Last year Viera Corp had $155,000 of assets, $305,000 of sales, $20,000 of net income, and a debt-to-total-capital ratio of 37.5%. The new CFO believes a new computer program will enable it to reduce costs and thus raise net income to $33,000. Assets, total invested capital, sales, and the debt to capital ratio would not be effected. By how much would the cost reduction improve the ROE?

Answer:

13.41%

Explanation:

Calculation for By how much would the cost reduction improve the ROE

First step

Debt value = $155,000 × 37.5%

Debt value = $58,125

Second step

Equity value = $155,000 - $58,125

Equity value $96,875

Third step

= (Net income ÷ Total equity) × 100

Ratio = ($20,000 ÷ $96,875) × 100 = 20.65%

New ROE would be = ($33,000 ÷ $96,875) × 100 = 34.06%

Fourth step

Change in ROE= New ROE - Old ROE

ROE= 34.06% - 20.65%

ROE= 13.41%

Therefore By how much would the cost reduction improve the ROE is 13.41%

Problem 11-5 Sensitivity Analysis and Break-Even [LO1, 3]We are evaluating a project that costs $583,800, has a six-year life, and has no salvage value. Assume that depreciation is straight-line to zero over the life of the project. Sales are projected at 90,000 units per year. Price per unit is $41, variable cost per unit is $27, and fixed costs are $695,000 per year. The tax rate is 25 percent, and we require a return of 9 percent on this project. a-1.Calculate the accounting break-even point. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to the nearest whole number, e.g., 32.) a-2.What is the degree of operating leverage at the accounting break-even point

Sweeten Company had no jobs in progress at the beginning of March and no beginning inventories. The company has two manufacturing departments-Molding and Fabrication. It started, completed, and sold only two jobs during March- Job P and Job Q. The following additional information is available for the company as a whole and for Jobs P and Q (all data and questions relate to the month of March):
Molding Fabrication Total
Estimated total machine-hours used 2,500 1,500 4,000
Estimated total fixed manufacturing overhead $ 14,000 $ 17,400 $ 31,400
Estimated variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour $ 3.00 $ 3.80
Job P Job Q
Direct materials $ 29,000 $ 16,000
Direct labor cost $ 33,800 $ 13,900
Actual machine-hours used:
Molding 3,300 2,400
Fabrication 2,200 2,500
Total 5,500 4,900
Sweeten Company had no underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead costs during the month.
What was the company's plantwide predetermined overhead rate? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Consider two neighboring island countries called Euphoria and Contente. They each have 4 million labor hours available per week that they can use to produce corn, jeans, or a combination of both. The following table shows the amount of corn or jeans that can be produced using 1 hour of labor.

Country Corn (Bushels per hour of labor) Jeans (Pairs per hour of labor)
Euphoria 4 16
Contente 6 12

Initially, suppose Contente uses 1 million hours of labor per week to produce jeans and 3 million hours per week to produce corn, while Euphoria uses 3 million hours of labor per week to produce jeans and 1 million hours per week to produce corn. Consequently, Euphoria produces 12 million pairs of jeans and 16 million bushels of corn, and Contente produces 6 million pairs of jeans and 36 million bushels of corn. Assume there are no other countries willing to trade goods, so, in the absence of trade between these two countries, each country consumes the amount of jeans and corn it produces.

Euphoria's opportunity cost of producing 1 bushel of corn is___________ pair of jeans, and Contente's opportunity cost of producing 1 bushel of corn is__________ pair of jeans. Therefore,___________ has a comparative advantage in the production of corn, and__________ has a comparative advantage in the production of jeans.

Stephenson Company's computer system recently crashed, erasing much of the company's financial data. The following accounting information was discovered soon afterwards on the CFO's back-up computer data.

Cost of Goods Sold $400,000
Work-in-Process Inventory, Beginning 35,000
Work-in-Process Inventory, Ending 46,000
Selling and Administrative Expense 59,000
Finished Goods Inventory, Ending 18,000
Direct Materials Purchased $194,900
Factory Overhead Applied $125,600
Operating Income $25,000
Direct Materials Inventory, Ending $6,800
Cost of Goods Manufactured $380,900
Direct Labor $62,700

The CFO of Stephenson Company has asked you to recalculate the following accounts and report to him by week's end. What should be the amount of direct materials available for use?

