Jennifer couldn't believe her bad luck. The business planning cycle at Allworld Insurance was almost over. The only thing her boss had asked her to do was to make copies of four sets of final plans. Each set contained a different level of planning and each was supposed to be delivered to a different manager for review. But now those documents are all over the floor. Everything has to be back in the right order as quickly as possible. Knowing that you are a planning expert, Jennifer asks for your help. She tells you that Allworld Insurance uses an aligned, or cascading, goal system. You can expect to see each set of plans now in a logical way throughout the company.
Chose the best plan for each of the following statement:
(1) We are known for our operating efficiency and for reducing insurance costs for our customers.
(2) The Human Resource Division will reduce the overall cost of fulfilling employment requisitions by eliminating the use of outside recruiting agencies.
(3) We will eliminate redundancies throughout the corporation to decrease our overall expenses by 20%.
(4) Each human resource employee will use advertisements and personal networking to attract at least 10 qualified applicants per open position.
(A) Tactical
(B) Mission statement
(C) Operational
(D) Strategic

Answer:

Allworld Insurance

1. Mission Statement

2. Tactical

3. Strategic

4. Operational

Explanation:

(A) Tactical plans include specific actions to enable the achievement of company-wide strategies.

(B) Mission statement describes the goal of an entity.  For example, a mission statement can describe an entity as renowned for its efficiency and cost reduction for its customers.

(C) Operational plans cover daily and routine activities at the individual level of the organization.

(D) Strategic plans embrace the whole organization and establishes how organizational goals will be achieved.

Felicity has modified the location of elements on a form and now needs to ensure that users can navigate using the keyboard. Which option should she use?

Tab order
Keyboard shortcuts
Tools > Align
Tools > Arrange

Oslo Company prepared the following contribution format income statement based on a sales volume of 1,000 units (the relevant range of production is 500 units to 1,500 units): Sales $ 70,000 Variable expenses 38,500 Contribution margin 31,500 Fixed expenses 23,310 Net operating income $ 8,190 6. If the selling price increases by $2 per unit and the sales volume decreases by 100 units, what would be the net operating income

Consider two $10,000 face value corporate bonds. Bond A is currently selling for $9,980 and matures in 15 years. The Bond B sells for $9,350 and matures in 3 years. a) Calculate the current yield as a percentage to 2 decimal places for both bonds if both have a coupon rate equal to 5%. Bond A % Bond B % b) Calculate the yield to maturity as a percentage to 2 decimal places for both bonds if both have a coupon rate equal to 5%. Bond A % Bond B % Which current yield is a better approximation of the yield to maturity, A or B

why do we have a graduated income tax?​

The following data were taken from the accounting records of the Mixing Department of Kappa Corporation which uses the weighted-average method in its process costing system:
Beginning work in process inventory:
Cost $ 19,000
Units 30,000 units
Percent completion with respect to materials 100 %
Percent completion with respect to conversion 60 %
Units completed and transferred out 82,000 units
Cost per equivalent unit:
Material $ 1.50
Material $ 0.75
The cost of units transferred out was:________.
a. $184,500
b. $149,500
c. $167,500
d. $145,000

Assume that the fair values of the investee's net assets approximated the recorded book values of the investee's net assets, except the fair value of the investee's identifiable noncurrent assets is $30,000 higher than book value. In addition, the investee's pre-transaction tax bases in its individual net assets approximate their reported book values. This difference relates entirely to tax-deductible items. Assume the marginal tax rate is 40% for the investor and investee. What amount of goodwill should be reported in the investor's consolidated balance sheet prepared immediately after this business combination

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the consequence of nonbinding price ceiling?

a. They prevent the seller from receiving the equilibrium price.
b. They require the seller to advertise the product at the equilibrium price.
c. They create a surplus in the legal market.
d. They do not change the quantity of goods bought or sold in the legal market.
e. They increase the quantity demanded of the good in question.

ABC Christmas shop signs a three-month note payable to help finance increases in inventory for the Christmas shopping season. The note is signed on October 1 in the amount of $20,000 with annual interest of 6%. What is the adjusting entry to be made on December 31 for the interest expense accrued to that date, if no entries have been made previously for the interest

Purchases of merchandise on account were $300,000. b. The cost of freight to receive the inventory was $10,000. This was paid in cash. c. Debra returned $5,000 of the merchandise due to an ordering error. Debra received a full credit for the return. d. Debra paid the remaining balance for the merchandise. Calculate the dollar amount that Debra will have in inventory at the end of the month. Assume Debra uses the perpetual inventory system and there were no sales.

