You are analyzing two companies that manufacture electronic toys--Like Games Inc. and Our Play Inc. Like Games was launched eight years ago, whereas Our Play is a relatively new company that has been in operation for only the past two years. However, both companies have an equal market share with sales of $200,000 each. You've gathered up company data to compare Like Games and Our Play. Last year, the average sales for industry competitors was $510,000. As an analyst, you want to make comments on the expected performance of these two companies in the coming year. You've collected data from the companies' financial statements. This information is listed as follows:
Like Games
Accounts receivable: 5,400
Net fixed assets: 110,000
Total assets: 190,000
Our Play
Accounts receivable: 7,800
Net fixed assets: 160,000
Total assets: 250,000
Industry Average
Accounts receivable: 7,700
Net fixed assets: 433,500
Total assets: 469,200
Using this information, complete the following statements in your analysis.
1. A _____ days of sales outstanding represents an efficient credit and collection policy. Between the two companies, _____ is collecting cash from its customers faster than _____, but both companies are collecting their receivables less quickly than the industry average.
2. Our Play's fixed assets turnover ratio is _____ than that of Like Games. This could be because Our Play is a relatively new company, so the acquisition cost of it fixed assets is _____ that the recorded cost of Like Games's net fixed assets.
3. Like Games's total assets turnover ratios is _____, which is _____, than the industry's average total assets turnover ratio. In general, a higher total assets turnover ratio indicates greater efficiency.

Answer:

1. A LOWER days of sales outstanding represents an efficient credit and collection policy. Between the two companies, LIKE GAMES is collecting cash from its customers faster than OUR PLAY, but both companies are collecting their receivables less quickly than the industry average.

2. Our Play's fixed assets turnover ratio is LOWER than that of Like Games. This could be because Our Play is a relatively new company, so the acquisition cost of it fixed assets is HIGHER that the recorded cost of Like Games's net fixed assets.

3. Like Games's total assets turnover ratios is 1.05, which is LOWER than the industry's average total assets turnover ratio. In general, a higher total assets turnover ratio indicates greater efficiency.

Explanation:

DSO = (accounts receivable / credit sales) x 365

DSO industry = (7,700 / 510,000) x 365 = 5.5 days

DSO Like Games = (5,400 / 200,000) x 365 = 9.9 days

DSO Our Play = (7,800 / 200,000) x 365 = 14.2 days

Fixed asset turnover ratio = net sales / average fixed assets

Fixed asset turnover ratio industry = 510,000 / 433,500 = 1.18

Fixed asset turnover ratio Like Games = 200,000 / 110,000 = 1.82

Fixed asset turnover ratio Our Play = 200,000 / 160,000 = 1.25

Total asset turnover ratio = net sales / average total assets

Total asset turnover ratio industry = 510,000 / 469,200 = 1.09

Total asset turnover ratio Like Games = 200,000 / 190,000 = 1.05

Total asset turnover ratio Our Play = 200,000 / 250,000 = 0.8

Which of the following influences what you choose to wear
Your activities

All of the Above

Basic needs

Your personal preferences

3. The last dividend paid by New Technologies was an annual dividend of $1.40 a share. Dividends for the next 3 years will be increased at an annual rate of 8 percent. After that, dividends are expected to increase by 3 percent each year. The discount rate is 16 percent. What is the current value of this stock

Last week, an investigative reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper discovered that the doctors conducting clinical trials of a new cancer treatment drug are also the principal shareholders in Cancer Solutions Inc. (CSI). CSI is the company developing and attempting to market the drug. Upon being interviewed by federal authorities, the doctors acknowledged their conflict of interest but reported that they were sold the shares at a 75% discount by CSI's chief financial officer. The CFO was concerned that CSI might not be able to meet its annual performance objectives and in turn pay his anticipated multimillion-dollar bonus.
Does an agency conflict exist between CSI's CFO and the company's shareholders?
a. Yes; CSI's CFO engaged in unethical conduct to manipulate the firm's short-term earnings and improve the likelihood of receiving his annual bonus.
b. Yes; the shares should not have been sold at a 75% discount, which is price discrimination.
c. No; professionals, such as doctors and professional money managers, would not participate in unethical activities.
d. No; in general, shareholders are satisfied with company officers engaging in any type of legal or illegal activity to ensure the chances of them receiving greater dividend payments.
Which of the following actions will help ease agency conflicts and better align managers' objectives with the firm's shareholder wealth?
a. Pay the manager a combination of salary and stock options (phased in over several years) that reward him or her for consistently increasing shareholder wealth.
b. Pay the manager a large base salary with a huge stock option package that matures on a single date.
Amalgamated Metals Corporation's stockholders are mostly individual investors, and there is relatively little institutional ownership. If several pension and mutual funds were to take large positions in Amalgamated Metals Corporation's stock, direct shareholder intervention would be___________ likely to motivate the firm's management.

