Financial Accounting
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Author: Carl Warren, Jim Reeve, Jonathan Duchac
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Chapter 1, Problem 27E
Lowe’s Companies Inc., a major competitor of The Home Depot in the home improvement business, operates over 1,700 stores. Lowe’s recently reported the following balance sheet data (in millions):
- a. Determine the total stockholders’ equity at the end of Years 2 and 1.
- b. Determine the ratio of liabilities to stockholders’ equity for Year 2 and Year 1. Round to two decimal places.
- c. What conclusions regarding the risk to the creditors can you draw from (b)?
- d. Using the balance sheet data for The Home Depot in Exercise 1-26, how does the ratio of liabilities to stockholders’ equity of Lowe’s compare to that of The Home Depot?
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