Your grandparents put $11,200 into an account so that you would have spending money in college. You put the money into an account that will earn an APR of 4.39 percent compounded monthly. If you expect that you will be in college for 4 years, how much can you withdraw each month

Presented below is information for Kingbird Company.
1. Beginning-of-the-year Accounts Receivable balance was $16,600.
2. Net sales (all on account) for the year were $102,400. Kingbird does not offer cash discounts.
3. Collections on accounts receivable during the year were $90,000.
a. Prepare (summary) journal entries to record the items noted above. (If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts. Credit account titles are automatically indented when the amount is entered. Do not indent manually.) No. Account Titles and Explanation Debit Credit 1. 2. 3. SHOW LIST OF ACCOUNTS
b. Compute Kingbird's accounts receivable turnover and days to collect receivables for the year. The company does not believe it will have any bad debts. (Round answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 4.57.) Accounts receivable turnover times Days to collect accounts receivable days Use the results to analyze Kingbird's liquidity. The turnover ratio last year was 8.1. This is a trend in liquidity.

Nolan Company acquired a tract of land containing a natural resource. Nolan is required by the purchase contract to restore the land after extraction. Geological surveys show that the estimated amount to be extracted will be 5,000,000 tons, and that the land will have a value of $1,000,000 after restoration. Relevant costs:Land $7,000,000Estimated restorationcosts: 1,500,000What should be the charge to depletion expense per ton of extracted material?

14. The last department in a production process shows the following information at the end of the period: Units Beginning Work in Process 25,000 Started into Production 240,000 Ending Work in Process 50,000 How many units have been transferred out to finished goods during the period

A bank currently has $150 million in "hot money" deposits against which it wants to hold an 80 percent reserve and $90 million in vulnerable deposits against which it wants to hold a 30 percent reserve. It also has $45 million in stable deposits against which it wants to hold a 5 percent reserve. Legal reserves for the bank are 5 percent of all deposits. What is the bank's liability liquidity reserve?

During 2012, Charles Inc. recorded credit sales of $2,000,000. Based on prior experience, it estimates a 1 percent bad debt rate on credit sales. At the beginning of the year, the balance in net accounts receivable was $150,000. At the end of the year, but before the bad debt expense adjustment was recorded and before any bad debts had been written off, the balance in net accounts receivable was $125,000. Assume that on December 31, 2012, the appropriate bad debt expense adjustment was recorded for the year 2012 and accounts receivable totaling $10,000 were written off for the year, what was the receivables turnover ratio for the year? Please round to one decimal place

Use the following information (in random order) from a merchandising company and from a service company. McNeil Merchandising Company Accumulated depreciation $ 700 Beginning inventory 11,500 Ending inventory 6,900 Expenses 2,100 Net purchases 14,300 Net sales 22,500 Krug Service Company Expenses $ 8,700 Revenues 27,000 Cash 700 Prepaid rent 680 Accounts payable 200 Equipment 2,500 a. Compute the goods available for sale, the cost of goods sold and gross profit for the merchandiser. Hint: Not all information may be necessary. b. Compute net income for each company.

You have been approached by one of the staff who works testing equipment that passes through your facility. Every day, you receive computers from the university that have been repaired but now need to be tested to ensure that they can work under high stress. This means running them in your test labs. Because the test labs are as stressful on the test equipment as it is on the computers, you have planned for downtime in the past. To get this downtime, you have tried to ensure that effective capacity utilization is about 65 percent. Yet, the staff person has informed you that a backlog of yet-to-be tested equipment is building up. Furthermore, the test equipment is now starting to break at a rate faster than anticipated. To address this issue, you know that the design or maximum capacity is 720 hours and that over the last three weeks, you have spent 600 hours per week testing equipment.
Based on this data, what is our effective capacity utilization?

Edison and Hilary Garcia live in Swarthmore, PA. Their son, Kevin, owns his own plumbing business. For each of the following transactions that occur in their lives, identify whether it is included in the calculation of U.S. GDP as part of consumption (C), investment (I), government purchases (G), exports (X), or imports (M). Check all that apply.
Transaction C I G X M
Hilary gets a new video camera made in the United States.
Kevin buys a new set of tools to use in his plumbing business.
The state of Pennsylvania repaves highway PA 320, which goes
through the center of Swarthmore.
Edison buys a sweater made in Guatemala.
Edison's employer assigns him to provide consulting services to
an Australian firm that's opening a manufacturing facility in China.

Umatilla Bank and Trust is considering giving Sandhill Co. a loan. Before doing so, it decides that further discussions with Sandhills accounting may be desirable. One area of particular concern is the Inventory account, which has a year-end balance of $269,380. Discussions with the accountant reveal the following.
1. Sandhill shipped goods costing $55,680 to Hemlock Company FOB shipping point on December 28. The goods are not expected to reach Hemlock until January 12. The goods were not included in the physical inventory because they were not in the warehouse.
2. The physical count of the inventory did not include goods costing $100,770 that were shipped to Sandhill FOB destination on December 27 and were still in transit at year-end.
3. Sandhill received goods costing $24,220 on January 2. The goods were shipped FOB shipping point on December 26 by Yanice Co. The goods were not included in the physical count.
4. Sandhill shipped goods costing $53,270 to Ehler of Canada FOB destination on December 30. The goods were received in Canada on January 8. They were not included in Sandhill physical inventory.
5. Sandhill received goods costing $40,510 on January 2 that were shipped FOB destination on December 29. The shipment was a rush order that was supposed to arrive December 31. This purchase was included in the ending inventory of $269,380.
Determine the correct inventory amount on December 31.