The Senate, the legislature of the fictional country of Romange, is considering legislation that will generate benefits of $30 million and costs of $34 million. For perspective, Romange's population is 50 million. Passing the legislation is _____________ , and if everyone in Romange shared equally in both its benefits and its costs, the Senate will vote ____________ the legislation. If the costs of the legislation are concentrated among a few people instead of widespread among the population, those people will be willing to spend up to ___________ lobbying the Senate against the legislation. (Note: Assume that the benefits are widespread; therefore, you can ignore them in the calculations of the few who experience the costs.) The more widely spread are the benefits of the legislation, the _____________is the likelihood of lobbying for the legislation by those who will incur its benefits.

Suppose that, as before, the costs of the legislation are concentrated among a small group, but the benefits of the legislation are concentrated among another small group, and the Senate is responsive to lobbying. The people who will benefit from the legislation will be willing to spend on lobbying up to______________ , in which case the Senate will likely vote ___________ the legislation.

Pooling has been used for a long time by businesses as a way to reduce risk. Imagine that years ago a small paint factory employed 200 people, each with an annual salary of $600/year. The factory owner knew from experience that 4 percent of workers were being injured each year, becoming unable to work. The factory owner decided to set up a fund to pay injured workers three months of salary to help their families and build good will with employees. The owner did not contribute to the injury fund. The workers themselves contributed a fixed amount each year to fund the plan. Answer the following questions (1 point each):_____.
1. How much did the owner need to collect from employees in total to fully fund the plan each year?
2. How much did each employee have to contribute each year to fully fund the plan?
3. What percentage of salary did each employee contribute to have an injury fund like this?

Four independent situations are described below. Each involves future deductible amounts and/or future taxable amounts produced by temporary differences:

($ in thousands)
Situation
1 2 3 4
Taxable income $84 $216 $196 $260
Future deductible amounts 16 20 20
Future taxable amounts 16 16 28
Balance(s) at beginning of the year:
Deferred tax asset 2 9 4
Deferred tax liability 8 2

The enacted tax rate is 25%.

Required:

For each situation, determine the following:

Situation
1 2 3 4
a. Income tax payable
b. Deferred tax asset - balance
c. Deferred tax asset - change
d. Deferred tax liability - balance
e. Deferred tax liability - change
f. Income tax expense

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?

A credit granted to a customer for returned goods requires a debit to a. Accounts Receivable and a credit to a contra-revenue account. b. Cash and a credit to Sales Returns and Allowances. c. Sales Revenue and a credit to Cash. d. Sales Returns and Allowances and a credit to Accounts Receivable.\

Match each trade organization or agreement with its description.

a. Oversees trade agreements among over 150 member nations and arbitrates trade disagreements among member countries.
b. Created a free-trade zone consisting of the United States, Canada, and Mexico with the purpose of eliminating trade barriers between these countries.
c. An agreement between over 25 nations, which abolished tariffs among member countries and standardized policies on agriculture, transportation, and business practices.

1. World Trade Organization
2. North American Free Trade Agreement
3. The European Union

Financial Assertions and Audit Objectives. You are engaged to examine the financial statements of Spillane Company for the year ended December 31. Assume that on November 1, Spillane borrowed $500,000 from Second National Bank to finance plant expansion. The long-term note agreement provided for the annual payment of principal and interest over five years. The existing plant was pledged as security for the loan. Due to the unexpected difficulties in acquiring the building site, the plant expansion did not begin on time. To use the borrowed funds, management decided to invest in stocks and bonds and on November 16, invested the $500,000 in publicly traded securities
Required:
Develop specific assertions (audit objectives) related to securities (assets) based on management’s five (PCAOB) general assertions.

