Suppose that the government charges a firm a franchise tax each year​ (instead of only​ once). Describe the effect of this tax on the marginal​ cost, average variable​ cost, short-run average​ cost, and​ long-run average cost curves. ​ (Assume that the​ firm's before-tax average cost​ curve, ​, is​ U-shaped.)The annual franchise tax ___________ not affectthe​ firm's marginal cost​ curve,_____________ not affect increases the​ firm's average variable cost​ curve,_____________does not affectincreasesdecreasesthe​ short-run average cost​ curve, and___________ not affect decreases the​ long-run average cost curve.

Answer: does not affect; does not affect; increases; increases

Explanation:

''The annual franchise tax does not affect the​ firm's marginal cost​ curve, does not affect the ​firm's average variable cost​ curve, increases the​ short-run average cost​ curve, and increases the​ long-run average cost curve.''

Franchise taxes do not affect output so will not be apportioned to output. This means that neither the marginal cost nor the variable cost will change because the tax does not change with output.

The fixed costs will however increase because the tax is a fixed cost. As fixed cost is a part of total cost, the average cost curve will increase to show this change. The tax is paid each year instead of once so in the long run the firm would still be paying the tax so the long run average cost curve is affected as well.

Barbur, Inc. reported net income of $20.35 million. During the year the average number of common shares outstanding was 3.7 million. The price of a share of common stock at the end of the year was $5. There were 680,000 shares of preferred stock outstanding on average and no dividends were declared and the preferred stock is non-cumulative.
1A. Use the information above, the EPS is approximately:_____.
a. $0.40.b. $1.76.c. $1.86.d. $2.00.
1B. Use the information above, the Price/Earnings ratio is approximately:_____.a. 2.00.b. 2.50.c. 2.84.d. 12.50.

Which of the following describes a move away from capitalism?
O A. Sweden's 1980s cutback on social programs
O B. the transformation of the former Soviet Union to today's Russia
O C. the nationalization of major industries in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela
OD. economic reforms following the Great Depression in the United States

:How is a ‘provision for reserve’ in a balance sheet, a liability or an asset. Explain.

The Converting Department of Soft Touch Towel and Tissue Company had 760 units in work in process at the beginning of the period, which were 60% complete. During the period, 16,000 units were completed and transferred to the Packing Department. There were 840 units in process at the end of the period, which were 60% complete. Direct materials are placed into the process at the beginning of production.
Determine the number of equivalent units of production with respect to direct materials and conversion costs. If an amount is zero, enter in "0".
Soft Touch Towel and Tissue Company
Number of Equivalent Units of Production
Whole Units Direct Materials Equivalent Units Conversion Equivalent Units
Inventory in process, beginning
Started and completed
Transferred to Packing Department
Inventory in process, ending
Total

SCENARIO The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) was formed in 1993 to promote sustainable management of the world’s forests. The FSC quickly began to certify lumber based on whether the forest that it was taken from was managed according to its guidelines. Soon thereafter, several builders in California began to specialize in the construction of "Green" buildings that only used FSC-certified lumber. This was seen as a viable business because some customers were willing to pay a premium to have their projects completed with FSC lumber. These builders have an opportunity to order this lumber once every 3 months because the forests involved must be harvested in accordance with certain restrictions. Consequently, builders who focused on this market were forced to hold large inventories. On the other hand, builders who only used "traditional" wood which was not FSC-certified could order on a just-in-time basis, meaning they did not have to hold any lumber in their own lumberyards. Consider the following 3 scenarios and related questions.
1. A green builder must decide how much FSC lumber to purchase to meet demand for the next 3 months. Demand is normally distributed with a mean of 40,000 board-feet and a standard deviation of 15,000 board feet. (A board-foot is a standard unit for lumber.) The purchase price for the builder is $4.00 per board-foot. At the end of a 3-month period the wood will dry and may warp, reducing its value. Of any lumber remaining in the builder’s lumber yard at the end of the 3-month period, approximately half will be worthless. The builder will use any wood that is not warped in the next period. However, buying the wood now, rather than in the next period incurs a holding cost of 4% of the purchase cost. If the builder has too little FSC certified wood to meet demand, he will be forced to substitute traditional lumber which he can buy for $3.35 per board foot. In addition, the green builder assigns a shortage cost of $2.00 per board foot for the loss of good will and damage to his reputation. How many board feet of FSC certified lumber should the builder purchase?
2. Suppose a lumber-yard (Nice Lumber) agrees to serve as a distributor for a builder. This means Nice Lumber will stock the FSC-certified lumber for one green builder. Nice Lumber will pay $4.00 per board foot for FSC-certified wood and sell it to the builder for $4.20 per board foot. If demand exceeds the inventory, the green builder will buy traditional wood from a different lumber yard to meet the demand at price of $3.20 per board-foot. In addition to the lost sale, Nice assigns a cost of $2.00 per board foot of shortage of FSC lumber. If the inventory of FSC-certified lumber exceeds demand, Nice will immediately substitute the excess FSC certified lumber to meet demand from other customers and reduce its purchases of traditional lumber accordingly. Nice pays $3.20 per board foot for traditional lumber. How many board feet of FSC certified lumber should Nice Lumber purchase?
3. Suppose Nice Lumber will stock the FSC certified lumber for 10 green builders. For each of these builders, demand is normally distributed with a mean of 40,000 board feet and a standard deviation of 15,000 board feet, and each builder’s demand is independent of other builders’ demand. How many board feet of FSC certified lumber should Nice lumber purchase per builder?

