Introduction to Business class is to observe the use of groups in a large manufacturing business. The students notice that most groups are arranged by reporting relationships. Bill discovers a group of managers who have been placed together to study and recommend a course of action on a flextime schedule for employees. Jane finds that the executives of the company have formed a team consisting of themselves, some middle managers, and a few hourly employees to work on improving work processes and efficiency within the company. This group has been in existence for 5 years and is going strong. The group of managers that Bill discovers is an example of:

A) an informal interest group

B) a formal group

C) A fun group

D) a quality group.

The correct answer is B) a formal group.

The group of managers that Bill discovers is an example of a formal group.

During their visit to a large manufacturing business, Bill discovers a formal group. It is a group of managers who have been placed together to study and recommend a course of action on a flextime schedule for employees.

When we are referring to an organization, a formal group can be understood as a workgroup that is formed by design, depending on a hierarchical composition. The members of this group have specific tasks according to the work they perform in the company.

Usually, these groups are formed based on the experience of their members because they want to accomplish goals in a more effective way and to improve the decision-making process of difficult issues.

Sybil, age 40, is single and supports her dependent parents who live with her, as well as her grandfather who is in a nursing home. She has AGI of $80,000 and itemized deductions of $8,000. What is the taxable income?

To ensure that a borrower is not using short-term bank credit to finance a part of its permanent needs for funds, banks often require borrowers to clean up their short-term loans for a 30-45 day period during the year.

a. True
b. False

Not all the items in your office supply store are evenly distributed as far as demand is concerned, so you decide to forecast demand to help plan your stock. Past data for legal-sized yellow tablets for the month of August are. Week 1 280 Week 2 380 Week 3 580 Week 4 680 a. Using a three-week moving average, what would you forecast week 5 to be

ADP reports the following income statement.
AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING INC.
Statement of Consolidated Earnings
For Year Ended June 30, 2019, $ millions
Total revenues $14,175.2
Operating expenses 7,145.9
Systems development and programming costs 636.3
Depreciation and amortization 304.4
Total cost of revenues 8,086.6
Selling, general, and administrative expenses 3,064.2
Interest expense 129.9
Total expenses 11,280.7
Other income expense, net 111.1
Earnings before income taxes 3,005.6
Provision for income taxes 712.8
Net earnings $ 2,292.8
Forecast ADP’s 2020 income statement assuming the following income statement relations. All percentages (other than total revenue growth and provision for income taxes) are based on historic percent of total revenues.
Total revenues growth 13%
Depreciation and amortization $460.5 million
Interest expense No change
Other (income) expense, net No change
Income tax rate 25%
Round your answers to one decimal place.

Labor data for making one gallon of finished product in Bing Company are as follows. (1) Price—hourly wage rate $16.70, payroll taxes $0.60, and fringe benefits $1.40. (2) Quantity—actual production time 1.60 hours, rest periods and cleanup 0.30 hours, and setup and downtime 0.20 hours. Compute the following. (Round answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 1.25.)
(a) Standard direct labor rate per hour. $ ______
(b) Standard direct labor hours per gallon. hours
(c) Standard labor cost per gallon. $______

According to a summary of the payroll of Mountain Streaming Co., $110,000 was subject to the 6.0% social security tax and the 1.5% Medicare tax. Also, $25,000 was subject to state and federal unemployment taxes.a. Calculate the employer's payroll taxes, using the following rates: state unemployment, 5.4%; federal unemployment, 0.8%.

A journal entry for a payment for rent expense was posted as a debit to Salaries Expense and a credit to Cash. Which of the following statements correctly states the effect of the error on the trialâ balance?
A. The sum of the credits will equal the sum of the debits.
B. The sum of the debits will exceed the sum of the credits by .
C. The sum of the debits will exceed the sum of the credits by .
D. The sum of the credits will exceed the sum of the debits by .

