Answer:
D. Direct method
Explanation:
Cost allocation in financial accounting can be defined as the process of identifying, gathering and assigning of cost across multiple cost objects such as products, inventory or departments.
There are various types of cost allocation methods and these are;
1. Sequential method.
2. Activity-based management method.
3. Reciprocal services method.
4. Direct method.
The direct method is an allocation method for cost, where costs of the production service department are directly allocated to the production (operating) department of a firm or business entity using appropriate allocation base and then allocated to the product itself.
Generally, the direct method is the easiest (simplest) but least accurate of the commonly used methods for allocating support department costs to production departments.
Barbara Hastings has no children of her own, but she does have a beloved niece named Ellen Laughridge. Attentive to the future financial needs of Ellen, Barbara secures a $500,000 life insurance contract from Chameleon Insurance Company, listing Ellen as the sole beneficiary. Barbara has every intention to inform Ellen of her new life insurance policy, but "life gets in the way," and she neglects to do so. Hastings dies on January 15, 2005. As part of her estate distribution, Ellen receives a chest-of-drawers from her dear aunt. On August 29, 2007, while rearranging her clothing in the chest-of-drawers, Ellen comes upon a secret compartment. In the secret compartment is an original copy of the life insurance contract. Ellen is overjoyed to see her name listed as beneficiary, and she contacts Chameleon Insurance Company immediately. Upon review of the policy, Chameleon denies coverage. Chameleon’s claims representative points to Section 15(b) of the policy, which specifically requires notification of the insured’s death no later than one year after death. It has been over two years and seven months since Barbara Hastings died. 1. Will Ellen recover the $500,000 in insurance proceeds? 2. Is it ethical for an insurance company to deny a claim on the basis of a "technicality?"
Answer:
1. Ellen would only be able to recover the $500,000 insurance proceed if she should be able to find a technicality in the insurance company's rules and regulation. This is because, strictly following the rules, there is nothing she can do regarding to the claim.
2. It is not ethical for the insurance company to deny the claim of Ellen on the basis of technicality but when viewed from another perspective, they are strictly following the rules of the insurance organization and applying it to the later. It is now left for the claimant to find another technicality on why he or she must be paid the insurance claim.
Explanation:
You bought an American put option some time ago. Today it has one year left to expiration. Interest rate is 10% per year. Annual compounding applies. Strike price is $100, and stock price is $5. Which of the following is incorrect?
A. If you wait until expiration day to exercise the put option, the maximum amount it can possibly be worth at that time is 100
B. It is better to exercise the put now than wait until expiration
C. You need to know the option premium to decide whether to exercise it now or to wait
D. If you exercise the option now, it is worth 95
Answer:
D. If you exercise the option now, it is worth $95
Explanation:
A put option gives the holder of the option the right to sell a certain stock at an specific strike price.
In order to determine the value of a put option, you must subtract the current market value from the strike value = strike value - current market value = $100 - $5 = $95
If the strike value is lower than the current market value, then the put option is worthless ($0).
In the Month of March, Digby received orders of 104 units at a price of $15.00 for their product Dell. Digby uses the accrual method of accounting and offers 30 day credit terms. Digby delivers 104 units in April. They received payment for 52 units in March, and 52 units in April. In the March income statement, how much revenue is recognized on the March income statement from this order? How much in the April Income statement? (Answer in thousands)
Answer:
$1,560 and $0
Explanation:
According to the accrual method of accounting, the revenue should be recognized when it is realized or when the sale is made not when the cash is received
Since Digby delivers 104 units in April
So for the March income statement, the amount is
= 104 units × $15
= $1,560
And, for the April income statement, it would be zero as the total units order received in March only
Suppose you inherited $275,000 and invested it at 8.25% per year. How much could you withdraw at the end of each of the next 20 years
Answer:
$28,533.5
Explanation:
Principal value (PV) = $275,000
Time = 20 years
Rate = 8.25%
Present Value = P ((1-(1+R)^-n) / r)
275,000 = P ((1- (1 + 0.0825)^-20) /.0825)
275,000 x .0825 = P (1-(1/1.0825)^20)
22687.5 = P ((1.0825^20 - 1) / (1.0825 ^20))
22687.50 = P (4.8816 - 1 / 4.8816)
22687.5 = P (3.886 / 4.8816)
22687.5 = p(0.7951)
P = 22687.5 / 0.7951
P = $28533.5
Identifying the median voter
Sam, Andrew, and Darnell are roommates who are trying to decide how much money to spend on heat in their apartment each month.
