1) Why has eBay succeeded as an online auction marketplace while so many others have failed? 2) Evaluate eBay's fee structure. Is it optimal or could it be improved? Why? How? 3) What's next for...

A furniture manufacturer produces two types of tables (country and contemporary) using three types of machines. The time required to produce the tables on each machine is given in the following...

1. What are the ethical and social issues in this case? 2. Why should Nike be held responsible for what happens in factories that it does not own? Does Nike have a responsibility to ensure that...

Seth Feye established Reliance Financial Services on July 1, 2014. Reliance Financial Services offers financial planning advice to its clients. The effect of each transaction and the balances after...

One Product Corp. (OPC) incorporated at the beginning of last year. The balances on its post-closing trial balance prepared on December 31, at the end of its first year of operations, were: The...

Sunspot Beverages, Ltd., of Fiji makes blended tropical fruit drinks in two stages. Fruit juices arc extracted from fresh fruits and then blended in the Blending Department. The blended juices are...

The accountant of Latifa Shoe Co. has compiled the following information from the companys records as a basis for an income statement for the year ended December 31, 2014. Rent revenue...

Wiemers Products Company operates three divisions, each with its own manufacturing plant and marketing/sales force. The corporate headquarters and central accounting office are in Wiemers, and the...

Selected transactions from the journal of Kati Tillman, investment broker, are presented below. Instructions (a) Post the transactions to T-accounts. (b) Prepare a trial balance at August 31,2015....

The completed worksheet for Vasquez Corporation as of December 31, 2016, after the company had completed the first month of operation, appears across the tops of pages 146147. INSTRUCTIONS 1. Prepare...

As a hospital administrator of a large hospital, you are concerned with the absenteeism among nurses aides. The issue has been raised by registered nurses, who feel they often have to perform work...

In 2016, Lee Inc. billed its customers $62,000 for services performed. The company collected $51,000 of the amount billed. Lee incurred $39,000 of other operating expenses on account. Lee paid...

The Schuyler Corporation manufactures lamps. It has set up the following standards per finished unit for direct materials and direct manufacturing labor: Direct materials: 10 lb. at $ 4.50 per lb....

Ms. Winnie Lins company sells computers. Monthly sales for a six-month period are as follows: MONTH SALES Jan ........ 18,000 Feb ........ 22,000 Mar ........ 16,000 Apr ........ 18,000 May ...........

Maggie Moylan Motorcycle Corp. uses kambans to support its transmission assembly line. Determine the size of the kanban for the mainshaft assembly and the number of kanbans needed. Setup cost = $20...

During the first month of operations ended May 31, 2014, Ice Cold Fridge Company manufactured 17,500 dormitory refrigerators, of which 16,380 were sold. Operating data for the month are summarized as...

A quality control inspector at the Beautiful Shampoo Company has taken three samples with four observations each of the volume of shampoo bottles filled. The data collected by the inspector and the...

See, I told you things would work out, said Barry Kresmier, president of Lomax Company. We expanded sales from $1.6 million to $2.0 million in 2009, nearly doubled our warehouse space, and ended the...

Jessica Kimble and Carlos Segura form a partnership by combining assets of their former businesses. The following balance sheet information is provided by Kimble, sole proprietorship: Kimble obtained...

The LP relationships that follow were formulated by Richard Martin at the Long Beach Chemical Company. Which ones are invalid for use in a linear programming problem, and why? Maximize = 6X1 + 12...

Alec Appliance Service had net income for the year of $18,200. In addition, the balance sheet reports the following balances: Calculate the return on assets (ROA) for Alec Appliance Service for the...

Soundgarden Company sold 200 color laser copiers in 2014 for $4,000 apiece, together with a one-year warranty. Maintenance on each copier during the warranty period averages $330. Instructions (a)...

At December 31, 2010, Grinkov Corporation had the following account balances. Installment Accounts Receivable, 2009........................$ 65,000 Installment Accounts Receivable,...

Is the stakeholder corporation a realistic model for business firms? Will stakeholder corporations become more prevalent in the twenty-first century? Why or why not?

1. Describe and evaluate what Alan Mulally did at Ford Motor Company. 2. What structural implications arise from Mulallys description of Ford being world-class? 3. What types of adaptive...

