Corporate Financial Accounting
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Chapter 5, Problem 5.3ADM
Kroger: Asset turnover ratio
The Kroger Company, a national supermarket chain, reported the following data (in millions) in its financial statements for a recent year:
Total sales | $108,465 |
Total assets: | |
Beginning of year | 29,281 |
End of year | 30,556 |
- A. Compute the asset turnover ratio. (Round to two decimal places.)
- B. Tiffany & Co. is a large North American retailer of jewelry. Tiffany’s asset turnover ratio is 0.92. Why would Tiffany’s asset turnover ratio be lower than that of Kroger?
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