project will be evaluated usingNPV/IRR. Step 3: Prioritize Profitable Projects Based on the Firm-wide Project Once the profitable projects have been identified‚ the finance manager needs to prioritize these projects based on the firm-wide capital budget‚ requirements and strategy. Sometime a project may be profitable but can wait for some time compared to another project which is critical for the firm’s strategy. For example‚ while choosing between buying new machinery vs. replacing an existing technology
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Financial Management Analysis and Trends: For-Profit Schools 06/13/2012 ED 7837 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction……………………………………………..………………………………………..……………………………………..3 Abstract………..…………………………………………..…………….………………………………………………………………..3 Where the money comes from: Revenue sources……………………………..….……..……………………………5 Pricing and discounting practices within institutions..…………………………...………………………………….6 Where the money goes: Standard expense categories……………………….….……..…………………………7 What is tuition
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guaranteed their sales quota. Quintana can rectify this situation by modifying the Musimundo incentive system. Quintana can use multiple performance measures to reward his managers. These performance measures can be sales based on a flexible budget that looks at historical sales and measures them against current sales. The manager could be rewarded for the percentage of increase. Quintana can also use a balanced scorecard approach for each store. A store’s success can be based on a number
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CHAPTER 9 PROFIT PLANNING AND BUDGETING Questions‚ Exercises‚ Problems‚ and Cases: Answers and Solutions 9.1 See text or glossary at the end of the book. 9.2 A cost center is a responsibility center in which management is responsible only for costs. In a profit center‚ management is responsible for both costs and revenues. 9.3 An investment center is a responsibility center in which management is responsible for managing costs‚ revenues‚ and assets. A profit center is not responsible
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HST Ltd manufactures French fries from Russet potatoes. These are sold to local restaurants. The company manufactures French fries using a single production line that runs eight hours per day. The potatoes are purchased and stored in suitable warehouses from which they are distributed on a first-in first-out (FFO) basis. The production of French fries involves a number of processes. They are: cleaning‚ sorting‚ peeling‚ manual inspection‚ cutting‚ machine inspection‚ blanching‚ drying‚ frying‚ draining
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1. You want to use break-even and target profit analysis with respect to the introduction of a new product in the marketplace. Your manager says you are wasting your time because the best determination of profitability is the income statement after this product has been introduced. Explain why your manager is wrong. In order to fully understand the process of profitability within a business‚ we must understand what break-even and target profit analysis represent and the function that each provides
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Baruch College - CUNY PAF 9140: Budgeting‚ Accounting and Financial Analysis I Daycare Budget Preparation Northville‚ a medium-sized city in the Midwestern part of the United States‚ has experienced a significant change in the composition of the municipal work force of 1‚800 employees. Approximately forty-five percent of the city employees are female. In a recent survey of city employees over fifty percent of the employees said‚ "affordable day care for children is important to me." Meanwhile‚
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The advertising budget of a business is typically a subset of the larger sales budget and‚ within that‚ the marketing budget. Advertising is a part of the sales and marketing effort. Money spent on advertising can also be seen as an investment in building up the business. In order to keep the advertising budget in line with promotional and marketing goals‚ a business owner should start by answering several important questions: 1. Who is the target consumer? Who is interested in purchasing the
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about loans‚ and an unbiased opinion. Before you make a big decision you should always know the risks and benefits. One way to ensure you make a good decision is‚ if possible look at statistics. In the essays “Why Do You Think They’re Called For- Profit Colleges?” by Kevin Carey and “A Lifetime Of Student Debt? Not Likely” by Robin Wilson they both take different approaches to using statistics about student loan debt in their writing. Carey does not use any statistics making his article harder to
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Flexible Budgets Team ACC/543 Professor Deborah Fitzgerald Thomas University of Phoenix 2010 Team B‚ You have done a great job on the assignment. I have noted some minor issues to help you on future assignments. Abstract The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the budget process. It analyzes flexible budgets‚ discusses the relationship between fixed and variable cost‚ explores the differences between static and flexible budgets‚ and how budgets assist in the cost-volume-profitability
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