Which of the following statements is correct? a. the use of debt financing will tend to lower the basic earning power ratio, other things held constant. b. a firm that employs financial leverage will have a higher equity multiplier than an otherwise identical firm that has no debt in its capital structure. c. if two firms have identical sales, interest rates paid, operating costs, and assets, but differ in the way they are financed, the firm with less debt will generally have the higher expected roe. d. the numerator used in the tie ratio is earnings before taxes (ebt). ebt is used because interest is paid with post-tax dollars, so the firm's ability to pay current interest is affected by taxes. e. all else equal, increasing the total debt to total capital ratio will increase the roa.

This problem has been solved! see the answerthe xyz corporation is interested in possible differences in days worked by salaried employees in three departments in the financial area. a survey of 23 randomly chosen employees reveals the data shown below. because of the casual sampling methodology in this survey, the sample sizes are unequal. research question: are the mean annual attendance rates the same for employees in these three departments? days worked last year by 23 employees department days worked budgets (5 workers) 278 260 265 245 258 payables (10 workers) 205 270 220 240 255 217 266 239 240 228 pricing (8 workers) 240 258 233 256 233 242 244 249 picture click here for the excel data filefill in the missing data. (round your p-value to 4 decimal places, mean values to 1 decimal place and other answers to 2group mean n std. dev variancesbudgets payables pricing total one factor anova source ss df ms f p-value treatment error total