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Financial Distress and insolvency Course

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The Assignment is out of 30 marks. Each question is worth L0 marks.

Question 1

The Book & Game Company has bookstores in two locations: Auntie's and authority Merlin's. Each locatio.t hrs a'manager who has a great deal of decision Horvevei, advertising, irarket research, acquisition of ,fr" individual stores. "".r , Iegal servicer, ,.rd oth", staff functiort it" handled by a central office. The Uook B;;a& 6r*" Company's current accounting system allocates all costs to the stores. Results for 2012 were:
Merlin's
$3

ltem
Sales revenue

Total Compary
$700,000 450,000 2 50,000 61,000 45,000 60,000 15,000 60,000

Auntie's
$3

50,000

50,000

Cost of merchandise soid Gross margin Operating expenses:
Salaries and wages Supplies Rent and utilities

225,000
125,000 30,000

225,000
125,000
3

3,000

22,500
40,000 7,000 10,000 129,500

22,500
20,000 8,000 30,000 113,500 $ 11,500

Depreciation
Allocated staff costs Total operating expenses Operating income (loss)

-zrF00

s_zga

-q-8I99)

wages, supEach bookstore manager makes decisions that affect salaries and corpli"r, ,rrJ d.preciation. In c-onrrast, rent and utilities are beyond the managers' irol because'th" -r.rrg.rs did not choose the location or the size of the store' -- - -i"ppfies ,re ,arilble costs. Variable salaries and wages are equal to 8 percent a fixed cost' of th" .JJt of merchandise sold; the remainder of salaries and wages is costs are R.;;;jf,1il, ,"d d"pr".iation also are fixed costs. Allocated staffproportionunafof ,'t th. bookstores, but they are allocated as a fected by any event.

sales revenue.

that distin1. Using the contribution approach, prepare a performanceJeport that of the bookstore manager" g"irtrlr the performa.rce of erch bbokstore from 2. Evaluate the financial performance of each bookstore' 3. Evaluate the financial performance of each manager'

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