Accounting and Forecasting

https://mycampus.aiu-online.com/courses/FIN410/Assignment_Assets/FIN410_U2_ips.pdf

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Click here for selected financial statements for Micro Chip Computer Corporation. Answer questions 1 and 2 below based on the financial data.

1.  Determine the year-to-year percentage annual growth in total net sales.

2.  Based only on your answers to question #1, do you think the company will hit its sales goal of +10% annual revenue growth in 2005? Determine the target revenue figure, and explain why you do or do not feel that the company can hit this target.

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Next, consider Micro Chip's Consolidated Statement of Operations for the year ended September 25, 2004 (click here to download) and answer questions 1 and 2.

1.  Use the Percentage Sales Method and a 20% increase in sales to forecast Apples' Consolidated Statement of Operations for the period September 26, 2004 through September 25, 2005. Assume a 15% tax rate and restructuring costs of 2% of the new sales figure.

2.  Discuss your results from question number #1. What assumptions have you made? Do any of your assumptions seem unreasonable?