Tag: Business Finance

Assignment Question(s):

Q1. Distinguish between Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return.Give one pro and one con for each method.[15 marks]

Q2. Describe one advantage and one disadvantage for the following pricing methods:market-based and cost- based[15 marks]

Q3. The Coffee Revolution sells beverages in a variety of coffee flavors.Data for a recent week appear below:

Revenue (1,000 cups sold)

Cost of ingredientsSAR640

Factory Rent500

Depreciation expense –office3601,500

a.Suppose the company’s policy is to set prices based on a 250% markup above variable cost.Calculate the cost-based price per cup. [15 marks]

b.What is the mark up percentage if the company adopts product cost method and the required rate of return by shareholders is 10% on total assets of SAR 10,000[15 marks]

Q4. The City of Hail is considering the purchase of new road repair equipment costing SAR40,000 to achieve cash savings of SAR8,000 per year in operating costs.The estimated useful life is 10 years, with no terminal value.The city’s minimum expected return is 14%.

a.What is the net present value of this investment?[10 marks]

b.What is the internal rate of return? [10 marks]

d.What is the payback period?[10 marks]

Q5. Part A is used in one of Oraby Corporation’s products. The company’s Accounting Department reports the following costs of producing the 12,000 units of the part that are needed every year.

Per unit

Direct materialsSAR 4.50

Direct laborSAR 1.20

Variable overheadSAR 2.70

Supervisor’s salarySAR 3.00

Depreciation of special equipmentSAR 2.30

Allocated general overheadSAR 1.80

An outside supplier has offered to make the part and sell it to the company for SAR 15.70 each. If this offer is accepted, the supervisor’s salary and all of the variable costs, including direct labor, can be avoided. The special equipment used to make the part was purchased many years ago and has no salvage value or other use. The allocated general overhead represents fixed costs of the entire company. If the outside supplier’s offer were accepted, only SAR 5,000 of these allocated general overhead costs would be avoided.

Required:

a. Prepare a report that shows the effect on the company’s total net operating income of buying part A from the supplier rather than continuing to make it inside the company. [30 marks]

b. Which alternative should the company choose? [10 marks]

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I’m working on a business discussion question and need a sample draft to help me understand better.

Respond to question 3: How does the company you are analyzing in your project  (Amazon)use acquisitions and joint ventures in international markets? Does it use acquisitions and joint ventures as dominant entry modes in international markets and if so why? If not, what are its dominant entry modes, and why?

How does Global Reporting Initiative reporting benefit an organization? Please use the video as a reference. Global Reporting Initiative :: The sustainability challenge – YouTube

Force Majeure clauses are found in many contracts. Here’s a link explaining how they work along with some contract drafting strategies:

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These force majeure clauses have recently become especially relevant. Here’s a coronavirus-related case based on the Metropolitan Opera:

Link (Links to an external site.)

Let’s assume this is the clause used in the Metropolitan Opera contract:
Force Majeure (Links to an external site.). Neither party shall be liable for any costs or damages due to delay or nonperformance under this services contract arising out of any cause or event beyond such party’s control, including, without limitation, cessation of services hereunder or any damages resulting therefrom to the other party as a result of work stoppage, power or other mechanical failure, computer virus, natural disaster, governmental action, or communication disruption.

Use this clause to answer these questions based on the Metropolitan Opera scenario above:

1) Which language in the above force majeure clause can the Metropolitan Opera use to make the case that it does not have to preform? Explain.

2) Now argue the other side. What argument can the performers make that the coronavirus disruption does not apply here?

3) In the end, who do you believe determines whether or not this clause applies?

4) Should these clauses be allowed in any contracts for personal services for those in performing arts? How about accountants or other professionals? Should the hiring party accept the risk of disruption or should the risk fall on the party providing services?

I’m working on a accounting report and need a sample draft to help me study.

