Answer:
C. The firm's dividend payout ratio
Explanation:
Interest rates are set by the Bank, Tax rates by the Government, Stock Prices by demand from customers. The only factor that the company can control is its dividend payout ratio.
Which of the following entries could be considered as an adjusting entry? Group of answer choices Debit to Cash and Credit to Revenues Debit to Cash and Credit to Liabilities Credit to Cash and Debit to Expenses Debit to Expenses and Credit to Liabilities
Answer:
The entry that could be considered as an adjusting entry is:
Debit to Expenses and Credit to Liabilities
Explanation:
For example, to accrue salaries expenses in an accounting period when the cash payments have not been made, the Salaries Expenses account is debited with the amount of the unpaid salaries while the corresponding credit entry goes to the Salaries Payable account. Depreciation expense is also debited while the corresponding credit entry is made in the accumulated depreciation account.
When companies use automated production processes, they tend to condense the three manufacturing costs into two categories. These categories are: direct and indirect materials. direct costs and indirect materials. indirect materials and conversion costs. direct materials and conversion costs.
Answer:
direct materials and conversion costs.
Explanation:
When companies use automated production processes, they tend to condense the three manufacturing costs into two categories which are direct materials and conversion costs.
This is because Automation does conversion on the Direct Materials which are visible and can be traced to product being manufactured.
Mustang Corporation reports the following for the month of April:Finished goods inventory, April 1$32,600 Finished goods inventory, April 30 26,600 Total cost of goods manufactured 123,800The cost of goods sold for April is:a. $61,900.b. $124,500.c. $112,900.d. $173,700.e. $150,000
Answer:
COGS= $129,800
Explanation:
Giving the following information:
Finished goods inventory, April 1$32,600
Finished goods inventory, April 30 26,600
Total cost of goods manufactured 123,800
To calculate the cost of goods sold, we need to use the following formula:
COGS= beginning finished inventory + cost of goods manufactured - ending finished inventory
COGS= 32,600 + 123,800 - 26,600
COGS= $129,800
A second-year MBA student, takes three hours off one evening and uses his car to go to a movie with a friend. A ticket to the movie costs Josh $5, gasoline for the trip costs $1, and Josh passed up tutoring a student that night at $10 an hour. He could also have used the three hours to work as a grader for a professor at $15 an hour. What is Joshâs economic cost of going to the movie?
Answer:
$-39
Explanation:
Economic cost is implicit cost less accounting cost
Implicit cost or opportunity cost : implicit cost is the cost of the next best option forgone when one alternative is chosen over other alternatives. It is used in calculating economic profit
There are two opportunities the student forgoes when he decides to go to the movies. They are, the amount he would have earned if he tutored the student which has a value of $10 / hour and the amount he would have earned working as a grader which is $15 / hour.
The next best option is $15 / hour because it has a higher value
total economic cost = 15 x 3 = 45
the cost of the ticket and the cost of gasoline are explicit costs
Explicit cost includes the amount expended in going to the cinema
6 - 45 = -39
Jones Corp. reported current assets of $193,000 and current liabilities of $137,000 on its most recent balance sheet. The current assets consisted of $62,000 Cash; $43,000 Accounts Receivable; and $88,000 of Inventory. The acid-test (quick) ratio is: [Round your answer to the nearest two decimal places...ex: 3.246
Answer:
.77
Explanation:
Calculation to determine what The acid-test (quick) ratio is
Using this formula
Quick Assets = Cash+Accounts Receivable/Current liabilities
Let plug in the formula
Quick Assets=$62,000+43,000/$137,000
Quick Assets=$105,000/$137,000
Quick Assets= .77
Therefore The acid-test (quick) ratio is .77
What happens to the price of a three-year annual coupon paying bond with an 8% coupon when interest rates change from 8% to 8.96%
Answer:
It would reduce to -24.3185
Explanation:
I solved this on paper and have added the solution as an attachment
At 8% rate of interest the price of this bond is 1000
At 8.96% rate of interest the calculated price of the coupon bond is 975.681
975.681-1000 = -24.3185
When the interest rate falls from 8% to 8.96%, the price of the bond reduces by -24.3185
Assume that the current price of a stock is $100. A call option on that stock with an exercise price of $97 costs $7. A call option on the stock with the same expiration and an exercise price of $103 costs $3. Using these options what is the expiration profit of a bear call spread if the stock price is equal to $110
Answer:
-2
Explanation:
Wagner Assets Management Group holds 3 stocks in their investment portfolio. The amount of the investment and beta of each stock is listed below.