Cucina Corp. signed a new installment note on January 1, 2018, and deposited the proceeds of $50,000 in its bank account. The note has a three-year term, compounds 5 percent interest annually, and requires an annual installment payment on December 31. Cucina Corp. has a December 31 year-end and adjusts its accounts only at year-end. Required:

Opportunity cost is the amount of increase or decrease in cost that would result from the best available alternative to the proposed use of cash or its equivalent.
a) true
b) false

O'Reilly Corporation uses direct labor-hours to calculate its annual plantwide predetermined overhead. For the current period's estimated level of production, O'Reilly Corporation estimated that 39,000 direct labor-hours would be required. Estimated fixed manufacturing overhead cost is $599,000 for the current period and variable manufacturing overhead cost of $3.00 per direct labor-hour. O'Reilly Corporation's actual manufacturing overhead cost for the period was $788,379 and its actual total direct labor was 39,500 hours.
Required: Compute the company's plantwide predetermined overhead rate for the year. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Answer is complete but not entirely correct. Predetermined overhead $ ________.

Preparing a Budgeted Income Statement Oliver Company provided the following information for the coming year: Units produced and sold 160,000 Cost of goods sold per unit $6.30 Selling price $11 Variable selling and administrative expenses per unit $1.10 Fixed selling and administrative expenses $423,000 Tax rate 33 % Required: Prepare a budgeted income statement for Oliver Company for the coming year. Round all income statement amounts to the nearest dollar.

Copy equipment was acquired at the beginning of the year at a cost of $50,320 that has an estimated residual value of $4,600 and an estimated useful life of 5 years. It is estimated that the machine will output an estimated 1,143,000 copies. This year, 288,000 copies were made. a. Determine the depreciable cost. $fill in the blank 1 b. Determine the depreciation rate. Round your answer to two decimal places. $fill in the blank 2 per copy c. Determine the units-of-output depreciation for the year

Nick sees a commercial for a Brand X clothing company that depicts the wearers of the clothes out having a good time with friends. Although he doesn't particularly need new clothes, the commercial prompts him to buy a Brand X t-shirt. This illustrates a common.......... of advertising.

Classification of cash flows [LO21-3, 21-4, 21-5, 21-6]
Listed below are several transactions that typically produce either an increase or a decrease in cash. Indicate by letter whether the cash effect of each transaction is reported on a statement of cash flows as an operating (O), investing (I), or financing (F) activity.
Transactions
1. Sale of Common Stock.
2. Sale of Land
3. Purchase of Treasury Stock
4. Merchandise Sales
5. Issuance of a long-term note payable
6. Purchase of merchandise
7. Repayment of note payable
8. Employee salaries
9. Sale of equipment at a gain.
10. Issuance of bonds
11. Acquisition of bonds of a another corporation
12. Payment of semiannual interest on bonds payable
13. Payment of a cash dividend
14. Purchase of a building
15. Collection of a nontrade note receivable (principal amount)
16. Loan to another firm.
17. Retirement of common stock.
18. Income taxes.
19. Issuance of short-term note payable
20. Sale of copyright