Karen, an automobile mechanic employed by an auto dealership, is considering opening a fast-food franchise. If Karen decides not to acquire the fast-food franchise, any investigation expenses are:

Which best explains why there are many job opportunities in the Lodging pathway?
O The pathway requires a college education.
O The pathway offers seasonal positions.
O The pathway includes low-paying jobs.
The pathway has a high turnover rate.

As CFO for Everything.Com, you are shopping for 5,000 square feet of usable office space for 25 of your employees in Center City, USA. A leasing broker shows you space in Apex Atrium, a 10-story multi-tenanted office building. This building contains 300,000 square feet of gross building area. A total of 45,000 square feet is interior space and is non-rentable. The non-rentable space consists of areas contained in the basement, elevator core, and other mechanical and structural components. An additional 30,000 square feet of common area is the lobby area usable by all tenants. The 5,000 square feet of usable area that you are looking for is on the seventh floor, which contains 28,000 square feet of rentable area, and is leased by other tenants who occupy a combined total of 20,000 square feet of usable space. The leasing broker indicated that base rents will be $30 per square foot of rentable area.

Required:
a. Calculate total rentable area in the building as though it would be rented to one tenant.
b. Calculate the load factor and common area on the seventh floor only.
c. Calculate the rentable area, including the load factor for common areas on the seventh floor and the total rent per square foot that will be paid by Everything.Com for the coming year if it chooses to lease the space.
d. Adjust (b) assuming that the owner adjusts the load factor for other common areas in the building.
e. Calculate total rent per square foot, assuming that adjusted load factors are applied to usable area for both the common areas in the building lobby and on the seventh floor.

What was the intrinsic value of SmileWhite Co. stock when the analyst was evaluating the stock (that is in year 2008)

Due to erratic sales of its sole product—a high-capacity battery for laptop computers—PEM, Inc., has been experiencing difficulty for some time. The company’s contribution format income statement for the most recent month is given below:
Sales (13,200 units × $40 per unit) $528,000
Variable expenses 316,800
Contribution margin 211,200
Fixed expenses 235,200
Net operating loss $(24,000)
1. Compute the company’s CM ratio and its break-even point in both unit sales and dollar sales.
2. The president believes that a $6,800 increase in the monthly advertising budget, combined with an intensified effort by the sales staff, will result in an $89,000 increase in monthly sales. If the president is right, what will be the effect on the company’s monthly net operating income or loss?
3. Refer to the original data. The sales manager is convinced that a 10% reduction in the selling price, combined with an increase of $31,000 in the monthly advertising budget, will double unit sales. What will the new contribution format income statement look like if these changes are adopted?
4. Refer to the original data. The Marketing Department thinks that a fancy new package for the laptop computer battery would help sales. The new package would increase packaging costs by $0.60 cents per unit. Assuming no other changes, how many units would have to be sold each month to earn a profit of $4,100?
5. Refer to the original data. By automating, the company could reduce variable expenses by $3 per unit. However, fixed expenses would increase by $55,000 each month.
A. Compute the new CM ratio and the new break-even point in both unit sales and dollar sales.
CM ratio 45%
Break-even points in units 183
Break-even points in dollars 7,305

B. Assume that the company expects to sell 20,700 units next month. Prepare two contribution format income statements, one assuming that operations are not automated and one assuming that they are.
C. Would you recommend that the company automate its operations?
1. Yes
2. No

This year, Linda Moore earned a $112,000 salary and $2,200 interest income from a jumbo Certificate of Deposit. She recognized a $15,300 capital loss on the sale of undeveloped land.

1. She also recognized a $10,500 capital gain from the sale of corporate stock.
2. She also received a $16,000 capital gain distribution from a mutual fund.
3. She had no other capital transactions this year but has a $17,000 capital loss carryforward from a previous year.

Required:
a. Compute Linda’s AGI and any capital loss carryforward into future years when she also recognized a $10,500 capital gain from the sale of corporate stock.
b. Compute Linda’s AGI and any capital loss carryforward into future years when she also received a $16,000 capital gain distribution from a mutual fund.
c. Compute Linda’s AGI and any capital loss carryforward into future years when she had no other capital transactions this year but has a $17,000 capital loss carryforward from a previous year.

