We run a delivery service, and we believe our firm has market risk equally between that of UPS and FedEx. We know the following about these 2 firms:______.
Stock Price per share # shares outstanding Market Value of Debt
UPS $65 0.7 billion $ 5 billion
FedEx $55 250 million $ 3 billion
We also have the following data on the securities of these firms:_______.
Beta E Beta D
UPS 0.8 0
FedEx 1.1 0.1
Assume that our firm has risk-free debt with market value $20 million and equity with market value $450 million. Assume that taxes are not relevant. Please estimate our firm’s equity beta

Answer:

The firm’s equity beta is therefore equal to 0.85.

Explanation:

Note: The data in the question are merged together. They are therefore sorted before answering the question. See the attached pdf file for the complete question with the sorted data.

The explanation of the answer is now provided as follows:

The equity beta refers to a beta that considers different levels of debt of a firm. The equity beta is also known as the levered beta or the project beta. The equity beta is therefore different from the asset beta.

Asset beta refers to a beta does not consider debt and assume that the firm uses only equity financing. Asset beta is known as unlevered beta.

The Firm’s equity can be calculated using the following steps:

Step 1: Calculation of average unlevered beta of the firm

Unlevered beta = Levered beta / (1 + ((1 - Tax rate) * (Debt / Equity ratio))) ……… (1)

Where for UPS;

Levered beta = Beta E = Beta of Equity = 0.80

Tax rate = 0

Debt = Market value of debt = $5 billion

Equity = Market value of equity = Stock Price per share * Number of shares outstanding = $65 * 0.7 billion = $45.50 billion

Substituting the values into equation (1), we have:

UPS unlevered beta = 0.80 / (1 + ((1 - 0) * (5 / 45.50))) = 0.720792079207921 = 0.72

Where for FedEx;

Levered beta = Beta E = Beta of Equity = 1.10

Tax rate = 0

Debt = Market value of debt = $3 billion

Equity = Market value of equity = Stock Price per share * Number of shares outstanding = $55 * 250 million = $13.75 billion

Substituting the values into equation (1), we have:

FedEx unlevered beta = 1.10 / (1 + ((1 - 0) * (3 / 13.75))) = 0.902985074626866 = 0.90

Therefore, firm’s averaged unlevered beta can be calculated as follows:

Firm’s averaged unlevered beta = (UPS unlevered beta + FedEx unlevered beta) / 2 = (0.72 + 0.90) / 2 = 0.81

Step 2: Calculation of firm’s levered beta

Firms’ levered beta = Firm’s averaged unlevered beta * (1 + ((1 - Tax rate) * (Debt / Equity ratio))) …….. (2)

Where;

Firm’s averaged unlevered beta = 0.81

Tax rate = 0

Debt = Market value of risk-free debt = $20 million

Equity = Market value of equity = $450 million

Substituting the values into equation (2), we have:

Firms’ levered beta = 0.81 * (1 + ((1 - 0) * (20 / 450))) = 0.846 = 0.85

Since from the definitions above, the equity beta is also known as the levered beta, the firm’s equity beta is therefore equal to 0.85.

Appendix 1: Gross and net methods for sales discounts
The following were selected from among the transactions completed by Strong Retail Group during August of the current year:
Aug. 5. Sold merchandise on account to M. Quinn, $7,500, terms 2/10, n/30. The
cost of the merchandise sold was $4,200.
9. Sold merchandise on account to R. Busch., $4,000, terms 1/10, n/30. The
cost of the merchandise sold was $2,100.
15. Received payment on account for the sale of August 5 less the discount.
20. Sold merchandise on account to S. Mooney, $6,000, terms n/eom. The
cost of the merchandise sold was $3,300.
25. Received payment on account for the sale of August 9. 31.Received
payment on account for the sale of August 20.
A. Journalize the August transactions using the gross method of recording sales discounts.
Aug. 5 Accounts Receivable-M. Quinn 7,500
Sales 7,500
Cost of Goods Sold 4,200
Inventory 4,200
Accounts Receivable-R. Busch 4,000
Sales 4,000
Cost of Goods Sold 2,100
B. Journalize the August transactions using the net method of recording sales discounts.

