4.4Investment Foundations · Mission 6

Read Profit and Leverage

Run revenue through the income engine, then build ratios whose numerators and denominators answer a clearly stated investor question.

Your investigation

Calculate Cedar Works' margins, ROE, debt to capital, and interest coverage, then explain the gap between operating and net profit.

Run the income engine
24–28 minutesFour evidence scansProfit and Leverage Lens
Cedar Works · Filing investigation
Evidence file 1 of 4
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OPS filing guide

Operating, financing, and capital expenditures enter the statements differently. The classification changes operating income, assets, and later depreciation.

Classify all three expenditures.

Evidence file 1 · Classify the expense

Expense category changes the subtotal

Definition · accrual accounting

Recognize revenue and related expenses when the economic activity is recognized, not only when cash is received or paid.

Wages paid to operate this year's stores

Classify all three expenditures.
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