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You are considering the purchase of an office building for $1.5 million today. Your expectations include the following: first-year potential gross income of $340,000; vacancy and collection losses
An investment opportunity having a market price of $1,000,000 is available. You could obtain a $750,000, 25-year mortgage loan requiring equal monthly payments with interest at 7.0 percent. The
Anne wants $15,000 in 5 years. If her savings account earns 6% a year, how much does she need to deposit now? a. $9,725.75 b. $11,208.87 c. $10,500 d. $12,317.51
Charlie is married and files a joint return. He reports the following items of income and loss for the year:Salary .................. $ 120,000Activity A (passive) ............. 13,000Activity
Consider an economy with the following income distribution: Each person below the 25th percentile of the income distribution earns $15,000. Each person between the 25th and 50th earns $30,000. Each
On December 31, 2005, The Walsh Company had the following balances in its balance sheet accounts:Cash ..................$ 98,000Gross Accounts Receivables ..........$151,000Allowance for Doubtful
Buzz can be created in a variety of ways, for example, advertising. Explain how advertising can be used to generate buzz. What are some of the dangers of this method? Discuss.
1. Compute the future value of $1000 at 10% compounded annually for 6 years.2. Compute the present value of $1000 due in 4 years at 15%, compounded semiannually.a) Compute the future value of
Complete the following in your paper: • Include at least two ratios from each major group from the financial statements from your company or a health care company you select.• Provide
Ima is considering a purchase of Wallnut Company stock. Using the same scenarios and probabilities as in problem 10, she estimates Wallnut’s return is –5 percent in a recession, 20 percent in
Nelly Inc.'s comparative balance sheet at January 31, 2013, and 2012, reports the following (in millions):Calculate the net income (loss) for eachsituation?
Assume that the A division of Alien Corporation experienced the following transactions during the year ended December 31, 2013:a. Suppose division A supplied copy services for a customer for the
Suppose that, in a perfectly competitive market at the profit-maximizing quantity, the market price is greater than average total cost. Carefully explain what will happen to the number of firms, the
Suppose a monopolist faces the following demand curve: P = 596 – 6Q. Marginal cost of production is constant and equal to $20, and there are no fixed costs.a) What is the monopolist’s
What information is typically requested in a legal letter to a client's attorney?
When can a CPA disclose confidential information without the client's consent?
Paragon Inc. normally manufactures between 36,000 and 42,000 units each month. A static budget based on 36,000 units and actual results for April follows:Conversations with Paragon's accountant
What are the benefits and costs of using price data from only the previous 90 trading days? What advice would you give Cecilia about the number of data points to use?
Consider the quadratic function f(x) = 3 + 2x – x2.(a) Express f(x) in standard form. (b) Find the coordinates of the vertex and indicate whether it corresponds to the maximum or the minimum of
Property, plant and Equipment (plant assets) generally represent a material portion of the total assets of most companies. Accounting for the acquisition and usage of such assets is therefore an
A firm that has total fixed costs of $40,000 sells its output for $250 per unit and has an average variable cost of $150. If the firm's cost and revenue curves are linear, how much output must the
Suppose there are two firms with one demand function. This same (common) demand function is: [from HW]Q = 1,000 – 40P with MR = 25 – 0.05QHowever, each firm has its own cost function which is
An oligopolistic industry has two sets of demand curves. If firm 1 is the only one that changes price while the other are constant, its demand curve is: Q = 82 – 8P (1) and MR = 10.25 - 0.25Q. On
Which of the following is true regarding the weighted-average cost of capital?A, The book value of the components of capital should always be used to calculate the weighted-average cost of capital.B.
