What part of your social media strategy is working against your goals?

In early 2016, the same Germany machinery company has interest from four prospective clients from emerging markets: Indonesia, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa. They all want to buy ten machines, but the factory can only produce ten in time. Therefore, the company has to choose only one client. Given the volatility of the domestic currencies of the four prospective clients, the CFO would like to choose the client which is least likely to cancel the order due to currency volatility. The invoice comes due on June 30, 2016. According to volatility alone, which prospective client would be most likely to cancel the order?

You recommend the following: We should discontinue our policy of reimbursing employees for meals and incidental expenses. In place of this policy, we should provide $100 daily stipends. This recommendation is best classified as what

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, is a leading international mining company of copper, gold, and molybdenum. Its revenues were over $16 billion with net income of nearly $2 billion in a recent year.

Assume that in February 2020, Freeport-McMoRan paid $800,000 for a mineral deposit in Indonesia. During March, it spent $70,000 in preparing the deposit for exploitation. It was estimated that 1,000,000 total cubic yards could be extracted economically. During 2020, 60,000 cubic yards were extracted. During January 2021, the company spent another $6,000 for additional developmental work that increased the estimated productive capacity of the mineral deposit.

Required:
a. Compute the acquisition cost of the deposit in 2020.
b. Compute depletion for 2020.
c. Compute the net book value of the deposit after payment of the January 2021 developmental costs.

Sunland Diesel owns the Fredonia Barber Shop. He employs 4 barbers and pays each a base rate of $1,440 per month. One of the barbers serves as the manager and receives an extra $520 per month. In addition to the base rate, each barber also receives a commission of $9.15 per haircut. Other costs are as follows.

Advertising $240 per month
Rent $1,100 per month
Barber supplies $0.35 per haircut
Utilities $185 per month plus $0.10 per haircut
Magazines $35 per month Sunland currently charges $16 per haircut.

Vin currently charges $10 per haircut.
Required:

a. Determine the variable costs per haircut and the total monthly fixed costs.
b. Compute the break-even point in units and dollars.
c. Prepare a CVP graph, assuming a maximum of 1,800 haircuts in a month. Use increments of 300 haircuts on the horizontal axis and $3,000 on the vertical axis.
d. Determine net income, assuming 1,600 haircuts are given in a month.

Maria Boyd has been hired by Barnum Hotels to manage staffing for the regional hotel chain. Barnum intends to open two new hotels within the next three years and will have many job positions to fill. Historically, employee turnover is high at Barnum as employees remain with the company for one or two years before quitting. Maria realizes that Barnum needs to make significant changes in its personnel strategy in order to meet the company's goals for the future and improve employee retention rates. All of the following questions are relevant to Mari's decision to fill top positions at the new hotels with internal candidates EXCEPT::_______

a. What are the key managerial positions that are available at the new hotels?
b. What percentage of employers in the service industry use succession planning?
c. What skills, education, and training have been provided to potential candidates?
d. What is the designated procedure for assessing and selecting potential candidates?

You have a tax basis of ​$ and a useful life of five years and no salvage value. Provide a depreciation schedule ​(dk for k1​5) for ​% declining balance with switchover to straight line. Specify the year to switchover. Determine the depreciation amounts using the ​% declining balance and​ straight-line methods and BV amounts for each year

At December 31, 2013, Weiss Imports reported this information on its balance sheet.
Accounts receivable $600,000
Less: Allowance for doubtful accounts 37,000
During 2014, the company had the following transactions related to receivables.
1. Sales on account $2,500,000
2. Sales returns and allowances 50,000
3. Collections of accounts receivable 2,200,000
4. Write-offs of accounts receivable deemed uncollectible 41,000
5. Recovery of bad debts previously written off as uncollectible 15,000
To do;
1. Prepare the journal entries to record each of these five transactions. Assume that no cash discounts were taken on the collections of accounts receivable. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)
2. Enter the January 1, 2014, balances in Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts, post the entries to the two accounts and determine the balances. (Post entries in the order of journal entries posted in the previous part)
3. Prepare the journal entry to record bad debt expense for 2014, assuming that aging the accounts receivable indicates that estimated bad debts are $46,000. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)
4. Compute the accounts receivable turnover. (Round answer to 1 decimal place, e.g. 12.5.)
Accounts receivable turnover
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times
Compute the average collection period. (Round answer to 1 decimal place, e.g. 12.5.)
Average collection period
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Managers who establish effective goals can enhance the performance of their employees and of their company. The manager in the scenario presented next realizes that goals are essential to improving performance. Goal setting helps motivate employees by clarifying their roles at work and establishing performance objectives. Effective goal setting is more than just asking employees to do their best or to try harder. It requires attention to key goal characteristics that increase intensity and persistence, and ultimately improve performance. The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding of goal setting by matching each employee’s goal with his or her goal characteristic. Match each employee’s goal with his or her goal characteristic.
1. Achievable Goals
2. Measurable Goals
3. Relevant Goals
4. Time-Frame Goals
5. Specific Goals
6. Reviewed Goals
Match each of the options above to the items below.
Carlos’ goal is to reduce average loan processing by fifteen percent within the next 6 months.
Michelle is a salesperson. Her goal is to increase the number of sales calls made to potential customers.
Sam has been reviewing customer accounts at a rate of two per day. His goal is to double that rate. That is possible, but he’ll have to work hard and be creative to reach this goal.
Chen has been given a project, and his manager clearly communicated the quantity and quality expectations to him.
Elizabeth has just been given a project which needs to be completed within 6 weeks.
Kelly is most excited about adopting goals because it means she’ll finally have a clear measure of how well she is doing.

