Alan inherited $100,000 with the stipulation that he "invest it to financially benefit his family." Alan and his wife Alice decided they would invest the inheritance to help them accomplish two financial goals: purchasing a Park City vacation home and saving for their son Cooper’s education.

Vacation Home Cooper’s Education
Initial investment $50,000 $50,000
Investment horizon 5 years 18 years

Alan and Alice have a marginal income tax rate of 32 percent (capital gains rate of 15 percent) and have decided to investigate the following investment opportunities.

Required:
Determine the two annual after-tax rate of return.

Answer:

the question is missing the information about potential investments, so I looked for a similar one:

                                                                    5 Years  18 Years

Corporate bonds                                        5.75%  4.75%  

(ordinary interest taxed annually)

Dividend-paying stock                                 3.50%   3.50%  

(no appreciation and dividends are taxed at 15%)  

Growth stock                                              FV $65,000 FV $140,000  

Municipal bond (tax-exempt)                3.20%  3.10%  

Alan and Alice should invest in growth stocks since they yield the highest after tax return:

5 years:

FV of growth stocks = $65,000

taxable gain = $65,000 -$50,000 = $15,000 x 15% = $2,250

net gain = $15,000 - $2,250 = $12,750

to determine the yield rate we can use the future value formula:

62,750 = 50,000 x (1 + r)⁵

(1 + r)⁵ = 62,750 / 50,000 = 1.255

⁵√(1 + r)⁵ = ⁵√1.255

1 + r = 1.046

r = 4.6% after tax yield per year

18 years:

FV of growth stocks = $140,000

taxable gain = $140,000 -$50,000 = $90,000 x 15% = $13,500

net gain = $90,000 - $13,500 = $76,500

to determine the yield rate we can use the future value formula:

126,500 = 50,000 x (1 + r)¹⁸

(1 + r)¹⁸ = 126,500 / 50,000 = 2.53

¹⁸√(1 + r)¹⁸ = ¹⁸√2.53

1 + r = 1.053

r = 5.3% after tax yield per year

Pooling has been used for a long time by businesses as a way to reduce risk. Imagine that years ago a small paint factory employed 200 people, each with an annual salary of $600/year. The factory owner knew from experience that 4 percent of workers were being injured each year, becoming unable to work. The factory owner decided to set up a fund to pay injured workers three months of salary to help their families and build good will with employees. The owner did not contribute to the injury fund. The workers themselves contributed a fixed amount each year to fund the plan. Answer the following questions (1 point each):_____.
1. How much did the owner need to collect from employees in total to fully fund the plan each year?
2. How much did each employee have to contribute each year to fully fund the plan?
3. What percentage of salary did each employee contribute to have an injury fund like this?

BENEFITS OF COPORATE GOVERNANCE

Darnell is buying salad and pizza for a company lunch. Suppose that a bowl of salad costs $4.00, and a slice of pizza costs $2.00. Let E be the amount in dollars that Darnell spends on salad and pizza. If Darnell buys S bowls of salad and P slices of pizza, then the total amount of money he spends ( E ) can be represented by the equation . Now rearrange the equation you wrote above so that P is written in terms of E and S. The quantity of pizza he buys can be represented by the equation . Suppose Darnell has $40.00 to spend on salad and pizza; that is, E=$40.00.
Complete the following table with values of S or P that make the equation true.
To complete the first row, determine the number of pizza slices Paolo can purchase with $40.00, when the number of salad bowls he purchases is 0.
Budget (Dollars) Salad (Bowls) Pizza (Slice)
40.00 0 _____
40.00 4 _____
40.00 _____ 0

In an example, a local church is made up of people who are very different in their lifestyles and their stages of life. Mary is a 23-year-old single parent who earns the minimum wage. Jonathan is 60 years old, extremely wealthy, and works because he enjoys it. Jane is a 45-year-old lawyer who earns well and is well-respected in her profession. She is extremely career-oriented and is proud of her achievements. Which of the following do you think would motivate Jonathan the most?
a. safety
b. physiological
c. self-actualization
d. growth
e. esteem

Financial Assertions and Audit Objectives. You are engaged to examine the financial statements of Spillane Company for the year ended December 31. Assume that on November 1, Spillane borrowed $500,000 from Second National Bank to finance plant expansion. The long-term note agreement provided for the annual payment of principal and interest over five years. The existing plant was pledged as security for the loan. Due to the unexpected difficulties in acquiring the building site, the plant expansion did not begin on time. To use the borrowed funds, management decided to invest in stocks and bonds and on November 16, invested the $500,000 in publicly traded securities
Required:
Develop specific assertions (audit objectives) related to securities (assets) based on management’s five (PCAOB) general assertions.