Distinguish among service industries, distribution industries, and production industries.

Franken Company, a ski tuning and repair shop opened on November I, 2016. The company carefully kept track of all its cash receipts and cash payments. The following information is available at the...

What processes at manufacturing firms are really service processes that involve considerable customer contact? Can customer contact be high, even if the process only has internal customers?

Kim Clark has asked you to help him determine the best ordering policy for a new product. The demand for the new product has been forecasted to be about 1,000 units annually. To help you get a handle...

Marston Corporation manufactures disposable thermometers that are sold to hospitals through a network of independent sales agents located in the United States and Canada. These sales agents sell a...

1. Develop a business profile for Personal Trainer, based on the facts provided. List at least three of Personal Trainers business processes. 2. Create an organization chart for Personal Trainer...

China is a major producer of grains, such as wheat, corn, and rice. In 2008 the Chinese government, concerned that grain exports were driving up food prices for domestic consumers, imposed a tax on...

The Badger Motel, Inc. opened for business on May 1, 2014. Its trial balance before adjustment on May 31 is as follows. In addition to those accounts listed on the trial balance, the chart of...

Sandy Chen owns a small specialty store, named Chens Chattel, whose year-end is June 30. Determine the total amount that should be included in Chens Chattels year-end inventory. A physical inventory...

BSU Inc. wants to purchase a new machine for $29,300, excluding $1,500 of installation costs. The old machine was bought five years ago and had an expected economic life of 10 years without salvage...

Presented below are selected account balances for Homer Winslow Co. as of December 31, 2008. Instructions Prepare closing entries for Homer Winslow Co. on December 31, 2008. (Omitexplanations.)...

The Hard Rock Mining Company is developing cost formulas for management planning and decision-making purposes. The companys cost analyst has concluded that utilities cost is a mixed cost, and he is...

Race One Motors is an Indonesian car manufacturer At its largest manufacturing facility, in Jakarta, the company produces subcomponents at a rate of 300 per day, and it uses these subcomponents at a...

Electro Repairs & Service, an electronics repair store, prepared the unadjusted trial balance shown below at the end of its first year of operations. For preparing the adjusting entries, the...

The Gorman Group is a financial planning services firm owned and operated by Nicole Gorman. As of October 31, 2014, the end of the current fiscal year, the accountant for The Gorman Group prepared an...

Transactions for Jayne Company for the month of June are presented below. Identify the accounts to be debited and credited for each transaction. June 1 Issues common stock to investors in exchange...

Hallas Company manufactures a fast-bonding glue in its Northwest plant. The company normally produces and sells 40,000 gallons of the glue each month. This glue, which is known as MJ-7, is used in...

Yost-Perry Industries (YPI) manufactures a mix of affordable guitars (A. B, C) that are fabricated and assembled at four different processing stations (W, X, Y, Z). The operation is a batch process...

The Denver advertising agency promoting the new Breem dishwashing detergent wants to get the best exposure possible for the product within the $100,000 advertising budget ceiling placed on it. To do...

Paulson Company issues 6%, four-year bonds, on December 31, 2013, with a par value of $ 200,000 and semiannual interest payments. Use the following bond amortization table and prepare journal entries...

Lancaster Engineering Inc. (LEI) has the following capital structure, which it considers to be optimal: Debt ............ 25% Preferred stock ........ 15 Common equity ....... 60 100% LEIs expected...

Find two other examples of brands that use names, words, colors, package shapes, or other elements to convey potentially deceptive meanings to consumers. Vitaminwatersounds healthy, right? Although...

E-mail messages sent over the Internet are broken up into electronic packets that may take a variety of different paths to reach their destination where the original message is reassembled. Suppose...

The Ashton Furniture Company manufactures coffee tables and chest of drawers. Last year the companys cost of goods sold was $3,700,000, and it carried inventory of oak, pine, stains, joiners, and...

The three-station work cell illustrated in figure S7.7, has a product that must go through one of the two machines at station 1 (they are parallel) before proceeding to station 2. (a) What is the...

Supreme Videos, Inc., produces short musical videos for sale to retail outlets. The company?s balance sheet accounts as of January 1, the beginning of its fiscal year, are given on the following...

