Response to the following questions:
1. What ratios would you compute to evaluate management performance?
2. Why would a company's return on total assets be different from its return on common stockholders' equity?
3. Where on the income statement does a company report an unusual gain not expected to occur more often than once every two years or so?
4. Which items are usually assigned a 100% value on (a) a common-size balance sheet and (b) a common-size income statement?