Shown below is a segmented income statement for Mullett Marina’s three main boating service lines:
Winter Storage Boat Fuel & Boat Total
Concessions Maintenance
Sales revenue $4,000,000 $1,000,000 $5,000,000 $10,000,000
Less: Variable expenses 2,000,000 200,000 4900,000 7,100,000
Contribution margin $2,000,000 $800,000 $100,000 $2,900,000
Less direct fixed expenses:
Garage/warehouse rent 700,000 55,000 350,000 1,105,000
Supervision 50,000 70,000 150,000 270,000
Equipment depreciation 250,000 75,000 100,000 425,000
Segment margin $1,000,000 $600,000 $(500,000) $1,100,000
Relevant fixed costs associated with this line include 60% of Boat Maintenance’s garage/warehouse rent and 50% of Boat Maintenance’s supervision salaries. In addition, assume that dropping the Boat Maintenance service line would reduce sales of the Winter Storage line by 20% and sales of the Boat Fuel & Concessions line by 10%. All other information remains the same.
Required:
1. If the Boat Maintenance service line is dropped, what is the contribution margin for the Boat Fuel & Concessions line? For the Winter Storage line?
2. Which alternative (keep or drop the Boat Maintenance line) is now more cost effective and by how much?

Answer:

1. We have:

Contribution margin for the Boat Fuel & Concessions line = $700,000

Contribution margin for the Winter Storage line = $1,200,000

2. Keeping Boat Maintenance service line by $630,000.

Explanation:

Note that after dropping Boat Maintenance service line, its Sales revenue and Variable expenses will be eliminated while all the fixed costs will be retained. This is because, generally in Management Accounting, the fact that a a fixed cost is a direct cost does NOT mean that it is avoidable.

Note: See part a of the attached excel for the Segmented Income Statement Before Dropping Boat Maintenance service line, and see part b of the attached excel for the Segmented Income Statement After Dropping Boat Maintenance service line.

1. If the Boat Maintenance service line is dropped, what is the contribution margin for the Boat Fuel & Concessions line? For the Winter Storage line?

In the part b of the attached excel, we have:

Contribution margin for the Boat Fuel & Concessions line = $700,000

Contribution margin for the Winter Storage line = $1,200,000

2. Which alternative (keep or drop the Boat Maintenance line) is now more cost effective and by how much?

From the part a of the attached excel file, we have:

Operating income before dropping Boat Maintenance service line = $815,000

Operating income after dropping Boat Maintenance service line = -$185,000

Cost saving = $815,000 - $185,000 = $630,000

Therefore, keeping Boat Maintenance service line by $630,000.

Suppose that you are running a business, and you need some extra space for one year. Your bank offers you a loan of $200,000 at 0% interest. You consider borrowing this amount to buy the building, use it for one year, and then sell the building to pay back the loan. Unfortunately, the economy in which you are operating is experiencing deflation at the rate of 10% per year. After one year, you should be able to sell the building for____.
Suppose that owning the building for a year would earn you $12,000. To decide whether you will be better off by owning it for one year and then selling it, you seek advice from three different people: (1) Your brother says that you should not buy the building because in one year it will cost you $200,000. (2) Your accountant says that you should definitely buy the building because you can borrow $200,000 at zero interest while the building will generate $12,000 in extra income. Then when you sell it, you will be $12,000 richer. (3) Your bookkeeper says that if you sell the building in a year, you will have to come up with more money to pay off the loan than you will make in extra income.
Keeping in mind that the economy experiences deflation at the rate of 10%, who is right?
A. Your bookkeeper is right, because the extra income you will earn will be less than the cost of owning the building for the year.
B. Your brother is correct, because when the nominal interest rate is zero, the cost of a building is its full purchase price.
C. Your accountant is right, because when the nominal interest rate is zero, you do not incur any cost when you take out a loan.
Now, suppose you inherited $200,000 in cash from your uncle who had kept it hidden in his mattress. Assuming the nominal interest rate is -1%, which of the following options will maximize the amount of cash that you have in one year?
A. Holding onto your $200,000 in cash.
B. Buying the building, because you can earn an additional $12,000 in income if you own the building for one year and then sell it.
C. Depositing the cash in the bank, because the 10% rate of deflation makes the value of your dollars fall even more rapidly than 1% per year.
A high real interest rate will keep firms from borrowing to finance investment in capital, but it will not keep firms with cash from investing in capital.
A. False
B. True