The 2018 balance sheet of Speith’s Golf Shop, Inc., showed long-term debt of $5 million, and the 2019 balance sheet showed long-term debt of $5.25 million. The 2019 income statement showed an interest expense of $165,000. The 2018 balance sheet showed $510,000 in the common stock account and $4.6 million in the additional paid-in surplus account. The 2019 balance sheet showed $550,000 and $4.8 million in the same two accounts, respectively. The company paid out $410,000 in cash dividends during 2019. Suppose you also know that the firm’s net capital spending for 2019 was $1,370,000, and that the firm reduced its net working capital investment by $69,000. What was the firm's 2019 operating cash flow, or OCF?

Presented below is information related to Wyrick Company:(1.) The company is granted a charter that authorizes issuance of 15,000 shares of $100 par value preferred stock and 40,000 shares of no-par common stock.(2.) 8,000 shares of common stock are issued to the founders of the corporation for land valued by the board of directors at $300,000. The board establishes a stated value of $5 per share for the common stock.(3.) 5,000 shares of preferred stock are sold for cash at $120 per share.(4.) The company issues 100 shares of common stock to its attorneys for costs associated with starting the company. At that time, the common stock was selling at $60 per share.Instructions:Prepare the general journal entries necessary to record these transactions.

Discuss some of the program’s challenges.
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You have decided to undertake a project and have defined the main research question as "what are the opinions of consumers to a 20% reduction in weight, with the price remaining the same, of a pack of lucky me pancit canton?" Write a hypothesis that you could test in your project.​

Each scenario below gives some information about price elasticity of demand for a firm. Use this information to answer the questions. Round answers to two places after the decimal where applicable. Honest Abe's Used Cars estimates the price elasticity of demand for their cars to be 4.60 . Last month, Abe tried a new marketing scheme which decreased the number of cars sold by 67 %.

Abe must have_________ prices. Therefore, Abe's total revenue ____________ Abe's prices must have changed by:________%
At Webs-R-Us, a website design company, the new manager has decided to increase the price of Webs-R-Us services by 45%.
If Webs-R-Us has a price elasticity of demand at 0.70, we can expected the number of websites designed to ___________

As noted in the case, HP considered approaching chain stores that sell store-brand cartridges compatible with its printers and offering them incentives if they end the practice. Considering the various types of allowances and discounts to channel members discussed within the chapter, what type of discount or allowance could the approach that HP is contemplating be most clearly identified as

ReNew Corporation raises funds to build renewable energy systems by issuing 3-year bonds with a coupon rate of 6% and a face value of $1,600. Assume that the market interest rate for a 3-year bond issued by a firm like ReNew is currently the same as the coupon rate. The price of each of these bonds is____ , which means that the bonds sell at ___. Suppose that the market interest rate for bonds that are similar to the ReNew bond has increased to 7%. The price of the ReNew bond changes to____ , which means that it sells at ____. Suppose that instead of rising, the market rate decreases from 6% to 4%. The new price of the bond changes to ___, which means that the bond sells at ___.

Suppose that a restaurant uses a focus group of regular customers to determine how many customers would buy a proposed new menu item at various prices. Can this information be used to estimate an inverse demand​ curve? A demand​ curve? Explain briefly. Asking how many customers would buy a proposed new menu item at various prices can be used to estimate A. the inverse demand​ curve, and the demand curve can be calculated from it. B. only the inverse demand curve. C. neither the demand curve nor the inverse demand curve. D. only the demand curve. E. the demand​ curve, and the inverse demand curve can be calculated from it.

On January 1, 2020, Stream Company acquired 30 percent of the outstanding voting shares of Q-Video, Inc., for $770,000. Q-Video manufactures specialty cables for computer monitors. On that date, Q-Video reported assets and liabilities with book values of $1.9 million and $700,000, respectively. A customer list compiled by Q-Video had an appraised value of $300,000, although it was not recorded on its books. The expected remaining life of the customer list was five years with straight-line amortization deemed appropriate. Any remaining excess cost was not identifiable with any particular asset and thus was considered goodwill. Q-Video generated net income of $250,000 in 2020 and a net loss of $100,000 in 2021. In each of these two years, Q-Video declared and paid a cash dividend of $15,000 to its stockholders. During 2020, Q-Video sold inventory that had an original cost of $100,000 to Stream for $160,000. Of this balance, $80,000 was resold to outsiders during 2020, and the remainder was sold during 2021. In 2021, Q-Video sold inventory to Stream for $175,000. This inventory had cost only $140,000. Stream resold $100,000 of the inventory during 2021 and the rest during 2022. For 2020 and then for 2021, compute the amount that Stream should report as income from its investment in Q-Video in its external financial statements under the equity method. (Enter your answers in whole dollars and not in millions. Do not round intermediate calculations.)