A remotely located air sampling station can be powered by solar cells or by running an electric line to the site and using conventional power. Solar cells will cost $12,600 to install and will have a useful life of 4 years with no salvage value. Annual costs for inspection, cleaning, etc. are expected to be $1,400. A new power line will cost $11,000 to install, with power costs expected to be $800 per year. Since the air sampling project will end in 4 years, the salvage value of the line is considered to be zero. At an interest rate of 10% per year, which alternative should be selected on the basis of a future worth analysis?

Nanjones Company manufactures a line of products distributed nationally through wholesalers. Presented below are planned manufacturing data for the year and actual data for November of the current year. The company applies overhead based on planned machine hours using a predetermined annual rate.


Planning Data

Annual November

Fixed manufacturing overhead $1,200,000 $100,000
Variable manufacturing overhead 2,400,000 220,000
Direct labor hours 48,000 4,000
Machine hours 240,000 20,000

Data for November

Direct labor hours (actual) 4,200
Direct labor hours (plan based on output) 4,000
Machine hours (actual) 21,600
Machine hours (plan based on output) 21,000
Fixed manufacturing overhead $101,200
Variable manufacturing overhead $214,000


The fixed overhead volume variance for November was

a. $1,200 unfavorable.
b. $5,000 favorable.
c. $5,000 unfavorable.
d. $10,000 favorable.

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.

The following selected transactions were completed by Capers Company during October of the current year:

Oct. 1 Purchased merchandise from Sabol Imports Co., $15,458, terms FOB destination, n/30.
3 Purchased merchandise from Saxon Co., $9,650, terms FOB shipping point, 2/10, n/eom. Prepaid freight of $200 was added to the invoice.
5 Purchased merchandise from Schnee Co., $13,550, terms FOB destination, 2/10, n/30.
6 Issued debit memo to Schnee Co. for merchandise with an invoice amount of $4,350 returned from purchase on July 5.
13 Paid Saxon Co. for invoice of July 3.
14 Paid Schnee Co. for invoice of July 5, less debit memo of July 6.
19 Purchased merchandise from Southmont Co., $27,270, terms FOB shipping point, n/eom.
19 Paid freight of $375 on July 19 purchase from Southmont Co.
20 Purchased merchandise from Stevens Co., $21,400, terms FOB destination, 1/10, n/30.
30 Paid Stevens Co. for invoice of July 20. 31 Paid Sabol Imports Co. for invoice of July 1.
31 Paid Southmont Co. for invoice of July 19.

Required:
Journalize the entries to record the transactions of Capers Company for October.

Performance Obligation Fulfilled Over Time Philbrick Company signed a three-year contract to develop custom sales training materials and provide training to the employees of Elliot Company. The contract price is $1,100 per employee and the number of employees to be trained is 500. Philbrick can send a bill to Elliot at the end of every training session. Once developed, the custom training materials will belong to Elliot Company, but Philbrick does not consider them to be a separate performance obligation. The expected number to be trained in each year and the expected development and training costs follow. Number of employees Development and training costs incurred
2019
150 $
55,000
2020
250
70,000
2021
100
20,000
Total 500 $145,000
For each year, compute the revenue, expense, and gross profit reported assuming revenue is recognized over time using... 1. the number of employees trained as a measure of the value provided to the customer. Note: Round answers to the nearest dollar.

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This activity is important because as world trade has grown, more companies have entered the global market. Once a firm decides to enter the global market, it must choose which means of market entry is the most appropriate. The global market entry strategies vary greatly on the dimensions of financial commitment, risk, marketing control, and profit potential.
The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding of the different types of global market entry strategies: exporting, licensing, joint venture, and direct investment. Roll over each company name to read the description of the firm's strategy, then drop it onto the correct global market entry strategy within the graphic.
1. Yoplait
2. Moodmatcher lipstick
3. McDonald's
4. Ericsson and CGCT
5. Boeing
6. Nissan
A. Indirect Exporting
B. Direct Exporting
C. Licensing
D. Franchising
E. Joint Venture
F. Direct Investment