Management of Mittel Company would like to reduce the amount of time between when a customer places an order and when the order is shipped. For the first quarter of operations during the current year the following data were reported: Inspection time 0.3 days Wait time (from order to start of production) 16.6 days Process time 2.8 days Move time 1.0 days Queue time 4.2 days
1. Compute the throughput time.
2. Compute the manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE) for the quarter. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
3. What percentage of the throughput time was spent in non–value-added activities? (Enter your answer as a percentage (i.e., 0.12 should be entered as 12).)
4. Compute the delivery cycle time.
5. If by using Lean Production all queue time during production is eliminated, what will be the new MCE? (Round your percentage answer to 1 decimal place (i.e., 0.123 should be entered as 12.3).)

A firm has current assets that could be sold for their book value of $22 million. The book value of its fixed assets is $60 million, but they could be sold for $90 million today. The firm has total debt with a book value of $40 million, but interest rate declines have caused the market value of the debt to increase to $50 million. What is this firm's market-to-book ratio

The model of competitive market relies on these three core assumptions:
1. There must be many buyers and sellers-a few players can't dominate the market.
2. Firms must produce an identical product--buyers must regard all seller's products as equivalent.
3. Firms and resources must be fully mobile, allowing for free entry into and ext from the industry.
The first two conditions imply that all consumers and firms are price takers. While the third is not necessarily for price-taking behavior, assume for this problem that a market cannon maintain competition in the long run without free entry.
Identify whether or not each of the following scenarios describes a competitive market, along with the correct explanation of why or why not.
a. Several stores in the mall sell hooded sweatshirts. Each store's sweatshirts reflect the style of that particular store. Additionally, some stores use higher-quality cotton than others, which is reflected in the apparel's prices.
b. In a small town, there are two providers of broadband internet access: a cable company and the phone company. The internet access offered by both providers is of the same speed.
c. There are hundreds of high schools students in need of algebra tutoring services in Dallas. Dozens of companies offer tutoring services, and the parents who seek out tutors view the quality of the tutoring at the different companies to be largely the same.
d. The government has granted a patent to a pharmaceutical company for an experimental AIDS drug. That company is the only firm permitted to sell the drug.
i. Yes, meets all assumptions.
ii. No, no free entry
iii. No, not many sellers
iv. No, not an identical product.

Computing Straight-Line and Double-Declining-Balance Depreciation
On January 2, 2016, Dechow Company purchases a machine to help manufacture a part for one of its key products. The machine cost $306,180 and is estimated to have a useful life of six years, with an expected salvage value of $32,760.
Compute each year's depreciation expense for 2016 and 2017 for each of the following depreciation methods.
a. Straight-line.
b. Double-declining balance.

Market screening is a method of market analysis and assessment that permits management to identify a small number of desirable markets by eliminating those judged to be less attractive.
When considering initial entry into international markets, or later expansion of international presence, companies Inust screen the large number of potential markets to identify the smaller subset of most promising candidates. This exercise examines one type of market screening, called country screening, and reviews the steps in this screening process as well as key tasks and considerations in each step.
Place the country screening steps in the order they occur, from first to last.
Rank the options below
1. Assess competitive forces such as the number, size, and financial strength of the competitors.
2. Assess economic and financial forces such as trends in inflation, currency exchange rates, and interest rates.
3. Assess sociocultural forces associated with doing business in a particular area or country,
4. Assess basic need potential of specific goods or services
5. Assess political and legal forces such as profit remittance barriers and policy stability
6. Assess prospective markets through personal visits to those markets with the best potential

Suppose that in a given month $51 million is deposited into the banking system while $55 million is withdrawn. Also suppose that the Fed has set the reserve requirement at 25 percent and that banks have no excess reserves at the beginning of the month. What is the maximum amount of new checkable-deposit money that can be created (or removed) by the banking system as a result of these deposits and withdrawals?