Landhill Corporation is authorized to issue 49,000 shares of $5 par value common stock. During 2020, Sandhill took part in the following selected transactions.

1. Issued 4,500 shares of stock at $45 per share, less costs related to the issuance of the stock totaling $7,900.
2. Issued 1,100 shares of stock for land appraised at $49,000. The stock was actively traded on a national stock exchange at approximately $46 per share on the date of issuance.
3. Purchased 470 shares of treasury stock at $41 per share. The treasury shares purchased were issued in 2016 at $38 per share.

Required:
a. Prepare the journal entry to record item 1.
b. Prepare the journal entry to record item 2.
c. Prepare the journal entry to record item 3 using the cost metho

Definition of economic costs
Darnell lives in Philadelphia and runs a business that sells pianos. In an average year, he receives $842,000 from selling pianos. Of this sales revenue, he must pay the manufacturer a wholesale cost of $452,000; he also pays wages and utility bills totaling $301,000. He owns his showroom; if he chooses to rent it out, he will receive $38,000 in rent per year. Assume that the value of this showroom does not depreciate over the year. Also, if Darnell does not operate this piano business, he can work as an accountant and receive an annual salary of $48,000 with no additional monetary costs. No other costs are incurred in running this piano business.
Identify each of Darnell's costs in the following table as either an implicit cost or an explicit cost of selling pianos.
Implicit Cost
Explicit Cost
The wholesale cost for the pianos that Darnell pays the manufacturer
The salary Darnell could earn if he worked as an accountant
The wages and utility bills that Darnell pays
The rental income Darnell could receive if he chose to rent out his showroom
Complete the following table by determining Darnell's accounting and economic profit of his piano business.
Profit
(Dollars)
Accounting Profit
Economic Profit
If Darnell's goal is to maximize his economic profit, he( should, should not) stay in the piano business because the economic profit he would earn as an accountant would be $______.

A company issues $50 million of bonds at par on January 1, 2018. The bonds pay 10% interest semi-annually on 12/31 and 6/30 and mature in 20 years. The journal entry when the bonds are sold is:

Every 6 months, Leo Perez takes an inventory of the consumer debts he has outstanding. His latest tally shows that he still owes $4,250 on a home improvement loan (monthly payments of $100); he is making $50 monthly payments on a personal loan with a remaining balance of $825; he has a $1,500, secured single- payment loan that's due late next year; he has a $70,000 home mortgage on which he's making $850 monthly payments; he still owes $12,500 on a new car loan (monthly payments of $550); and he has a $1,200 balance on his Mastercard (minimum payment of $50), a $50 balance on his Shell credit card (balance due in 30 days), and a $500 balance on a personal line of credit ($90 monthly payments).
a. Use Worksheet to prepare an inventory of Leo's consumer debt.
Type of Consumer Debt Creditor Currently Monthly Latest Balance Due
Payment
Auto loans
Personal installment loans
Home improvement loan
Single-payment loans
Credit cards Mastercard
(retail charge cards, bank
cards, T&E Shell cards, etc.)
Personal line of credit $ $
Totals $
b. Find his debt safety ratio, given that his take-home pay is $2,000 per month. Round the answer to 1 decimal place. %
c. Would you consider this ratio to be good or bad?

