Financial Analyst and MS Excel Test

Your company sells products to customers in two cities, New York and San Francisco. You have been asked to calculate each product’s retail prices inclusive of sales taxes in these cities.

Specifically, you need to:

• Write formulas to calculate the retail prices, inclusive of sales tax, using the base price of each product.
• Make sure you reference cells A5 and B5 in your formulas.

Your task is to download the file ‘TaxInclusive-RawData.xlsx’ file and execute the request. When you have completed your work, save it in .xlsx format, then upload that file for evaluation.

Your company’s accounting department has asked you to give them a list of orders filtered by two periods of time:

• On 'Sheet1', they need orders spanning a two-month period starting from the 1st of July, 2018, and stretching through the 31st of August, 2018.
• On 'Sheet2', they need all orders for the period before the 1st of July, 2018, and all orders for the period after the 31st of August, 2018.

Your task is to download the file 'TimeFilters-RawData.xlsx’ file and execute this request. When you have completed your work, save it in .xlsx format, then upload that file for evaluation.

Where can you find information about the total interest accrued during the reporting period of one year?

Study the balance sheet information for Carlton Corporation in 2015 in the image below.

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What is the value of the Current Asset Turnover Ratio for Carlton Corporation in 2015?

(Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)

Study the balance sheet for Edampilz in 2017 in the image below.

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What is the value of the Debt Ratio for Edampilz in 2017?

(Round your answer to two decimal places.)

Read the statement below and fill in the blanks with the correct answers.

Liquidity ratios indicate an enterprise's ability to pay _________________________ while solvency ratios indicate an enterprise's ability to pay _________________________. If we see that the Quick Ratio is ____________________ over time and the Current Liquidity Ratio is ____________________ over time, we can conclude that the company’s ability to pay short-term debt is probably improving.

DEF Limited, a company that specializes in high-end audio components, is planning to expand into a new market by investing in a new production line. That investment consists of $100,000 received from a five-year loan and $50,000 of DEF’s own cash. DEF’s management has decided to use the straight-line depreciation method over a 10-year period, and the salvage (residual) value of the production line is zero.

What is the increase to DEF’s fixed assets when the production line is put into operation?

(Round your answer to whole dollars.)