Stock Investment Beta
A $ 200,000 1.50
B 300,000 ??
C 500,000 1.20
If the beta of the portfolio is 0.75, what is the beta of stock B?
Answer:
-0.5
Explanation:
Stock Investment (W) Beta (B) W*B
A 200,000 1.50 300,000
B 300,000 X 300,000X
C 500,000 1.20 600,00
1,000,000 900,000+300,000X
Using the formula of Beta of Portfolio to find out X
0.75 = 900,000 + 300,000X / 1,000,000
0.75 * 1,000,000 = 900,000 + 300,000X
750,000 = 900,000 + 300,000X
750,000 - 900,000 = 300,000X
-150,000 = 300,000X
X = -150,000 / 300,000
X = -0.5
So, the beta of stock B is -0.5.
In a standard cost accounting system, the entry to record purchase of raw materials on account for $13500 when the standard cost is $12620 includes:______.
a. debit to Raw Materials Inventory for 12,750, debit to Materials Price Variance for $750 and credit to Accounts Payable for $13,500.
B. debit to Materials Price Variance for S7S0 and credit to Accounts Payable for $750.
c. debit to Raw Materials Inventory for $13,500 and credit to Accounts Payable of $13,500.
d. debit to Raw Materials Inventory for $12,750 and credit to Accounts Payable of $12,750.
Answer:
a. Debit to raw material inventory for $12,750, debit to material price variance $750 and credit to account payable for $13,500.
Explanation:
Date Journal Entry Debit Credit
Raw Material Inventory $12,750
Material Price Variance $750
Accounts Payable $13,500
There are a handful of common mistakes people make when trying to
separate skill from chance. Which of the following is not one of those mistakes?
a. Hindsight bias
b. Outcome bias
c. Loss aversion
d. Narrative seeking
Answer:
c. Loss aversion
Explanation:
Loss aversion is a cognitive bias that explains where there is the pain for losing should be twice as equivalent to the gaining pleasure. It is the tendency of an individual to avoid the losses that purchase the equivalent gains. And, the term that not done the given mistake is the loss aversion
So as per the given situation, the option c is correct
Do you think that Rise of China is inevitable or it may collapse like any other authoritarian regimes including former the Soviet Union and East European Countries?
Answer:
China will not collapse like the USSR or Eastern European countries.
They are heavily invested in Africa. They have the means to continue to produce goods. They have cheap labor that other countries continue to use.
China plans their economic goals and priorities decades in advance.
The Soviet Union was never an economic super power.
Suppose that the inflation rate is 2% and the real terminal value of an investment is expected to be $82,500 in 4 years. Calculate the nominal terminal value of the investment at the end of year 4.
Answer: $89300.65
Explanation:
Based on the information given in the question, the nominal terminal value of the investment at the end of year 4 will be calculated thus:
Inflation rate = 2%
Real terminal value of investment = $82,500
Normal terminal value of investment will be:
= $82500 × (1+2%)⁴
= $82500 × (1 +0.02)⁴
= $82500 × 1.02⁴
= $89300.65
At an activity level of 9,300 machine-hours in a month, Curt Corporation's total variable production engineering cost is $766,320 and its total fixed production engineering cost is $191,040. What would be the total production engineering cost per machine-hour, both fixed and variable, at an activity level of 9,600 machine-hours in a month
Answer:
$102.3 per machine hour
Explanation:
We can compute the total production engineering cost per hour by using the following equation;
Cost per machine hour = (Fixed cost + Variable cost) / Total machine hours
But first, we need to calculate variable cost at 9,600 hours;
= $766,320 × 9,600hr / 9,300hr
= $791,040
Now, cost per machine hour
= $191,040 + $791,040 / 9,600hr
= $982,040 / 9,600hr
= $102.3 per machine hour
Splish Brothers Inc. uses a perpetual inventory system. Data for product E2-D2 include the following purchases.