4. Now that you have calculated the number of workers needed each period in Problem 3, Tameka wants to see how the plan would actually work. You need to: a. Show what would happen if this plan were implemented. b. Calculate the costs associated with this plan. c. Evaluate the plan in terms of cost, customer service, operations, and human resources.

In most restaurants, waiters receive a large portion of their compensation through tips from customers. Generally, the size of the tip is decided by the customers. However, many restaurants receive a 15% tip for parties of eight or more. Using the concept from this chapter, discuss (a) why the practice of tipping has emerged as a major method of compensating the wait staff, (b) why the customer typically decide on the amount of the tip, and (c) why restaurants require tips from large parties

Zachary Corporation produces products that it sells for $18 each. Variable costs per unit are $6, and annual fixed costs are $247,200. Zachary desires to earn a profit of $39,600. Required Use the equation method to determine the break-even point in units and dollars. Determine the sales volume in units and dollars required to earn the desired profit.

Larry Ellison starts a company that manufactures high-end custom leather bags. He hires two employees. Each employee only begins working on a bag when a customer order has been received and then she makes the bag from beginning to end. The average production time of a bag is 1.8 days with a standard deviation of 2.7 days. Larry expects to receive one customer order, per day on average. The arrival process follows a Poisson distribution. What is the expected duration, in days, between when an order is received and when production begins on the bag

53) In the current year, Borden Corporation had sales of $2,000,000 and cost of goods sold of $1,200,000. Borden expects returns in the following year to equal 8% of sales. The unadjusted balance in Inventory Returns Estimated is a debit of $6,000, and the unadjusted balance in Sales Refund Payable is a credit of $10,000. The adjusting entry or entries to record the expected sales returns is (are):

Journalize the following transactions for the Evans Company. Assume the company uses a perpetual inventory system.
a. Sold merchandise for $645 cash. The cost of goods sold was $375.
b. Sold merchandise for $432 and accepted VISA as the form of payment. The cost of goods sold was $195.
c. Sold merchandise on account for $670. The cost of goods sold was $438.
d. Paid credit card fees for the month of $85.If an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank.

Applying the Cost of Goods Sold Model The following amounts were obtained from Stanwick Company's accounting records. 2019 2020 Net sales $388,600 $427,460 Cost of goods sold: Beginning inventory $36,800 (d) Purchases (a) 296,700 Goods available for sale (b) (e) Ending inventory 42,060 (f) Cost of goods sold (c) 295,390 Gross margin $117,960 (g)

Which phrase best completes the list?
Characteristics of Short-Term Savings Strategies
Earn low rates of interest
Include savings accounts at banks
?
O A. Are used mostly for retirement savings
O B. Are used to pay for expenses as they arise
O C. Include keeping money in your home
O D. Have a high risk of losing initial investments

If the Hunter Foundation had decided to focus only on fighting measles, the
organization would no longer exist because measles is generally considered a
conquered disease. The Hunter Foundation switched its mission to fighting
contagious viruses. This example shows that ____

Your mayor just announced that the local unemployment rate dropped from 10.5% to 10.4% from the prior month. Evaluate the unemployment rate drop and discuss whether there is enough information to determine statistical significance, which Hypothesis Test you would use, and what additional information you would need if any. Support your response with specific examples and a reference. In replies to peers, discuss whether you agree or disagree with their assessments, justify your response, and state which other specific hypothesis tests could be used to test the significance of the drop.

Cross-price elasticity of demand measures how a. the price of one good changes in response to a change in the price of another good. b. the quantity demanded of one good changes in response to a change in the quantity demanded of another good. c. strongly normal or inferior a good is. d. the quantity demanded of one good changes in response to a change in the price of another good

Alex Karev has taken out a ​$ loan with an annual rate of percent compounded monthly to pay off hospital bills from his wife​ Izzy's illness. If the most Alex can afford to pay is ​$ per​ month, how long will it take to pay off the​ loan? How long will it take for him to pay off the loan if he can pay ​$ per​ month? Use five decimal places for the monthly percentage rate in your calculations.

During 2022 Swifty Corporation had sales on account of $765000, cash sales of $312000, and collections on account of $512000. In addition, they collected $8900 which had been written off as uncollectible in 2021. As a result of these transactions the change in the accounts receivable indicates a $244100 increase. $568000 increase. $565000 increase. $253000 increase.

TVLand sells home entertainment systems and also offers a complementary installation service. The same service is offered by other vendors for $50 on average, and TVLand typically charges approximately 40% more than other vendors for similar services on a stand-alone basis. Using the adjusted market assessment approach, the stand-alone selling price of the installation service is:

Exercise 3-1 Prepare Journal Entries [LO3-1] Larned Corporation recorded the following transactions for the just completed month. $75,000 in raw materials were purchased on account. $73,000 in raw materials were used in production. Of this amount, $59,000 was for direct materials and the remainder was for indirect materials. Total labor wages of $116,000 were paid in cash. Of this amount, $102,000 was for direct labor and the remainder was for indirect labor. Depreciation of $194,000 was incurred on factory equipment.

Question 2: Allocating costs using ABC You have an ABC system with three pools number of cost driver units total cost in the pool product A product B total pool 1 $20,000 4,000 DL$ 6,000 DL$ 10,000 DL$ pool 2 $15,000 20 setups 30 setups 50 setups pool 3 $10,000 50 hours 150 hours 200 hours Compute the activity rates and the allocated costs for products A and B. activity rate allocated costs for product A allocated costs for product B pool 1 $ per DL$ $ $ pool 2 $ per setup $ $ pool 3 $ per hour $ $ total allocated costs for each product $ $

HELP ASAP! TIMED! A crisis management team does all of the following except _____ .



handle all service failures


oversee the situation before, during, and after it occurs


coordinate communications


instruct employees and customers

Classification of Transactions
Below are several transactions that took place in Seneca Company last year:
A. Paid suppliers for inventory purchases.
B. Bought equipment for cash.
C. Paid cash to repurchase its own stock.
D. Collected cash from customers.
E. Paid wages to employees.
F. Equipment was sold for cash.
G. Common stock was sold for cash to investors.
H. Cash dividends were declared and paid.
I. A long-term loan was made to a supplier.
J. Income taxes were paid to the government.
K. Interest was paid to a lender.
L. Bonds were retired by paying the principal amount due.
Required:
Indicate how each of the above transaction would be classified on a statement of cash flows.

Marigold Company uses the periodic inventory method and had the following inventory information available:
Units Unit Cost Total Cost
1/1 Beginning Inventory 98 $4 $392
1/20 Purchase 490 $5 2,450
7/25 Purchase 98 $7 686
10/20 Purchase 294 $8 2,352
980 $5,880
A physical count of inventory on December 31 revealed that there were 343 units on hand. Answer the following independent questions.
1. Assume that the company uses the FIFO method. The value of the ending inventory at December 31 is $____the value of the ending inventory in dollars.
2. Assume that the company uses the average cost method. The value of the ending inventory on December 31 is $____the value of the ending inventory in dollars.
3. Assume that the company uses the LIFO method. The value of the ending inventory on December 31 is $_____the value of the ending inventory in dollars 4.
A) Determine the difference in the amount of income that the company would have reported if it had used the FIFO method instead of the LIFO method $enter the amount of difference 4.
B) Would income have been greater or less?

Money is: multiple choice any good that buyers and sellers have a desire to purchase, use, or hold. anything that both buyers and sellers will accept in exchange for goods and services. the gold and silver behind the currency and the coins that are issued by the government. only the printed paper currency and the coins that are produced by the government.

what do you understand by marketing mix​

Riverbed Corporation is preparing its December 31, 2020, balance sheet. The following items may be reported as either a current or long-term liability.

1. On December 15, 2020, Riverbed declared a cash dividend of $2.20 per share to stockholders of record on December 31. The dividend is payable on January 15, 2021. Riverbed has issued 1,000,000 shares of common stock, of which 50,000 shares are held in treasury.
2. At December 31, bonds payable of $101,599,000 are outstanding. The bonds pay 12% interest every September 30 and mature in installments of $25,399,750 every September 30, beginning September 30, 2021.
3. At December 31, 2019, customer advances were $13,686,000. During 2020, Riverbed collected $30,897,000 of customer advances; advances of $26,671,000 should be recognized in income.

For each item above, indicate the dollar amounts to be reported as a current liability and as a long-term liability, if any.

a. Dividends payable
b. Bonds payable (September 30, 2018 installment)
c. Bonds payable (Other than September 30, 2018 installment)
d. Interest payable
e. Customer advances

consider ktu as a production system in which the final product is graduate for this
a) define quality form the producers and consumers perspective
b) develop fitness for use description for final product quality
c) give examples of the cost of poor quality ( internal and and external failure cost ) and the cost of quality assurance ( prevention and appraisal) costs.

Keystone, Inc., replaced its truck-and-dolley system of moving inventory around its plant with a computer-controlled conveyor system. The costs associated with this equipment replacement were as follows: Purchase price of conveyor system$1,300,000 Book value of truck-and-dolley system50,000 Installation cost of new conveyor system85,000 The truck-and-dolley system was sold for scrap for $70,000. What value should be capitalized to the balance sheet of Keystone, Inc., as the cost basis of the new conveyor system

Hypothetically, your MNE is the largest foreign investor in Vietnam, where dissidents and religious leaders are reportedly being persecuted. As the country manager there, you understand that the MNE is being pressured by NGOs to help the oppressed groups in Vietnam. But you also understand that the host government would be upset if your firm were found to engage in local political activities deemed inappropriate. These alleged activities, which you personally find distasteful, are not directly related to operations. How would you proceed