Chapter 7 Accounting for Financial Management ANSWERS TO BEGINNING-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS 7-1 The balance sheet shows the assets‚ along with the sources of funds used to acquire the assets‚ at a point in time‚ say 12/31/07. The income statement shows the sales and profits that were produced during an interval of time‚ say the year 2007. An individual would have assets‚ and a net worth‚ and a balance sheet would detail these holdings. The individual would also have income and expenses‚
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Chapter 13: 1) E13-14 (5 points); 2) E13-16 (5 points); 3) E13-18 (5 points); 4) E13-19 (1 point); 5) P13-23A (8 points); 6) P13-25A (8 points); 7) P13-33A parts a‚ b and c only (8 points); 8) P13-39B (8 points); 9) P13-42B (7 points) Solutions: E13-14 (5 points): (a) The cash payback period is: $48‚000 ÷ $8‚000 = 6 years The net present value is: | | Time Period | | CashFlows | × | 9% DiscountFactor | = | PresentValue | Present value of net annual cash flows |
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CHAPTER 2 SOLUTIONS TO B EXERCISES EXERCISE 2-1B (15–20 minutes) (a) True. (b) False – General-purpose financial reports helps users who lack the ability to demand all the financial information they need from an entity and therefore must rely‚ at least partly‚ on the information in financial reports. (c) False – Standard-setting that is based on personal conceptual frameworks will lead to different conclusions about identical or similar issues. As a result‚ standards will not be consistent
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scarce resource and add value‚ all those kind of issues should be considered in planning stage and adjust its flexibility in order to realising that strategic intent. Question 2 What are the principal reasons for strategic management and thinking? Strategic management plays an important role as it helps in setting detailed goals‚ analysing all our internal and external resources‚ analysing our external environment‚ as well as stakeholder views. If a company want to survival of the fittest‚ then
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Q Suppose we are thinking about replacing an old computer with a new one. The old one cost us 650‚000; the new one will cost 780‚000. The new machine will be depreciated straight-line to zero over its five-year life. It will probably be worth about 140‚000 after five years. The old computer is being depreciated at a rate of 130‚000 per year. It will be completely written off in three years. If we do not replace it now‚ we will have to replace it in two years. We can sell it now for 230‚000; in two
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CHAPTER 8 FLEXIBLE BUDGETS‚ OVERHEAD COST VARIANCES‚ AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL 8-1 Effective planning of variable overhead costs involves: 1. Planning to undertake only those variable overhead activities that add value for customers using the product or service‚ and 2. Planning to use the drivers of costs in those activities in the most efficient way. 8-2 At the start of an accounting period‚ a larger percentage of fixed overhead costs are locked-in than is the case with variable overhead
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Chapter 19 BALANCED SCORECARD: quality‚ time‚ and the theory of constraints 19-1 Quality costs (including the opportunity cost of lost sales because of poor quality) can be as much as 10% to 20% of sales revenues of many organizations. Quality-improvement programs can result in substantial cost savings and higher revenues and market share from increased customer satisfaction. 19-2 Quality of design refers to how closely the characteristics of a product or service meet the needs and wants of
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Contents QUESTION ONE: Accounting Concepts and Conventions 1 a) Accounting Concepts 1 i) The going concern concept. 1 ii) The accruals concept (or matching concept) 1 iii) The entity concept: 3 iv) The money measurement concept: 3 v) The historical cost concept: 4 vi) The realization concept: 4 vii) Duality concept: 4 b) Accounting conventions 5 QUESTION TWO: Clashing accounting concepts and conventions that might bring about inconsistency in the accounting process 9 1. Clash between
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Use the following to answer question 1: Marger‚ Inc.‚ provided the following data for two recent months: [pic] |1. |Which of the following classifications best describes the behavior of Cost T? | |A) |Variable | |B) |Fixed
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Chapter 1: The Accounting Environment – What is Accounting and Why is it Done? Accounting is a system for gathering data about an entity’s economic activity‚ processing and organizing the data and in turn‚ communicating that information to people who want to use it to make decisions. Data are unprocessed facts about an entity’s economic activity that is entered into an accounting system whereas information results from organizing and presenting the data in ways that make it useful for decision
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