A. Andrew would ideally contribute $15. However, he would prefer contributing $55 to contributing $0 because he does not want to freeze.
B. Sam hates being cold. Therefore, he would ideally like each to contribute $55 to heat, and his utility declines at a constant rate as the roommates decrease the amount of money they spend.
C. Darnell does not care about heat and is on a tight budget. Therefore, he prefers to contribute no money to heat, and his utility declines at a constant rate as the roommates increase the amount of money they spend.
Suppose the three roommates vote on spending either so, $15, or $55 on heat using the Borda count system of voting. That is, each roommate awards three points to his first choice, two points to his second choice, and one point to his third choice
Answer:
The median voter here is $55 based on the allocated points in order of preference.
This is the vote that avoids the two extremes of 5 and 7
Explanation:
Voting with the Borda count system of voting:
$0 $15 $55
Andrew 1 3 2
Sam 1 2 3
Darnell 3 2 1
Total points 5 7 6
The median voter is the selection that is based on choosing the median in a spectrum, so that the extremes are avoided. In this case, the extremes win points 5 and 4, with the median as 6.
The voting was done by using the Borda count system of voting. With this system, points are allocated based on personal preferences. The preference that is favored most is given the highest point, and so on. This implies that the preference that is least favoured is given the lowest point.
Chocoheaven processes cocoa beans into cocoa powder at a processing cost of $ 10,100 per batch. Chocoheaven can sell the cocoa powder as is, or it can process the cocoa powder further into chocolate syrup or boxed assorted chocolates. Once processed, each batch of cocoa beans would result in the following sales revenue:
Has the president made the right or wrong decision? Explain your answer. Be sure to include the correct financial analysis in your response.
Begin by completing the following incremental analysis to compare selling the cocoa powder as is with processing it further. (For amounts with a value of $0, make sure to enter "O" in the appropriate input box.)
Sell as Sell as Sell as Boxed
Cocoa Chocolate Assorted
Powder Syrup Chocolates
Revenue
Less: Additional processing costs
Net benefit
Cocoa powder $ 14,000
Chocolate syrup 104,000
Boxed assorted chocolates 202,000
The cost of transforming the cocoa powder into chocolate syrup would be $70,000. Likewise, the company would incur a cost of $176,000 to transform the cocoa powder into boxed assorted chocolates. The company president has decided to make boxed assorted chocolates due to its high sales value and to the fact that the cocoa bean processing cost of S9,500 eats up most of the cocoa powder profits.
Answer:
No, it is not the right decision. The best decision that will bring maximum profit to the company is to sell chocolate syrup.
Explanation:
Profit = Sales revenue - Processing Cost
1-The Cocoa powder result in $3,900 profit ($14,000 - $10100) to the Choco Heaven company
2- If the company makes Chocolates syrup it will get profit of $34,000 ($104,000 - $70,000)
3- f the company makes Boxed assorted Chocolates it will get profit of $26,000 ($202,000 - $176,000)
On a CVP chart, on either side of the break-even point, the vertical distance between the total sales line and the total cost line represents:
Answer:
The answer is:
Total loss to the left of the intersection
Total profit to the right of the intersection
Explanation:
Cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis is a method that looks into the impact of how varying levels of costs and volume will affect the operating profit of a firm. This gives companies good understanding of the profitability of their products or services.
To answer the question above;
Total loss to the left of the intersection
Total profit to the right of the intersection
While the intersection is the break-even
Suppose Stark Ltd. just issued a dividend of $2.57 per share on its common stock. The company paid dividends of $2.10, $2.31, $2.38, and $2.49 per share in the last four years. If the stock currently sells for $60.
Required:
a. What is your best estimate of the company's cost of equity capital using the arithmetic average growth rate in dividends?
b. What if you use the geometric average growth rate? (Do not round intermediate calculations.