Typical Request and Response Messages
The purpose of many business messages is to make a request or to reply to previously received communication. Familiarize yourself with the organization of these messages so you can communicate your purpose and achieve a positive outcome.
Read the scenario:
The office manager asks you for advice on how to structure a request message with numerous questions.
What advice would you give?
A. Give an approximate date for the deadline in the body.
B. Place the deadline in the opening.
C. Set an end date to take action in the closing.
Read the following request message:
To: Customer Support
From: Helen Martin
Subject: Warranty Information for Netbook Computer
Dear Customer Service,
I need this information by noon tomorrow at the latest. My team has an important presentation to give, and my netbook crashed while we were working on the presentation. I can’t find the warranty information anywhere. So I have a few questions.
Where is my warranty information? How long does it normally take to repair these machines? Do I have to mail the netbook to you, or can I bring it to your local repair shop?
Will you please answer these questions in a timely manner? Thank you in advance for your help.
Regards,
Helen Martin
1. Where do I find my warranty information?
Reason A: 2. How long does the average netbook repair take?
3. Do I need to mail in my netbook for repairs or bring it to your local repair shop?
Revision B: Where is my warranty information? How long does the average repair take? Do I have to mail in my netbook?
Revision C:
Where do I find the information?
How long does it take?
Can I take it to my local shop?
Which of the preceding revisions is the best revision for the body of this message?
A. Revision B
B. Revision C
C. Revision A
In addition to making requests, you will have to respond to requests in the business world.
Complete the following sentence with the dropdown menu.
Direct response messages might _______?
A. include long, flowery descriptions
B. use the "me" view
C. supply explanations and additional information
Many businesses use social media to communicate with customers. In order to make the most of social media, you should learn how to respond to various types of customer comments.
Read the scenario, and then answer the question.
You manage the social media presence of a company that manufactures travel apparel and gear. A customer posts an angry comment about a suitcase that failed to function properly after its first use. This is not the first complaint the product has received.
How should you respond to the customer?
A. Acknowledge the problem, and let the customer know that the company is working to rectify the situation.
B. Document and delete the comment. You don’t want news of the flawed product to spread.
C. Let the comment stand. No response is necessary.

The furniture store offers you no-money-down on a new set of living room furniture. Further, you may pay for the furniture in three equal annual end-of-the-year payments of $1,000 each with the first payment to be made one year from today. If the discount rate is 6%, what is the present value of the furniture payments

Identify a new product that is based on an innovation in technology, and draw up a strategic technical plan for its development. Be sure to discuss the risk factors at each stage, and indicate how you would deal with each.

Atlantis Fisheries issues zero coupon bonds on the market at a price of $498 per bond. These are callable in 8 years at a call price of $600. Using semiannual compounding, what is the yield to call for these bonds

As the operations manager, you prefer to keep a constant workforce and production level, absorbing variations in demand through inventory excesses and shortages. Demand not met is carried over to the following month. Assuming you currently have 23 workers, what is the shortage cost for May

Susan uses her office building as collateral to access credit and take out a loan from the bank. Because of the loan, she can hire three people to help her manage her business.

Which of the following statements is false about the order in which management determines the sequencing of support department allocations under the sequential method of allocating support department costs to production departments?

a. Departments with more employees are allocated earlier.
b. Departments serving a large number of support departments are allocated earlier.
c. Departments with higher costs are allocated earlier.
d. Departments with more accurate cost drivers are allocated earlier.

a face value of $450 million. The bonds pay interest each March 31 and September 30, beginning March 31, 2022. The effective interest rate established by the market was 8%. Assuming that Auerbach issued the bonds for $388,844,955, what interest expense would it recognize in its 2021 income statement

The papilla supplies nourishment to the

Roddie is 30 years old. He was demoted from his job as a manager at Big Trucks, a company with 10,000 employees. He was replaced by Bambi, a 45-year-old. Roddie was told that he was a little too young for management. Under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), what are Roddie's options

BWCT is a mining company that operates the world's exclusive mining site to harvest a new metal. Assuming it is a monopoly, which of the following statements is least likely concerning entry and exit in this market currently?
a. There is predatory price cutting being done by BWCT to keep new companies out of mining.
b. There is tight control over a key resource by BWCT.
c. There is an economy of scale at work making it cheap to produce more products.
d. There are government regulations enabling firms to enter the market easily.

Which of these are good ways to find a buyer’s agent?

Forrester Company is considering buying new equipment that would increase monthly fixed costs from $396,000 to $684,000 and would decrease the current variable costs of $80 by $20 per unit. The selling price of $120 is not expected to change. Forrester's current break-even sales are $1,188,000 and current break-even units are 9,900. If Forrester purchases this new equipment, the revised contribution margin ratio would be:

On January 1, Jorge Inc. issued $3,000,000, 8% bonds for $2,817,000. The market rate of interest for these bonds is 9%. Interest is payable annually on December 31. Jorge uses the effective-interest method of amortizing bond discount. At the end of the first year, Jorge should report unamortized bond discount of:

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