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Kraft Foods Group reports the following for two of its divisions for a recent ye

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Question

Kraft Foods Group reports the following for two of its divisions for a recent year. All numbers are in millions of dollars (Smillions) Invested assets, beginning Invested assets, ending Sales Operating income Beverage Cheese Division $ 7,650 7,350 6,000 1,350 Division $ 3,050 2,950 3,900 702 1. Compute return on investment. (Enter your answer in millions of dollar.) Return on Investment Choose Numerator: Choose Denominator: Return on Investment Investment Center Beverage Cheese Return on investment 2. Compute profit margin. (Enter your answer in millions of dollar.) Profit Margin Choose Numerator: Choose Denominator: Profit Margin Profit margin Investment Center Beverage Cheese

Explanation / Answer

1)
                             Return on investment
                    Choose                /      choose              = return
                    Numerator            denominator              on
                                                                               Investment


Investment    operating     /      average          = return on
Center              Income          invested assets   investment

Beverage          $702            /       3000              = 23.4%
Chesse            $1350            /         7500              =   18%

Note-
Average invested asset = invested asset (beginning )+ invested asset(ending )/2
Beverage = 3050+2950/2 =3000
Chesse- 7650+7350/2 = 7500

2)
                                          Profit margin
                    Choose                /      choose              = profit
                    Numerator            denominator            margin
                                                                              


Investment    operating     /      sales      =             profit
Center              Income                                              margin

Beverage          $702            /       3900              =     18%
Chesse            $1350             /        6000               =    22.5%

3)

                                        inventory turnover
                    Choose                /      choose        =   inventory
                    Numerator            denominator         turnover
                                                                              


Investment    sales   /         average            =    inventory  
Center                               invested assets          turnover      

Beverage          3900           /       3000              =     1.3
Chesse              6000          /        7500              =    0.8