As CFO for Everything.Com, you are shopping for 5,000 square feet of usable office space for 25 of your employees in Center City, USA. A leasing broker shows you space in Apex Atrium, a 10-story multi-tenanted office building. This building contains 300,000 square feet of gross building area. A total of 45,000 square feet is interior space and is non-rentable. The non-rentable space consists of areas contained in the basement, elevator core, and other mechanical and structural components. An additional 30,000 square feet of common area is the lobby area usable by all tenants. The 5,000 square feet of usable area that you are looking for is on the seventh floor, which contains 28,000 square feet of rentable area, and is leased by other tenants who occupy a combined total of 20,000 square feet of usable space. The leasing broker indicated that base rents will be $30 per square foot of rentable area.

Required:
a. Calculate total rentable area in the building as though it would be rented to one tenant.
b. Calculate the load factor and common area on the seventh floor only.
c. Calculate the rentable area, including the load factor for common areas on the seventh floor and the total rent per square foot that will be paid by Everything.Com for the coming year if it chooses to lease the space.
d. Adjust (b) assuming that the owner adjusts the load factor for other common areas in the building.
e. Calculate total rent per square foot, assuming that adjusted load factors are applied to usable area for both the common areas in the building lobby and on the seventh floor.

Assignment 3 Suggested Length: 750 to 1000 words Ethical Theories to Apply: Golden Rule and Virtue Ethics

1. Task You work in the Ethics Department for ABC Company (ABC). Your department is dedicated to advising its employees about their ethical obligations in the corporate setting. You are an internal consultant who provides advice and most importantly, recommendations for action to employees of the firm. All communications you receive in this capacity are confidential. Luke, an employee of ABC, comes to you with the following scenario and asks for your advice. He wants to fully consider the situation. Your task is to advise and recommend a course of action based on the specified ethical lenses and facts as given. Below are the facts that Luke provides to you. ***** Luke has been asked to work on a project that involves developing land recently purchased by ABC to build an adult entertainment retail store. According to the plan, the land is located on the corner of the neighborhood where Owen, Luke’s brother, lives. Luke knows that as soon as the plans for the store are made public, property values for the surrounding neighborhood will decrease significantly. ABC plans to publicly announce the project one month from today. Luke is concerned about his obligations of confidentiality to his company. However, Luke is also very close to Owen, who recently told Luke that he received an offer to sell his house at an "okay" price given the current real estate market. Owen is considering selling but hasn’t made any final decision yet. He wonders if he might get a better offer a few years from now when the real estate market improves. What is the ethical issue, why is this an issue, and what should Luke do about it?

***** For assignment 3, prepare a memo, setting out your analysis and recommendations, that considers ONLY the following two theories: Golden Rule and Virtue Ethics.

This year, Linda Moore earned a $112,000 salary and $2,200 interest income from a jumbo Certificate of Deposit. She recognized a $15,300 capital loss on the sale of undeveloped land.

1. She also recognized a $10,500 capital gain from the sale of corporate stock.
2. She also received a $16,000 capital gain distribution from a mutual fund.
3. She had no other capital transactions this year but has a $17,000 capital loss carryforward from a previous year.

Required:
a. Compute Linda’s AGI and any capital loss carryforward into future years when she also recognized a $10,500 capital gain from the sale of corporate stock.
b. Compute Linda’s AGI and any capital loss carryforward into future years when she also received a $16,000 capital gain distribution from a mutual fund.
c. Compute Linda’s AGI and any capital loss carryforward into future years when she had no other capital transactions this year but has a $17,000 capital loss carryforward from a previous year.

