Monsanto Company, a large chemical and fibers company, invested $37 million in state-of-the-art systems to improve process control, laboratory automation, and local area network (LAN) communications. The investment was not justified merely on cost savings but was also justified on the basis of qualitative considerations. Monsanto management viewed the investment as a critical element toward achieving its version of the future. What qualitative and quantitative considerations do you believe Monsanto would have considered in its strategic evaluation of these investments

Solution :

The investment which was made by the Monsanto Company had both qualitative as well as quantitative aspects. The quantitative aspect of the investment represents the strategic evaluation which relates to the investment in order to improve the process control and the laboratory automation. While improving the process control helps in controlling the working process of the machines and the human force which reduces the wastage to a large extent, it also increases the efficiency and it reduces the cost per unit.

The laboratory automation increases the efficiency of working and also increases the production. Strengthening the LAN network improves the organizations' communication and also reduces the unnecessary delays in the work saving cost. Improving the local area network provides qualitative improvement and it speeds up the work thus reducing the wastage of time and promotes effective communication.

Computing Straight-Line and Double-Declining-Balance Depreciation
On January 2, 2016, Dechow Company purchases a machine to help manufacture a part for one of its key products. The machine cost $306,180 and is estimated to have a useful life of six years, with an expected salvage value of $32,760.
Compute each year's depreciation expense for 2016 and 2017 for each of the following depreciation methods.
a. Straight-line.
b. Double-declining balance.

When converting net income to net cash provided (used) by operating activities under the indirect method increases in accounts receivable and increases in accrued liabilities are deducted. decreases in accounts payable and decreases in inventory are deducted. decreases in accounts receivable and increases in prepaid expenses are added. decreases in inventory and increases in accrued liabilities are added.

You are the manager for a Pizza restaurant. Currently, your restaurant pre-makes pizzas that are ordered the most to increase the number of pizzas being made on time for your customers. Over time, many customers have complained that their pizzas were cold upon delivery and not fresh, requesting refunds or remakes of their pizza. Your location is losing money from these wasteful practices, therefore, you want to create a Kanban based on the following basic principles:

1. A later process tells an earlier process when new items are required. This means that unless a customer orders a pizza, no pizzas will be made. Pull!
2. The earlier process produces what the later process needs.
3. No Items can be made without a Kanban card (order request). This allows the process to be transparent so everyone knows what is going on.
4. Defects are not passed on to the next stage.Create a Kanban board for your pizza company that delivers. You must have 4-6 columns with headings for each.

Required:
Decide what your Kanban cards will represent. Set Rules for your Kanban.

Orange Corporation has gathered the following data on a proposed investment project: Investment in depreciable equipment $ 520,000 Annual net cash flows $ 78,000 Life of the equipment 10 years Salvage value $ 0 Discount rate 6 % The company uses straight-line depreciation on all equipment. Assume cash flows occur uniformly throughout a year except for the initial investment. The payback period for the investment would be: Multiple Choice 1.0 years 0.2 years 4.7 years 6.7 years

The Smith family wants to relocate to a neighborhood with better schools before their three-year-old goes to kindergarten. They talked with Byron about properties he has for sale in neighborhoods they would like to live in. They also mentioned to Byron that they both work and may need someone to help with in-home care for their child. Byron gave them Taylor’s name to call about childcare. The Smiths also said they were having a hard time getting loan approval, so Byron suggested that they call Travis. Which best describes the jobs performed by Byron, Taylor, and Travis?

a) Byron is a Customer Service Representative, Taylor is a Child Care Worker, and Travis is a Loan Counselor.

b) Byron is a Real Estate Manager, Taylor is a Nanny, and Travis is a Loan Counselor.

c) Byron is a Real Estate Manager, Taylor is a Preschool Teacher, and Travis is a Customer Service Representative.

d) Byron is a Home Counselor, Taylor is a Nanny, and Travis is a Property Manager.

