To be responsible in financial planning you must set goals. To reach these goals you must create a plan. What is a specific financial goal that you have

Answer and Explanation:

As we know that planning is the most important part of everyone life. Without planning, no one could able to accomplish its goals and objectives.

There are various steps to study about yourself and based on this you can do the planning and reach your goals which are shown below:

1. The most important part of your life find that and always do practical thinking

2. How much time it takes to reach your goals

3. Now use the SMART strategy which gives you the way to accomplish it

4. Make a roadmap so that you get to know how the things could be happen

5. How much money is required to execute it

6. And at last check your progress

These above steps helps you to develop a financial plan

Lopez Plastics Co. (LPC) issued callable bonds on January 1, 2021. LPC's accountant has projected the following amortization schedule from issuance until maturity:
Date Cash Effective Decrease in Outstanding
interest interest balance balance
1/1/2021 $207,020
6/30/2021 $7,000 $6,211 $789 206,230
12/31/2021 7,000 6,187 813 205,417
6/30/2022 7,000 6,163 837 204,580
12/31/2022 7,000 6,137 863 203,717
6/30/2023 7,000 6,112 888 202,829
12/31/2023 7,000 6,085 915 201,913
6/30/2024 7,000 6,057 943 200,971
12/31/2024 7,000 6,029 971 200,000
What is the annual stated interest rate on the bonds?
a. 3.5%
b. 6%
c. 7%
d. none of the above

What is the standard deviation of a portfolio's returns if the mean return is 15%, and the variance of returns is 184

In marketing his wooden pens and pencils to specialty-shop customers. What marketing straregy Roben was using and why?

George Hansen is General Manager for the Marigold Inn in Augusta, Georgia. Sharon Coombs is Restaurant and Food Services manager for the Inn. She reports to George. Two years ago, Sharon noticed a decline in room service business, the highest margin potion of her operation. This decline coincided with an increase in the national sales of pizza delivery and carryout firms as well as an increase in the number of empty pizza boxes from these firms being left in guest rooms in the Inn. Her immediate response was to install a pizza oven in the kitchen and offer room service pizza to guests. The effort met with modest success, though it was well below her expectations. Questionnaires completed by departing guests revealed a problem of product quality.
Focusing on this problem, Sharon improved the Inn’s pizza until blind tests judged it at least equal in quality to the products of the two major pizza delivery competitors in Augusta. Sales did not improve, convincing Sharon that the problem was a perceived mismatch between the hotel’s image and guests’ expectations of pizza makers. Guests simply did not seem to believe that the traditional steak and seafood restaurant at the Inn could make a high-quality, authentic pizza.
Based on this conclusion, Sharon presented the following proposal to George:
"Sales of room service pizza are stagnant due to guests’ misperception that our product is lower in quality than that of competitors. This misperception is based on the belief that until we disassociate our pizza from the Marigold Inn name. Therefore, to capture more room service pizza business, we should create a ‘Napoli Pizza’ image for our guest room delivery service by:
Preparing ‘Napoli Pizza’ brochures for each guest room, complete with a phone number with a prefix different from that of Marigold Inn. The number will reach a special phone in room service, which will be answered, ‘Napoli Pizza, authentic Italian pizza from old, family recipes.’
Using special ‘Napoli Pizza’ boxes for delivering room service pizza to guests.
Issuing ‘Napoli Pizza’ hats and jackets to room service personnel for use in pizza delivery. Room service waiters and waitresses will wear these garments to deliver pizza. They will change to their regular uniforms for other deliveries.

In response to the new employee end-of-shift policy Brianna proposes that Ollie pay its employees on their breaks instead of making them clock out. Brianna is most likely utilize the ________ influence tactic

the construction of a 1000 suit luxury hotel requires the installation of 12 outlets and 6 light fictures per suit . The companys standard productivity for a two electrician crew is 20 minutes per light fixture and 30 minutes per outlet. Using eighteen crews working at a 0.8 efficiency factor and a 10hr work day with a half an hour lunch break , the duration of this construction activity (days,hours) is most nearly how much

Last year Harrington Inc. had sales of $325,000 and a net income of $19,000, and its year-end assets were $250,000. The firm's total-debt-to-total-capital ratio was 15.0%. The firm finances using only debt and common equity and its total assets equal total invested capital. Based on the DuPont equation, what was the ROE