Super Clinics offers one service that has the following annual cost and utilization estimates: Variable cost per visit $ 10 Annual direct fixed costs $50,000 Allocation of overhead costs $20,000 Expected utilization 1,000 visits What price per visit must be set if the clinic wants to make an annual profit of $10,000 on the service? A. $ 70 B. $ 80 C. $ 90 D. $100 E. $110

Red Co. uses the product cost concept of applying the cost-plus approach to product pricing. Below is cost information for the production and sale of 40,000 units of its sole product. Red Co. desires a profit equal to a 15% rate of return on invested assets of $1,200,000.
Fixed factory overhead cost $80,000.00
Fixed selling and administrative costs 140,000.00
Variable direct materials cost per unit 7.00
Variable direct labor cost per unit 11.00
Variable factory overhead cost per unit 3.00
Variable selling and administrative cost per unit 2.00
What is the markup percentage for the company's product? (Round the answer to two decimal places.)
a 30.30%
b 43.50%
c 40.00%
d 35.60%

A company's income statement reported net income of $80,000 during 2016. The income tax return excluded a revenue item of $6,000 (reported on the income statement) because under the tax laws the $6,000 would not be reported for tax purposes until 2017. Which of the following statements is incorrect assuming a 21% tax rate?

a. Income tax expense on the income statement exceeds the tax liability to the IRS.
b. The $6,000 of revenue creates a deferred tax liability.
c. A $2,100 deferred tax liability is reported as of December 31, 2014.
d. Income tax expense on the income statement is $25,900.

he SSC, a cash-method partnership, has a balance sheet that includes the following assets on December 31 of the current year: Basis FMV Cash $ 180,000 $ 180,000 Accounts receivable 0 60,000 Land 90,000 120,000 Total $ 270,000 $ 360,000 Susan, a one-third partner, has an adjusted basis of $90,000 for her partnership interest. If Susan sells her entire partnership interest to Emma for $120,000 cash, how much capital gain and ordinary income must Susan recognize from the sale

Calculating Liquidity Ratios SDJ, Inc., has net working capital of $1,050, current liabilities
of $4,300, and inventory of $1,300. What is the current ratio? What is the quick ratio?

Sarasota Corporation sells rock-climbing products and also operates an indoor climbing facility for climbing enthusiasts. During the last part of 2017, Sarasota had the following transactions related to notes payable.
Sept. 1 Issued a $16,800 note to Pippen to purchase inventory. The 3-month note payable bears interest of 9% and is due December 1. (Sarasota uses a perpetual inventory system.)
Sept. 30 Recorded accrued interest for the Pippen note.
Oct. 1 Issued a $22,800, 10%, 4-month note to Prime Bank to finance the purchase of a new climbing wall for advanced climbers. The note is due February 1.
Oct. 31 Recorded accrued interest for the Pippen note and the Prime Bank note.
Nov. 1 Issued a $27,600 note and paid $8,100 cash to purchase a vehicle to transport clients to nearby climbing sites as part of a new series of climbing classes. This note bears interest of 6% and matures in 12 months.
Nov. 30 Recorded accrued interest for the Pippen note, the Prime Bank note, and the vehicle note.
Dec. 1 Paid principal and interest on the Pippen note.
Dec. 31 Recorded accrued interest for the Prime Bank note and the vehicle note.
I was wondering how to do the journal entries for...
1. October 1st
2. November 1st
3. November 30th
4. December 31st

For a business owner, insurance is a cost just like any other expenses. How does buying business
insurance and offering insurance to employees affect the business's profit and success?

Jenny has a $82,500 basis in her 50 percent partnership interest in the JM Partnership before receiving any distributions. This year JM makes a proportionate operating distribution to Jenny of a parcel of land with an $110,000 fair value and a $89,700 basis to JM. The land is encumbered with a $42,850 mortgage (JM's only liability). What is Jenny's basis in the land and her remaining basis in JM after the distribution

Fallon Company uses flexible budgets to control its selling expenses. Monthly sales are expected to range from $172,800 to $215,400. Variable costs and their percentage relationship to sales are sales commissions 7%, advertising 4%, traveling 4%, and delivery 1%. Fixed selling expenses will consist of sales salaries $35,500, depreciation on delivery equipment $7,500, and insurance on delivery equipment $1,100.

Required:
Prepare a monthly flexible budget for each $11,100 increment of sales within the relevant range for the year ending December 31, 2017.

Aquatic Equipment Corporation decided to switch from the LIFO method of costing inventories to the FIFO method at the beginning of 2021. The inventory as reported at the end of 2020 using LIFO would have been $53,000 higher using FIFO. Retained earnings at the end of 2020 was reported as $710,000 (reflecting the LIFO method). The tax rate is 35%.

