Posted: May 13th, 2017

The audit significance of the financial ratio, fixed asset turnover, is:

The audit significance of the financial ratio, fixed asset turnover, is:

A. this financial ratio provides a reasonableness test of the entity’s proportion of equity that may be compared with prior years’ experience or industry data.

B. an unexpected increase or decrease in the depreciation expense as a percent of depreciable assets may indicate an error in calculating depreciation.

C. this financial ratio provides a test of the entity’s ability to generate earnings to cover the cost of service debt.

D. an unexpected increase in this financial ratio may indicate the failure to record or capitalize depreciable assets.