Hannah Ortega is considering expanding her business. She plans to hire a salesperson to cover trade shows. Because of compensation, travel expenses, and booth rental, fixed costs for a trade show are expected to be $7,500. The booth will be open 30 hours during the trade show. Ms. Ortega also plans to add a new product line, ProOffice, which will cost $150 per package. She will continue to sell the existing product, EZRecords, which costs $100 per package. Ms. Ortega believes that the salesperson will spend approximately 20 hours selling EZRecords and 10 hours marketing ProOffice.
1) Determine the estimated total cost and cost per unit of each product, assuming that the salesperson is able to sell 80 units of EZRecords and 50 units of ProOffice. (Round "Cost per unit" to 2 decimal places.)
2) Determine the estimated total cost and cost per unit of each product, assuming that the salesperson is able to sell 200 units of EZRecords and 100 units of ProOffice.
(c) Explain why the cost per unit figures calculated in Requirement a are different from the amounts calculated in Requirement b. Also explain how the differences in estimated cost per unit will affect pricing decisions.

Answer:

Hannah Ortega

Product lines      ProOffice     EZRecords

1a. Total costs           $10,000     $13,000

b.  Cost per unit      $200.00     $162.50

2a. Total costs           $17,500       $25,000

b.   Cost per unit       $175.00        $125.00

c) The total costs under the two requirements were different because of the larger units sold in requirement two.  These larger units shared the total costs, reducing the cost per unit drastically.

Explanation:

a) Data and Calculations:

Fixed costs for trade show = $7,500

Fixed cost per hour = $250 ($7,500/30)

Product lines      ProOffice     EZRecords

Cost per package  $150            $100

Units sold                   50               80

Hours spent              10 hrs           20 hrs

Fixed costs            $2,500      $5,000

Variable costs          7,500        8,000

Total costs           $10,000     $13,000

Cost per unit      $200.00     $162.50

Total cost

Product lines      ProOffice     EZRecords

Units sold                  100             200

Variable costs      $15,000       $20,000

Fixed costs              2,500            5,000

Total costs           $17,500       $25,000

Cost per unit       $175.00        $125.00

c) The total costs under the two requirements were different because of the larger units sold in requirement two.  These larger units shared the total costs, reducing the cost per unit drastically.

Bramble Corporation purchased machinery on January 1, 2022, at a cost of $300,000. The estimated useful life of the machinery is 4 years, with an estimated salvage value at the end of that period of $35,000. The company is considering different depreciation methods that could be used for financial reporting purposes.

Required:
Prepare separate depreciation schedules for the machinery using the straight-line method, and the declining-balance method using double the straight-line rate.

Sugar Cane Company processes sugar beets into three products. During September, the joint costs of processing were $150,000. Production and sales value information for the month were as follows: Product Units Produced Sales Value at Splitoff Point Separable costs Sugar 6,000 $40,000 $12,000 Sugar Syrup 4,000 35,000 32,000 Fructose Syrup 2,000 25,000 16,000 Required: Determine the amount of joint cost allocated to each product if the sales value at splitoff method is used.

Helen has a meeting with a venture capitalist for a Series A round at a $10 million valuation. She has proprietary patents for the latest advancements in facial recognition, a team of five Stanford grads, and seed money from Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures. She has two enterprise customers. The VC has her interest piqued but declines to invest at this stage. Why? Group of answer choices Helen needs to further build out her team Helen should be raising a Series B, not A Helen needs better venture capitalists funding her project Helen needs more customers

Stine Company uses a job order cost system. On May 1, the company has a balance in Work in Process Inventory of $3,500 and two jobs in process: Job No. 429 $2,000, and Job No. 430 $1,500. During May, a summary of source documents reveals the following.
Job Number Materials Requisition Slips Labor Time Tickets
429 $2,500 $1,900
430 3,500 3,000
431 4,400 $10,400 7,600 $12,500
General use 800 1,200
$11,200 $13,700
Stine Company applies manufacturing overhead to jobs at an overhead rate of 60% of direct labor cost. Job No. 429 is completed during the month.
1. Prepare summary journal entries to record (1) the requisition slips, (2) the time tickets, (3) the assignment of manufacturing overhead to jobs, and (4) the completion of Job No. 429.
2. Post the entries to Work in Process Inventory, and prove the agreement of the control account with the job cost sheets.

