Bethesda Mining Company reports the following balance sheet information for 2009 and 2010.
| BETHESDA MINING COMPANY Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2009 and 2010 | |||||||||||||
| 2009 | 2010 | 2009 | 2010 | ||||||||||
| Assets | Liabilities and Owners’ Equity | ||||||||||||
| Current assets | Current liabilities | ||||||||||||
| Cash | $ | 65,470 | $ | 82,487 | Accounts payable | $ | 186,922 | $ | 194,611 | ||||
| Accounts receivable | 65,281 | 85,639 | Notes payable | 82,020 | 133,588 | ||||||||
| Inventory | 116,676 | 181,549 | |||||||||||
| Total | $ | 268,942 | $ | 328,199 | |||||||||
| Total | $ | 247,427 | $ | 349,675 | |||||||||
| Long-term debt | 231,000 | 167,750 | |||||||||||
| Owners’ equity | |||||||||||||
| Common stock and paid-in surplus | $ | 224,000 | $ | 224,000 | |||||||||
| Accumulated retained earnings | 182,232 | 219,704 | |||||||||||
| Fixed assets | |||||||||||||
| Net plant and equipment | $ | 658,747 | $ | 589,978 | Total | $ | 406,232 | $ | 443,704 | ||||
| Total assets | $ | 906,174 | $ | 939,653 | Total liabilities and owners’ equity | $ | 906,174 | $ | 939,653 | ||||
| Suppose that the Bethesda Mining Company had sales of $2,316,873 and net income of $93,381 for the year ending December 31, 2010. |
| Required: |
| Calculate ROE using the Du Pont identity. (Do not include the percent signs (%). Round your answers to 2 decimal places (e.g., 32.16).) |
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