Percentage of Sales Method
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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?
New instructions:
Part 1 #1- calculate the year-to-year growth in Total Assets
#2 – Do you think the company will hit a target sales growth of 17%?
Part 2 #1 – using the Percentage of Sales Method calculate a 25%
growth in sales to forecast Micro Chip’s Consolidated Statement of
Operations. Assume a 25% tax rate and restructuring cost of 2%.
#2 – discuss your results, assumptions and if any of your results are unreasonable.