Corporate Financial Accounting 14th Edition by Carl Warren,James Reeve,Jonathan Duchac

تمرين 33

Asset turnover
Three major segments of the transportation industry are motor carriers, such as YRC Worldwide ; railroads, such as Union Pacific ; and transportation logistics services, such as C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. Recent financial statement information for these companies follows (in thousands):

A. Determine the asset turnover for all three companies. (Round to one decimal place.)
B. Assume that the asset turnover for each company represents their respective industry segment. Interpret the differences in the asset turnover in terms of the operating characteristics of each of the respective segments.