This exercise is built around Whole Foods Market’s financial statements from the chapter. Average common shareholders’ equity for 2012 was $3.397 billion, and a 40% income tax rate should be used as needed. Refer to Exhibits 5.1 and 5.6 from the chapter. Whole Foods earned an ROA of 9.7% in 2012. What was ROCE that year?

Randall's, inc. has 20,000 shares of stock outstanding with a par value of $1.00 per share. the market value is $12 per share. the balance sheet shows $42,000 in the capital in excess of par account, $20,000 in the common stock account, and $50,500 in the retained earnings account. the firm just announced a 5 percent (small) stock dividend. what will the balance in the retained earnings account be after the dividend?