The Foundational 15 (Static) [LO13-2, LO13-3, LO13-4, LO13-5, LO13-6] Skip to question [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] Cane Company manufactures two products called Alpha and Beta that sell for $120 and $80, respectively. Each product uses only one type of raw material that costs $6 per pound. The company has the capacity to annually produce 100,000 units of each product. Its average cost per unit for each product at this level of activity are given below: Alpha Beta Direct materials $ 30 $ 12 Direct labor 20 15 Variable manufacturing overhead 7 5 Traceable fixed manufacturing overhead 16 18 Variable selling expenses 12 8 Common fixed expenses 15 10 Total cost per unit $ 100 $ 68 The company considers its traceable fixed manufacturing overhead to be avoidable, whereas its common fixed expenses are unavoidable and have been allocated to products based on sales dollars. Foundational 13-1 (Static) Required: 1. What is the total amount of traceable fixed manufacturing overhead for each of the two products

The following information pertains to Lightning Inc., at the end of December: Credit Sales $ 20,000 Accounts Payable 10,000 Accounts Receivable 11,800 Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts 400 credit Cash Sales 20,000 Lightning uses the aging method and estimates it will not collect 7% of accounts receivable not yet due, 20% of receivables up to 30 days past due, and 46% of receivables greater than 30 days past due. The accounts receivable balance of $11,800 consists of $7,500 not yet due, $2,300 up to 30 days past due, and $2,000 greater than 30 days past due. What is the appropriate amount of Bad Debt Expense

Labeau Products, Ltd., of Perth, Australia, has $21,000 to invest. The company is trying to decide between two alternative uses for the funds as follows:
Invest in Invest in
Project X Project Y
Investment required $ 21,000 $ 21,000
Annual cash inflows $ 8,000
Single cash inflow at the end of 6 years $50,000
Life of the project 6 years 6 years
The company’s discount rate is 18%.
Required:
Determine the net present values. (Any cash outflows should be indicated by a minus sign.

Hoda is creating a report in Access using the Report Wizard. Which option is not available for adding fields using the wizard?

Tables
Queries
Reports
All are available options.

Calculate amortization expense
In early January, Burger Mania acquired 100% of the common stock of the Crispy Taco restaurant chain. The purchase price allocation included the following items: $4 million, patent; $5 million, trademark considered to have an indefinite useful life; and $6 million, goodwill. Burger Mania's policy is to amortize intangible assets with finite useful lives using the straight-line method, no residual value, and a five-year service life.
What is the total amount of amortization expense that would appear in Burger Mania's income statement for the first year ended December 31 related to these items? (Enter your answers in dollars, not in millions.

Which of the following is the second step in the hiring process?

Select the best answer choice.
A.
the submission of the application or resume

B.
the interview

C.
sending a thank-you note

D.
getting hired for the position

You do not start saving money until age 46. On your 46th birthday you dutifully invest​ $10,000 each year until you finish your deposits when you reach the age of 65​ (you make the last deposit on your 65th​ birthday). The annual interest rate is 8​% that you earn on your deposits. Your brother starts saving​ $10,000 a year on his 36th birthday but stops making deposits after 10 years. He then withdraws the compounded sum when he reaches age 65. How much more money will your brother have than you at age​ 65?

Mackenzie Company has a price of $38 and will issue a dividend of $ 2.00 next year. It has a beta of 1.3, the risk-free rate is 5.2%, and the market risk premium is estimated to be 4.9%. a. Estimate the equity cost of capital for Mackenzie. b. Under the CGDM, at what rate do you need to expect Mackenzie's dividends to grow to get the same equity cost of capital as in part (a)?

a. Describe an important decision in your academic or personal life that you will have to make in the near future.
b. Using the five-step decision-making approach , analyze your decision and conclude with your "best" choice.