Exercise 10-2 Straight-Line: Amortization of bond discount LO P2 Tano issues bonds with a par value of $180,000 on January 1, 2017. The bonds' annual contract rate is 8%, and interest is paid semiannually on June 30 and December 31. The bonds mature in three years. The annual market rate at the date of issuance is 10%, and the bonds are sold for $170,862. 1. What is the amount of the discount on these bonds at issuance

the price of envelopes was $3 a box, and Julie was willing to buy 10 boxes. Today, the price has gone up to $3.75 a box, and Julie is now willing to buy 8 boxes. Is Julie's demand for envelopes elastic or inelastic? What is Julie's elasticity of demand?​

Deployment Specialists pays a current (annual) dividend of $1.00 and is expected to grow at 20% for 2 years and then at 4% thereafter. If the required return for Deployment Specialists is 8.5%, what is the intrinsic value of its stock? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

of a portfolio. The beta of four stocks​G, ​H, I, and Jare ​, ​, ​, and ​, respectively. What is the beta of a portfolio with the following weights in each​ asset: LOADING...​? What is the beta of portfolio​ 1?

You, a real-estate developer, own a piece of land in Nassau, Bahamas, next to an equal-size piece of land owned by a competitor. Both of you have the choice of building a casino or a hotel. Your payoffs in millions of dollars are as follows:You
Your Competitor Casino Hotel Casino 3,3 20,5Hotel 5,20 2,2How much is it worth to you to get your casino building permit first?a. $2 millionb. $3 millionc. $15 milliond. $17 million

The involvement by a company in more than one of the activities in the entire value chain from development through production, distribution, sales, and after-sales service is called ________. opportunity cost vertical integration relevant cost avoidable cost

The problem with average-cost pricing regulation is that once it is in place, there is a tendency for the:________


a. ATC curve to shift upward.

b. MR curve to shift leftward.

c. D curve to shift leftward.

d. ATC curve to shift downward.

e. D curve to shift rightward.

Which of the following statements is true of the new product development process? Question 8 options: 1) Commercialization is the process of inviting broad communities of people such as customers, employees, and scientists into the new product innovation process. 2) The purpose of the idea screening stage is to create a large number of ideas. 3) The concept testing stage is the stage at which the product and its proposed marketing program are introduced into realistic market settings. 4) Under the business analysis stage, if the new product satisfies the company's objectives, the product then moves to the product development stage. 5) A product concept is the way consumers perceive an actual or potential product.

If the current interest rate is 5% and your semi-annual coupon paying bond has a duration of 5.33 years, how much will the price of the bond change if the interest rate increases by 1 basis point?

All of the following are disadvantages of using the average rate of return except a.The average rate of return method does not consider the expected timing of the expected cash flows. b.The average rate of return method does not use present values. c.The average rate of return method does not use the expected cash flows from the proposal. d.All of these choices are disadvantages.

2. Explain the following corporate/partnership documents and procedures for healthcare
organizations
Sole Proprietorship
Partnership
Corporation
Limited Liability Entities

1. In the Black-Scholes option pricing model, N(d1) is the probability that a standard normal random variable takes on a value exceeding d1.
A. True
B. False
2. In the Black-Scholes option-pricing model, if volatility increases, the value of a call option will increase but the value of the put option will decrease.
A. True
B. False

Your boss has asked you to hand deliver five invitations to a special luncheon he is hosting. When you receive the
invitations, they have only first and last names but no addresses. You remember that they all live side by side in an
apartment building on Central Street. The boss left the following information with his assistant, but it is all you have. Time to
problem-solve to figure out who lives where!
This much you know for sure Carly has Greg as one next-door neighbor and the Joneses as her other next-door
neighbors. Now it's it up to you to figure out who lives in the other apartments. It may be helpful for you to draw five boxes
to use as a visual guide. Furthermore, writing names on your drawing in pencil will allow you to keep track of the neighbors
as you place them in their homes.
1 The Smiths live in the westernmost apartment, Louis lives in the easternmost
2. Leon has Mia as one next-door neighbor with TJ on the other side.
3. Both Tami and TJ live east of the Williamses.
4. TJ lives next door to the Browns
5. Tom lives west of the Garcias and east of Carly
6. Kris and Tami are next-door neighbors. The Garcias also live next to Tami but on the other side.
7. Nikki lives east of TJ.