Broussard is already at full capacity, so its assets must grow at the same rate as projected sales. At the end of 2019, current liabilities were $1.4 million, consisting of $450,000 of accounts payable, $500,000 of notes payable, and $450,000 of accruals. The after-tax profit margin is forecasted to be 4%, and the forecasted payout ratio is 45%. Use the AFN equation to forecast Broussard's additional funds needed for the coming year. Enter your answer in dollars. For example, an answer of $1.2 million should be entered as $1,200,000.
Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest dollar.

If the cross-price elasticity of demand between Good A and Good B is 3, the price of Good B increases, and the price elasticity of demand for Good B is inelastic, we can expect to see a(n) ________ change in the quantity demanded for Good A. Group of answer choices

The following information was taken from the accounts of Green Market, a small grocery store, at December 31, Year 2. The accounts are listed in alphabetical order, and all have normal balances.

Accounts payable $800
Accounts receivable 2,250
Advertising expense 600
Cash 1,850
Common stock 2,000
Cost of goods sold 2,950
Interest expense 120
Merchandise inventory 1,250
Prepaid rent 720
Retained earnings, 1/1/Year 2 2,610
Sales revenue 5,600
Salaries expense 960
Rent expense 510
Gain on sale of land 200

Required:
Prepare an income statement for the year using the single-step and multistep approach.

R. J. Graziano Wholesale Corp. uses the LIFO method of inventory costing. In the current year, profit at R. J. Graziano is running unusually high. The corporate tax rate is also high this year, but it is scheduled to decline significantly next year. In an effort to lower the current year's net income and to take advantage of the changing income tax rate, the president of R. J. Graziano Wholesale instructs the plant accountant to recommend to the purchasing department a large purchase of inventory for delivery 3 days before the end of the year. The price of the inventory to be purchased has doubled during the year, and the purchase will represent a major portion of the ending inventory value.

Required:
a. What is the effect of this transaction on this year's and next year's income statement and income tax expense? Why?
b. If R. J. Graziano Wholesale had been using the FIFO method of inventory costing, would the president give the same directive?
c. Should the plant accountant order the inventory purchase to lower income? What are the ethical implications of this order?

Consider the following data on U.S. GDP:

Year Nominal GDP (Billions of dollars) GDP Deflator (Base year 2009)
2015 17,947 109.8
1995 7,664 75.3
The growth rate of nominal GDP between 1995 and 2015 was _____, and the growth rate of the GDP deflator between 1995 and 2015 was _____.

Measured in 2009 prices, real GDP was _____ billion in 1995 and _____ billion in 2015.

The growth rate of real GDP between 1995 and 2015 was _____.

The growth rate of nominal GDP between 1995 and 2015 was _____ than the growth rate of real GDP.

Organizations are often divided into units or departments. Which of these is NOT a common way to organize a company?
Group of answer choices
By function
By product
By employee compensation
By customer

The ledger of Shamrock, Inc. on March 31, 2022, includes the following selected accounts before adjusting entries.

Debit Credit
Supplies 3,990
Prepaid Insurance 2,240
Equipment 33,000
Unearned Service Revenue 13,900

An analysis of the accounts shows the following.

1. Insurance expires at the rate of $280 per month.
2. Supplies on hand total $980.
3. The equipment depreciates $220 per month.
4. During March, services were performed for two-fifths of the unearned service revenue.

Required:
Prepare the adjusting entries for the month of March.

The Senate, the legislature of the fictional country of Romange, is considering legislation that will generate benefits of $30 million and costs of $34 million. For perspective, Romange's population is 50 million. Passing the legislation is _____________ , and if everyone in Romange shared equally in both its benefits and its costs, the Senate will vote ____________ the legislation. If the costs of the legislation are concentrated among a few people instead of widespread among the population, those people will be willing to spend up to ___________ lobbying the Senate against the legislation. (Note: Assume that the benefits are widespread; therefore, you can ignore them in the calculations of the few who experience the costs.) The more widely spread are the benefits of the legislation, the _____________is the likelihood of lobbying for the legislation by those who will incur its benefits.

Suppose that, as before, the costs of the legislation are concentrated among a small group, but the benefits of the legislation are concentrated among another small group, and the Senate is responsive to lobbying. The people who will benefit from the legislation will be willing to spend on lobbying up to______________ , in which case the Senate will likely vote ___________ the legislation.

