James Whittle Salem Telephone Company Case Study 9/29/2014 1.) The variable costs in Exhibit 2 are Power and Hourly Personnel Wages as the costs fluctuate from month to month and are driven by the revenue hours for the company. The fixed costs in Exhibit 2 are Rent‚ Custodial Services‚ Computer Equipment Leases‚ Computer Maintenance‚ Computer Depreciation‚ Office Equipment and Fixtures Depreciation‚ Salaried Staff Wages‚ Systems Development and Maintenance‚ Administrative Wages‚ Sales Wages
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Prestige Case Study Accounting Currently there are only two variable costs of the company‚ but as Anthony RN (2011 p476)) states when products have different unit contributions and when the product mix changes one approach to the C-V-P analysis is to treat each product separate entity and to construct a profit graph for that entity. A prestige data service provides a service and so the variable costs are only Power and labour rather then products who would have materials included. The variable
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revenue hours. All other costs are fixed with respect to revenue hours. With higher fixed cost‚ Salem Data Services has a higher leverage and is therefore riskier. 2. ($7‚896 + $1‚546) / 329 hours = $28.70 / hour. For every hour spent working‚ the company spends 28.70 dollars. 3. Intracompany Commercial Total Number of Hours (a): 205 138 343 Revenue (a x b): $82‚000 $110‚400 $192‚400 Variable Costs (a x c): ($5‚883.50) ($3‚960.60) ($9‚844.10) Contribution Margin: $76‚116.50
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option3‚ net income will increase to a benefit amount. However‚ if the promotion expense is equal to or less than 1548.72‚ this option should be taken consideration. 6. Based on my analysis above‚ Salem Data Services is a problem to Salem Telephone Company. Firstly‚ Flores should consider the promotion can be the turning point or not. Then decide if he will abort this service. For my consideration‚ I will recommend Flores to abort this unprofitable
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Salem Telephone Company-Case Study Peter Flores‚ President of Salem Telephone Company‚ believes that a computer subsidiary company (Salem Data Services) appears to be unprofitable. And because of this‚ he must decide and determine whether it is actually unprofitable and consider whether changes in prices or promotion might improve profitability by using the Break-Even point analysis. But before we come out to any solutions‚ we must discuss Salem Data Services accounting report
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Aircraft Solution (AS) Company Ali Hassan Submitted to: John Michalek SEC571 Principles of Information Security and Privacy Keller Graduate School of Management Submitted: April 21‚ 2013 Table of Contents Company Overview ……………………………………………1 Company Assets ………………………………………………..1 Vulnerabilities ………………………………………………….2 Hardware Vulnerability………………………………….......2 Policy Vulnerability …………………………..……………..3 Recommended Solutions…………………………………….... 5 Hardware Solutions ……………………
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Clyde would not have more discretion in the recording of his bartering exchange. First of all‚ he could not make up his fair value. There are certain rules that you must follow with FASB. The fair value is consisting of measurements and how accurate it is. According to paragraph 505-50-30-02‚ “Paragraph 505-50-30-6 establishes that share-based payment transactions with nonemployees shall be measured at the fair value of the consideration received or the fair value of the equity instruments issued
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Company X would like to have a method to be able to quantitatively analyze if there’s a business case for creating production cells in the factory. The company currently operates in a job shop based manufacturing environment in which similar machines are grouped into functional departments. This means that the parts are moved from department to department through the manufacturing process. The company currently does not have any production cells‚ neither have they identified products which together
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Riverbend Telephone Company The Riverbend Telephone Company is experiencing growth and had previously tried outsourcing some of its installation work to handle the overflow above its capacity. This was unsatisfactory‚ and so to accommodate the new customers‚ RTC needs to obtain a new maintenance truck and crew. It is considering whether leasing or buying the new truck necessary to their operations is the preferable method of investment. Question 1& 2 Without considering financing the
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Memo Re: Salem Telephone Company‚ Salem Data Services Accounting Analysis Salem Telephone Company recently established Salem Date Services‚ a computer service subsidiary of the telephone company. The new subsidiary was established in efforts to earn the company increased revenues in order to relieve pressure to increase rates for the regulated telephone company. Salem Data Services accounting has shown profit loss for the subsidiary over the past three months. Peter Flores‚ president of Salem
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