Using Common-Size Balance Sheet Percentages to Project Individual Assets, Liabilities

Multiple Choice

Using common-size balance sheet percentages to project individual assets, liabilities, or shareholders' equity has all of the following shortcomings except :

A) Individual assets, liabilities, and shareholders' equity are not independent of each other.
B) If a company experiences changing proportions for investments in securities among its assets, other asset categories may show decreasing percentages in some years even though their dollar amounts are increasing.
C) Individual assets, liabilities, and shareholders' equity are independent of each other.
D) The common-size percentages do not permit the analyst to easily change the assumptions about the future behavior of an individual asset or liability.