Answer:
arithmetic average growth rate = (10% + 3.03% + 4.62% + 3.21%) / 4 = 5.22%
we need to find the required rate or return (RRR) in the following formula:
stock price = expected dividend / (RRR - growth rate)
expected dividend = $2.57 x 1.0522 = $2.7042stock price = $60growth rate = 0.0522605 = 2.7042 / (RRR - 0.0522)
RRR - 0.0522 = 2.7042 / 60 = 0.045
RRR = 0.045 + 0.0522 = 0.0973 = 9.73%
geometric average growth rate = [(1.10 x 1.0303 x 1.0462 x 1.0321)¹/⁴] - 1 = 0.05178 = 5.18%
again we need to find the required rate or return (RRR) in the following formula:
stock price = expected dividend / (RRR - growth rate)
expected dividend = $2.57 x 1.0518 = $2.703126stock price = $60growth rate = 0.051860 = 2.703126 / (RRR - 0.0518)
RRR - 0.0518 = 2.703126 / 60 = 0.0450521
RRR = 0.0968521 = 9.69%
While vacationing in Florida in November, Sally was seriously injured in an automobile accident. Sally died several days later. Complete each of the following statements which outline the Federal estate tax rules to each of these items.
A. Bruce, Sally's son and executor, incurred $6,200 in travel expenses in flying to Florida, retrieving the body, and returning it to Frankfort, Kentucky for burial.
B. Sally had pledged $50,000 to the building fund of her church. Bruce paid this pledge from the assets of the estate.
C. Prior to her death, Sally had promised to give her nephew, Gary, $20,000 when he passed the bar exam. Gary passed the exam late in the year, and Bruce kept Sally's promise by paying him $20,000 from estate assets.
D. At the scene of the accident and before the ambulance arrived, someone took Sally's jewelry (i.e., Rolex watch and wedding ring) and money. The property (valued at $33,000) was not insured and was never recovered.
E. As a result of the accident, Sally's auto was totally destroyed. The auto had a basis of $52,000 and a fair market value of $28,000. In January of the next year, the insurance company pays Sally's estate $27,000.
Break-Even Sales and Sales to Realize Income from Operations For the current year ended October 31, Friedman Company expects fixed costs of $361,200, a unit variable cost of $43, and a unit selling price of $64. a. Compute the anticipated break-even sales (units). units b. Compute the sales (units) required to realize income from operations of $84,000. units
Answer:
a. Compute the anticipated break-even sales (units). units
17,200 unitsb. Compute the sales (units) required to realize income from operations of $84,000. units
21,200 unitsExplanation:
break even point in units = total fixed costs / contribution margin per unit
total fixed costs = $361,200contribution margin per unit = $64 - $43 = $21break even point in units = $361,200 / $21 = 17,200 units
break even point + expected profits = (total fixed costs + expected profits) / contribution margin per unit
total fixed costs + expected profits = $361,200 + $84,000 = $445,200contribution margin per unit = $64 - $43 = $21break even point + expected profits in units = $445,200 / $21 = 21,200 units
If you put up $39,000 today in exchange for a 6.5 percent, 16-year annuity, what will the annual cash flow be? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
Answer:
$3,992.73
Explanation:
For computing the annual cash flow we need to apply the PMT formula i.e to be shown in the attachment below:
Given that,
Present value = $39,000
Future value or Face value = $0
RATE = 6.5%
NPER = 16 years
The formula is shown below:
= PMT(RATE;NPER;-PV;FV;type)
The present value come in negative
So, after applying the above formula, the annual cash flow is $3,992.73
Each bottle contains the same amount of pepper sauce. Which
28.
set of pepper sauce is the better buy?
B
ra
2 bottles for $22.50
3 bottles for S34.00
Answer:
2 bottles for $22.50
Explanation:
$22.50/2 = $11.25 per bottle
$34/3 = $11.33 per bottle
Better buy: 2 bottles for $22.50
Suppose peanut butter is an inferior good for Ilya and the price of peanut butter rises. What will happen to Ilya's consumption of peanut butter
Answer:
The substitution effect will cause a decrease in the consumption of peanut butter and the income effect will cause an increase in the consumption of peanut butter.
Explanation:
Inferior goods are those whose demand drops as income increases. People tend to prefer other goods but are forced to use the inferior good because of income constraints.