Scott wanted to start a lawn cutting service but needed to purchase a lawnmower. Sherif gave Scott $30 in exchange for company revenue. What does Sherif now have in Scott's company?

A.) Rebate.
B.) Investment.
C.) Stock.
D.) Bond.

Keuka Studies does custom metal sculptures of horses and other animals. A horse sculpture is composed of numerous parts. They use a lathe to construct two types of parts. The "Body" part is used to support the torso of the horse and the "Leg" part is used to support the legs. Each horse sculpture needs 1 Body part and 4 Leg parts. Switching between either of the types of parts requires 12 minutes. Once ready to produce, the lathe produces a Body part in 3 minutes and a single Leg part in 3 minutes. The lathe only makes horse parts. For parts (a)-(d) assume Keuka operates a cyclic schedule in which they make 100 Body parts and then 400 Leg parts. Furthermore, assume the lathe is the bottleneck. Round your answer to 3 decimal places.
a. What is the maximum number of horse sculptures Keuka can make per hour? Do not round intermediate calculations. Enteryour answer as a percentage rounded to 2 decimal places.
b. What is the utilization (%) of the lathe?

For each of the following transactions that occur in their lives, identify whether it is included in the calculation of U.S. GOP as part of consumption (C), investment (), government purchases (G), exports (X), or imports (M).

a. The state of Pennsylvania repaves highway PA 320, which goes through the center of Swarthmore.
b. Sam's employer upgrades all of its computer systems using U.S-made parts.
c. Teresa's father in Sweden orders a bottle of Vermont maple syrup from the producer's website.
d. Sam buys a sweater made in Guatemala.
e. Teresa gets a new refrigerator made in the United States.

During the first month (April 20--), the following transactions occurred.

a. Invested cash in business, $18,000.
b. Bought office supplies for $4,600: $2,000 in cash and $2,600 on account.
c. Paid one-year insurance premium, $1,200.
d. Earned revenues totaling $3,300: $1,300 in cash and $2,000 on account.
e. Paid cash on account to the company that supplied the office supplies in transaction (b), $2,300.
f. Paid office rent for the month, $750.
g. Withdrew cash for personal use, $100.

Required:
Show the effect of each transaction on the individual accounts.

A partial listing of costs incurred at Archut Corporation during September appears below: Direct materials $ 113,000 Utilities, factory $ 5,000 Administrative salaries $ 81,000 Indirect labor $ 25,000 Sales commissions $ 48,000 Depreciation of production equipment $ 20,000 Depreciation of administrative equipment $ 30,000 Direct labor $ 129,000 Advertising $ 135,000 The total of the manufacturing overhead costs listed above for September is: Multiple Choice $292,000 $50,000 $586,000 $30,000 PrevQuestion 7 of 10 Total7 of 10Visit question mapNext

The following information is related to Splish Company for 2020.

Retained earnings balance, January 1, 2020 $1,332,800
Sales Revenue 34,000,000
Cost of goods sold 21,760,000
Interest revenue 95,200
Selling and administrative expenses 6,392,000
Write-off of goodwill 1,115,200
Income taxes for 2020 1,691,840
Gain on the sale of investments 149,600
Loss due to flood damage 530,400
Loss on the disposition of the wholesale division (net of tax) 598,400
Loss on operations of the wholesale division (net of tax) 122,400
Dividends declared on common stock 340,000
Dividends declared on preferred stock 108,800

Splish Company decided to discontinue its entire wholesale operations (considered a discontinued operation) and to retain its manufacturing operations. On September 15, Splish sold the wholesale operations to Rogers Company. During 2020, there were 500,000 shares of common stock outstanding all year.

Required:
Prepare a multiple—step income statement.

It is estimated that the annual sales of an energy saving device will be 20,000 the first year and increase by 10,000 per year unitl 50,000 units are sold during the fourth year. Proposal A is to purchase manufacturing equipment costing $120,000 with an estimated salvage value of $15,000 at the end of 4 years.Proposal B is to purchase equipment costing $280,000 with an estimated salvage value of $32,000 at the end of 4 years. The variable manufacturing cost per unit under proposal A is estimated to be $8,00, but is estimated to be only $2.60 under proposal B. If the interest rate is 9%, which proposal should be accepted for a 4-year production horizon?

