Week 2 Individual Assignments from the Reading Chapter 8 3) What are the essential features of the allowance method of accounting for bad debts? The essential features of the allowance method of accounting for bad debts are: (1) Uncollectible accounts receivable are estimated and matched against revenues in the same accounting period in which the revenues occurred. (2) Estimated uncollectibles are debited to Bad Debts Expense and credited to Allowance for Doubtful Accounts through an adjusting
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Learning Team Deliverable Michelle Redd and Russell Rood ECO/561 Economics April 6‚ 2015 Week 3 This week we learned that industries consist of all firms making similar or identical products. Their market structure depends on the number of firms in the industry and the ways in which they compete. Our text discussed four basic market structures. The first market structure is perfect competition. Perfect competition occurs when numerous small firms are in competition with each other. Businesses
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Week One Student Guide This course begins with a general overview of financial statements. Different financial statement users will have different needs for each of the financial statements. Each financial statement provides internal and external users with specific information‚ and each is like one piece of a jigsaw puzzle. People need all the pieces to get all the information to evaluate the true financial status of the organization. In addition to financial statements‚ you discuss regulatory
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you learned‚ what could be applicable to your workplace or personal life‚ and how your knowledge has increased as a result of what you experienced through the learning activities in the previous week. * Submit your team summary of the discussion in a 1- to 2-page Microsoft® Word document. In week two I learned a lot about how different databases reflect in different ways according to the different business needs. During the second discussion question I learned about how the two major databases
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Learning Team Reflection Week Three ECO/561 Learning Team Reflection Week Three Learning Team B discussed and summarized the objectives for week three. The objectives are as follows: determine pricing strategy to meet organizational goals‚ determine ways to create nonprice barriers to entry based on market structure‚ determine ways to increase product differentiation based on market structure and determine ways to reduce costs for an organization. Determine pricing strategy to meet
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This document of ECO 561 Week 3 Discussion Question 4 contains: What market structure best characterizes the market in which University of Phoenix competes? How does this structure influence the university’s pricing strategy? How does University of Phoenix differentiate its product from that of its competitors? Has University of Phoenix erected nonprice barriers to entry in this market? Can University of Phoenix do more to create nonprice barriers to entry in this market? Economics -
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Discussion Questions Week 4 Chapter 8 question 6. A firm uses a single discount rate to compute the NPV of all its potential capital budgeting projects‚ even though the projects have a wide range of nondiversifiable risk. The firm then undertakes all those projects that appear to have positive NPVs. Briefly explain why such a firm would tend to become riskier over time. Using the NPV to determine which projects to undertake leads to greater risk over time because best case scenario you can estimate
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This work of ECO 561 Week 1 Discussion Question 1 comprises: Different products have different elasticities. Heart medication‚ for example‚ is inelastic and corn is elastic. All firms can increase the volume of goods or services sold by cutting prices; however‚ elastic products are much more price sensitive than inelastic products. Find a product that has not already been selected and describe the price elasticity. How much control might an organization have over pricing based on a product
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Week 2 Assignment Chapter 15 Bickley Engineering Company has a capital structure of 30% Debt and 70% Equity. Its current Beta is 1.3‚ and its Market Risk Premium is 7.5% Points. The current Risk Free Rate is 3.5%. Bickley’s marginal tax rate is 40%. What is the Unlevered Beta of Bickley? Unlevered beta = levered beta/(1+(1-T) D/E) = 1.3 /(1+(1-0.4)X(0.3/0.7) = 1.03 Bickley’s management would like to change its capital structure to 15% Debt and 85% equity by retiring its bonds yielding
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Team A Week Four Reflection Through out the duration of this week there were several topics that members of this team found both struggling and straightforward. The discussions of topics lead team members to help one another understand the differences between the t-test and z-test. Additional topics in the discussions were how hypothesis testing is crucial to determining if the hypothesis is valid or false. One way to know if the hypothesis is valid is to determine the null hypothesis‚ which the
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