Jessica's company manufacturers a variety of coffee flavors that are sold to retail stores. Her company receives the coffee beans from a distributor in South America who purchased the beans from local farmers. The farmers, distributor, Jessica's company, and the retail stores all make up a .

Chang corp. has $375,000 of assets, and it uses only common equity capital (zero debt). its sales for the last year were $595,000, and its net income was $25,000. stockholders recently voted in a new management team that has promised to lower costs and get the return on equity up to 15.0%. what profit margin would the firm need in order to achieve the 15% roe, holding everything else constant? a. 9.45%b. 9.93%c. 10.42%d. 10.94%e. 11.49%