Alden Company has decided to use a contribution approach income statement for internal planning purposes. The company has analyzed its expenses and has developed the following cost formulas: Cost...

The adjusted trial balance for Sharp Construction as of December 31, 2011, follows. J. Sharp invested $50,000 cash in the business during year 2011 (the December 31, 2010, credit balance of the J....

Part of your company's accounting database was destroyed when Godzilla attacked the city. You been able to gather the following data from your files. Reconstruct the remaining information. Using'"...

Donna Shader, manager of the Winter Park Hotel, is considering how to restructure the front desk to reach an optimum level of staff efficiency and guest service. At present, the hotel has five clerks...

Forten Company, a merchandiser, recently completed its calendar- year 2013 operations. For the year, (1) all sales are credit sales, (2) all credits to Accounts Receivable reflect cash receipts from...

The following report was prepared for evaluating the performance of the plant manager of Nuuman Inc. Evaluate and correct this report. Nuuman Inc. Manufacturing Costs For the Quarter Ended June 30,...

The first audit of the books of Bruce Gingrich Company was made for the year ended December 31, 2015. In examining the books, the auditor found that certain items had been overlooked or incorrectly...

DiCenta Corporation reported net income of $270,000 in 2010 and had 50,000 shares of common stock outstanding throughout the year. Also outstanding all year were 5,000 shares of cumulative preferred...

Suppose the supply function for product X is given by Qsx = 50 + 0.5Px 5Pz. a. How much of product X is produced when Px = $500 and Pz = $30? b. How much of product X is produced when Px = $50 and...

Property Tax Calculations and Journal Entries. The Village of Darbys budget calls for property tax revenues for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2011, of $2,660,000. Village records indicate that,...

What changed firstthe Starbucks customer or the Starbucks Experience? Explain your response by discussing the principles of market targeting. By now, you should be familiar with the Starbucks story....

A cash budget, by quarters, is given below for a retail company (000 omitted). The company requires a minimum cash balance of $5,000 to start each quarter. Required: Fill in the missing amounts in...

1. Put yourself in Sue McCaskeys position and prepare a detailed report to Dan Block and Ed Spriggss on managing the inventory of the EG1 51 exhaust gasket and me DB032 dove belt Be sore to present a...

An avant-garde clothing manufacturer runs a series of high-profile, risqué ads on a billboard on Highway 101 and regularly collects protest calls from people who are offended by them....

After careful analysis, Dexter Brothers has determined that its optimal capital structure is composed of the sources and target market value weights shown in the following table. The cost of debt is...

Sarah OHann enjoyed taking her first auditing course as part of her undergraduate accounting program. While at home during her semester break, she and her father discussed the class and it was clear...

Smashing Pumpkins Company uses the lower-of-cost-or-market method, on an individual-item basis, in pricing its inventory items. The inventory at December 31, 2008, consists of products D, E, F, G, H,...

Tribeck Company is a family-owned business in which you own 20% of the common stock and your brothers and sisters own the remaining shares. The employment contract of Tribeck's new president, Jake...

Victory Company uses weighted- average process costing to account for its production costs. Direct labor is added evenly throughout the process. Direct materials are added at the beginning of the...

Lisah, Inc., manufactures golf clubs in three models. For the year, the Big Bart line has a net loss of $10,000 from sales $200,000, variable costs $180,000, and fixed costs $30,000. If the Big Bart...

Presented below are transactions related to Tom Brokaw, Inc. May 10 Purchased goods billed at $15,000 subject to cash discount terms of 2/10, n/60. 11 Purchased goods billed at $13,200 subject to...

Picard Landscaping plants grass seed as the basic landscaping for business campuses. During a recent month, the company worked on three projects (Remington, Chang, and Wyco). The company is...

Bridgette Keyes is a licensed dentist. During the first month of the operation of her business, the following events and transactions occurred. April 1 Invested $20,000 cash in her business. 1 Hired...

The pharmacist at Arnold Palmer Hospital, Wende Huehn- Brown, receives 12 requests for prescriptions each hour, Poisson distributed. It takes her a mean time of 4 minutes to fill each, following a...

Cost-plus, target return on investment pricing, Vend-o-licious makes candy bars for vending machines and sells them to vendors in cases of 30 bars. Although Vend-o-licious makes a variety of candy,...

