4-1 4 Income Statement Usefulness Predicting future performance. 4-2 Evaluate past performance. Help assess the risk or uncertainty of achieving future cash flows. Income Statement Limitations Companies omit items that cannot be measured reliably. 4-3 Income is affected by the accounting methods employed. Income measurement involves judgment. Income Statement Quality of Earnings Companies have incentives to manage income to meet or
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TRUE-FALSE STATEMENTS 8. Closing entries are not needed if the business plans to continue operating in the future and issue financial statements each year. 9. The dividends account is closed to the Income Summary account in order to properly determine net income (or loss) for the period. 10. After closing entries have been journalized and posted‚ all temporary accounts in the ledger should have zero balances. 11. Closing revenue and expense accounts to the
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Riverbend Telephone Company has determined that they need a new maintenance truck and crew. Looking at the options they obtained 4 bids from truck dealers. They are expecting the truck to have a working life of five years. We looked at both options and believe that purchasing a new truck is the most cost effective when looking at keeping the truck for five years. The best offer for a lease is $7‚200 a year with a total present value of $36‚000. The best offer for purchasing a truck is $24
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Income statement The income statement or the profit and loss account as it is also called measures reports how much profit (wealth) has the business generated over a period of time. To measure profit the total generated revenue over a period must be identified. Revenue is a measure of inflow of economic benefits arising from the operations of the business. These benefits will either result in an increase of assets such as cash or amounts owed to the business by the customers or a decrease
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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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Sales Fixed cost10 Sales promotion Fixed cost11 Corporate services Fixed cost11 1 The rent is a fixed cost because SDS has to pay the rent at Salem Telephone independent how many hours they are selling. That means even if SDS sell nothing the rent has to be paid. 2 The custodial services are fixed cost because they depend on Salem Telephone ’s estimated annual cost per square foot and so they are independent from the revenue of SDS. 3 The computer equipment is a fixed cost due to the fact
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7584/316=24 =4.7+24=28.7 March 1697/361=4.7 8664/361=24 =24+4.7=28.7 3. Create a contribution margin income statement for Salem Data Services; Assume that intra company usage is 205 hours‚ Assume commercial usage is at the March Level. Revenue Variable costs Contribution Margin Fixed Costs Operating Income (loss) From the case we know that intracompany work was billed at $400 per hour‚ and commercial sales were billed at $800 per hour. Commercial
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have? Megabus being a late mover in the US‚ has allowed the company to learn from past mistakes by companies such as Greyhound‚ who filed for bankruptcy in the mid 90’s and who lost most of it’s business due to poorly maintained terminals‚ high prices for fares and unsafe conditions. Megabus’s advantages include fares as lows as 1 dollar‚ free wi-fi‚ stylish buses and power outlets. They Can offer these low fares since the company eliminated purchase Windows for tickets‚ selling tickets online
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110‚000 $110‚000 220‚000 May purchases 146‚250 $146‚250 292‚500 June purchases 105‚000 105‚000 Total cash disbursements $195‚750 $256‚250 $251‚250 $ 703‚250 2. Cravat Sales Company Cash Budget For the Three Months Ending June 30 April May June Quarter Cash balance‚ beginning $ 14‚000 $ 10‚250 $ 10‚000 $ 14‚000 Add receipts from customers (Part 1 b.) 230‚000 286‚000 370‚000 886‚000 Total
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1.0 INTRODUCTION Prestige Data Services is a subsidiary of Prestige Telephone Company‚ a public utility. They are a computer data service company that does data processing for the parent company in order to perform data processing for the telephone company and to sell computer services to other companies and organizations. The company was opened to bring the additional revenue in order to offset the increases of telephone rate. Throughout two years of being in operation the subsidiary has been unprofitable
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