The comparative balance sheets for 2013 and 2012 and the statement of income for 2013 are given below for Dux Company. Additional information from Dux's accounting records is provided also.DUX
Assume Nortel Networks contracted to provide a customer with Internet infrastructure for $2,000,000. The project began in 2013 and was completed in 2014. Data relating to the contract are summarized
A promissory note has outstanding payments of $650 at the end of each of the next five years. What market price would be paid for this note by an investor who requires a 12% yield on his investments,
In a job shop, effective capacity is only 81 percent of design capacity, and actual output is 88 percent of effective output. What design capacity would be needed to achieve an actual output of 18
For the year ended December 31, 2015, the following information is available for the Lakers Company:Required:Prepare the operating activities section of the statement of cash flows for the year
Ajax Cleaning Products is a medium-sized firm operating in an industry dominated by one large firm - Tile King. Ajax produces a multiheaded tunnel wall scrubber that is similar to a model produced by
CPE Inc has an overview article of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that was passed by the federal Congress in 2002 after several high profile corporate fraud cases.Read the section by section review of the
What is the linkage?Are there similarities between the Luddites of the 19th century and the neo-Luddites of today? What objections do they have against technology? Is our technology “dubbing us
Lark Corporation is a calendar year taxpayer. At the beginning of the current year, Lark has accumulated E & P of $330,000. The corporation incurs a deficit in current E & P of $460,000 that accrues
In the discussion thread, answer at least two of the following questions in your own words:a) Provide the general interventions employed by government to reduce monopoly and general Interventions
More labor resources—what is the evidence for the United States and Japan?Go to the Bureau of Labor Statistics website at www.bls.gov/ and click on: "Subject Areas" tab; then on "INTERNATIONAL"
Identify and explain the three global product strategies?
Describe and explain the career path for tour operations?
Explain the importance of service to the hospitality and tourism industries. Use an example to support your answer?
Why do we study ethics?
Why should we be concerned about doing “the right things”?
If each of us has a unique set of influences and values that contribute to our personal value system how can they be added to the community as a whole?
Is it unrealistic to expect others to live by the golden rule?
Consider how you have resolved ethical dilemmas in the past. What would you do differently now?
What would you do if your resolution of ethical dilemma turned out to be wrong approach and it actually make things worse?
How do you act in the following situations? Why? How is your personal value system reflected in your choice?You buy a candy bar at a store and pay the cashier with a $ 5 bill. You are mistakenly
You are riding on a taxicab and noticed a $20 bill that has obviously fallen from someone wallet or pocket book. What do you do?
You live in a small Midwest town and have just lost your job at the local book store. The best paying job you can find is at local meatpacking plant. But you are vegetarian and strongly feel that
You are having a romantic dinner with your spouse to celebrate your wedding anniversary. Suddenly at nearby table, a man start yelling at the young woman he is dining with and becomes so verbally
You are shopping in a departmental store and observe a young man taking a watch from a display stand on the jewelry stand and slipping it into his pocket. What do you do?
You are a manager of nonprofit orphanage. At the end of the year a local car dealer approaches you with a proposition. He will give you a two year old van worth $ 10,000 that he has just taken as a
Divide into two groups, and prepare arguments for and against the following behavior: My dad takes me to a lot of baseball games and always buys the cheapest tickets in the park. When the game
Divide into two groups, and prepare arguments for and against the following behavior: One rainy evening I wandered into a shop, where I left my name-brand umbrella in a basket near the door. When I
Divide into two groups, and prepare arguments for and against the following behavior: I’m a regular customer of a men’s clothing mail-order company, and it sends me new catalogs about six times a
Divide into two groups, and prepare arguments for and against the following behavior: My friend works for a company that manages fund-raising events for non profit organizations—mostly gala
1: Critics of Milgram’s research have argued that the physical separation between the participant and the teacher in one room and the learner in the other made it easier for the participant to
1: Should people have the moral right to end their lives if they so please?2: Does being near the end of one’s life make the decision to end it justified?3: What might the phrase “right to die”
1: What do Blair’s actions suggest about his personal and professional ethics?2: Blair’s issues with accuracy and corrections were well known to his supervisors, prompting one of his editors to
Based on the history of business ethics reviewed in this chapter, do you think the business world is becoming more or less ethical? Explain your answer.
How would you propose the resolution of an ethical dilemma using the Golden Rule?
Why should a short-term or long-term consequence make a difference in resolving an ethical dilemma?
Of the four commonly held rationalizations for unethical behavior proposed by Saul Gellerman, which one do you think gets used most often? Why?
Is it ever acceptable to justify unethical behavior? Why or why not?
Explain what “doing the right thing” in a business environment means to you.
Since you are traveling on company time, does the free ticket belong to you or your company? Defend your Choice.
If the later flight was actually the next day (and the airline offered you an accommodation voucher along with the meal vouchers) and you would be late getting into work, would you make the same
What if the offer only reached a $100 discount coupon on another ticket—would you still take it? If so, would you hold the same opinion about whether the coupon belonged to you or your company?
Should your company offer a clearly stated policy on this issue, or should it trust its employees to “do the right thing”? Explain your answer.