Date Number of Units Unit Price
May 7 105 $7
July 28 63 18
On June 1, Splish Brothers sold 55 units, and on August 27, 84 more units. Prepare the perpetual inventory schedule for the above transactions using moving average cost.
Answer:
Splish Brothers Inc.
Perpetual Inventory Schedule using moving average costs:
Date Description Number Average Cost Total Cost Cost
of Units Balance
May 7 Purchase 105 $7 $735 $735
June 1 Sales (55) $7 385 350
July 28 Purchase 63 $18 1,134 1,484
August 27 Sales (84) $13.1327 1,103 381
Explanation:
a) Data and Calculations:
Date Number of Units Unit Price Total Costs
May 7 Purchase 105 $7 $735
June 1 Sales (55) $7 385
July 28 Purchase 63 $18 1,134
August 27 Sales (84) $13.1327 1,103
Cost of goods sold = $1,488 ($385 + $1,103)
Ending inventory = $381
The Central Division of National Inc. has operating income of $16,000 on sales revenue of $155,000. Divisional operating assets are $84,600, and management of National has determined that a minimum return of 12% should be expected from all investments.
Required:
a. Using the DuPont model, calculate The Central Division’s margin, turnover, and ROI.
b. Calculate The Central Division's residual income.
Answer:
.
Explanation:
Do you think the licensing process for international medical graduates is an unnecessary hurdle meant to shield U.S. doctors from foreign competition?
Answer:
No licensing is right. Doctors in U.S. are spending more on medical studies than any other country. It is necessary for other country medical students to gain license in order to do practice in the country.
Explanation:
In U.S. doctors are in deficiency so the country cannot completely cease employment for foreign doctors. The country needs to welcome foreign doctors but it is also necessary to safeguard home doctors. If U.S. will not safeguard rights of home country doctors then they will be demotivated and will not be patriotic for the country.
Eileen transfers property worth $200,000 (basis of $190,000) to Goldfinch Corporation. In return, she receives 80% of the stock in Goldfinch Corporation (fair market value of $180,000) and a long-term note (fair market value of $20,000) executed by Goldfinch and made payable to Eileen. Eileen recognizes gain on the transfer of:______.a. $0.b. $10,000.c. $20,000.d. $190,000.e. None of the above.
Answer:
b. $10,000
Explanation:
Calculation to determine Eileen recognizes gain on the transfer
Recognized gain=Basis -Fair market value
Recognized gain=$190,000 -$180,000
Recognized gain=$10,000 gain
Therefore Eileen recognizes gain on the transfer of:$10,000
A shortcoming of real gross domestic product (GDP) is it does not include the underground economy. includes nonmarket goods. does not measure changes in employment. does not include the value obtained through purchases of stocks and bonds. does not account for changes in the prices of goods and services.
Answer:
it does not include the underground economy.
Explanation:
Gross domestic product is the total sum of final goods and services produced in an economy within a given period which is usually a year
Nominal GDP is GDP calculated using current year prices while Real GDP is GDP calculated using base year prices. Real GDP has been adjusted for inflation.
