Non-operating income would include such items as dividend income, …show more content…

Even though RNOA for 2009 is greater than 2008 i.e. the operating income is greater for 2009 than for 2008, the ROE for 2008 is greater than ROE for 2009 because of non-operating income.

i) FLEV = Average net non-operating obligations / Average shareholder’s equity

Average net non-operating obligations:-
For 2009 = $2613
For 2008 = $2505

FLEV for 2009 = 2563 / 1391 = 1.84

FLEV for 2008 = 2505 / 1162 = 2.15

The FLEV is higher for 2008 than for 2009 which indicate that in 2008 there was comparatively more difficulty in paying interest and principal while obtaining more funding.

SPREAD = RNOA - Net non-operating expense Average net non-operating obligations

For 2009 = 0.133 - 525.87 – 441 = 0.09989 2563

For 2008 = 0.131 – 481.57 – 401 = 0.09884 2505

Verification:
For 2009, FLEV x Spread = 0.09989 x 1.84 = 18.4% = Non-operating return for 2009.
For 2008, FLEV x Spread = 0.09884 x 2.15 = 21.3% = Non-operating return for 2008

J) Nordstrom TJX
ROE 31.7% 48.3123%
RNOA 13.3% 38.2%
NOPM 6.09% 6.10%
NOAT 2.1818 6.2769
Non-operating return 18.4% 10.0237%
FLEV 1.84 0.2868

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