STRATHMORE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND APPLIED ECONOMICS BSF 1101 ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING 1/INTRODUCTION TO ACCOUNTING 9. NOT FOR PROFIT MAKING ORGANIZATIONS 9.1 Introduction These are organizations that are set up to promote or to cater for the welfare of the members involved and not to make a profit. These include clubs‚ (e.g. professional clubs‚ academic clubs‚ sports clubs)‚ welfare associations and any other societies (charitable institutions). Because these organizations are
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The non-profit organization (NPO) is itself the employer. The board of directors (the "Board")‚ usually elected by the general meeting of the members at an annual meeting‚ is responsible for overseeing the work of the organization and its employees. While decisions on the advice to hire staff or volunteers can delegate management team‚ board members are still responsible for the overall supervision of the organization‚ and can‚ in certain circumstances‚ are legally responsible decisions during his
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profitability begins to decline. The company is still considered profitable at this point‚ but losing ground. The second period is known as the period of crisis. At this point the company needs to turnaround. This stage is marked by a decline in profits (even negatives)‚ a fall in market share and the company’s poor cash situation. The third stage is the period of recovery or the turning point. This is the stage where serious action is taken to turnaround the company. Important decisions like scaling
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The cost profit analysis (CVP) determines how cost and volume affect a company’s operating income. To successfully perform the analysis the five basic components have to be known. The components are volume or level of activity‚ unit selling prices‚ variable cost per unit‚ total fixed cost‚ and sales mix. Volume or level of activity is how many units are produced or sold. The unit selling prices are the cost that each unit produced is sold or thought to be sold will sale for. The variable cost per
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and Sales Less: Variable Costs Contribution Margin Less: Fixed Costs Net Profit xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx CONTRIBUTION MARGIN INCOME STATEMENT e s Sa l Total Cost Break-even point Fixed Cost Break-even point is a condition where total revenue equals total cost and profit is equal to zero BREAK-EVEN POINT Break-even point (pesos) = Total Fixed Cost / Contribution Margin Rate Break-even point (units) = Total Fixed Cost / Contribution Margin per unit Break-even formula: Break-even point
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way that they are portraying a true story and how they accurate they are. If they stray too far away from the source material‚ the film becomes a fiction and unreliable. In Walter Salles’s case with his 2004 biopic about Ernesto “Che” Guevara the Motorcycle Diaries‚ he chooses to tell it exactly how Guevara did‚ giving the film a better sense of realism that the book may have clearly had. Before Ernesto was known as “Che”‚ he was just another medical student looking to travel South America by any
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Assignment On: Non Profit Organization By: ABC Dated: NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) 6001 Executive Blvd‚ N. Bethesda‚ Maryland United State‚ 20814 Dear Director‚ Nora D. Volkow: The Drug Free America Foundation‚ organization is a nonprofit agency; founded in 1976‚ it is the drug prevention and policy organization committed to developing‚ sustaining the sustainable community‚ the national and international law and regulations on drug abuse‚ with the vision of improvement are promoted by
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Cost‚ Volume‚ and Profit Formulas Heather Jauregui University of Phoenix of Axia College “The Cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis is the study of the effects of changes in costs and volume on a company’s profits.” (Kimmel‚ P.‚ Weygandt‚ J.‚ & Kieso‚ D. 2003) The analysis is used to maximize efficiency in a business. In order to be effective the CVP analysis has to make several assumptions. These assumptions are that the costs can be fitted into either fixed or variable categories. The
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Cost‚ Volume‚ and Profit Formulas All businesses require becoming profitable or at some point they will fail. Accounting plays an essential role in determining if the company will become successful and continue to do so over time. Using well-defined formulas in order to assess the exact numbers will facilitate the actions a company needs to carry out in order to maintain its goals. The accounting department would look at the cost-volume-profit analysis to concentrate on the different components
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this segment. Using two hurdle rates adjusts for the risk in each industry allows the company to adequately value each segment. Our analysis will show that by using two hurdle rates it will lower the cost of equity and WACC for the less risky telecommunications segment‚ while raising the cost of equity and WACC for the more risky products and systems segment. Lastly‚ our calculation of the economic profitability for each industry using the segmented hurdle rates will show that Teletech may be overvaluing
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