Thanks for the training!Divide into two groups, and prepare arguments for and against the following behavior: You work in the IT department of a large international company. At your annual
What you do in your free time.Divide into two groups, and prepare arguments for and against the following behavior: You are attending an employee team-building retreat at a local resort. During one
Treatment or prevention?Divide into two groups, and prepare arguments for treatment (Group A) and prevention (Group B) in the following situation: You work in your city for a local nonprofit
Time to raise pricesDivide into two groups, and prepare arguments for and against the following behavior: You are a senior manager at a pharmaceutical company that is facing financial difficulties
1. Why would BMW sell millions of pounds of assets for £10 and lend the buyer an additional £427 million?2. Why would SAIC want to buy 70 percent of a company that was losing money for £1
1. Visit the Web site for BELA at www.ethisphere.com/bela. Define the four core values in detail, and explain which one you think will be the hardest for members to achieve and why.2. Do you think it
1. Where is the conflict of interest in this CME relationship?2. Do you think doctors are likely to be influenced by such promotional tactics? Why or why not?3. If the pharmaceutical company is
Consider the functional departments we have reviewed in this chapter. Which department do you think faces the greatest number of ethical challenges? Why?
Provide three examples of unethical behavior that you have observed at the company you work for (or a company you have worked for in the past). What were the outcomes of this behavior?
Philip Kotler argues that professional marketers “should have the same ambivalence as nuclear scientists who help build nuclear bombs.” Is that a valid argument? Why or why not?
Should the HR department be the ethics champion in the organization? Why or why not?
What are “creative bookkeeping techniques”? Provide three examples.
Would you leave your position with a company, if you saw evidence of unethical business practices? Why or why not? What factors would you consider in making that decision?
Is this unethical marketing? Explain why or why not.
Critics argue that such campaigns “blur the lines between consumerism and con artistry.” Is that a fair assessment? Why or why not?
How would you feel if you were involved in such an ambush?
If the majority of consumers are already skeptical about most advertising they are exposed to, how do you think the general public would feel about such marketing campaigns?
Supporters of these campaigns argue that our economy is built on consumerism and that if you don’t find more effective ways to reach consumers, the entire economy will suffer. Does that make the
Would your opinion change if the advertisers were more obvious in their campaigns—such as admitting after each skit that the raving fans were really actors
Is it ethical to ambush?Divide into two teams. One team must prepare a presentation advocating the use of the ambush marketing tactics described in the Review Exercise. The other team must prepare a
In search of an ethical department.Divide into groups of three or four. Each group must select one of the organizational departments featured in this chapter (HR, R&D, marketing, sales, and
An isolated incident?Divide into two groups, and prepare arguments for and against the following behavior: You are the regional production manager for a tire company that has invested many millions
The sole remaining supplier.Divide into two groups, and prepare arguments for and against the following behavior: Back in the mid-1970s heart pacemakers ran on transistors before advances in
1. Does the competitive pressure to get hired justify the decision to boost your résumé? Why?2. Do you think the board of directors of Bausch & Lomb made the right decision in choosing not to fire
1. Why would a $500,000 salary cap prompt personnel to leave for other banks?2. Was the stripping of Lewis’s chairmanship a significant move on the part of BoA shareholders?3. How could John Thain
1. Although Johnson & Johnson took a massive short-term loss as a result of its actions, it was cushioned by the relative wealth of the company. Should it have acted the same way if the survival of
What are the different types of seafloor sediments, and what are the factors that control the distribution of each major sea sediment type? Where does each major seafloor sediment type tend to
A variety of techniques and efforts are used to stabilize shorelines throughout the world. Discuss these techniques. Are they temporary or permanent? Also, discuss at least two ways in which the
There is a difference in the tax liability levied on foreign-source income depending upon whether a foreign branch or subsidiary form of organizational structure is selected for a foreign affiliate.
What impact do benefit offerings have on marketplace competitiveness and the ability to attract and keep quality employees? Do you think pay is the primary motivating factor for most job applicants
Assume that Smith & Smith CPAs audited Apollo shoes. Inc last year Now CEO Larry Lancaster wishes to engage Anderson, Olds, and Watershed, CPAs (HOW) to audit its annual financial statements.
Can a charitable organization exempt under section g 501(c)(3), not a private foundation, file a group return for all of its branches if they are located in different states?
Discuss the role of the managerial accountant in today's business environment. How has the role changed and evolved over time?

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