“…Based on the general consensus of past studies (Iba and Aranha, 2012;Morris, 2013;Omondi-Ochieng, 2018c;Pickens, 1986;Raughley and Lloyd, 1999;Wong and Venkatraman, 2015), the aim of FTA is often to: examine the financial health of the organization; make projections for strategic financial planning; predict future production of goods and services; compare and contrast past and present revenues, costs and investments; dissect failure analysis as an early warning indicator of anticipated, unexpected and/or impending financial problems especially when combined or supplemented with targeted financial ratios; and forecast sales growth and interest rates among others. Barajas et al, 2017;Ecer and Boyukaslan, 2014;Dimitropoulos, 2010;Dimitropoulos and Limperopoulos, 2014;Gimet and Montchaud, 2016;Sakinc, 2014;Plumley et al, 2017;Pradhan et al, 2017;Rey and Santelli, 2017;Omondi-Ochieng, 2018a, 2018b2018c. (c) Return on assets ¼…”