During the first month of operations ended August 31, Kodiak Fridgeration Company manufactured 80,000 mini refrigerators, of which 72,000 were sold. Operating data for the month are summarized as follows:
1 Sales $10,800,000.00
2 Manufacturing costs:
3 Direct materials $6,400,000.00
4 Direct labor 1,600,000.00
5 Variable manufacturing cost 1,280,000.00
6 Fixed manufacturing cost 320,000.00 9,600,000.00
7 Selling and administrative expenses:
8 Variable $1,080,000.00
9 Fixed 180,000.00 1,260,000.00
Required:
1. Prepare an income statement based on the absorption costing concept.*
2. Prepare an income statement based on the variable costing concept.*
3. Explain the reason for the difference in the amount of income from operations reported in (1) and (2).
* Refer to the lists of Labels and Amount Descriptions for the exact wording of the answer choices for text entries. Be sure to complete the statement heading. A colon (:) will automatically appear if required. Enter Inventory, August 31 as a negative number using a minus sign. If a net loss is incurred, enter that amount as a negative number using a minus sign.
Labels and Amount Descriptions
Labels
August 31
Cost of goods sold
Fixed costs
For the Month Ended August 31
Variable cost of goods sold
Amount Descriptions
Contribution margin
Contribution margin ratio
Cost of goods manufactured
Fixed manufacturing costs
Fixed selling and administrative expenses
Gross profit
Income from operations
Inventory, August 31
Loss from operations
Manufacturing margin
Planned contribution margin
Sales
Sales mix
Selling and administrative expenses
Total cost of goods sold
Total fixed costs
Total variable cost of goods sold
Variable cost of goods manufactured
Variable selling and administrative expenses
Absorption Costing Income Statement
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Variable Costing Income Statement
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*Variable Cost of Goods Sold = Variable Cost of Goods Manufactured - [(Manufactured Units - Sold Units) x (Variable Manufacturing Costs/Manufactured Units)]
Final Question
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3. Explain the reason for the difference in the amount of income from operations reported in (1) and (2).
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how globalization has changed jobs in an organization where you have worked. What are some HR responses to those changes

A company has the following aging schedule of its accounts receivable with the estimated percent uncollectible:______.
Age Group Amount Receivable Estimated Percent Uncollectible
Not yet due $ 175,000 4 %
0-60 days past due $ 40,000 10 %
61-120 days past due $ 10,000 30 %
More than 120 days past due $ 5,000 60 %
Assuming the balance of Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts is $3,000 (credit) before adjustment, which of the following would be recorded in the year-end adjusting entry?

Marc and Michelle are married and earned salaries this year of $64,000 and $12,000, respectively. In addition to their salaries, they received interest of $350 from municipal bonds and $500 from corporate bonds. Marc contributed $2,500 to an individual retirement account, and Marc paid alimony to a prior spouse in the amount of $1,500 (under a divorce decree effective June 1, 2005). Marc and Michelle have a 10-year-old son, Matthew, who lived with them throughout the entire year. Thus, Marc and Michelle are allowed to claim a $1,000 child tax credit for Matthew. Marc and Michelle paid $6,000 of expenditures that qualify as itemized deductions and they had a total of $5,500 in federal income taxes withheld from their paychecks during the course of the year. (use the 2016 tax rate schedules).
1. What is the total amount of Marc and Michelle’s deductions from AGI?
2. What is Marc and Michelle’s taxable income?
3. What is Marc and Michelle’s taxable income?

n California, any apartment building with this many units must have an onsite manager, who is also known as a residential manager. What is the number of units to which this statement refers? Ten or more. Twelve or more. Sixteen or more. Twenty or more+.

Major League Bat Company manufactures baseball bats. In addition to its goods 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 direct labor and factory overhead 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 are as follows: Raw Materials Inventory, $25,000; Goods in Process Inventory, $10,520 ($2,800 of direct materials, $3,800 of direct labor, and $3,920 of overhead); Finished Goods Inventory, $116,000; Sales, $0; Cost of Goods Sold, $0; Factory Payroll, $0; and Factory Overhead, $0.1. Prepare journal entries to record the following July transactions and events.a. Purchased raw materials for $132,000 cash (the company uses a perpetual inventory system).b. Used raw materials as follows: direct materials, $49,900; and indirect materials, $15,000.c. Incurred factory payroll cost of $173,650 paid in cash (ignore taxes).d. Assigned factory payroll costs as follows: direct labor, $142,650; and indirect labor, $31,000.e. Incurred additional factory overhead costs of $42,795 paid in cash.f. 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.)3. Using the results from part 2 and the available information, make computations and prepare journal entries to record the following:g. Total costs transferred to finished goods for July.h. Sale of finished goods costing $132,010 for $650,000 in cash.4. Post entries from parts 1 and 3 to the following general ledger accounts5. Compute the amount of gross profit from the sales in July. (Add any underapplied overhead too, or deduct any overapplied overhead from, the cost of goods sold.)

