The correct option is
Explanation:
- Increasing liabilities indirectly indicates that assets are also increasing which made return on assest to decrease.
- Return on Assets = Operating income ÷ Net assets
- ROA indicates the effectiveness of using of the assets in bringing returns to the business.
- The fllowing are the two ways in order to increase ROA
• Increase in Net operating income (numerator)
• Decrease in Net operating assets (denominator)
- From the given options,
• Increasing sales results in increase of net income. So that ROA increases.
• Decreasing operating expenses also results in increase of net income. So that ROA increases.
• Decrease in operating assets also increases the Return on assets.
- Hence the increasing laibilities is an odd one out which doesn't increases ROA.
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