How loss on sale of sports material is entered in Income and Expenditure Account? If sports material book value is $120 but sold at $50?​

"Ayres Services acquired an asset for $80 million in 2021. The asset is depreciated for financial reporting purposes over four years on a straight-line basis (no residual value). For tax purposes the asset’s cost is depreciated by MACRS. The enacted tax rate is 25%. Amounts for pretax accounting income, depreciation, and taxable income in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 are as follows: ($ in millions) 2021 2022 2023 2024 Pretax accounting income $ 330 $ 350 $ 365 $ 400 Depreciation on the income statement 20 20 20 20 Depreciation on the tax return (25 ) (33 ) (15 ) (7 ) Taxable income $ 325 $ 337 $ 370 $ 413 Required: For December 31 of each year, determine (a) the cumulative temporary book-tax difference for the depreciable asset and (b) the balance to be reported in the deferred tax liability account. (Leave no cell blank, enter "0" wherever applicable. Enter your answers in millions rounded to 2 decimal places (i.e., 5,500,000 should be entered as 5.50).)"

Which of the following statements is not accurate descriptions of the business market? Mrs. Phillip, a retail buyer for Bloomingdale's, does all the shopping for her family at the same store. Wal-Mart has a contractual relationship with P&G to serve its customers efficiently. Goodyear tires deals globally with various suppliers of steel to make tires. Costco is a wholesale establishment that deals with various manufacturers.

Which descriptions are examples of Logistics Planning and Management Services workers? Check all that apply.

Lucretia supervises workers who organize the products in a warehouse.
Jeff organizes the redevelopment of areas contaminated by pollution.
Beatrice sells tickets to passengers for trips, and advises them about travel routes.
Stephanie inspects vehicles and equipment to make sure they meet safety standards.
Marcel oversees the transportation activities of an organization.
Armand analyzes procedures for shipping and storage to identify ways to make them more efficient.

Here is a linear demand function: Q = 10 -0.5P. Find its price function by inverting the demand function. Then find its total revenue function by multiplying through by Q. The linear demand function Q = 400 -250P inverts into the price function P = 1.6 -0.004Q. Multiplying this by Q gives its total revenue function TR = 1.6Q -0.004. Evaluate the following expression.

Y = 5(2X + 3)2 -2X2

Step 1:
Enter the following entries for the month of August. A. Purchased raw materials on account: $3,100. B. Selling and Administrative expenses incurred and paid: $1,200. C. Used direct materials: $3,900. D. Used indirect materials: $300. E. Manufacturing wages incurred totaled $4,000, of which 90% was direct labor and 10% was indirect labor. F. Incurred other actual factory overhead on account: $1,300. G. Factory Overhead was allocated to Work in Process Inventory at a predetermined overhead allocation rate of 60% of Direct Labor costs incurred during August. H. The cost of product completed: $10,000. I. Sales on account: $17,500. The cost of the units sold was $9,500.
Step 2:
Adjust for over or underallocated overhead.
Once you have entered the journal entries in Step 1 above, prepare and enter the necessary adjusting entry to correct for the overallocated or underallocated Factory Overhead. This entry should be dated "August 31, 2017." For the "Description," enter "Journal Entry J."

In wintry conditions, highway safety is improved by treating road services with substances that will provide traction and/or melt snow and ice. Sand and rock salt are two widely used substances. Recently, a combination of beet juice and rocksalt is being used in some parts of the country to treat road surfaces. Suppose you have been asked to provide a list of factors to consider for a switch from rocksalt alone to using a combination of beet juice and rocksalt. Name the major considerations you would take into account in making a decision in the following categories: cost considerations, environmental considerations, both positive and negative, and other considerations.

On January 1, Elias Corporation issued 10% bonds with a face value of $68,000. The bonds are sold for $65,960. The bonds pay interest semiannually on June 30 and December 31 and the maturity date is December 31, 10 years from now. Elias records straight-line amortization of the bond discount. The bond interest expense for the year ended December 31 of the first year is

Catano Corporation pays for 40% of its raw materials purchases in the month of purchase and 60% in the following month. If the budgeted cost of raw materials purchases in July is $256,550 and in August is $278,050, then in August the total budgeted cash disbursements for raw materials purchases is closest to:

Mutual Company enters into a contract to employ Neil as an investment manager for two years. During the first year, Neil is often absent without explanation and when present fails to adequately monitor and manage Mutual’s investments.
Q1. Refer to Fact Pattern 17-A1. With respect to Mutual’s duties, Neil’s performance most likely
a. discharges Mutual from the contract.
b. has no effect on Mutual’s performance.
c. increases Mutual’s duties under the contract.
d. suspends Mutual’s duty to perform.
Q2. Refer to Fact Pattern 17-A1. Neil’s performance is most likely
a. a material breach.
b. a minor breach.
c. Mutual’s breach.
d. no breach.

