Sue and Tom Wright are assistant professors at the local university. They each take home about $40,000 per year after taxes. Sue is 37 years of age, and Tom is 35. Their two children, Mike and Karen, are 13 and 11. Were either one to die, they estimate that the remaining family members would need about 75% of the present comb
On May 1, 2003 Goodman Company began the manufacture of a new mechanical device known as "Dandy'. The company installed cost system in accounting for manufacturing costs. The standard cost for a unit of "Dandy' are as follows: Raw Materials 6 lbs @ $1 per lb. $6.00 DL 1 hour @ $4/ hr 4.00 OH
The controller of a company which manufactures home-permanent kits has just received the following final production reports and cost figures for the month of May: Standard Costs: DM: 4 ounces @ $.50/ounce------------------------------- $2.00 DL: 1/10 of an hour @ $7.50/hour-------------------------- .75 VOH: 1/10 * $15
Mayol Company produces widgets with following standard costs per unit: DM (3 lb @ 70/lb)---- $2.10 DL (2 hrs @ $3.50/hrs)---$7.00 Variable OH (2 hrs @ $.50/hr)---1.00 Fixed OH (2 hours @ $2.50/hr)---5.00 Normal monthly production is 7,100 units. During August, the company manufactured 6,950 units. 25,000 lbs of DM wer
Use the following to answer questions 27-29. The following information regarding Juno, Inc. is available: SALES $1,000,000 COST OF GOODS SOLD 600,000 OPERATING EXPENSES 300,000 OPERATING INCO
Delta Co. follows a policy of allocating all common costs equally among its profit centers. A partial responsibility income statement for a typical month is shown below: Profit Profit Profit
1. In the year-end financial statements, the Manufacturing Overhead account should have: a. A debit balance, representing overhead on hand and available for use. b. A credit balance, representing accumulated depreciation and amounts owed to suppliers of overhead items. c. Either a debit or a credit balance, depending upon
Use the following to answer questions 1-4: Shown below are selected data from the balance sheet of Ames Hardware, a small retail store (dollar amounts are in thousands): Cash $20 Accounts receivable 100 Inventory 195 Total assets 450 Current liabilities 150 Non-current liabilities 120 1. Refer to the above data. Ames' d
1. Newby Corporation's 2000 net income is smaller than net cash flow from operating activities. Which of the following would not be an explanation of why net income is smaller than net cash flow from operating activities? a. Newby paid dividends to shareholders during 2000. b. Newby's accounts payable increased during 2000.
1. Tandem Corporation issued 200,000 shares of $2 par value capital stock at date of incorporation for cash at a price of $7 per share. During the first year of operations, the company earned $80,000 and declared a dividend of $25,000. At the end of this first year of operations, the balance of the Common Stock account is:
Using the case below, please help with the following questions: What tax factors are relevant to Whelan Pharmaceuticlas in deciding where to manufacture Varex? Which country is favored in site selection? What are the non tax factors? Should the sourcing committee choose Ireland or continental Europe? Where should Whe
Use the following to answer questions 1-2. The following information is from the manufacturing budget and budgeted financial statements of Pinecove Industries: Direct materials inventory, 1/1 $104,000 Direct materials inventory, 12/31 128,000 Direct materials budgeted for use during year 400,000 Accounts payable to supplie
1. Baker Company manufactures and sells 20,000 units of product X per month. Each unit of product X sells for $15 and has a contribution margin of $4. If product X is discontinued, $56,000 in fixed monthly overhead costs would be eliminated and there would be no effect on the sales volume of Baker Company's other products. I
Malachite Company produces a single product. The selling price is $30 per unit, and variable costs amount to $21 per unit. Malachite's fixed costs per month total $45,000. 1. Refer to the above information. What is the contribution margin ratio of Malachite's product? a. 70%. b. 42.9%. c. 30%. d. 18%. 2. Refer to the ab
The following information is available regarding the total manufacturing overhead of Peterson Company for a recent four month period. Direct Labor Manufacturing Hours Overhead May 90,000 $213,000 June 100,000 227,000 July 70,000 185,000 August 80,000 199,000 1. Refer to the above information. Using the high-low method,
Whelan Pharmaceuticals, a U.S. company with $3 billion in sales, must decide where to manufacture its newest product. In considering possible sites, both foreign and U.S., the firm must identify and make trade-offs between tax, marketing, and manufacturing factors. what tax issues are relevant in to this company which site
Andre has asked you to evaluate his business, Andre's Hair Stylling. Andre has five barbers working for him. (Andre is not one of them.) Each barber is paid $9.90 per hour and works a 40-hour week and a 50-week year, regardless of the number of haircuts. Rent and other fixed expenses are $1,750 per month. Assume that the only se
The following appeared in Centel Corporation's annual report: "In December, an investor in the Argo group Inc (TAGI) filed suit against a subsidiary of the company for damages from alleged breach of fiduciary duty and negligence related to the bankruptcy of a subsidiary of TAGI. The company cannot predict the ultimate outco
Accounting for market values. Mrs. Rosewood recently approached her bank manager and requested a loan for her business, Flowers Ltd. After viewing Flowers' financial information, the bank manager made the following estimates concerning Flowers, Ltd: Unrecorded Goodwill $300,000 The market value of inventories, capital asset
White and Wong, Inc. has had financial difficulty and is being liquidated by the Federal Bankruptcy Court. The firm has a liquidation value of $1,000,000 --- $400,000 from the fixed assets that served as collateral for the mortgage bonds and $600,000 from all other assets (all prior claims have been satisfied). The firm's curr
A company produces two types of leather purses: standard and handcrafted Both purses use equipment for cutting and stitching. The equipment also has the capability of creating standard designs. The standard purses use only these standard designs. They are all of the same size to accommodate the design features of the equipme
In the Miller-Orr Model, which is NOT true ______ When the cash balance falls to zero, the amount coverted from maretable securities to cash is the amount represented by the upper limit or When the cash balance reaches the upper limit, an amount equal to the return point minus the upper limit is converted to marketabl
A weakness of the percent-of-sales method to preparing a proforma income statement is ________ (a) the assumption that the value of certain accounts can be forced to take on desired levels (b) the assumption that the firm faces linear total revenue and total operating cost functions (c) the assumption that the firm's p
A firm has had the following earnings history over the last 5 years: year Earnings per share 1999 $2.50 1998 $2.00 1997 $1.75 1996 $1.25 1995
The inexpensive nature of long-term debt in a firm's capital structure is due to the fact that _________ the equity holders are the true owners of the firm, equity capital has a fixed return, creditors have a higher position in the priority of claims, or dividend payments are tax-deductible I believe - creditors have a
After satisfying oblications to creditors, the government, and preferred stockholders, any remaining earnings will most likely be allocated to any of the following "EXCEPT" _________ common shareholders as cash dividends, common shareholders as stock dividends, retained by the firm for future investment, or a combination
What are the changes that Bush enacted to how dividends are taxed and how will this policy affect corporate profitability?
In adjusting for risk, which of the following is - "TRUE" - about the risk adjusted discount rate and/or the certainly equivalent methods _____________ (a) The risk-adjusted discount rate allows for the use of varied costs of capital, enabling the large multi-divisional firm to incorporate differing levels of divisional ri
The amount by which the required discount rate exceeds the risk-free rate is called ______ the opportunity cost, the risk premium, the risk equivalent, or the excess risk
The Minnetonka Corporation, which produces and sells to wholesalers a highly successful line of water skis, has decided to diversify to stabilize sales throughout the year. The company is considering the production of cross-country skis. After considerable research, a cross-country ski line has been developed. Because of the c