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QUESTION 19

¿Cuál de las siguientes descripciones representa la dimensión masculinidad-feminidad de Hofstede?

01. La dependencia de las decisiones del grupo frente a la dependencia de las decisiones individuales.

2 Todo el mundo debería tener los mismos derechos dente a los que tiene er control para poder tener derecho a los privilegios.

3. La voluntad de tomar niesgos frente a la preocupación con la seguridad en la vida.

4. La asertividad y las preocupaciones materiales frente a la preocupación por las relaciones humanas y los sentimientos.

5. El tiempo es libre versus el tiempo es dinero

R. J. Graziano Wholesale Corp. uses the LIFO method of inventory costing. In the current year, profit at R. J. Graziano is running unusually high. The corporate tax rate is also high this year, but it is scheduled to decline significantly next year. In an effort to lower the current year's net income and to take advantage of the changing income tax rate, the president of R. J. Graziano Wholesale instructs the plant accountant to recommend to the purchasing department a large purchase of inventory for delivery 3 days before the end of the year. The price of the inventory to be purchased has doubled during the year, and the purchase will represent a major portion of the ending inventory value.

Required:
a. What is the effect of this transaction on this year's and next year's income statement and income tax expense? Why?
b. If R. J. Graziano Wholesale had been using the FIFO method of inventory costing, would the president give the same directive?
c. Should the plant accountant order the inventory purchase to lower income? What are the ethical implications of this order?

Darnell is buying salad and pizza for a company lunch. Suppose that a bowl of salad costs $4.00, and a slice of pizza costs $2.00. Let E be the amount in dollars that Darnell spends on salad and pizza. If Darnell buys S bowls of salad and P slices of pizza, then the total amount of money he spends ( E ) can be represented by the equation . Now rearrange the equation you wrote above so that P is written in terms of E and S. The quantity of pizza he buys can be represented by the equation . Suppose Darnell has $40.00 to spend on salad and pizza; that is, E=$40.00.
Complete the following table with values of S or P that make the equation true.
To complete the first row, determine the number of pizza slices Paolo can purchase with $40.00, when the number of salad bowls he purchases is 0.
Budget (Dollars) Salad (Bowls) Pizza (Slice)
40.00 0 _____
40.00 4 _____
40.00 _____ 0

On July 1, 2020, Culver Inc. made two sales. 1. It sold land having a fair value of $902,220 in exchange for a 4-year zero-interest-bearing promissory note in the face amount of $1,419,656. The land is carried on Culver's books at a cost of $590,900. 2. It rendered services in exchange for a 3%, 8-year promissory note having a face value of $402,150 (interest payable annually). Culver Inc. recently had to pay 8% interest for money that it borrowed from British National Bank. The customers in these two transactions have credit ratings that require them to borrow money at 12% interest.
Record the two journal entries that should be recorded by Sunland Inc. for the sales transactions above that took place on July 1, 2020. (Round present value factor calculations to 5 decimal places, e.g. 1.25124 and final answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 5,275. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter o for the amounts. Credit account titles are automatically indented when the amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)
No. Date Account Titles and Explanation Debit Credit
1. July 1, 2020
2. July 1, 2020

Organizations are often divided into units or departments. Which of these is NOT a common way to organize a company?
Group of answer choices
By function
By product
By employee compensation
By customer

If the cross-price elasticity of demand between Good A and Good B is 3, the price of Good B increases, and the price elasticity of demand for Good B is inelastic, we can expect to see a(n) ________ change in the quantity demanded for Good A. Group of answer choices

The following information was drawn from the Year 1 accounting records of Ozark Merchandisers: Inventory that had cost $15,000 was sold for $27,000 under terms 2/20, net/30. Customers returned merchandise to Ozark five days after the purchase. The merchandise had been sold for a price of $660. The merchandise had cost Ozark $400. All customers paid their accounts within the discount period. Selling and administrative expenses amounted to $2,835. Interest expense paid amounted to $200. Land that had cost $6,000 was sold for $6,900 cash.
Required
a. Determine the amount of net sales. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to the nearest whole dollar amount.)
b. Prepare a multistep income statement. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to the nearest whole dollar amount. Amounts to be deducted and losses should be indicated with a minus sign.)
c. Where would the interest expense be shown on the statement of cash flows?
Operating activities
Investing activities
Financing activities
d. How would the sale of the land be shown on the statement of cash flows?
A. The full sales price of the land, $9,250, would be shown as a cash inflow from financing activities on the statement of cash flows.
B. The full sales price of the land, $9,250, would be shown as a cash inflow from investing activities on the statement of cash flows.
C. The full sales price of the land, $9,250, would be shown as a cash inflow from operating activities on the statement of cash flows

