Lecture 3 1. Assume you purchased 700 shares of XYZ common stock on margin at $50 per share from your broker. If the initial margin is 65%‚ how much did you borrow from the broker‚ what is the margin? 2. You purchase 100 shares at $60 per share and margin = 50%. Suppose stock rises to $80/sh (increase of 33%). What is your return? Suppose stock drops to $40/sh (decrease of 33%). What is your return? 3. Investor opens a brokerage account and purchases 300 shares of XYZ at $40 per share. She borrows
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required a. yearly. b. quarterly. c. monthly. d. every time financial statements are prepared. 6. Each of the following accounts is closed to Income Summary except a. Expenses. b. Owner’s Drawing. c. Revenues. d. All of these are closed to Income Summary. 7. Which of these items would be accounted for as an expense? a. Repayment of a bank loan. b. Dividends to stockholders. c. The purchase of land. d. Payment of the current period’s rent. 8. Which of the following would not be included
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Which of the following is the best reason to use an environmental scorecard? 1. 2. 3. 4. The scorecard promotes good corporate citizenship. FFL can compare its scorecard rating to its competitors. It is an effective measure in a bonus plan to increase net profit. It enables FFL to measure its efficiency in producing fertilizer. b. In order to make the financial statements of Genex Inc. more appealing to investors and to inflate the management bonus‚ a manager has engaged in earnings manipulation. As
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Apollo Accounting and Control Systems: Purchasing and Expenditure Cycle The employee prepares a purchase requisition and has a supervisor approve it. The supervisor retains Copy 2 of the pre-numbered purchase requisition for the department‚ sends Copy 1 to the Purchasing Department and Copy 3 to Accounts Payable. When the Purchase Department receives the purchase requisition‚ they search the approved vendor list and consult the listed prices for the goods desired for each vendor. Once a vendor
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29‚ 2012 Martha Nussbaum: “Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities” Martha C. Nussbaum is the author of the book‚ “Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities.” The book begins by drawing the reader’s attention by explaining the “Silent Crisis.” She describes education in the eyes of the government‚ and in the eyes of the people. There is a connection made between education and the liberal arts. The title of the book‚ “Not For Profit‚” are three simple words that when put
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to answer the questions. Benetton 1. How do the formats of the income statements shown on pages 33 and 50 of Benetton’s annual report differ from one another (disregard everything beneath the line titled “income from operations”)? Which expenses shown on page 50 appear to have been reclassified as variable selling costs on page 33? Absorption is a method where all the costs of production are allocated to the produced units. This method is in contrast to variable (or marginal or direct)
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“In Praise of Margins” -Argument In the essay “In Praise of Margins‚” Ian Frazier elaborates on the idea that margins are needed for the purpose of our own sanity. Frazier believes that “as the world gets more jammed up‚ we need margins . . . where you can try out odd ideas that you might be afraid to admit to with people looking on.” He believes that by engaging in marginal activities we can manage to avoid most of the stresses this “jammed up” world has to offer. As a child‚ Frazier’s marginal
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Bandywine Homecare‚ a not-for-profit business‚ had revenues of $12 million in 2007. Expenses other than depreciation totaled 75% percent of revenues‚ and depreciation expense was $1.5 million. All revenues were collected in cash during the year and all expenses other than depreciation were paid in cash. What were Brandywine’s 2007 net income‚ total profit margin‚ and cash flow? Net income = 12M * (1 - 75%) - 1.5M = $1.5 million Total profit margin = $1.5M/12M = 12.5% Cash
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and publically-quoted book retailer and newsagent in the UK. Recently it was reported how Kate Swann‚ the former CEO for the last 10 years‚ has turned the company around from £135m losses to £106m profit in a decade. (source: www.theguardian.com/business/blog/2013/jan/23/wh-smith-kate-swann-profit‚ accessed 1 October 2013) (Also see copy attached) This is an example of how the principles of operations management can be used to reactivate a firm. How did she do it? Using the above as a starting
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Pro The United States should prioritize tax increases over spending cuts. “For every benefit you receive a tax is levied”- Ralph Waldo Emerson. We cannot improve the state of the lives of Americans or the national debt crisis without raising taxes. This fact leads us to affirm the resolution that the United States should prioritize tax increases over spending cuts. First‚ we will define a few terms using the Merriam-Webster defintions. To prioritize – to designate or treat something
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