Murray Motor Company wants you to calculate its cost of common stock. During the next 12 months, the company expects to pay dividends (D1) of $1.30 per share, and the current price of its common stock is $40 per share. The expected growth rate is 5 percent. a. Compute the cost of retained earnings (Ke). (Do not round intermediate calculations. Input your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)

Net present value LO P3
A new operating system for an existing machine is expected to cost $820,000 and have a useful life of six years. The system yields an incremental after-tax income of $240,000 each year after deducting its straight-line depreciation. The predicted salvage value of the system is $100,000.
A machine costs $560,000, has a $56,000 salvage value, is expected to last eight years, and will generate an after-tax income of $150,000 per year after straight-line depreciation.
Assume the company requires a 12% rate of return on its investments. Compute the net present value of each potential investment. (PV of $1, FV of $1, PVA of $1, and FVA of $1) (Use appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided.)
a. A new operating system for an existing machine is expected to cost $820,000 and have a useful life of six years. The system yields an incremental after-tax income of $240,000 each year after deducting its straight-line depreciation. The predicted salvage value of the system is $100,000. (Round your answers to the nearest whole dollar.)
b. A machine costs $560,000, has a $56,000 salvage value, is expected to last eight years, and will generate an after-tax income of $150,000 per year after straight-line depreciation. (Round your answers to the nearest whole dollar.)

Suppose Nike, Inc. reported the following plant assets and intangible assets for the year ended May 31, 2022 (in millions): other plant assets $935.0, land $220.0, patents and trademarks (at cost) $510.0, machinery and equipment $2,160.0, buildings $980.0, goodwill (at cost) $210.0, accumulated amortization $50.0, and accumulated depreciation $2,200. Prepare a partial balance sheet for Nike for these items.

Snowy Mountain Financial Advisors is a network of branches providing investing and financial advising services. It discloses that it uses a balanced scorecard with the following six performance measures.

Required:
Link the measures to the perspective number(s) of the balanced scorecard.

Perspective
1. Financial
2. Customer
3. Learning and growth
4. Internal business processed

Procedure Measure Prespective number
Market share
Regulatory compliance
New cutomer refresh from existing customer
Order errors
Brach profit

The risk-free rate of return is 9.0%, the expected rate of return on the market portfolio is 14%, and the stock of Xyrong Corporation has a beta coefficient of 2.0. Xyrong pays out 50% of its earnings in dividends, and the latest earnings announced were $20 per share. Dividends were just paid and are expected to be paid annually. You expect that Xyrong will earn an ROE of 18% per year on all reinvested earnings forever
a. What is the intrinsic value of a share of Xyrong stock? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Intrinsic valueS
b-1. If the market price of a share is currently $108, and you expect the market price to be equal to the intrinsic value one year from now, calculate the price of the share after one year from now. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
Price
b-2. What is your expected one-year holding-period return on Xyrong stock? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
Expected one-year holding-period return

Adamson Corporation is considering four average-risk projects with the following costs and rates of return:

Project Cost Expected Rate of Return
1 $2,000 16.00%
2 3,000 15.00
3 5,000 13.75
4 2,000 12.50

The company estimates that it can issue debt at a rate of rd = 10%, and its tax rate is 30%. It can issue preferred stock that pays a constant dividend of $5 per year at $48 per share. Also, its common stock currently sells for $33 per share; the next expected dividend, D1, is $4.00; and the dividend is expected to grow at a constant rate of 5% per year. The target capital structure consists of 75% common stock, 15% debt, and 10% preferred stock.

Required:
a. What is the cost of each of the capital components?
b. What is Adamson's WACC?

