Discover new knowledge and insights with IDNLearn.com's extensive Q&A platform. Ask your questions and receive reliable, detailed answers from our dedicated community of experts.

Assume bds acquired its main supplier, abc. As a result of the acquisition, bds finds that its profit margin increased but its roa remained constant. A decrease in which one of these ratios is most apt to be the reason why the roa did not increase with the increase in the profit margin?.