If peanut butter is an inferior good and the price rises substitution effect will tend to cause a decrease in demand and consumption of peanut butter. This is because consumers will seek other alternatives.
Income effect acts in opposite direction to substitution effect, and will cause an increase in consumption of peanut butter.
If the USA could produce 1 ton of potatoes or 0.5 tons of wheat per worker per year, while Ireland could produce 3 tons of potatoes or 2 tons of wheat per worker per year, there can be mutual gains from trade if:
This question is incomplete because the options are missing; here are the options:
A. The USA specializes in potatoes because of its comparative advantage in producing potatoes.
B. The USA specializes in wheat because of its absolute advantage in producing wheat.
C. The USA specializes in wheat because of its comparative advantage in producing wheat.
D. There can be no mutual gains from trade.
The correct answer to this question is A. The USA specializes in potatoes because of its comparative advantage in producing potatoes.
Explanation:
In economics, a country has a comparative advantage, if it can produce a specific good at a lower opportunity cost, which implies the loss of choosing the product over others is low. Also, mutual gains are possible if each country specializes in the product with a comparative advantage. Moreover, to know which country has an opportunity advantage you need to calculate the opportunity cost of 1 unit, or, in this case, 1 ton of the product.
In the case of the U.S. you already know 1 ton of potatoes is equivalent to 0.5 tons of wheat, which is the opportunity cost. Now, let's calculate this factor for the production of 1 ton of potatoes in Ireland
3 tons of potatoes = 2 tons of wheat 1. Use 3 (tons of potatoes) and divide both numbers into three
3 tons of potatoes/ 3 = 2 tons of wheat / 3
1 ton of potatoes = 0.66
This shows the opportunity cost in the USA is lower and this represents a comparative advantage as less is lost when potatoes are chosen over wheat. Thus, to benefit both countries the USA should specialize in potatoes due to the higher comparative advantage or lower opportunity cost.
If you take $100 out of your piggy bank and deposit it in your checking account, how did M1 change? Did M2 change? Assuming that there are no new loans created from the deposit.\
Answer:
Neither changed
Explanation:
Based on the information given, if you decide to take the amount of $100 out of your piggy bank and deposit the amount in your checking account this means that neither M1 nor M2 changed, what only changed was the form of M1, therefore based on these you will have less availability of money or cash but have a larger checking account which allows you to make withdrawals and as well as deposits.
Continuous budgeting is the practice of revising the entire set of budgets for the periods remaining and adding new budgets to replace those for the periods that have elapsed.
a) true
b) false
Answer: True
Explanation:
Continuous Budgeting is a process by which a company prepares budgets for multiple time periods and then prepares a new one once one of the periods has elapsed as well as revising the budgets still to be used to ensure that they cater for the volatile business environment of today.
This ensures that the Business is more capable of dealing with the said volatility as well as making sure that the business caters for the same period of time i.e, if the budget was for 12 months and 1 month elapses, adding another month would keep it at 12 months.
work cell at Chris Ellis Commercial Laundry has a workstation with two machines, and each unit produced at the station needs to be processed by both of the machines. (The same unit cannot be worked on by both machines simultaneously.) Each machine has a production capacity of 5 units per hour. The throughput time of the work cell=nothing minutes per unit (enter your response as a whole number).
What is the process time of the work cell in minutes per unit?
Answer:
24 minutes
Explanation:
The computation of the process time of the work cell is shown below:
Throughput time is the time that is needed to produced a finished good product. It involves the manufacturing process time and the time for converting the raw material into a finished product
Therefore
Throughput time = [1 unit × (60 min ÷ 5 units)] × 2
= 24 minutes
Poulter Corporation will pay a dividend of $4.60 per share next year. The company pledges to increase its dividend by 6.75 percent per year, indefinitely. If you require a return of 11 percent on your investment, how much will you pay for the company’s stock today? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
Answer:
You will pay $108.24 for the company’s stock today.
Explanation:;
The price to pay for the company’s stock today can be calculated using the Gordon Growth Model (GGM) formula which assumes that dividend growth rate of a company will continue to be constant indefinitely. The GGM formula is as given below:
P = d/(r – g) ……………………………………… (1)
Where;
P = Price to pay for the company’s stock today = ?
d = Next year dividend per share = $4.60
r = required return = 11%, or 0.11
g = Constant dividend growth rate = 6.75%, or 0.0675
Substituting the values into equation (1), we have:
P = $4.60 / (0.11 - 0.0675)
P = $4.60 / 0.0425
P = $108.24
Therefore, you will pay $108.24 for the company’s stock today.