On January 8, 2012, Speedway Delivery Service purchased a truck at a cost of $65,000. Before placing the truck in service, Speedway spent $4,000 painting it, $2,500 replacing tires, and $8,000 overhauling the engine. The truck should remain in service for five years and have a residual value of $6,000. The truck’s annual mileage is expected to be 22,000 miles in each of the first four years and 12,000 miles in the fifth year—100,000 miles in total. In deciding which depreciation method to use, David Greer, the general manager, requests a depreciation schedule for each of the depreciation methods (straight-line, units-of-production, and double-declining-balance).
Requirements
1. Prepare a depreciation schedule for each depreciation method, showing asset cost, depreciation expense, accumulated depreciation, and asset book value.
2. Speedway prepares financial statements using the depreciation method that reports the highest net income in the early years of asset use. For income tax purposes, the company uses the depreciation method that minimizes income taxes in the early years. Consider the first year that Speedway uses the truck. Identify the depreciation methods that meet the general manager’s objectives, assuming the income tax authorities permit the use of any of the methods.

Which is NOT a reason companies integrate horizontally?
A To expand internationally.
B Tobe in control of the resources used in the production process.
C To expand brand equity across new product lines.
D To increase production capacity.

oneycutt Co. is comparing two different capital structures. Plan I would result in 39,000 shares of stock and $108,000 in debt. Plan II would result in 33,000 shares of stock and $324,000 in debt. The interest rate on the debt is 7 percent. a. Ignoring taxes, compare both of these plans to an all-equity plan assuming that EBIT will be $160,000. The all-equity plan would result in 42,000 shares of stock outstanding. What is the EPS for each of these plans

Communication starts with
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Fultz Company has accumulated the following budget data for the year 2017. 1 Sales: 31,450 units, unit selling price $85. Cost of one unit of finished goods: direct materials 1 pound at $5 per J pound, direct labor 3 hours at $13 per hour, and manufacturing overhead $6 per direct labor hour, j Inventories (raw materials only): beginning, 10,290 pounds; ending, 15,250 pounds. Selling and administrative expenses: $170,000; interest expense: $30,000. Income taxes: 30% of income before income taxes.
Prepare a schedule showing the computation of cost of goods sold for 2017.

Norris Company has the following capital structure: Common stock, $1 par, 100,000 shares issued and outstanding. On October 1, 2020, the company declared a 5% common stock dividend when the market price of the common stock was $15 per share. The stock dividend will be distributed on October 15, 2020, to stockholders on record on October 10, 2020. Upon declaration of the stock dividend, Norris Company would record:

Review each of the following independent sets of conditions. For each condition, calculate the (1) sample rate of deviation, and use the AICPA sample evaluation tables to identify the (2) upper limit rate of deviation, and (3) allowance for sampling risk (n = sample size, d = deviations. ROO = risk of overreliance). (Round your answers to 1 decimal place.)

a. n = 100. d = 8. ROO = 5%.
b. n = 100. d = 4. ROO = 5%.
c. n = 100. d = 8. ROO = 10%.

Skyler Manufacturing recorded operating data for its shoe division for the year. Sales $4,500,000 Contribution margin 500,000 Controllable fixed costs 200,000 Average total operating assets 900,000 How much is controllable margin for the year

Modigliani and​ Miller's world of no taxes. Roxy​ Broadcasting, Inc. is currently a​ low-levered firm with a​ debt-to-equity ratio of ​/. The company wants to increase its leverage to ​/ for debt to equity. If the current return on assets is ​% and the cost of debt is ​%, what are the current and the new costs of equity if Roxy operates in a world of no​ taxes? What is the current cost of equity if Roxy operates in a world of no​ taxes?

g Earnings per share Financial statement data for the years 20Y5 and 20Y6 for Black Bull Inc. follow: 20Y5 20Y6 Net income $1,687,000 $2,632,000 Preferred dividends $40,000 $40,000 Average number of common shares outstanding 90,000 shares 120,000 shares a. Determine the earnings per share for 20Y5 and 20Y6. Round to two decimal places. 20Y5 20Y6 Earnings per Share $fill in the blank 1 $fill in the blank 2 b. Is the change in the earnings per share from 20Y5 to 20Y6 favorable or unfavorable