Required:
a. Calculate the balance in retained earnings at the time of the change (beginning of 2009) as it would have been reported if FIFO had been used in prior years.
b. Prepare the journal entry at the beginning of 2009 to record the change in principle.

Skysong Itzek manufactures and sells homemade wine, and he wants to develop a standard cost per gallon. The following are required for production of a 50-gallon batch. 3,800 ounces of grape concentrate at $0.07 per ounce 54 pounds of granulated sugar at $0.45 per pound 60 lemons at $0.70 each 150 yeast tablets at $0.28 each 200 nutrient tablets at $0.17 each 1,900 ounces of water at $0.005 per ounce Skysong estimates that 5% of the grape concentrate is wasted, 10% of the sugar is lost, and 25% of the lemons cannot be used. Compute the standard cost of the ingredients for one gallon of wine. (Round intermediate calculations and final answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 1.25.) Standard Cost Per Gallon $

Last year, Pastis Productions reported $100,000 in sales and $40,000 in cost of goods sold. The company estimates it would have doubled its sales and cost of goods sold had it allowed customers to buy on credit, but it also would have incurred $50,000 in additional expenses relating to wages, bad debts, and interest. Using these estimates, calculate the amount by which Income from Operations would increase (decrease).

1. A manufacturer of industrial motors has identified ten new prospective customers for its products and estimated each customer's annual sales potential as follows:
Customer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Sales Potential
(in $1,000,000s) $113 $106 $84 $52 $155 $103 $87 $91 $128 $131
The company would like to allocate these ten prospective customers to five of its current salespeople in the most equitable way possible. (Each customer may be assigned to only one sales person.) To do this, ideally, the customers assigned to each of the five salespeople would have exactly the same sales potential. If such a solution is not possible, the company would like to minimize the total amount by which the actual sales potentials for the customers assigned to each salesperson deviate from the ideal allocation.
a. Ideally, what sales potential should be assigned to each salesperson?
b. Formulate a mathematical programming model for this problem.
c. Implement your model in a spreadsheet and solve it.
d. What is the optimal solution and the optimal objective value?
e. Suppose we instead want to minimize the maximum amount by which any salesperson's assigned sales potential deviates from the ideal allocation. What is the optimal solution and optimal objective value?

Blaine Air Transport Service, Inc., providing air delivery service for businesses, has been in operation for three years. The following transactions occurred in February:

February 1 Paid $310 for rent of hangar space in February.
February 2 Purchased fuel costing $490 on account for the next flight to Dallas.
February 4 Received customer payment of $850 to ship several items to Philadelphia next month.
February 7 Flew cargo from Denver to Dallas; the customer paid $870 for the air transport.
February 10 Paid $130 for an advertisement in the local paper to run on February 19.
February 14 Paid pilot $2,500 in wages for flying in January (recorded as expense in January).
February 18 Flew cargo for two customers from Dallas to Albuquerque for $4,700; one customer paid $1,100 cash and the other asked to be billed.
February 25 Purchased on account $2,540 in spare parts for the planes.
February 27 Declared a $220 cash dividend to be paid in March.

Required:
Prepare journal entries for each transaction.

Two methods can be used to produce expansion anchors. Method A costs $65,000 initially and will have a $18,000 salvage value after 3 years. The operating cost with this method will be $28,000 in year 1, increasing by $3600 each year. Method B will have a first cost of $108,000, an operating cost of $8000 in year 1, increasing by $8000 each year, and a $38,000 salvage value after its 3-year life. At an interest rate of 8% per year, which method should be used on the basis of a present worth analysis

In 1999, the Federal Trade Commission allowed Exxon and Mobil to merge. At the time, Exxon and Mobil were the top two firms in their industry, and their merger created the largest corporation in the world. To allow the merger, Exxon and Mobil agreed to sell 2,431 gas stations. Of these, 1,740 were in the mid-Atlantic states, 360 were in California, 319 were in Texas, and 12 were in Guam.

Why would the U.S. government require Exxon and Mobil to divest themselves of so many gas stations in localized parts of the country to be willing to allow the merger to occur?

a. Because these geographic regions had too many gas stations.
b. To protect consumers from inappropriate price decreases.
c. To ensure competition in these regions and protect consumers from unwarranted price increases.
d. To ensure that Exxon-Mobil would earn fair profits in these geographic areas.