Which of the following items are normally classified as current liabilities for a company that has a one-year operating cycle? (You may select more than one answer. Single click the box with the question mark to produce a check mark for a correct answer and double click the box with the question mark to empty the box for a wrong answer.)
Answer:
Sales tax payable FICA-social security taxes payable due in 40 days Portion of long term note due in 1 monthExplanation:
Current Liabilities refer to obligations owed in a 12 month period. Anything longer is classified as Long Term.
From the options listed the current liabilities will therefore be;
Sales Tax Payable which are the taxes that the government charges on goods and services and it is the responsibility of business to collect these and remit them to the Government on time. This is a current liability as these are remitted quite frequently.
The FICA social security taxes payable due in 40 days is also a current liability due its time period being less than a year.
A portion of a long term loan due in a month will be considered current also due to its time period.
Current liabilities for a company include Sales tax payable, FICA-social security taxes payable due in 40 days and portion of long term note due in 1 month.
What is the term Current Liability about?
Current Liabilities refer to obligations owed in a 12 month period. Anything longer is classified as Long Term.
Sales Tax Payable which are the taxes that the government charges on goods and services and it is the responsibility of business to collect these and remit them to the Government on time
The FICA social security taxes payable due in 40 days is also a current liability due its time period being less than a year.
A portion of a long term loan due in a month will be considered current also due to its time period.
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Cullumber Company reports the following operating results for the month of August: sales $382,500 (units 5,100), variable costs $247,000, and fixed costs $96,000. Management is considering the following independent courses of action to increase net income.
1. Increase selling price by 12% with no change in total variable costs or units sold.
2. Reduce variable costs to 57% of sales.
Compute the net income to be earned under each alternative.
1. Net Income $enter a dollar amount
2. Net Income $enter a dollar amount
Answer:
Instructions are below.
Explanation:
Giving the following information:
Sales $382,500 (units 5,100)
Variable costs $247,000
Fixed costs $96,000
We need to determine the effect on the income of two options:
Option 1:
Increase the selling price by 12%
Sales= 382,500*1.12= 428,400
Variable cost= (247,000)
Contribution margin= 181,400
Fixed costs= (96,000)
Net income= $85,400
Option 2:
Reduce variable costs to 57% of sales
Contribution margin= (382,500*0.43)= 164,475
Fixed costs= (96,000)
Net income= $68,475
___, born during the Great depression, grew froma need to understand the entire economy and to provide guidance on how to manage it
Answer:
Macroeconomics.
Explanation:
It is defined to be a branch of economies that studies the behaviour and performance of an economy, this is done by aggregating it, taking a reasonable forecast with its recent happenings, investments and economic rise and falls and also the
Put simply, it focuses on the way the economy performs as a whole in its decision making processes. These variables that are been looked at includes the likes of unemployment, GDP, and inflation. Experts are seen to provide models that are used in explanations on the listed factors in tackling economic imbalance of the said country's economy.
Bethesda Water has an issue of preferred stock outstanding with a coupon rate of 4.30 percent that sells for $91.18 per share. If the par value is $100, what is the cost of the company's preferred stock
Answer: 4.72%
Explanation:
Given: Bethesda Water has an issue of preferred stock outstanding with a coupon rate of 4.30 percent
i.e. dividend = 4.30%
Price of a share = $91.18
Since, the cost of the company's preferred stock = (dividend) ÷ (Price of a share ) x 100
= (4.3) ÷ ($91.18) x 100
= 0.0472 x 100
= 4.72%
Hence, the cost of the company's preferred stock = 4.72%
1. Stock A has an expected return of 7%, a standard deviation of expected returns of 35%, a correlation coefficient with the market of -0.3, and a beta coefficient of -0.5. Stock B has an expected return of 12% a standard deviation of returns of 10%, a 0.7 correlation with the market, and a beta coefficient of 1.0. Which security is riskier
Answer:
Option A is riskier
Explanation:
In this question, we want to know which of the two stocks is riskier.