Stewart owns a home with a replacement cost of $300,000. He purchased $200,000 of property insurance on the house with a $1,000 deductible for all losses. The house caught on fire and sustained $100,000 worth of damage. The actual cash value (ACV) of the damaged portion of the property was $80,000. How much will Stewart receive as reimbursement for the loss

why is it important to have a good besiness background? ​

preparing adjusting and closing entries across two periods norton company closes its accounts on december 31 each year. the company works a five-day work week and pays its employees every two weeks. on december 31, 2015, norton accrued $1,880 of salaries payable. on january 7, 2016, the company paid salaries of $4,800 cash to employees.

The general price level is 150.00 and people expect it to increase to 156.00 next year. Therefore, the expected rate of inflation equals percent. Moreover, there is a one-year bond that promises to pay $107,000.00 next year and is selling for $100,000.00 in the bond market today. So, the nominal interest rate equals percent, and the ex-ante real interest rate on this bond equals percent. Because of some news about the state of the economy, people revise their expectations of the future price level to 159.00. According to the Fisher Effect, the price of the bond today will change to_______ dollars.

What is one of the basic principles of economics?

A.) Society's resources are unlimited.
B.) People never put their own interests as their first priority.
C.) If people demand a product, then businesses are required to supply it.
D.) Society and its individuals have unlimited wants.

What would be the consequences if managers of a firm evaluated a project based on its actual dollar cash flows, but used a real rate to discount the cash flows? Would the project be more likely to be accepted, or more likely to be rejected? What kind of error could be committed? Please provide an example of how a project evaluation was affected by inflation considerations, either from your own experience, or do some online search for examples.

Tullius Corporation has received a request for a special order of 8,600 units of product C64 for $45.50 each. The normal selling price of this product is $50.60 each, but the units would need to be modified slightly for the customer. The normal unit product cost of product C64 is computed as follows:
Direct materials $ 16.30
Direct labor 5.60
Variable manufacturing overhead 2.80
Fixed manufacturing overhead 5.70
Unit product cost $ 30.40
Direct labor is a variable cost. The special order would have no effect on the company's total fixed manufacturing overhead costs. The customer would like some modifications made to product C64 that would increase the variable costs by $5.20 per unit and that would require a one-time investment of $45,000 in special molds that would have no salvage value. This special order would have no effect on the company's other sales. The company has ample spare capacity for producing the special order.
Required: Determine the effect on the company's total net operating income of accepting the special order.

Rivera Company has several processing departments. Costs charged to the Assembly Department for November 2020 totaled $2,283,744 as follows.
Work in process, November 1
Materials $78,600
Conversion costs 48,700 $127,300
Materials added 1,592,280
Labor 225,100
Overhead 339,064
Production records show that 35,200 units were in beginning work in process 30% complete as to conversion costs, 661,000 units were started into production, and 25,400 units were in ending work in process 40% complete as to conversion costs. Materials are entered at the beginning of each process.
Determine the equivalent units of production and the unit production costs for the Assembly Department. (Round unit costs to 2 decimal places, e.g. 2.25.)

You have hired an international agent and are ramping up production in your U.S. facility to keep up with the orders the agent has obtained. You receive an email from your purchasing manager.

From: M. Gomez

Subject: Order

We need to place a large order for bulbs for our solar kits. As you know, we import these bulbs from Japan. I have been watching the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen very carefully. The current exchange rate is $1 to 106.94 yen. However, sources tell me that the exchange rate is expected to be $1 to 115 yen very soon. Do you want me to place the order now or wait until the exchange rate changes?

Please advise how you want me to proceed.

Select an option from the choices below and click Submit.

A. Wait and place the order when the exchange rate changes.

B. Place the order now

Santana Rey, owner of Business Solutions, decides to diversify her business by also manufacturing computer workstation furniture. Required: 1. Classify the following manufacturing costs of Business Solutions as (a) variable or fixed and (b) direct or indirect. 2. Prepare a schedule of cost of goods manufactured for Business Solutions for the month ended January 31, 2020. Assume the following manufacturing costs: Direct materials: $2,600 Factory overhead: $520 Direct labor: $1,200 Beginning work in process: none (December 31, 2019) Ending work in process: $590 (January 31, 2020) Beginning finished goods inventory: none (December 31, 2019) Ending finished goods inventory: $370 (January 31, 2020) 3. Prepare the cost of goods sold section of a partial income statement for Business Solutions for the month ended January 31, 2020. Pre