Competency

• Evaluate the different types of business entities.
• Evaluate the necessary elements of a bona fide contract.
• Interpret relevant portions of the Uniform Commercial Code.
• Outline the key aspects of real, personal, and intellectual property from a financial manager’s perspective.
• Describe the estate system, and explain how it is relevant to determining ownership of real property.
• Identify appropriate management practices that enable an enterprise to demonstrate its superior commitment to exceptional standards.

Student Success Criteria

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Scenario

You are an employee of T&G consulting, with extensive experience in financial management and familiarity with the hospitality industry. A group of four investors has approached your firm with tentative plans to construct three hotels on the Gulf coast of Florida, and the matter has been referred to you. While the group intends to engage legal counsel, they are interested in your keen insight and business acumen before proceeding further.

The hotels will be built one at a time, and it is expected that the entire project will take 6-8 years to complete. The group of investors/developers consists of two men and a woman, all in their 40s, and the woman’s father who is in his mid-70s.

Instructions

1. During your first meeting with the group, you learn that the woman has much more management experience than the men. In fact, she has indicated a desire to manage the development group that the four will be forming. In that capacity, she would be actively involved in day-to-day operations, while the three men function primarily as sources of capital. You are asked by the group for your recommendation as to what type of business entity they should create. What would you suggest, and why? State the advantages and disadvantages. Please fully explain your answer.
2. Also during this initial meeting, you notice that the man in his 70s does not seem particularly sharp. In fact, he appears to be confusing the planned hotel construction with a strip mall that he helped develop twenty years earlier. He is sometimes non-responsive when you ask a question, and some of his responses do not at all relate to the questions that are posed. You know that, regardless of the type of business entity that is formed, contracts will be involved, and the elderly man will be expected to be a party to at least one. Is his mental decline a concern with respect to contracts that he may be asked to sign and, if so, why? What would you recommend to the clients? Please fully explain your answer.
3. Assume the group, in whole or in part, is able to proceed with the hotel development project, and a possible site has been identified for the first hotel. You set up a conference call with the group, and they have a series of questions about how they will acquire the land (the “real property”), what they can expect to occur from the time an agreement is reached until closing, and how ownership might be structured if more than one member of the group becomes an owner of the land. Create a memo that you would send to the group after the call. What information would you provide to the group in response to their questions? Please fully explain your answer. Here is a library resource for help writing a professional memo.
4. After the closing on the land for the first hotel, the client informs you that they have arranged for the purchase of a relatively small office trailer, on wheels, that will be delivered to the site by the seller. The purchase price is $4,000. However, nothing related to this transaction has been reduced to writing. Your client wants to know if the mobile office trailer is personal or real property, whether a valid contract for the sale of goods has been formed, and what specific provision of the Uniform Commercial Code would be applicable to the issue of whether or not this agreement must be in writing to be enforceable. What would you tell the client? Please fully explain your answer.
5. A written contract related to the purchase of the office trailer is subsequently signed, and the terms of the contract reflect that the trailer will be equipped with an HVAC system. Â The contract also contains language that the terms set forth in the agreement are the complete and exclusive terms of the agreement. Â Later, when the trailer is delivered to the construction site, your client discovers that it is lacking an HVAC system. When the client calls the seller to object, the seller advises the client that the client’s administrative assistant advised, in an earlier telephone call, that HVAC would not be necessary since the people who will be using the trailer are “hardy” and “don’t need heat or air conditioning.” What provision of the Uniform Commercial Code relates to situations such as this, where a party tries to introduce extrinsic evidence (i.e. evidence that is outside the written contract) in connection with the sale of goods, and what impact would that UCC provision have on the outcome of this dispute? Please fully explain your answer.
6. At long last, construction of the first hotel begins. A large team of workers has been assembled, and a female steel worker is part of the group. During her first week on the job, she begins to hear sexually suggestive remarks that are clearly directed at her. The situation escalates over the next several days, with some of the men directly confronting her and asking why she’s doing “men’s work” instead of staying home or working in an office. She becomes troubled by this behavior and approaches her foreman, who tells her to “lighten up” and not take things so seriously. However, the comments continue. Moreover, her foreman repeatedly denies her overtime opportunities that are extended to the male workers, stating that she “needs to be home for her husband.” While your client does not directly employ these workers, the client has heard about these incidents and is concerned. Your client asks what issues might be involved here, and if you know of any law that might be applicable. What would you tell the client? Prepare a report outlining the issues involved, fully explaining your answer.