To answer this, we can use the standard deviation of returns as a risk measure.
For a security with a big value for standard deviation of returns, its per period returns are wider making its range per day large.
Hence, what this means is that out of the two stocks, the one with a larger value of standard deviation of returns will guarantee more risk as it is expected to give a better ranges of price
Now back to the values in the question, we can see that the standard deviation of returns of stock A is greater than that of stock B which this makes it a more risky option
g If the Fed is concerned about a possible recession, it ________ the federal funds rate and, in response, longterm interest rates ________ by a ________ amount than the change in shortterm rates. A. lowers; increase; smaller B. lowers; decrease; smaller C. raises; decrease; larger D. raises; increase; smaller E. raises; increase; larger
Answer:
The Fed
Concern about possible recession:
E. raises; increase; larger
Explanation:
The federal funds rate is a short-term monetary policy tool that the Federal Reserve deploys to control expansionary or recessionary economic conditions. It is the interest rate that Federal Reserve allows banks with excess to charge other banks that need to borrow to shore up their deficits. This interest rate is a short-term rate when compared to the long-term interest rates that banks charge consumers of its products and services. The long-term interest rates are affected by the inflation rates.
During the first month of operations ended July 31, YoSan Inc. manufactured 2,400 flat panel televisions, of which 2,000 were sold. Operating data for the month are summarized as follows: Sales $2,150,000 Manufacturing costs: Direct materials $960,000 Direct labor 420,000 Variable manufacturing cost 156,000 Fixed manufacturing cost 288,000 1,824,000 Selling and administrative expenses: Variable $204,000 Fixed 96,000 300,000 Required: 1. Prepare an income statement based on the absorption costing concept. YoSan Inc. Absorption Costing Income Statement For the Month Ended July 31 $ Cost of goods sold: $ $ $ 2. Prepare an income statement based on the variable costing concept. YoSan Inc. Variable Costing Income Statement For the Month Ended July 31, 2016 $ Variable cost of goods sold: $ $ $ Fixed costs: $ $ 3. Explain the reason for the difference in the amount of income from operations reported in (1) and (2). The income from operations reported under costing exceeds the income from operations reported under costing by the difference between the two, due to manufacturing costs that are deferred to a future month under costing.
Answer:
1) YoSan Inc.
Income Statement
For the month ended July 31, 202x
Sales revenue $2,150,000
- Cost of goods sold $1,520,000
Gross profit $630,000
- S & A expenses $300,000
Operating profit $330,000
2) YoSan Inc.
Income Statement
For the month ended July 31, 202x
Sales revenue $2,150,000
- Variable costs:
Direct materials $800,000 Direct labor $350,000 Variable manufacturing cost $130,000Variable S & A expenses $170,000 $1,450,000Contribution margin $700,000
- Period costs:
Fixed manufacturing cost $288,000Fixed S & A expenses $96,000 $384,000Operating profit $316,000
3) When you prepare a variable costing income statement, the ending inventory of finished goods and WIP only includes variables costs. All fixed or period expenses are included during the period that they occur and are not carried over to the next period. I.e. the ending inventory (400 units) for next month will be lower under variable costing.
Pendleton Company, a merchandising company, is developing its master budget for 2015. The income statement for 2014 is as follows:________.
Pendleton Company
Income Statement
For Year Ending December 31, 2014
Gross sales $2,000,000
Less: Estimated uncollectible accounts (40,000)
Net sales 1,960,000
Cost of goods sold (1,100,000)
Gross profit 860,000
Operating expenses (including $25,000
depreciation) (500,000)
Net income $360,000
The following are management's goals and forecasts for 2015:________.
1. Selling prices will increase by 6 percent, and sales volume will increase by 4 percent.
2. The cost of merchandise will increase by 3 percent.
3. All operating expenses are fixed and are paid in the month incurred. Price increases for operating expenses will be 10 percent. The company uses straight-line depreciation.