Which best explains why there are many job opportunities in the Lodging pathway?
O The pathway requires a college education.
O The pathway offers seasonal positions.
O The pathway includes low-paying jobs.
The pathway has a high turnover rate.

Suppose the classical linear model assumptions hold, and the population model for log(wage) is given by:

Three explorers are getting kidnapped by an evil tribe deep in the jungle, and their life now depends on their ability to correctly answer the following challenge the evil tribe's chief has for them. The explorers are tied to three trees facing each other and are presented with the chief's 5 wives: 3 brunettes, and 2 blondes. The three explorers are now blindfolded, and the chief picks three of his five wives to stand behind the trees the explorers are tied to, one behind each tree. The remaining two wives disappear from view. Then the blindfolds come off, and each explorer is able to see the two wives that are standing behind his two colleagues, but not the one behind himself. Each explorer now has up to 10 minutes time to think, after which each has to correctly answer what hair color the wife has that is standing behind him, or lose his life. When you, as one of the three explorers, gain your sight after the blindfold comes off, you see two brunettes standing behind your two colleagues. And now your life depends on figuring out who is behind you: a blonde or a brunette?

Four independent situations are described below. Each involves future deductible amounts and/or future taxable amounts produced by temporary differences:

($ in thousands)
Situation
1 2 3 4
Taxable income $84 $216 $196 $260
Future deductible amounts 16 20 20
Future taxable amounts 16 16 28
Balance(s) at beginning of the year:
Deferred tax asset 2 9 4
Deferred tax liability 8 2

The enacted tax rate is 25%.

Required:

For each situation, determine the following:

Situation
1 2 3 4
a. Income tax payable
b. Deferred tax asset - balance
c. Deferred tax asset - change
d. Deferred tax liability - balance
e. Deferred tax liability - change
f. Income tax expense

According to the article, companies that have successfully used the discrimination and fairness paradigm to increase their demographic diversity.
a. are usually run by leaders who value due process and equal treatment of all employees
b. are usually run by leaders who have top-down directives
c. to enforce initiatives often have entrenched, easily observable cultures operate in a business environment where there is increased diversity among customers, clients, or the labor pool

today ,I am happy I help my grandma ​

Last week, an investigative reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper discovered that the doctors conducting clinical trials of a new cancer treatment drug are also the principal shareholders in Cancer Solutions Inc. (CSI). CSI is the company developing and attempting to market the drug. Upon being interviewed by federal authorities, the doctors acknowledged their conflict of interest but reported that they were sold the shares at a 75% discount by CSI's chief financial officer. The CFO was concerned that CSI might not be able to meet its annual performance objectives and in turn pay his anticipated multimillion-dollar bonus.
Does an agency conflict exist between CSI's CFO and the company's shareholders?
a. Yes; CSI's CFO engaged in unethical conduct to manipulate the firm's short-term earnings and improve the likelihood of receiving his annual bonus.
b. Yes; the shares should not have been sold at a 75% discount, which is price discrimination.
c. No; professionals, such as doctors and professional money managers, would not participate in unethical activities.
d. No; in general, shareholders are satisfied with company officers engaging in any type of legal or illegal activity to ensure the chances of them receiving greater dividend payments.
Which of the following actions will help ease agency conflicts and better align managers' objectives with the firm's shareholder wealth?
a. Pay the manager a combination of salary and stock options (phased in over several years) that reward him or her for consistently increasing shareholder wealth.
b. Pay the manager a large base salary with a huge stock option package that matures on a single date.
Amalgamated Metals Corporation's stockholders are mostly individual investors, and there is relatively little institutional ownership. If several pension and mutual funds were to take large positions in Amalgamated Metals Corporation's stock, direct shareholder intervention would be___________ likely to motivate the firm's management.

Which of the following influences what you choose to wear
Your activities

All of the Above

Basic needs

Your personal preferences

Mark or Make is a bourbon distillery. Sales have been steady for the past three years, and operating costs have remained unchanged. On January 1, 2019, Mark or Make took advantage of a special deal to prepay its rent for three years at a substantial savings. The amount of the prepayment was $60,000. The income statement items (excluding the rent) are shown here.