GDP calculated using the expenditure approach = Consumption spending by households + Investment spending by businesses + Government spending + Net export
Items not included in the calculation off GDP includes:
1. services not rendered to oneself
2. Activities not reported to the government
3. illegal activities
4. sale or purchase of used products
5. sale or purchase of intermediate products
A firm is currently unlevered with 1,000,000 shares each price at $50. The firm is debating of changing its capital structure by taking $20 million in debt that matures in 4 years and repurchasing shares. It will pay down this debt by $5 million every year. If the tax rate is 21% and cost of debt is 7.5%, what is the firm value of the restructured firm
Answer:
its would be 50,000 dont really know
If the keyword an advertiser is bidding on is used in the ad and on the landing page, then the advertiser will receive a higher Quality Score for Group of answer choices higher expected CTR more positive landing page experiences by searchers lower bounce rate ad relevance
Answer:
If the keyword an advertiser is bidding on is used in the ad and on the landing page, then the advertiser will receive a higher Quality Score for
ad relevance.
Explanation:
Ad relevance is a component that gives an advertiser higher quality score. It is an indication that the keyword is optimized to meet the customer's search query. It shows how closely the ad matches the customer's search because a correlation exists between the keyword, the ad, and the post-click landing page. It is paramount to achieve ad relevance in any pay-per-click advertising (PPC), otherwise called search engine marketing (SEM) or search advertising, to justify the ad costs.
A student borrows $95,000 for business school at 4.5% stated annual interest with monthly repayment over 9 years. Consider this as a loan with no payments or interest during school so that the problem structure is equivalent to a standard loan received one period before the first payment. Suppose that to better match expected student salary growth over time, the loan is structured as a growing annuity with each monthly payment growing by 0.3% compared to the previous monthly payment. How much is the first monthly payment
Answer:
$918.70 or $900
Explanation:
The computation of the first monthly payment is given below:
Interest rate per Month is
= Annual Rate ÷ 12
= 4.50% ÷ 12
= 0.375%
Now
Present Value of Growing Annuity = First payment × (1 - ((1 + Growth Rate) ÷ (1 + Interest Rate))^Periods) × 1 ÷ (Interest Rate - Growth Rate)
95000 = First payment × (1 - ((1 + 0.30%) ÷ (1 + 0.375%))^108) × 1 ÷ (0.375% - 0.30%)
95000 = First payment × (1 - 0.999252^108) × 1 ÷ (0.075%)
95000 = First payment × (1 - 0.92244) × 1 ÷ (0.075%)
95000 = First payment × 103.4067
First payment = $918.70 or $900
A company wants to have $20,000 at the end of a ten-year period by investing a single sum now. How much needs to be invested in order to have the desired sum in ten years, if the money can be invested at 12%? (Ignore income taxes.) Click here to view Exhibit 12B-1 and Exhibit 12B-2, to determine the appropriate discount factor(s) using the tables provided.
Answer:
$6,439.56
Explanation:
The computation is shown below:
As we know that
Future value = Present Value × Future Value Interest Factor
where,
Future value interest factor = ( 1 + r )^10
= ( 1.12 )^10
= 3.1058
Now
Present value of the future sum is
= $20,000 ÷ 3.1058
= $6,439.56
An investor enters into a short oil futures contract when the futures price is $15.5 per barrel. The contract size of 100 barrels of oil. How much does the investor gain or lose if the oil price at the end of the contract equals $14.0
Answer:
$150
Explanation:
Calculation to determine How much does the investor gain or lose if the oil price at the end of the contract equals $14.0
Using this formula
Gain or Loss =(Futures price- Ending contract)*Contract size
Let plug in the formula
Gain or Loss=$15.5 per barrel- $14.0* 100 barrels
Gain or Loss=$1.5*100
Gain or Loss=$150
Therefore How much does the investor gain or lose if the oil price at the end of the contract equals $14.0 will be $150
Calculating the Cost of Equity. Suppose stock in Lululemon Corporation has a beta of 0.80. The market risk premium is 10 percent and the risk-free rate is 2 percent. What is Lululemon's cost of equity capital?
Calculating the WACC. In addition to the information in the previous problem, suppose Boone has a target debt-equity ratio of 50 percent. Its cost of debt is 8 percent, before taxes. If the tax rate is 34 percent, what is the WACC?