The following data relate to factory overhead cost for the production of 10,000 computers: Actual: Variable factory overhead $262,000 Fixed factory overhead 90,000 Standard: 14,000 hrs. at $25 350,000 If productive capacity of 100% was 15,000 hours and the total factory overhead cost budgeted at the level of 14,000 standard hours was $356,000, determine the variable factory overhead controllable variance, fixed factory overhead volume variance, and total factory overhead cost variance. The fixed factory overhead rate was $6.00 per hour. Enter a favorable variance as a negative number using a minus sign and an unfavorable variance as a positive number.

Ideally, in effective marketing planning, goals should be _____ in terms of what is to be accomplished and when.

Sally Rubber Co. has an expected net operating profit after taxes, EBIT (1-T), of $1,700 million in the coming year. In addition, the firm is expected to have net capital expenditures of $255 million, and net operating working capital (NOWC) is expected to increase by $45 million. How much free cash flow (FCF) is Sally Rubber Co. expected to generate over the next year?

Regulations that permit a regulated firm to cover its costs and to make a normal level of profit are commonly referred to as

Chester's balance sheet has $105,038,000 in equity. Further, the company is expecting net income of 3,000,000 next year, and also expecting to issue $4,000,000 in new stock. If there are no dividends paid what will beChester's book value?

The following unadjusted trial balance is prepared at fiscal year-end for Nelson Company.

1.NELSON COMPANY Debit Credit
2. Cash $1,000
3. Merchandise Inventory 12,500
4. Store supplies. 5,800
5. Prepaid Insurance. 2,400
6. Store equipment. 42,900
7. Accumulated depreciation - Store equipment $15,250
8. Accounts payable 10,000
9.J. Nelson, Capital 32,000
10.J. Nelson, Withdrawal 2,200
11. Sales. 111,950
12. Sales discounts 2,000
13. Sales returns and allowances 2,200
14. Cost of goods sold 38,400
15. Depreciation expense- Store equipmen 0
16. Salaries expense 35,000
17. Insurance expense 0
18. Rent expense 15,000
19. Store supplies expense 0
20. Advertising expense 9,800
21. Totals $169,200 169,200


Nelson company uses a perpetual inventory system. It categorizes the following accounts as selling expenses:

Required:
1. Prepare adjusting journal entries to reflect each of the following:

a. Store supplies still available at fiscal year-end amount to $1,750.
b. Expired insurance, an administrative expense, for the fiscal year is $1,400.
c. Depreciation expense on store equipment, a selling expense is $1,525 for the fiscal year.
d. To estimate shrinkage, a physical count of ending merchandise inventory is taken. It shows $10,900 of inventory is still available at fiscal year-end.

2. Prepare a multiple-step income statement for fiscal year 2015.
3. Comple the statement of retained earnings and the balance sheet.
4. Compute the current ratio, acid-test ratio, and gross margin ratio as of January 31, 2015. (Round ratios to two decimals.)

All of the following securities can be sold by both an individual holding a Series 7 General Securities License and an individual holding a Series 6 Investment Companies / Variable Annuities registered representative's license EXCEPT:

a. Unit Investment Trusts
b. Mutual Funds
c. Initial Public Offerings of
d. losed End Funds
e. Real Estate Investment Trusts

Link Co. purchased machinery that cost $3,000,000 on January 4, 2016. The entire cost was recorded as an expense. The machinery has a nine-year life and a $200,000 residual value. The error was discovered on December 20, 2018. Ignore income tax considerations. Before the correction was made, and before the books were closed on December 31, 2018, retained earnings was understated by:_________.a. $3,000,000.
b. $2,066,667.
c. $2,377,778
d. $2,333,333.

Morgan Company issues 10%, 20-year bonds with a par value of $760,000 that pay interest semiannually. The amount paid to the bondholders for each semiannual interest payment is.

The following data were taken from the financial statements of Gates Inc. for the current fiscal year. Property, plant, and equipment (net) $971,600 Liabilities: Current liabilities $140,000 Note payable, 6%, due in 15 years 694,000 Total liabilities $834,000 Stockholders' equity: Preferred $4 stock, $100 par (no change during year) $834,000 Common stock, $10 par (no change during year) 834,000 Retained earnings: Balance, beginning of year $890,000 Net income 386,000 $1,276,000 Preferred dividends $33,360 Common dividends 130,640 164,000 Balance, end of year 1,112,000 Total stockholders' equity $2,780,000 Sales $21,141,000 Interest expense $41,640 Assuming that total assets were $3,433,000 at the beginning of the current fiscal year, determine the following. When required, round to one decimal place.