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A recent balance sheet of Sweet Tooth. Inc., included the following items, among others. (...

A recent balance sheet of Sweet Tooth. Inc., included the following items, among others. (Dollar amounts are stated in thousands).

Cash   

  $ 49,625

Marketable securities (short-term)

  55.926

Accounts receivable

  23,553

Inventories

  32,210

Prepaid expenses.   

  5,736

Retained earnings

121,477

Notes payable to banks (due within one year) 

 20,000

Accounts payable

  5,912

Dividends payable 

  1,424

Accrued liabilities (short-term)

  21,532

Income taxes payable

  6.438

The company also reported total assets of $353,816 thousand, total liabilities of $81,630 thousand, and a return on total assets of 18.1 percent.

Instructions

a. Compute Sweet Tooth’s (1) quick assets, (2) current assets, and (3) current liabilities.


b. Compute Sweet Tooth’s (1) quick ratio, (2) current ratio, (3) working capital, and (4) debt ratio. (Round to one decimal place)


c. Discuss the company’s liquidity from the viewpoints of if) short-term creditors. (2) long-term creditors, and (3) stockholders.

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