Question

b. What is the ratio of real assets to total assets for nonfinancial firms in the following table? (Round your answer to 4 decimal places.)

Balance sheet of U.S. nonfinancial corporations 

Note: Column sums may differ from total because of rounding error 

Source: Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 2016 

Ratio for nonfinancial firms = _______ 

Examine the balance sheet of commercial banks in the following table 

Balance sheet of FDIC-insured commercial banks and savings institutions 

Note: Column sums may differ from total because of rounding error 

Source: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, www.fdic.gov, March 2016 

a. What is the ratio of real assets to total assets? (Round your answer to 4 decimal places.) 

Ratio of real assets to total assets = _______ 

Answer 1

Answer (b):

Ratio of real assets to total assets for non-financial firms = Total Real Assets / Total Assets

= $15581 billion / $26,333 billion

= 0.591691 = 0.5917 or 59.1691%

Answer (a):

Commercial banks and saving institutions:

Ratio of real assets to total assets for non-financial firms = Total Real Assets / Total Assets

= $150.1 billion / $11,931.1 billion

= 0.012580 = 0.126 or 1.2580%