How is Ford Motor company benefiting from sustainability reporting? Please use this video and the Ford Motors website as a reference. Thank you!

Learning Goal: I’m working on a accounting report and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

You are tasked to research a tax issue(s)/problem(s) and then draft a tax memo in the required format.

Directions:

I blind mark the tax memo so please
only include your RED ID for the author of the memo. If you really want
to use a name then please use “Jane Smith” irrespective of whether you
are male or female. Please ensure you use the tax reasearch database,
CCH AnswerConnect to help you research the issue(s) to be addressed in
the tax memo. Please look at the examples for the correct format for a
tax memo.

I will upload the overview and what how it will be
graded. Please ensure you have looked at the rubric to ensure you
understand how the tax memo will be evaluated.

Individuals want to work for organizations that will invest in their development and growth. For this reason, people typically seek jobs with organizations where they think they have an opportunity to learn, train, and advance.

Initial Post: Discuss a time when you worked for an organization that invested in you or didn’t invest in you (if you have never had a job, discuss how you think you would feel or react) and offered or didn’t offer development and training opportunities and a clear path for advancement. In one to two paragraphs, answer the following questions:

1. How did that make you feel?
2. Did you stay with the organization long?
3. Are you still with them?
4. If you left, why?

Reply Posts: Choose one of the following for your reply to a classmate.

• Respond to a classmate that had a similar experience with you and explain how you perceived the situation.
• Respond to a classmate that had an opposite experience from you and provide recommendations for how they could have proceeded differently.

I am currently working for a very well-known company, and have been for almost 1 year. This company has been in business since 1889. They are an almost 100 million dollar corporation. When I got the job I was excited and happy to be working for such an amazing company however, once I have worked there and seen many things nothing seems amazing about this company compared to others I have worked at. On my first day, I had 3 hours of training videos. There was no interaction with the training videos to test my skills or if I was learning anything from the training. Hands-on training consists of putting me with another employee (six feet apart and learning my tasks). looking at invoices and item descriptions 6 feet apart is not that easy. I “shadowed” the other employee for about 45 min. then put in my own station. I didn’t know if I was messing up or even doing it right because there was nobody close by I had to hope and pray everything was correct in the order, pack It, and ship it. There is no communication with the manager in my department. He also has a very low sense of humor. If you have to miss work he avoids talking to you for a few days after you return. There are no training videos to touch up on training throughout the year. There is no interaction from human resources and if it is it is through e/mail and it takes up to a week to respond and they are in the next building. They have made it well known that advancement or career growth is next to impossible for employees.

I am looking for another job at this present time, which is a bummer because I have an excellent job history and almost all my jobs are long-term with 5 years or more with each. I would think with this company being as well off as they are they would have better training, wages, and interaction with their employees who make their net worth possible every year. If I do find another position I would hope for it to be in my career field that I am going to school for which is human resource.

Interaction and recognition is a huge thing to have in an organization and a little bit goes a long way, only if organizations would give it. 

 Planning Ahead

Complete a definition of failure and disengagement plan for your venture. Include Beneficiary Experience and Deliverables tables to evaluate and determine the warning signals of both negative and positive second-order effects. Determine if you have market-scaler venture. If not, which enterprise lower down on the aspirations cascade might be yours, and at what point might you migrate there? What are your scale-up challenges (refer to Table 14.1)? Include your table. What is the most appropriate growth strategy for your social enterprise, namely a cookie-cutter strategy or an expansion from the core (or a combination of the two)? Explain.