{"id":31239,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/rate-of-return-on-investment-problem"},"modified":"2017-08-16T05:59:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T05:59:46","slug":"rate-of-return-on-investment-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/rate-of-return-on-investment-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Rate of Return on Investment Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The Walt Disney Company has four profitable business segments, described as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Media Networks:<\/strong>The ABC television and radio network, Disney channel, ESPN, A&amp;E, E!, and Disney.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Parks and Resorts:<\/strong>Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and other resort properties<\/li>\n<li><strong>Studio Entertainment:<\/strong>Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax Films, and Buena Vista Theatrical Productions<\/li>\n<li><strong>Consumer Products:<\/strong>Character merchandising, Disney stores, books, and magazines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Disney recently reported sector income from operations, revenue, and invested assets (in millions) as follows:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\"><strong>Income from<br \/> Operations<\/strong><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\"><strong><br \/> Revenue<\/strong><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\"><strong>Invested<br \/> Assets<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Media Networks<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">$6,818<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">$20,356<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">$28,627<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Parks and Resorts<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">2,220<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">14,087<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">22,056<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Studio Entertainment<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">661<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">5,979<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">14,750<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Consumer Products<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">1,112<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3,811<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">7,506<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Use the DuPont formula to determine the rate of return on investment for the four Disney sectors. Round Profit Margin, ROI to one decimal place and Investment Turnover to two decimal places.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\"><strong>Profit Margin<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\"><strong>Investment Turnover<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\"><strong>ROI<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Media Networks<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">%<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Parks and Resorts<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">%<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Studio Entertainment<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">%<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Consumer Products<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">%<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\">%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Walt Disney Company has four profitable business segments, described as follows: Media Networks:The ABC television and radio network, Disney channel, ESPN, A&amp;E, E!, and Disney.com Parks and Resorts:Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and other resort properties <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/rate-of-return-on-investment-problem\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}