Eagle Company used the following data to evaluate its current operating system. - sells items for $24 each - used a budgeted selling price of $24 per unit. Actual Budgeted Units sold 177,000 units 184,000 units Variable costs $1,090,000 $1,290,000 Fixed costs $804,000 $780,000 What is the static-budget variance of operating income

The following data pertain to an investment proposal (Ignore income taxes.): Cost of the investment $ 56,000 Annual cost savings $ 16,000 Estimated salvage value $ 6,000 Life of the project 5 years Discount rate 10 % Click here to view Exhibit 7B-1 and Exhibit 7B-2, to determine the appropriate discount factor(s) using the tables provided. The net present value of the proposed investment is closest to: (Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to the nearest whole dollar amount.) Multiple Choice $34,000 $4,656 $3,726 $8,382

On January 14, at the end of the second week of the year, the totals of Castle Company's payroll register showed that its store employees' wages amounted to $33,482 and that's warehouse wages amounted to $13,560. Withholdings consisted of federal income taxes, $5,110, employer's Social Security taxes at the rate of 6.2 percent, and employees' Social Security taxes at a rate of 6.2 percent. Both the employer's and employees' Social Security taxes are based on the first $118,500, and no employee has reached the limit. Additional withholdings were Medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45 percent on all earnings and charitable contributions withheld, $845.

Required:
a. Calculate the amount of Social Security and Medicare taxes to be withheld and write the general journal entry to record the payroll. Round answers to two decimal places.
b. Write the general journal entry to record the employer's payroll taxes assuming that the federal unemployment tax is 0.6 percent of the first $7,000, that the state unemployment tax is 5.4 percent of the same base, and that no employee has surpassed the $7,000 limit.

Synovec Co. is growing quickly. Dividends are expected to grow at a rate of 10.5 percent for the next three years, with the growth rate falling off to a constant 5.4 percent thereafter. If the required return is 10.6 percent and the company just paid a dividend of $5.00, what is the current share price

Bryant Company sells a wide range of inventories, which are initially purchased on account. Occasionally, a short- term note payable is used to obtain cash for current use The following transactions were selected from those occurring during the year
A. On January 10, purchased merchandise on credit for $30,000. The company uses a perpetual inventory system.
B. On March 1, borrowed $64,000 cash from City Bank and signed a promissory note with a face amount of $64,000, due at the end of six months, accruing interest at an annual rate of 8.50 percent, payable at maturity.
Required:
1. For each of the transactions, indicate the accounts, amounts, and effects on the accounting equation.
2. What amount of cash is paid on the maturity date of the note?
3. Indicate the impact of each transaction (increase, decrease, and NE for no effect) on the debt-to-assets ratio, Assume Bryant Company had $300,000 in total liabilities and 500,000 in total assets, yielding a debt-to-assets ratio of 0.60, prior to each transaction.

After reading the paragraph below, answer the question that follows. Americans spend up to $100 billion annually for bottled water (41 billion gallons). The only beverages with higher sales are carbonated soft drinks. Recent news stories have highlighted the fact that most bottled water comes from municipal water supplies (the same source as your tap water), although it may undergo an extra purification step called reverse osmosis. Imagine two tanks that are separated by a membrane that's permeable to water, but not to the dissolved minerals present in the water. Tank A contains tap water and tank B contains the purified water. Under normal conditions, the purified water would cross the membrane to dilute the more concentrated tap water solution. In the reverse osmosis process, pressure is applied to the tap water tank to force the water molecules across the membrane into the pure water tank. If you shut off the system and pressure was no longer applied to tank A, you would expect

At Bargain Electronics, it costs $30 per unit ($20 variable and $10 fixed) to make an MP3 player that normally sells for $45. A foreign wholesaler offers to buy 3,000 units at $25 each. Bargain Electronic will incur special shipping costs of $3 per unity. Assuming that Bargain Electronics has excess operating capacity, indicate the net income (loss) Bargain Electronic would realize by accepting the special order.

Reject Order Accept Order Net Income Increase (Decrease)
Revenues
Costs-Manufacturing
Shipping
Net income

The special order should be :__________

Kingston Manufacturing has 27,000 labor hours available for producing X and Y. Consider the following information:
Product X Product Y
Required labor time per unit (hours) 2 3
Maximum demand (units) 6,000 8,000
Contribution margin per unit $5 $6
Contribution margin per labor hour $2.50 $2
If Kingston follows proper managerial accounting practices, which of the following production schedules should the company set?
Product A Product B
A. 0 units 8,000 units
B. 1,500 units 8,000 units
C. 6,000 units 0 units
D. 6,000 units 5,000 units
E. 6,000 units 8,000 units
A. Option A.
B. Option B.
C. Option C.
D. Option D.
E. Option E.
The following costs are relevant to the decision situation cited except:____.
a. the cost of hiring a full-time staff attorney, in a decision to establish an in-house legal department or retain the services of a prominent law firm.
b. the remodeling cost of existing office space, in a firm's decision to stay at its current location or move to a new building.
c. the long-term salary costs demanded by Joe Torrez (a superstar) and Rip Moran (an average player) in baseball contract negotiations, in a decision that determines the amounts by which ticket prices must be raised.
d. the cost to enhance an airline's Web site, in a decision to expand existing service to either Salt Lake City or Phoenix.
e. the commissions that could be earned by a salesperson, in a decision that involves salesperson compensation methods (i.e., commissions or flat monthly salaries).