Answer:
Cost of equity capital can be found by the Capital asset pricing model:
Cost of capital
= Risk free rate + beta * market premium
= 2% + 0.8 * 10%
= 10%
Weighted Average Cost of Capital:
= (weight of debt * after tax cost of debt) + (weight of stock * cost of stock)
= (50% * 8% * ( 1 - 34%)) + (50% * 10%)
= 10.28%
Companies can use a spreadsheet to complete the statement of cash flows. Each item that follows is recorded in the transaction analysis columns of the spreadsheet.
Net income
Increases in current assets (other than Cash)
Decreases in current liabilities
Cash payment for the acquisition of plant assets
Cash receipt from the issuance of common stock
Depreciation expense
Identify each as being recorded by a Debit or Credit in the statement of cash flows section of the spreadsheet.
Answer and Explanation:
The categorization is as follows:
a. Debit, positive adjustment
b. Credit, negative adjustment
c. Credit, negative adjustment
d. Credit, negative adjustment
e. Debit, positive adjustment
f. Debit, positive adjustment
In this way the transactions should be categorized with respect to the statement of cash flows section
Hence, the same is to be relevant
Cape Corp. will pay a dividend of $3.00 next year. The company has stated that it will maintain a constant growth rate of 4.5 percent a year forever.
a. If you want a return of 15 percent, how much will you pay for the stock?
b. If you want a return of 8 percent, how much will you pay for the stock?
Answer:
a.
$27.27
b.
$75
Explanation:
Use the following formula to calculate the value of the stock
Value of Stock = Expected Dividend / ( Rate of return - Growth rate )
a.
Where
Expected Dividend = $3.00
Rate of return = 15%
Growth rate = 4.5%
Placing values in the formula
Value of Stock = $3.00 / ( 15% - 4% )
Value of Stock = $3 / 11%
Value of Stock = $27.27
b.
Where
Expected Dividend = $3.00
Rate of return = 8%
Growth rate = 4.5%
Placing values in the formula
Value of Stock = $3.00 / ( 8% - 4% )
Value of Stock = $3 / 4%
Value of Stock = $75
Senator A agrees to vote for Senator K's state project in exchange for Senator K voting for Senator A's state project. This is an example of Group of answer choices logrolling. the median voter model. the paradox of voting. the principal-agent problem.
Answer: logrolling
Explanation:
Logrolling simply refers to the exchange of favors specifically. It is the practice of exchanging assistance which is fine usually in politics when each other's proposed legislation is voted for.
Since Senator A agrees to vote for Senator K's state project in exchange for Senator K voting for Senator A's state project, this is logrolling.
A manufacturing company has a beginning finished goods inventory of $28,300, cost of goods manufactured of $58,500, and an ending finished goods inventory of $27,600. The cost of goods sold for this company is
Answer:
the cost of goods sold is $59,200
Explanation:
The computation of the cost of goods sold is shown below:
Cost of goods sold = Beginning finished goods inventory + cost of goods manufactured - ending finished goods inventory
= $28,300 + $58,500 - $27,600
= $59,200
Hence, the cost of goods sold is $59,200
9. Suppose Betty saves $200 each month in her 401(k) account. How much less will her monthly take-home pay be than if she saved nothing? (Assume a combined 20% state and federal income tax rate.)
Answer:
$160
Explanation:
The way 401(k) savings work is that employees can save from their earnings before tax is deducted, which means that on the $200 saved no tax is deducted, hence, the take of the employee reduces by $200
When there are savings, a tax of 20% would have been deducted from the $200, as a result, the employee would be left with $160($200-($200*20%)), which means that take-home would reduce by $40, the amount tax deducted.
The reduction in take-home=$200-$40
The reduction in take-home=$160
The board of directors of Synergie Incorporation discussed a few goals for the new fiscal year. The chief goals included maximizing total sales revenue and improving the overall market position of the firm. These goals are categorized as:
Answer: offensive
Explanation:
Offensive goals are the goals that maximize sales revenue, increase long term growth and profit, improve market position and take advantage of economics of scale.
Since the chief goals included maximizing total sales revenue and the improvement of the overall market position of the firm, then these goals are categorized as offensive goals.