Oriole Company uses a periodic inventory system. For April, when the company sold 600 units, the following information is available. Units Unit Cost Total Cost April 1 inventory 270 $30 $ 8,100 April 15 purchase 440 36 15,840 April 23 purchase 290 39 11,310 1,000 $35,250 Compute the April 30 inventory and the April cost of goods sold using the FIFO method. Ending inventory $enter a dollar amount Cost of goods sold $enter a dollar amount

Suppose a hypothetical economy is currently in a situation of deficient aggregate demand of $16 billion. Four economists agree that expansionary fiscal policy can increase total spending and move the economy out of recession, but they are debating which type of expansionary policy should be used. Economist A believes that the government spending multiplier is 4 and the tax multiplier is 2. Economist B believes that the government spending multiplier is 2 and the tax multiplier is 8.

Required:
Compute the amount the government would have to increase spending to close the output gap according to each economist's belief.

The following is the ending balances of accounts at December 31, 2018 for the Valley Pump Corporation Account Title Cash Accounts receivable Inventories Interest payable Marketable securities Land Buildings Accumulated depreciation-buildings Equipment Accumulated depreciation-equipment Copyright (net of amortization) Prepaid expenses (next 12 months) Accounts payable Deferred revenues (next 12 months) Notes payable Allowance for uncollectible accounts Common stock Retained earnings Totals Debits Credits 30,000 66,000 91,000 15,000 54,000 130,000 325,000 105,000 85,000 30,000 17,000 37,000 70,000 25,000 275,000 5,000 250,000 60,000 835,000 835,000
1. The $130,000 balance in the land account consists of $105,000 for the cost of land where the plant and office buildings are located. The remaining $25,000 represents the cost of land being held for speculation.
2. The $54,000 balance in the investment in equity securities account represents an investment in the common stock of another corporation. Valley intends to sell one-half of the stock within the next year.
3. The notes payable account consists of a $110,000 note due in six months and a $165,000 note due in three annual installments of $55,000 each, with the first payment due in August of 2022.
Required:
Prepare a classified balance sheet for the Valley Pump Corporation at December 31, 2018. (Amounts to be deducted should be indicated by a minus sign.)

What is the money multiplier when the reserve requirement is
Instructions: Round your responses to two decimal places.
a. 0.09?
b. 0.25?
C. 0.12?
833.33
d. 0.04?

Carlton Office Systems Inc. needs to improve overall organizational efficiency. To accomplish this, the company has implemented a complete redesign of all business systems and reporting hierarchies. During this process, significant cuts were made in middle management staff. What organizational trend is taking place at this company

You borrow money on a self liquidating installment loan (equal payments at the end of each year, each payment is part principal part interest)
Loan amount $670,000
Interest Rate 11.4%
Life 54 years
Date of Loan January 1, 2021
Use the installment method - not straight line
Do NOT round any interrmediate numbers.
Do NOT turn this into a monthly problem.
Do NOT put in minus signs, answer all positive numbers.
Required:
1. What is the annual payment (round to the nearest $)?
$ ____
2. What are the total interest payments (round to the nearest $)?
$ _____
3. After 34 payments have been made, what percentage of the total interest has been paid (round to the nearest percentage point)?
____ %
4. After 34 payments have been made, what percentage of the total principal has been paid (round to the nearest percentage point)?
____ %
Redo the problem if the interest rate is 2%
(for a well designed spreadsheet this should take 30 seconds)
Required:
5. What is the annual payment (round to the nearest $)?
____$
6. What are the total interest payments (round to the nearest $)?
____$
7. After 34 payments have been made, what percentage of the total interest has been paid (round to the nearest percentage point)?
____ %
8. After 34 payments have been made, what percentage of the total principal has been paid (round to the nearest percentage point)?
____ %

Marginal revenue,graphically is:_________

a. the slope of a line from the origin to a point on the total revenue curve.
b. the slope of a line from the origin to the end of the total revenue curve.
c. the slope of the total revenue curve at a given point.
d. the vertical intercept of a line tangent to the total revenue curve at a given point.
e. the horizontal intercept of a line tangent to the total revenue curve at a given point.