Silver Enterprises has acquired All Gold Mining in a merger transaction. The following balance sheets represent the premerger book values for both firms:
Silver Enterprises
Current assets $ 10,000
Current liabilities $ 7,840
Other assets 3,100
Long-term debt 5,110
Net fixed assets 17,300
Equity 17,450
Total $ 30,400
Total $ 30,400
All Gold Mining
Current assets $ 2,920
Current liabilities $ 2,620
Other assets 1,380
Long-term debt 0
Net fixed assets 6,110
Equity 7,790
Total $ 10,410
Total $ 10,410
Construct the balance sheet for the new corporation if the merger is treated as a purchase for accounting purposes. The market value of All Gold Mining's fixed assets is $7,510; the market values for current and other assets are the same as the book values. Assume that Silver Enterprises issues $14,660 in new long-term dept to finance the acquisition.

A common step in the testing for accounts payable is to test subsequent disbursements for improper/proper inclusion/exclusion in year-end accounts payable CONCEPT REVIEW A common way to test accounts payable is to examine the check register after period end and make selections for testing. Items are selected and then examined for detail. A determination is then made to conclude whether the amount should have been a liability as of year-end and, if so, if it was recorded as such
1. When searching for unrecorded liabilities, the auditors consider transactions recorded__________year end.
2. Accounts payable __________can be mailed to vendors from whom substantial purchases have been made.
3. To gain overall assurance as to the reasonableness of accounts payable, the auditor may consider _________.
4. When auditors find unrecorded liabilities, before adjusting they must consider __________.
5 Auditiors need to consider_______ terms for determining ownership and whether a liability should be recorded.

Suppose you receive at the end of each year for the next three years. a. If the interest rate is ​, what is the present value of these cash​ flows? b. What is the future value in three years of the present value you computed in ​(a​)? c. Suppose you deposit the cash flows in a bank account that pays interest per year. What is the balance in the account at the end of each of the next three years​ (after your deposit is​ made)? How does the final bank balance compare with your answer in ​(b​)?

Luzadis Company makes furniture using the latest automated technology. The company uses a job-order costing system and applies manufacturing overhead cost to products on the basis of machine-hours. The predetermined overhead rate was based on a cost formula that estimates $900,000 of total manufacturing overhead for an estimated activity level of 75,000 machine-hours.

During the year, a large quantity of furniture on the market resulted in cutting back production and a buildup of furniture in the company’s warehouse. The company’s cost records revealed the following actual cost and operating data for the year:


Machine-hours 76,000
Manufacturing overhead cost $637,000
Inventories at year-end:
Raw materials $20,000
Work in process (includes overhead applied of $36,480) $115,800
Finished goods (includes overhead applied of $91,200) $289,500
Cost of goods sold (includes overhead applied of $480,320) $1,524,700

Required:

a. Compute the underapplied or overapplied overhead.
b. Assume that the company closes any underapplied or overapplied overhead to Cost of Goods Sold. Prepare the appropriate journal entry. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field.)
c. Assume that the company allocates any underapplied or over appliedoverhead proportionally to Work in Process, Finished Goods, and Cost of Goods Sold. Prepare the appropriate journal entry. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field.)
d. How much higher or lower will net operating income be if the underapplied or overapplied overhead is allocated to Work in Process, Finished Goods, and Cost of Goods Sold rather than being closed to Cost of Goods Sold?

Blight Financial has an investment in bonds issued by Searing Industries that are classified as trading securities. At December 31, Year 2, the Investment in Searing bonds account had a debit balance of $500,000, and the bonds were purchased at par so the $500,000 equals amortized cost. The Fair Value Adjustment account had a debit balance of $20,000. On December 31, Year 3, the amortized cost of those bonds has not changed, but the fair value of those bonds was $515,000. Which of the following will be included in the related journal entry dated December 31, Year 3?

a. Debit to Fair value adjustment for $5,000.
b. Credit to Fair value adjustment for $5,000.
c. Debit to Fair value adjustment for $25,000.
d. Credit to Fair value adjustment for $25,000.