2019 2020 2021
Gross profit on sales 350,000 349,000 351,000
Operating expense 210,000 210,000 210,000

Assume that the rental is deducted on the corporate tax purposes in 2019 and that there are no other temporary differences between taxable income and pretax accounting income. In addition, there are no permanent differences between taxable income and pretax accounting income. The corporate tax rate for all three years is 30%.

Required:
Construct income statements for 2019, 2020, and 2021 under the following approaches to interperiod income tax allocation:

a. No allocation
b. Comprehensive allocation
c. Do you believe that no allocation distorts Mark or Make’s net income? Explain.

There are 3 factories on the Momiss River. Each emits 2 types of pollutants, labeled P1 and P2, into the river. If the waste from each factory is processed, the pollution in the river can be reduced. It costs $1500 to process a ton of factory 1 waste, and each ton processed reduces the amount of P1 by 0.10 ton and the amount of P2 by 0.45 ton. It costs $1000 to process a ton of factory 2 waste, and each ton processed reduces the amount of P1 by 0.20 ton and the amount of P2 by 0.25 ton. It costs $2000 to process a ton of factory 3 waste, and each ton processed reduces the amount of P1 by 0.40 ton and the amount of P2 by 0.30 ton. The state wants to reduce the amount of P1 in the river by at least 30 tons and the amount of P2 by at least 40 tons.

Required:
Formulate an LP that will minimize the cost of reducing pollution by the desired amounts. Do you think that the LP assumptions (Proportionality, Additivity, Divisibility, and Certainty) are reasonable for this problem?

The following inventory valuation errors have been discovered for Knox Corporation:
The 2015 year-end inventory was overstated by $23,000
The 2016 year-end inventory was understated by $61,000
The 2017 year-end inventory was understated by $17,000
The reported income before taxes for Knox was:
Year: Income before Taxes:
2015 $138,000
2016 $254,000
2017 $168,000
Required:
Compute what income before taxes for 2015, 2016, and 2017 should have been after correcting for the errors.

Sheridan Company pays all salaried employees on a biweekly basis. Overtime pay, however, is paid in the next biweekly period. Sheridan accrues salaries expense only at its December 31 year end. Data relating to salaries earned in December 2020 are as follows: Last payroll was paid on 12/26/20, for the 2-week period ended 12/26/20. Overtime pay earned in the 2-week period ended 12/26/20 was $24000. Remaining work days in 2020 were December 29, 30, 31, on which days there was no overtime. The recurring biweekly salaries total $444000.
Assuming a five-day workweek, Sheridan should record a liability at December 31, 2020 for accrued salaries of:_________.
a. $266400
b. $290400
c. $133200
d. $157200

The following information was drawn from the Year 1 accounting records of Ozark Merchandisers: Inventory that had cost $15,000 was sold for $27,000 under terms 2/20, net/30. Customers returned merchandise to Ozark five days after the purchase. The merchandise had been sold for a price of $660. The merchandise had cost Ozark $400. All customers paid their accounts within the discount period. Selling and administrative expenses amounted to $2,835. Interest expense paid amounted to $200. Land that had cost $6,000 was sold for $6,900 cash.
Required
a. Determine the amount of net sales. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to the nearest whole dollar amount.)
b. Prepare a multistep income statement. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answer to the nearest whole dollar amount. Amounts to be deducted and losses should be indicated with a minus sign.)
c. Where would the interest expense be shown on the statement of cash flows?
Operating activities
Investing activities
Financing activities
d. How would the sale of the land be shown on the statement of cash flows?
A. The full sales price of the land, $9,250, would be shown as a cash inflow from financing activities on the statement of cash flows.
B. The full sales price of the land, $9,250, would be shown as a cash inflow from investing activities on the statement of cash flows.
C. The full sales price of the land, $9,250, would be shown as a cash inflow from operating activities on the statement of cash flows

Match each trade organization or agreement with its description.

a. Oversees trade agreements among over 150 member nations and arbitrates trade disagreements among member countries.
b. Created a free-trade zone consisting of the United States, Canada, and Mexico with the purpose of eliminating trade barriers between these countries.
c. An agreement between over 25 nations, which abolished tariffs among member countries and standardized policies on agriculture, transportation, and business practices.

1. World Trade Organization
2. North American Free Trade Agreement
3. The European Union