The following inventory valuation errors have been discovered for Knox Corporation:
The 2015 year-end inventory was overstated by $23,000
The 2016 year-end inventory was understated by $61,000
The 2017 year-end inventory was understated by $17,000
The reported income before taxes for Knox was:
Year: Income before Taxes:
2015 $138,000
2016 $254,000
2017 $168,000
Required:
Compute what income before taxes for 2015, 2016, and 2017 should have been after correcting for the errors.

Suppose the classical linear model assumptions hold, and the population model for log(wage) is given by:

The following information was taken from the accounts of Green Market, a small grocery store, at December 31, Year 2. The accounts are listed in alphabetical order, and all have normal balances.

Accounts payable $800
Accounts receivable 2,250
Advertising expense 600
Cash 1,850
Common stock 2,000
Cost of goods sold 2,950
Interest expense 120
Merchandise inventory 1,250
Prepaid rent 720
Retained earnings, 1/1/Year 2 2,610
Sales revenue 5,600
Salaries expense 960
Rent expense 510
Gain on sale of land 200

Required:
Prepare an income statement for the year using the single-step and multistep approach.

Consider the following data on U.S. GDP:

Year Nominal GDP (Billions of dollars) GDP Deflator (Base year 2009)
2015 17,947 109.8
1995 7,664 75.3
The growth rate of nominal GDP between 1995 and 2015 was _____, and the growth rate of the GDP deflator between 1995 and 2015 was _____.

Measured in 2009 prices, real GDP was _____ billion in 1995 and _____ billion in 2015.

The growth rate of real GDP between 1995 and 2015 was _____.

The growth rate of nominal GDP between 1995 and 2015 was _____ than the growth rate of real GDP.

Assignment 3 Suggested Length: 750 to 1000 words Ethical Theories to Apply: Golden Rule and Virtue Ethics

1. Task You work in the Ethics Department for ABC Company (ABC). Your department is dedicated to advising its employees about their ethical obligations in the corporate setting. You are an internal consultant who provides advice and most importantly, recommendations for action to employees of the firm. All communications you receive in this capacity are confidential. Luke, an employee of ABC, comes to you with the following scenario and asks for your advice. He wants to fully consider the situation. Your task is to advise and recommend a course of action based on the specified ethical lenses and facts as given. Below are the facts that Luke provides to you. ***** Luke has been asked to work on a project that involves developing land recently purchased by ABC to build an adult entertainment retail store. According to the plan, the land is located on the corner of the neighborhood where Owen, Luke’s brother, lives. Luke knows that as soon as the plans for the store are made public, property values for the surrounding neighborhood will decrease significantly. ABC plans to publicly announce the project one month from today. Luke is concerned about his obligations of confidentiality to his company. However, Luke is also very close to Owen, who recently told Luke that he received an offer to sell his house at an "okay" price given the current real estate market. Owen is considering selling but hasn’t made any final decision yet. He wonders if he might get a better offer a few years from now when the real estate market improves. What is the ethical issue, why is this an issue, and what should Luke do about it?

***** For assignment 3, prepare a memo, setting out your analysis and recommendations, that considers ONLY the following two theories: Golden Rule and Virtue Ethics.

Broussard is already at full capacity, so its assets must grow at the same rate as projected sales. At the end of 2019, current liabilities were $1.4 million, consisting of $450,000 of accounts payable, $500,000 of notes payable, and $450,000 of accruals. The after-tax profit margin is forecasted to be 4%, and the forecasted payout ratio is 45%. Use the AFN equation to forecast Broussard's additional funds needed for the coming year. Enter your answer in dollars. For example, an answer of $1.2 million should be entered as $1,200,000.
Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest dollar.