As consultants in advisory services, we are hired by JR Corporation to help analyze its regional operations in the contiguous U.S. JR wishes to draw on our expertise in financial statement analysis to help identify further expansion of operations. A Tableau Dashboard is provided to aid our analysis.
1. Compute profit margin for the company’s (a) West region and (b) Southwest region.
2. In which region examined in part 1 has the company best performed on profit margin?
3. Compute return on assets for the company’s (a) West region and (b) Southwest region.
4. In which region examined in part 3 has the company best performed on return on total assets?