Econ 173 Assignment 2 1. Your firm is deciding whether to pursue a $200 R&D project to develop a new drug. You estimate there is a 40% chance of successfully creating the drug‚ which will generate revenue of $550. Your competitor has just announced that it is spending 150 to pursue development of a similar drug using a different technology. You estimate that there is a 30% chance your competitor will succeed. If both firms succeed‚ they will each obtain revenue of 275. a. Should your firm undertake
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BE12-1‚ BE12-4‚ BE12-5‚ BE12-6 Exercise: E12-5 BE 12-1 $450‚000 ÷ $50‚000 = 9 years BE 12-4 | | CashFlows | X | 9% DiscountFactor | = | PresentValue | | | | | | | | Present value of net annual cash flowsPresent value of salvage valueCapital investmentNet present value | | $34‚000 0 | XX | 5.53482 .50187 | == | ($188‚184)( 0)( 188‚184)( 200‚000)($ (11‚816) | The reduction in downtime would have to have a present value of at least $11‚816 in order for the project
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1. The overhead allocation rate used in the 1987 model year strategy study at the Automotive Component & Fabrication Plant (ACF) was 435% of direct labor dollar cost. Calculated the overhead allocation rate using the 1987 model year budget. Calculate the overhead allocation rate for each of the model years 1988 through 1990. Are the changes since 1987 in overhead allocation rates significant? Why have these changes occurred? Solution: Based on the given info we calculate Overhead Allocation
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Chapter 1 Cost Accounting: Information for Decision Making Solutions to Review Questions 1-1. Financial accounting is designed to provide information about the firm to external users. External users include investors‚ creditors‚ government authorities‚ regulators‚ customers‚ competitors‚ suppliers‚ labor unions‚ and so on. Cost accounting systems are designed to provide information to internal users (managers). This difference is important‚ because it affects the design of the systems. Financial
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How do managerial accounting practices benefit business organizations? Nowadays‚ managerial accounting practice is practiced by many successful producers in Japan‚ Korea‚ China and others. Therefore‚ they are able to use their resources effectively and efficiently. Companies practicing managerial accounting are also able to maintain the quality of their products yet still offering reasonable price for their products. Managerial accounting differs from traditional financial accounting practice in
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Resource: Ch. 3 of Financial Accounting Prepare written answers to the following assignments from Ch. 3 of Financial Accounting: * Questions 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ & 8 * Exercise E3-7 * Exercise E3-8 2. State two generally accepted accounting principles that relate to adjusting the accounts. Matching principle and revenue recognition principle 3. Rick Marsh‚ a lawyer‚ accepts a legal engagement in March‚ performs the work in April‚ and is paid in May. If Marsh’s law firm prepares monthly
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Making a Decision Lorraine Gambino HCS/514 January 25‚ 2015 Louis Kastner Making a Decision Planning is a manner of deciding what to do in the present-day that would have an impact on the future and its desired outcomes and making decisions can posses some uncertainty. Planning entails having the right goals and deciding on how to achieve them‚ by making assumptions‚ developing ideas‚ and reviewing alternative methods to achievement. Making a decision for a large organization requires adequate tools
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Decision Making Across the Organization The key strategic in every organization is to identify what is the influence of decision making across the organization as a whole. There are benefits and challenges in every organization no matter how large or small it may be. Business owner has to have a plan and a solution for every challenge that may arise in the organization. A manger is not to be in reasonable when he has to make a decision for the organization; he is to be expected to have a solution
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The Manager and Management Accounting BUSI 0028 Sem 2‚ 2012/13 Dr. Olivia Leung © 2012 Pearson Education. All rights reserved. Accounting Discipline Overview Managerial accounting—measures‚ analyzes‚ and reports financial and nonfinancial information to help managers make decisions to fulfill organizational goals. Managerial accounting need not be GAAP compliant. Financial accounting—focus on reporting to external users including investors‚ creditors‚ and governmental
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INTRODUCTION : Managerial accounting is concerned with providing information to managers – that is ‚ people inside an organization who direct or control it’s operations. Via managerial accounting managers understood that good business results come from dynamic processes ‚ procedures and practices that are well designed and properly implemented and managed. Certified management accountants are qualified to help their fellow managers achieve good business results because they have earned an advanced
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