Piere Imports uses the perpetual system in accounting for merchandise inventory and had the following transactions during the month of October.

Oct. 2 Purchased merchandise at a $4,700 price ($4,606 net), invoice dated October 2, terms 2/10, n/30.
10 Received a credit memorandum toward the return of $850 ($833 net) of merchandise that it purchased on October 2.
17 Purchased merchandise at a $8,800 price ($8,624 net), invoice dated October 17, terms 2/10, n/30.
27 Paid for the merchandise purchased on October 17, less the discount.
31 Paid for the merchandise purchased on October 2. (Payment was mistakenly delayed, which caused the discount to be lost.)

Required:
Prepare entries to record these transactions assuming that Piere Imports records invoices (a) at gross amounts and (b) at net amounts.

Presented below are certain account balances of Oriole Products Co.

Rent revenue $6,520 Sales discounts $8,240
Interest expense 13,460 Selling expenses 99,440
Beginning retained earnings 114,900 Sales revenue 407,700
Ending retained earnings 134,130 Income tax expense 25,015
Dividend revenue 71,910 Cost of goods sold 188,927
Sales returns and allowances 12,910 Administrative expenses 75,820
Allocation to noncontrolling interest 20,040

From the foregoing, compute the following:
a.Total net revenue:_________
b. Net income:__________
c. Income attributable to controlling stockholders:___________

The Hifalutin Co. has perpetual EBIT of $3,000. It has no debt in its capital structure, and its cost of equity is 15%. The corporate tax rate is 40%. There are 300 shares outstanding. Hifalutin has announced that it will borrow $3,750 in perpetual debt at 8% and use the proceeds to buy up stock. How many shares will be purchased

The price of oil in international markets has dropped stunningly 60% in the past twelve months. Among the factors mentioned behind this drastic fall is the millions of barrels of oil produced in the US called shale oil and analyze:

a. The market struc ture for oil industry.
b. The supply and demand for oil in that market structure.
c. The pricing of oil at the presence of OPEC and the role of Speculators.
d. Why shale oil is a substitute for oil and explain the news in regard to the Cross elasticity of demand.

Acute Company manufactures a single product. On December 31, 2014, it adopted the dollar-value LIFO inventory method. The inventory on that date using the dollar-value LIFO inventory method was determined to be $300,000. Inventory data for succeeding years follow:

Year Ended December 31 Inventory at Respective Year-End Prices Relevant Price Index (Base Year 2014)
2015 $363,000 1.10
2016 420,000 1.20
2017 430,000 1.25

Required:
Compute the inventory amounts at December 31, 2015, 2016, and 2017, using the dollar-value LIFO inventory method for each year.

Pearl Co. both purchases and constructs various equipment it uses in its operations. The following items for two different types of equipment were recorded in random order during the calendar year 2017.
Purchase
Cash paid for equipment, including sales tax of $6,200 $130,200
Freight and insurance cost while in transit 2,480
Cost of moving equipment into place at factory 3,844
Wage cost for technicians to test equipment 4,960
Insurance premium paid during first year of operation on this equipment 1,860
Special plumbing fixtures required for new equipment 9,920
Repair cost incurred in first year of operations related to this equipment 1,612
Construction
Material and purchased parts (gross cost $248,000; failed to take 2% cash discount) $248,000
Imputed interest on funds used during construction (stock financing) 17,360
Labor costs 235,600
Allocated overhead costs (fixed-$24,800; variable-$37,200) 62,000
Profit on self-construction 37,200
Cost of installing equipment 5,456
Compute the total cost for each of these two pieces of equipment.
Purchase equipment $_____
Construction equipment $_____

What are two cons of using a credit card?

Linder Corporation invested $70,000 cash in marketable securities on September 1. On September 7 the company sold $10,000 of these investments for $15,000. On September 28 Linder sold $6,000 of the securities for $4,000.