Determine the selling price PV, per $1,000 maturity value, of the bond. HINT [See Example 8.] (Assume twice-yearly interest payments. Do not round those payments to the nearest cent. Round your selling price PV to the nearest cent.) 20-year, 4.225% bond, with a yield of 4.23%

Cari created a list of ways to reduce her spending. Which activity should she omit from her list? Choose the correct answer below. use less expensive places for services such as haircuts wear items of clothing for an extra season buy store brands instead of name brands for food and other items rely on friends to treat me when I am out of money

Darby Company, operating at full capacity, sold 500,000 units at a price of $94 per unit during the current year. Its income statement is as follows:
Sales $47,000,000
Cost of goods sold 25,000,000
Gross profit $22,000,000
Expenses:
Selling expenses $4,000,000
Administrative expenses 3,000,000
Total expenses 7,000,000
Income from operations $15,000,000
The division of costs between variable and fixed is as follows:
Variable Fixed
Cost of goods sold 70% 30%
Selling expenses 75% 25%
Administrative expenses50% 50%
Management is considering a plant expansion program for the following year that will permit an increase of $3,760,000 in yearly sales. The expansion will increase fixed costs by $1,800,000 but will not affect the relationship between sales and variable costs.
Required:
1. Determine the total variable costs and the total fixed costs for the current year.
Total variable costs $_____
Total fixed costs $_____
2. Determine (a) the unit variable cost and (b) the unit contribution margin for the current year.
Unit variable cost $_____
Unit contribution margin $_____
3. Compute the break-even sales (units) for the current year.
4. Compute the break-even sales (units) under the proposed program for the following year.
5. Determine the amount of sales (units) that would be necessary under the proposed program to realize the $15,000,000 of income from operations that were earned in the current year.
6. Determine the maximum income from operations possible with the expanded plant.
7. If the proposal is accepted and sales remain at the current level, what will the income or loss from operations be for the following year?
8. Based on the data given, would you recommend accepting the proposal?
a. In favor of the proposal because of the reduction in break-even point.
b. In favor of the proposal because of the possibility of increasing income from operations.
c. In favor of the proposal because of the increase in break-even point.
d. Reject the proposal because if future sales remain at the current level, the income from operations will increase.
e. Reject the proposal because the sales necessary to maintain the current income from operations would be below the current year sales.

A check register shows a balance of $152.34. The bank statement shows that a check for $75.00 deposited by the account owner was drawn against insufficient funds and was returned. A charge for $2.00 was also deducted by the bank because of the return. Compute the adjusted cash balance of the check register.

The following table reports real income per person for several different economies in the years 1960 and 2010. It also gives each economy's average annual growth rate during this period. For example, real income per person in Niger was $945 in 1960, and it actually declined to $570 by 2010. Niger's average annual growth rate during this period was -1.01%, and it was the poorest economy in the table in the year 2010. The real income-per-person figures are denominated in U.S. dollars with a base year of 2005. The following exercises will help you to understand the different growth experiences of these economies.

Economy Real Income per Person in 1960 Real Income per Person in 2010 Annual Growth Rate
(Dollars) (Dollars) (Percent)
Canada 12,946 35,810 2.06
United Kingdom 11,884 32,034 2.00
Korea 1,610 28,702 5.93
Hong Kong 4,518 44,070 4.66
Guatemala 1,985 3,859 1.34

Indicate which economy satisfies each of the following statements.

Statement Canada Guatemala Hong Kong Korea Niger United Kingdom
This economy had the highest level of real income per person in the year 2010.
This economy experienced the fastest rate of growth in real income per person from 1960 to 2010.

Consider the following list of four economies. Which economy began with a level of real income per person in 1960 that was well below that of the United Kingdom and grew fast enough to catch up with and surpass the United Kingdom's real income per person by 2010?

a. Canada
b. Guatemala
c. Hong Kong
d. Korea

SY Manufacturers (SYM) is producing T-shirts in three colors: red, blue, and white. The monthly demand for each color is 3,487 units. Each shirt requires 0.75 pound of raw cotton that is imported from the Luft-Geshfet-Textile (LGT) Company in Brazil. The purchasing price per pound is $1.55 (paid only when the cotton arrives at SYM's facilities) and transportation cost by sea is $0.70 per pound. The traveling time from LGT’s facility in Brazil to the SYM facility in the United States is two weeks. The cost of placing a cotton order, by SYM, is $186 and the annual interest rate that SYM is facing is 32 percent of total cost per pound.
a. What is the optimal order quantity of cotton? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)
Optimal order quantity pounds
b. How frequently should the company order cotton? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
Company orders once every months
c. Assuming that the first order is needed on 1-Jul, when should SYM place the order?
17-Jun
1-Jul
15-Jul
d. How many orders will SYM place during the next year? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
Number of orders times
e. What is the resulting annual holding cost? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)
Annual holding cost $ per year
f. What is the resulting annual ordering cost?
Annual ordering cost $
g. If the annual interest cost is only 5 percent, how will it affect the annual number of orders, the optimal batch size, and the average inventory?