Galvanized Products is considering purchasing a new computer system for their enterprise data management system. The vendor has quoted a purchase price of $130,000. Galvanized Products is planning to borrow 1/4th of the purchase price from a bank at 12.00 % compounded annually. The loan is to be repaid using equal annual payments over a 3-year period. The computer system is expected to last 5 years and has a salvage value of $5,200 at that time. Over the 5-year period, Galvanized Products expects to pay a technician $20,000 per year to maintain the system but will save $51,000 per year through increased efficiencies. Galvanized Products uses a MARR of 20.00 %/year to evaluate investments.
What is the present worth of this investment?

(1) ____ are two of the largest financial institutions in the country.
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You own a coal mining company and are considering opening a new mine. The mine will cost $120 million to open. If this money is spent immediately, the mine will generate $20 million for the next 10 years. After that, the coal will run out and the site must be cleaned and maintained at environmental standards. The cleaning and maintenance are expected to cost $2 million per year in perpetuity. What does the IRR rule say about whether you should accept this opportunity

Which of the following statements is correct?
A. Stockholders' equity can be described as creditorship claim on total assets.
B. The cost of an asset and its fair value are never the same.
C. The historical cost principle requires that when assets are acquired, they should be recorded at market price.
D. Stockholders' equity can be described as ownership claim on total assets.
E. The historical cost principle requires that when assets are acquired, they should be recorded at appraisal value.

Costco is able to keep costs down and offer low prices thanks to a no-frill shopping experience for its 64 million members. They offer around 4000 different products and do take into consideration customer preferences. After realizing the popularity of organic food products, Costco quickly stocked more of these items and created an initiative to help farmers buy land to grow organic crops. How does Costco prioritize efficiency and responsiveness

Two years ago, Kimberly became a 30 percent partner in the KST Partnership with a contribution of investment land with a $12,750 basis and a $19,850 fair market value. On January 2 of this year, Kimberly has a $18,300 basis in her partnership interest, and none of her pre-contribution gain has been recognized. On January 2 Kimberly receives an operating distribution of a tract of land (not the contributed land) with a $15,575 basis and an $22,675 fair market value.
a. What is the amount and character of Kimberly's recognized gain or loss on the distribution?
b. What is Kimberly’s remaining basis in KST after the distribution?
c. What is KST's basis in the land Kimberly contributed after Kimberly recevies the distribution?

In supply and demand theory, an increase in consumer income for a normal good will: A. Shift the demand curve in and to the left, lowering the equilibrium price but raising the equilibrium quantity. B. Shift the demand curve out and to the right, raising the equilibrium price and quantity. C. Shift the supply curve out and to the right, lowering the equilibrium price but raising the equilibrium quantity. D. Shift the supply curve in and to the left, lowering the equilibrium price and quantity. E. Shift the demand curve out and to the right, lowering the equilibrium price but raising the equilibrium quantity.

The following trial balance of Sarasota Traveler Corporation does not balance.
Sarasota Traveler Corporation
Trial Balance
April 30, 2020
Debit Credit
Cash $6,212
Accounts Receivable 5,390
Supplies 3,117
Equipment 6,250
Accounts Payable $7,194
Common Stock 8,150
Retained Earnings 2,150
Service Revenue 5,350
Office Expense 4,470 0
$25,439 $22,844
An examination of the ledger shows these errors.
1. Cash received from a customer on account was recorded (both debit and credit) as $1,730 instead of $2,000.
2. The purchase on account of a computer costing $3,339 was recorded as a debit to Office Expense and a credit to Accounts Payable.
3. Services were performed on account for a client, $2,400, for which Accounts Receivable was debited $2,400 and Service Revenue was credited $375.
4. A payment of $245 for telephone charges was entered as a debit to Office Expense and a debit to Cash.
5. The Service Revenue account was totaled at $5,350 instead of $5,430.
InstructionsFrom this information prepare a corrected trial balance.

Airline Accessories has the following current assets: cash, $92 million; receivables, $84 million; inventory, $172 million; and other current assets, $8 million. Airline Accessories has the following liabilities: accounts payable, $78 million; current portion of long-term debt, $25 million; and long-term debt, $13 million. Based on these amounts, calculate the current ratio and the acid-test ratio for Airline Accessories. (Enter your answers in millions, not in dollars. For example, $5,500,000 should be entered as 5.5.)

Select the correct answer.
In general, how long does it take to accomplish a long-term goal?
OA.
a few days to a week
OB.
a few weeks to a month
OC.
a few months to a year
OD.
more than a year

A sole proprietor in the 37% tax bracket pays her 16-year-old son a reasonable salary of $14,000 for services performed for the proprietorship. Compute the family's income tax savings if the son has no other income and takes a $12,400 standard deduction.