Required:
a. Record the purchase of marketable securities on September 1.
b. Record the sale of marketable securities on September 7.
c. Record the additional sale of marketable securities on September 28.
d. Record the necessary month end fair value adjustment on September 30. The market price for Linder Corporation's remaining unsold securities was $58,000.

Consider a simple example economy where there are two goods, coconuts and restaurant meals (coconut-based). There are two firms. A coconut producer collects and sells 10 million coconuts at $2.00 each. The firm pays $5 million in wages, $0.5 million in interest on an old loan, and $1.5 million in taxes to the government. We also know that 4 million coconuts are sold to the public for consumption, and 6 million coconuts are sold to the restaurant firm, which uses them to prepare meals. The restaurant sells $30 million in meals. The restaurant pays $4 million in wages and the government $3 million in taxes. The government supplies security and accounting services and employs only labor, and government workers are paid $5.5 million, collected in taxed by the government. Finally, consumers pay $1 million in taxes to the government in addition to the taxes paid by the two firms.

Required:
a. Compute GDP for this simple economy using the product approach.
b. Compute GDP for this simple economy using the expenditure approach.
c. Compute GDP for this simple economy using the income approach.
d. Now, suppose that the coconut producer cannot sell 1 million coconuts during the course of the year. These are collected coconuts that are not sold to the public (assume that sales to the other firm, the restaurant, remain the same).
e. How does this new piece of information affect your calculations in the expenditure approach? Explain.

Midland Petroleum is holding a stockholders’ meeting next month. Ms. Ramsey is the president of the company and has the support of the existing board of directors. All 12 members of the board are up for reelection. Mr. Clark is a dissident stockholder. He controls proxies for 42,001 shares. Ms. Ramsey and her friends on the board control 52,001 shares. Other stockholders, whose loyalties are unknown, will be voting the remaining 24,998 shares. The company uses cumulative voting.

Required:
a. How many directors can Mr. Clark be sure of electing?
b. How many can Ms Rmasey be sure of electing
c. How many votes could clark have if he had all the uncommitted votes
d. Does that give him control?
e. If nine directors were to be elected, and Ms. Ramsey and her friends had 70,001 shares and Mr. Clark had 48,001 shares plus half the uncommitted votes, how many directors could Mr. Clark elect?

Bernie and Phil's Great American Surplus store placed an ad in the Sunday Times stating, "Next Saturday at 8:00 A.M. sharp 3 brand new mink coats worth $5,000 each will be sold for $500 each! First come, First served." Marsha LufMin was first in line when the store opened and went directly to the coat department, but the coats identified in the ad were not available for sale. She identified herself to the manager and pointed out that she was first in line in conformity with the store's advertised offer and that she was ready to pay the $500 price set forth in the store's offer. The manager responded that a newspaper ad is just an invitation to negotiate and that the store decided to withdraw "the mink coat promotion." Review the text on unilateral contracts in Section 12(b) of Chapter 12. Decide.

The following information pertains to Yuji Corporation:

January 1, 20X1 December 31, 20X1
Raw materials inventory $34,000 $38,000
Work-in-process inventory 126,000 145,000
Finished goods inventory 76,000 68,000
Costs incurred during the year 20X1 were as follows:

Raw material purchased $116,000
Wages to factory workers 55,000
Salary to factory supervisors 25,000
Salary to selling and administrative staff 40,000
Depreciation on factory building and equipment 10,000
Depreciation on office building 12,000
Utilities for factory building 5,000
Utilities for office building 7,500

Required:
Sales revenue during 20X1 was $300,000. The income tax rate is 21%. Compute the following:

a. Cost of raw materials used.
b. Cost of goods manufactured/completed.
c. Cost of goods sold.
d. Gross margin.
e. Net income.

In 1998, the Russian government defaulted on its bonds. According to the open-economy macroeconomic model, this should have

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?

In 2010, Toyota recalled millions of automobiles to fix a potentially hazardous problem known as sudden acceleration. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, James Stewart gave investors the following advice: "Toyota shares were over $90 as recently as Jan. 19, 2010. They closed Tuesday (February 02, 2010) at $78.18, which strikes me as a modest decline under the circumstances. If I owned shares, I’d seize the chance to get out.

Required:
Would a believer in the efficient markets theory be likely to follow Stewart's advice?