Major League Bat Company manufactures baseball bats. In addition to its work in process inventories, the company maintains inventories of raw materials and finished goods. It uses raw materials as direct materials in production and as indirect materials. Its factory payroll costs include direct labor for production and indirect labor. All materials are added at the beginning of the process, and conversion costs are applied uniformly throughout the production process. Required: You are to maintain records and produce measures of inventories to reflect the July events of this company. The June 30 balances: Raw Materials Inventory, $22,000; Work in Process Inventory, $9,690 ($2,810 of direct materials and $6,880 of conversion); Finished Goods Inventory, $140,000; Sales, $0; Cost of Goods Sold, $0; Factory Payroll Payable, $0; and Factory Overhead, $0. 1. Prepare journal entries to record the following July transactions and events. Purchased raw materials for $130,000 cash (the company uses a perpetual inventory system). Used raw materials as follows: direct materials, $52,540; and indirect materials, $11,500. Recorded factory payroll payable costs as follows: direct labor, $206,000; and indirect labor, $26,500. Paid factory payroll cost of $232,500 with cash (ignore taxes). Incurred additional factory overhead costs of $83,000 paid in cash. Allocated factory overhead to production at 50% of direct labor costs. 2. Information about the July inventories follows. Use this information with that from part 1 to prepare a process cost summary, assuming the weighted-average method is used. (Round "Cost per EUP" to 2 decimal places.) Units Beginning inventory 6,500 units Started 14,000 units Ending inventory 8,000 units Beginning inventory Materials—Percent complete 100 % Conversion—Percent complete 80 % Ending inventory Materials—Percent complete 100 % Conversion—Percent complete 30 % 3.
Using the results from part 2 and the available information, make computations and prepare journal entries to record the following: Total costs transferred to finished goods for July. Sale of finished goods costing $273,200 for $640,000 in cash.Using the results from part 2 and the available information, make computations and prepare journal entries to record the following: Total costs transferred to finished goods for July. Sale of finished goods costing $273,200 for $640,000 in cash. Using the results from part 2 and the available information, make computations and prepare journal entries to record the following: Total costs transferred to finished goods for July. Sale of finished goods costing $273,200 for $640,000 in cash.

Daily demand for a certain product is normally distributed with a mean of 138 and a standard deviation of 13. The supplier is reliable and maintains a constant lead time of 7 days. The cost of placing an order is $17 and the cost of holding inventory is $0.40 per unit per year. There are no stock-out costs, and unfilled orders are filled as soon as the order arrives. Assume sales occur over 358 days of the year.
Your goal here is to find the order quantity and reorder point to satisfy a 73 percent probability of not stocking out during the lead time.
a. To manage inventory, the company is using
Continuous review system
Periodic review system
b. Find the order quantity. (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)
Order quantity books
c. Find the reorder point. (Use Excel's NORMSINV() function to find the correct critical value for the given α-level. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round "z" value to 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole number.)
Reorder point

"The​ ________ includes all international economic transactions with income or payment flows occurring within the year."

Larkspur Incorporated factored $124,300 of accounts receivable with Cullumber Factors Inc. on a without-recourse basis. Cullumber assesses a 2% finance charge of the amount of accounts receivable and retains an amount equal to 5% of accounts receivable for possible adjustments.

Required:
Prepare the journal entry for Larkspur Incorporated and Cullumber Factors to record the factoring of the accounts receivable to Cullumber.

What is a sum of money that is borrowed and is expected to be paid back with interest?

At year-end 2018, Marvel Company total assets were $4.5 million, and its accounts payable were $850,000. Sales, which in 2018 were $5.5 million, are expected to increase by 25% in 2019. Total assets and accounts payable are proportional to sales, and that relationship will be maintained. Marvel typically uses no current liabilities other than accounts payable. Common stock amounted to $ 2.25 million in 2018, and retained earnings were $150,000. Marvel has arranged to sell $25,000 of new common stock in 2019 to meet some of its financing needs. The remainder of its financing needs will be met by issuing new long-term debt at the end of 2019. (Because the debt is added at the end of the year, there will be no additional interest expense due to the new debt.) Its net profit margin on sales is 2.5%, and 55% of earnings will be paid out as dividends.

Required:
a. What were Marvel's total long-term debt and total liabilities in 2018?
b. How much new long-term debt financing will be needed in 2019?

Mcmurtry Corporation sells a product for $250 per unit. The product's current sales are 13,600 units and its break-even sales are 10,608 units. The margin of safety as a percentage of sales is closest to: