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Financial ratio analysis is conducted by three main groups of analysts: credit analysts, stock analysts, and managers. What is the primary emphasis of each group, and how would that emphasis affect the ratios on which they focus? Why would the inventory turnover ratio be more important for someone analyzing a grocery store chain than an insurance company? Over the past year, M.D. Ryngaert & Co. had an increase in its current ratio and a decline in its total asset’s turnover ratio. However, the company’s sales, cash, and equivalents, DSO, and fixed assets turnover ratio remained constant. What balance sheet accounts must have changed to produce the indicated changes? Profit margins and turnover ratios vary from one industry to another. What differences would you expect to find between the turnover ratios, profit margins, and DuPont equations for a grocery store and a steel company? How does inflation distort ratio analysis comparisons for one company over time (trend analysis) and…

“Suppose that you have been given a summer job at J limited, a company that manufactures sophisticated radar sets for commercial aircraft. The company, which is privately owned, has approached a bank for a loan to help finance its tremendous growth. The bank requires financial statements before approving such a loan. You have been asked to help prepare the financial statements and were given the following list of costs: The cost of the memory chips used in a radar set. Factory heating costs. Factory equipment maintenance costs. Training costs for new administrative employees. The cost of the solder that is used in assembling the radar sets. The travel costs of the company’s salespersons. Wages and salaries of factory security personnel. The cost of air-conditioning executive offices. Wages and salaries in the department that handles billing customers. Depreciation on the equipment in the fitness room used by factory workers. Telephone expenses incurred by factory management.…

Tim and his wife were having a few friends over for dinner, many of whom Tim knew from an international management association to which he belonged. Tim's company provides the programming needed to download maps of world areas from satellites and then the firm sells these maps via the Internet to firms, countries, and others around the world. Sally, a guest at the party, bakes cookies for a living. Her recipe is so well-liked that her company has grown dramatically. She now has sold the right to manufacture and recipe for her cookies to a firm in Eastern Europe. Mac is a director at McDonald's and is a guest along with his wife, Mary, who works for Hershey. Finally Samantha works for EDS and is soon to go abroad to visit a firm that EDS is considering acquiring so that it can keep its technology proprietary. Conversation was lively and the guests at one point were speaking about the way that the company they own or work for decided to "go global."   Questions: Sally's company uses…

Estimating Costs in an Uncertain Environment Many companies face increasingly unpredictable costs and revenues as the recession affects demand for products and the costs of materials andlabor for these products. Revenues and costs have fluctuated significantly in recent years for suchcost elements as fuel, labor, commodities (agricultural commodities, metals, etc.), interest, and rentexpense, among others. Dealing with the increased fluctuations requires cost estimation methods thatare more sophisticated and more frequently updated. The result is that companies are including intheir cost estimation additional independent variables. Moreover, these companies are updating theirestimation models more frequently. For example, Southwest Airlines updates its revenue predictionmodel on a daily basis.Required Consider Southwest Airlines and the following six key areas of cost for the company. Which ofthese costs do you think the airline must update most frequently?1. Flight crew.2. Fuel…

Lucy is working with a lender to obtain a home loan. The lender gives Lucy a quote of 4.5% with a monthly payment of $1,256. Lucy would like to decrease the monthly payment. How can Lucy go about reducing her monthly home loan. payment? O Lucy can purchase discount points upfront to reduce the interest rate on the loan. O Lucy can negotiate for a higher interest rate. O Lucy can purchase discount points upfront to increase the interest rate on the loan. O Lucy can pay a loan origination fee after the loan closes.

Estimating Costs in an Uncertain Environment Many companies face increasingly unpredictable costs and revenues as the recession affects demand for products and the costs of materials and labor for these products. Revenues and costs have fluctuated significantly in recent years for such cost elements as fuel, labor, commodities (agricultural commodities, metals, etc.), interest, and rent expense, among others. Dealing with the increased fluctuations requires cost estimation methods that are more sophisticated and more frequently updated. The result is that companies are including in their cost estimation additional independent variables. Moreover, these companies are updating their estimation models more frequently. For example, Southwest Airlines updates its revenue prediction model on a daily basis. Required Consider Southwest Airlines and the following six key areas of cost for the company. Which of these costs do you think the airline must update most frequently? Flight crew. Fuel…

Part 1: Find the present worth at i = 10% per year for the cash flow series shown below. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Year $200 $200 $200 $90 $90 $90 Part 2: Recalibration of sensitive measuring devices costs $8,000 per year. If the machine will be recalibrated for each of 6 years starting 3 years after purchase, calculate the 8-year equivalent uniform series at 16% per year.

2. The Government of Ghana, through the Ministry of Trade and Industries (MOTI) has called for Business Plans from all ‘Year 2020’ Ghanaian graduates of tertiary institutions across the country to access a seed money for setting businesses through Stimulus Package known as the COVID FUND. It is important to note that the Fund Managers require applicants to show proof of how feasible their plans would be. This implies that you are expected to explicitly show how and when the venture would pay back the investment, at what point would the venture break-even as well as the opportunity cost of your venture (e.g., Time Value of Money (TVM) like NPV, BCR & IRR). Fortunately for you, after a semester’s course in Entrepreneurship, you have learnt about how to write a pitching business plan. How would you go about this onerous task?

The first step in performing projected financial analysis is to • prepare the projected balance sheet. forecast sales as accurately as possible. take an inventory of goods. calculate the projected net income. estimate increases in debt.

6) Some people have said that the Soviet Union saved too much. Explain the benefit of saving in the long run and how over-saving could be possible. 7) Give an example of a government policy that could change savings behavior and an example that could change the productivity in an economy. 8) Explain why the Federal Reserve’s goals of lowering inflation and unemployment creates a time consistency problem. Explain using the short and medium run Phillip’s curve. 9) Show a liquidity trap situation on an IS-LM graph. Explain the possible policy changes to end this situation. ************* SHOW WITH GRAPHS PLEASE*********************

Which of the following are important to investors evaluating direct participation programs? I. The economic soundness of the program II. The expertise of the general partner III. The basic objectives of the program IV. The start-up costs A I, II, and IV B I, II, and III C I, II, III, and IV D II, III, and IV

Your  Finance Department makes sure your company has the financial resources it needs to run through the year. The department can raise money via one-year bank notes, 10-year bonds or stock issues.O TrueO False

expenditure on food, gas and clothing for a family living in the USA in 2010. Read the description written below the graph. Monthly Expenditure food verae The bar chart the amount of money spent monthly on food, gas and clothing for a family living in the USA in 2010. Overall, it can be seen that all levels of expenditure over the period. To begin, in January the money was spent on food, at approximately $500 per month. expenditure on food increased the following month, it then had a to be the lowest expenditure of all the items at the end of the period at just over $300.Gas appeared to follow the opposite pattern to food spending. It started lower at about $350 per month. The amount of money spent on gas then went down in the following month, but then it increased to finish at just under $600 in April. Clothing, which at just over $200 in January, was considered the expenditure at the beginning of the period. The amount of money spent monthly on clothing fluctuated dramatically over…

Consider a fictional price index, the College Student Price Index (CSPI), based on a typical college student’s annual purchases. Suppose the following table shows information on the market basket for the CSPI and the prices of each of the goods in 2017, 2018, and 2019. The cost of each item in the basket and the total cost of the basket are shown for 2017. Perform these same calculations for 2018 and 2019, and enter the results in the following table. **THE TABLE IS ATTACHED**   Suppose the base year for this price index is 2017. In the last row of the table, calculate and enter the value of the CSPI for the remaining years. Between 2017 and 2018, the CSPI increased by_____%. Between 2018 and 2019, the CSPI increased by______%.     Which of the following, if true, would illustrate why price indexes such as the CSPI might overstate inflation in the cost of going to college? Check all that apply.   A. Energy drinks became increasingly popular on college campuses between…

The type of budgeting technique that requires items to be justified from the beginning without regarding the expenditure in the past is called: Answer Choices: a. Incremental budgeting b. Operating budgeting c. Rolling budgeting d. Zero-based budgeting

A budgetary planning and controlsystem may include many individual budgets which are integrated into a ‘master budget’.You are required to outline and briefly explain with reasons the steps that should normally be taken in the preparation of master budgets in a manufacturing company, indicating the main budgets which you think should normally be prepared.

It is often difficult to estimate the expected future dividend growth rate for use in estimating the cost of existing equity using the DCF or DG approach. In general, there are three available methods to generate such an estimate: • Carry forward a historical realized growth rate, and apply it to the future. • Locate and apply an expected future growth rate prepared and published by security analysts. • Use the retention growth model.   Suppose Johnson is currently distributing 45% of its earnings in the form of cash dividends. It has also historically generated an average return on equity (ROE) of 20%. Johnson’s estimated growth rate is    %.

tittle : CURRENT ISSUES IN MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING“SUSTAINABILITY AND THE MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING VALUE CREATION Ethics and role of the management accountants in sustainability environment. you are required to describe use own words.  based on the given above,  you are required to explain and desribe , that you can understand overall from this Ethics and role of the management accountants in sustainability environment that related to tittle.

(3) How to interpret relationship between changes of GDP growth rate and unemployment rate? Now go to your notes (slides). Is the relationship you plotted similar as the Okun's Law predicts? Suppose you got a relation as GDP = a + b * UNemp, Are the coefficients of a and b are close to the value of Okun's Law? (4) Now repeat the plot you did in part (2) above. However, this time you use the sample only from 2000 to 2019. Any change to the relationship? How is the value of a and b in this sample?

Below is a list of domestic output and national income figures for a certain year. All figures are in billions. The questions that follow ask you to determine the major national income measures by both the expenditures and the income approaches. The results you obtain with the different methods should be the same. Personal consumption expenditures $245Net Foreign Factor Income 4Transfer Payments 12Rents 14Consumption of fixed capital(depreciation) 27Statistical Discrepancy 8Social Security Contributions 20Interest 13Proprietors Income 33Net exports 11Dividends 16Compensation of employees 223Taxes on production and imports 18Undistributed corporate profits 21Personal taxes 26Corporate income taxes 19Corporate profits 56Government purchases 72Net private domestic investment 33Personal Saving 20 1. Using the above data, determine GDP by both the expenditures and income approaches. A.) expenditures approach GDP       B.)income approach GDP.   2. Determine NDP. 3. Now determine NI in two…

Faiza is thinking about opening a high-end fashion boutique in an affluent suburb of Minneapolis. She contacts an angel investor she knows has previously invested in this type of firm and asked if he would read her business plan. She received the following response from the angel investor: “I would be glad to read your plan. But you should know that when examining business plans for high-end fashion boutiques, the section I concentrate on with great intensity is called “The Economics of the Business.” Why do you think the angel investor concentrates on this particular section of a business plan when studying proposals to launch a highend fashion boutique? What specifically do you think the angel investor is interested in understanding when concentrating on this section?

Scenario Your corporation has just approved an 8-year expansion plan to grow its market share. The plan requires an influx of cash in each of the 8 years. Management wants to develop a financial plan to ensure the cash needed for the expansion will be available at the beginning of each of the 8 years. The corporation has the following investment options: Security Price per unit Return Rate (%) Years to Maturity 1 $1,200 10.255 5 2 $1,000 6.7550 6 3 $1,175 12.110 7 Savings Account   5.500     Each unit of security 1, 2, and 3 guarantees to pay $1,000 at maturity. Investments in these securities must take place only at the beginning of year 1 and will be held until maturity. Any funds not invested in securities will be invested in a savings account that pays the annual interest rates noted above. The following table summarizes the cash needs for the expansion plan for each of the 8 years: Year 1 = $250,000 Year 5 = $295,000…

Oxicon Inc. manufactures several different types of candy for various retail stores. The accountingmanager has requested that you determine the sales dollars required to break even for next quarter based on past financial data. Your research tells you that the total variable costs will be $500,000,total sales will be $750,000, and fixed costs will be $75,000. What is the breakeven point in salesdollars?

Please solve  The figure below illustrates the demand for money for transaction (L1) and speculative motives (L2) in South Africa:   A recession similar to the one experienced between 2009 and 2011 in the global economy will a.Shift curve L1 to the left. b.Shift curve L1 to the left and curve L2 to the right. c.Shift curve L2 to the left and have no impact on curve L1.     d.Shift both curves L1 and L2 to the left