Dalia prefers the numbers in her excel document to show up as dollar amounts like “$5,234.15” instead of as numbers like “5234.15.” What is the most useful way for her to format that information?

Hazel Company allocates overhead based on direct labor hours. It allocates overhead costs of $16,200 to two different jobs as follows:
Job 1: (12 hours) = $8,100; Job 2: (12 hours) = $8,100
The production process for Job 2 was then automated. Now Job 2 requires only 3 hours of direct labor but 5 hours of mechanical processing. As a result, total overhead increases to $21,000. Select the incorrect statement from the following.
A. While the actual processing of Job 1 was not affected by automation, it received an increase of $9,900 in its overhead allocation.
B. The use of machine hours as the allocation base would significantly improve the overhead cost allocations.
C. The increased overhead costs associated with automation should be allocated to both jobs.
D. Automation and the costing system used by the company cause the cost of Job 1 to be significantly overstated.

WHAT IS OPERANT CONDITIONG

The Neal Company wants to estimate next year's return on equity (ROE) under different financial leverage ratios. Neal's total capital is $20 million, it currently uses only common equity, it has no future plans to use preferred stock in its capital structure, and its federal-plus-state tax rate is 25%. The CFO has estimated next year's EBIT for three possible states of the world: $5.5 million with a 0.2 probability, $2.6 million with a 0.5 probability, and $600,000 with a 0.3 probability.

Required:
Calculate Neal's expected ROE, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation.

I Love My Chocolate Company makes dark chocolate and light chocolate. Both products require cocoa and sugar. The following planning information has been made available: Standard Amount per Case Dark Chocolate Light Chocolate Standard Price per Pound Cocoa 12 lbs. 8 lbs. $7.25 Sugar 10 lbs. 14 lbs. 1.40 Standard labor time 0.50 hr. 0.60 hr. Dark Chocolate Light Chocolate Planned production 4,700 cases 11,000 cases Standard labor rate $15.50 per hr. $15.50 per hr. I Love My Chocolate Company does not expect there to be any beginning or ending inventories of cocoa or sugar. At the end of the budget year, I Love My Chocolate Company had the following actual results: Dark Chocolate Light Chocolate Actual production (cases) 5,000 10,000 Actual Price per Pound Actual Pounds Purchased and Used Cocoa $7.33 140,300 Sugar 1.35 188,000 Actual Labor Rate Actual Labor Hours Used Dark chocolate $15.25 per hr. 2,360 Light chocolate 15.80 per hr. 6,120
Required:
1. Prepare the following variance analyses for both chocolates and the total, based on the actual results and production levels at the end of the budget year. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number.
a. Direct materials price variance, direct materials quantity variance, and total variance.
b. Direct labor rate variance, direct labor time variance, and total variance.
2. The variance analyses should be based on the amounts at volumes. The budget must flex with the volume changes. If the volume is different from the planned volume, as it was in this case, then the budget used for performance evaluation should reflect the change in direct materials and direct labor that will be required for the production. In this way, spending from volume changes can be separated from efficiency and price variances.

I'm dealing with "internal economies of scale". We are considering monopolistic competition as an example. We assumed that firms are symmetric: they face the same demand function and have the same cost function.
Why do firms falling in this situation, have different marginal cost functions? Why is it true that some are well performing and some are not?

Raphael lives in Detroit and runs a business that sells boats. In an average year, he receives $793,000 from selling boats. Of this sales revenue, he must pay the manufacturer a wholesale cost of $430,000; he also pays wages and utility bills totaling $301,000. He owns his showroom; if he chooses to rent it out, he will receive $15,000 in rent per year. Assume that the value of this showroom does not depreciate over the year. Also, if Raphael does not operate this boat business, he can work as a financial advisor, receive an annual salary of $50,000 with no additional monetary costs, and rent out his showroom at the $15,000 per year rate. No other costs are incurred in running this boat business.

Identify each of Manuel's costs in the following tab/e as either an implicit cost or an explicit cost of selling pianos.

a. The salary Manuel could earn if he worked as a financial advisor
b. The rental income Manuel could receive if he chose to rent out his showroom
c. The wholesale cost for the pianos that Manuel pays the manufacturer
d. The wages and utility bills that Manuel pays

Sunland Company issues $5,000,000, 10-year, 10% bonds at 96, with interest payable annually on January 1. The straight-line method is used to amortize bond discount. Prepare the journal entry to record the sale of these bonds on January 1, 2020. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)