4. The estimated uncollectibles are 2 percent of budgeted sales.
Answer and Explanation:
The Preparation of budgeted functional income statement for 2015 is shown below:-
Pendleton Company
Budgeted functional income statement
For the year ended 2015
Particulars Amount
Sales revenue $2,204,800
($2,000,000 × 106% × 104%)
Less:
Estimated uncollectible accounts at 2% $44,096
Net sales revenue $2,160,704
Less: Cost of goods sold $1,178,320
($1,100,000 × 103% × 104%)
Gross Profit $982,384
Less: Operating expense $575,000
($500,000 + 10%) + $25,000
Net income $407,384
We simply deduct all expenses from the sales revenue so that the net income could come
ABC Company manufactures a contraption meant to enable a rider to fly behind a ski boat. After a few months, ABC begins to hear of injuries when riders crash into water or boats. In hopes of escaping liability, the president of ABC Company decides to discontinue business and sell all assets to XYZ Company. The president of XYZ Company is excited to purchase the assets at a bargain price and help ABC avoid liability based upon the assertion of the president of ABC that XYZ cannot legally be held liable for the flying accidents. Which of the following is true in a majority of states applying the traditional successor liability rule?
a. XYZ Company will not be held liable for the accidents so long as there is no contractual agreement by which it agrees to accept liability.
b. XYZ Company will only be held liable if it continues to manufacture the same product lines as ABC.
c. XYZ Company will only be held liable if it keeps the same tax number as ABC Company.
d. XYZ Company will likely be held liable for the accidents based upon the transaction being entered into wrongfully in order for ABC Company to escape successor liability.
Answer:
d. XYZ Company will likely be held liable for the accidents based upon the transaction being entered into wrongfully in order for ABC Company to escape successor liability.
Explanation:
Successor liability basically means that any creditor or plaintiff can recover from the company or individual that purchases an asset or a business (in this case ABC company) from any liabilities that may have been originated before the exchange transaction was finished, even if the firm or individual that purchases the asset or company did not assume or will not want to assume any liabilities as part of the exchange deal.
In other words, XYZ is liable for any lawsuits regarding the contraption device previously manufactured by ABC.
Operations management is the discipline that manages the day-to-day and tactical activity of the entire value added chain, which includes the supply chain, the transformation process, the distribution chain and the point of sale to the customer.
a) true
b) false
Answer:
Operations Management:
a) true
Explanation:
Operations management ensures that the organization achieves its objectives by coordinating processes and executing them in the conversion of organizational resources into goods and services which will enable the organization to maximize profits. It is the core of the organizational hierarchy and plays important tactical roles that deliver results. It translates the strategic policies of top management into day-to-day actionable and deliverable processes to meet external needs (customers'), thereby generating income for the owners of the business. Without operations management, a business remains an idea that cannot be implemented.
An investor purchases one municipal bond and one corporate bond that pay rates of return of 7% and 8.4%, respectively. If the investor is in the 15% tax bracket, his after-tax rates of return on the municipal and corporate bonds would be, respectively, _____.
Answer:
After-Tax return on Municipal Bond = 7%After-Tax Return on Corporate Bond = 6.72%Explanation:
The main advantage that Municipal Bonds usually carry with them is that they are tax-exempt. As no taxes are paid on them, there is no need to calculate an after-tax return because it is the same as a pre-tax return.
After-Tax return on Municipal Bond = 7%
The Corporate Bond is subject to tax based on the holder's tax bracket.
After-Tax Return on Corporate Bond = 8.4 % * ( 1 - 20%)
After-Tax Return on Corporate Bond = 6.72%
Considering taxes, the Municipal Bond is better.
Use the Constant Dividend Growth Model to determine the expected annual growth rate of the dividend for ELO stock. The firm is expected to pay an annual divided of $4.32 per share in one year. ELO shares are currently trading for $92.51 on the NYSE, and the expected annual rate of return for ELO shares is 9.82%. Answer as a % to 2 decimal places (e.g., 12.34% as 12.34).
Answer: 5.15%
Explanation:
The Constant Dividend Growth Model is used to calculate the price of a stock given the next dividend that will be paid on it, its required return and its constant growth rate by the formula;
Price = [tex]\frac{Next Dividend}{Rate of Return - Growth rate}[/tex]
$92.51 = [tex]\frac{4.32}{0.0982 - growth rate}[/tex]
9.084482 - 92.51g = 4.32
9.084482 - 4.32 = 92.51g
92.51g = 4.764482
g = 0.0515
g = 5.15%