Nonmonetary Exchanges Holyfield Corporation wishes to exchange a machine used in its operations. Holyfield has received the following offers from other companies in the industry. 1. Dorsett Company...

Renkas Heaters selected data for October 2011 are presented here (in millions): Direct materials inventory 10/1/2011 $ 105 Direct materials purchased 365 Direct materials used 385 Total manufacturing...

The graph in Figure represents various flows that can occur through a sewage treatment plant with the numbers on the arcs representing the maximum flow (in tons of sewage per hour) that can be...

A process currently services an average of 50 customers per day. Observations in recent weeks show that its utilization rate, utilization is about 90 percent, allowing for just a 10 percent capacity...

Presented below are transactions related to R. Humphrey Company. 1. On December 3, R. Humphrey Company sold $570,000 of merchandise to Frazier Co., terms 1/10, n/30, FOB destination. R. Humphrey paid...

The nation of Textilia does not allow imports of clothing. In its equilibrium without trade, a T-shirt costs $20, and the equilibrium quantity is 3 million T-shirts. One day, after reading Adam...

Tommy John is going to receive $1,000,000 in three years. The current market rate of interest is 10%. a. Using the present value of $1 table in Exhibit 4, determine the present value of this amount...

1. How does Pojman link ethnocentrism to relativism? 2. How does Pojman explain the way that the diversity thesis and the dependency thesis lead to relativism? 3. According to Pojman, what sorts of...

Selected transactions for Sophie's Dog Care are as follows during the month of March. March 1 Paid monthly rent of $1,200. 3 Performed services for $140 on account. 5 Performed services for cash of...

(Amortization SchedulesStraight-Line) Spencer Company sells 10% bonds having a maturity value of $3,000,000 for $2,783,724. The bonds are dated January 1, 2010, and mature January 1, 2015. Interest...

(Multiple Choice) 1. For the purpose of classifying liabilities as current or noncurrent, the term operating cycle refers to a. the average time period between business recessions. b. the time period...

On December 31, 2014, Hattie McDaniel Company had $1,200,000 of short-term debt in the form of notes payable due February 2, 2015. On January 21, 2015, the company issued 25,000 shares of its common...

Selzik Company makes super-premium cake mixes that go through two processing departments, Blending and Packaging. The following activity was recorded in the Blending Department during July: All...

Hamilton Construction Company uses the percentage-of-completion method of accounting. In 2012, Hamilton began work under contract #E2-D2, which provided for a contract price of $2,200,000. Other...

The product design group of Iyengar Electric Supplies, Inc., has determined that it needs to design a new series of switches. It must decide on one of three design strategies. The market forecast is...

Skulas, Inc., manufactures and sells snowboards. Skulas manufactures a single model, the Pipex. In the summer of 2014, Skulas management accountant gathered the following data to prepare budgets for...

1. As completely as possible, sketch the value delivery network for Apple Pay. 2. With respect to Apple Pay, is Apple a producer, a consumer, or an intermediary? Explain. 3. Identify all the reasons...

The following are the job cost related accounts for the law firm of Colaw Associates and their manufacturing equivalents: Law Firm Accounts Manufacturing Firm Accounts Supplies ............... Raw...

1. What are the inputs, processes, outputs, and feedback/control for a grocery store such as Sobeys or IGA? 2. What are the operations decisions for running a grocery' store such as Sobeys or IGA?...

Karlik Enterprises distributes a single product whose selling price is $24 and whose variable expense is $18 per unit. The companys monthly fixed expense is $24,000. Required: 1. Prepare a...

The following income statements illustrate different cost structures for two competing companies: Required a. Reconstruct Hanks income statement, assuming that it serves 160 customers when it lures...

Use the following ratio information for Johnson International and the industry averages for Johnson's line of business to: a. Construct the DuPont system of analysis for both Johnson and the...

1. Suppose 1,000 people would each get a benefit of $40 from a levee. Building the levee is socially efficient if its cost is less than $ _________. If the cost is $30,000, a tax of $_________ per...

(Corrected Trial Balance) The trial balance of Antoine Watteau Co. shown below does not balance. Each of the listed accounts has a normal balance per the general ledger. An examination of the ledger...