The five competitive forces model suggests the bargaining power of buyers may affect industry competition. Which of the following is an example of a way buyers might affect an? industry?
A. The Technicolor Company no longer has any bargaining power over movie? studios, limiting the profitability of producing color movies.
B. McDonald's has significant bargaining power over napkin' suppliers, which raises the napkin prices they pay.
C. Walmart has limited bargaining power over suppliers, which results in many of their suppliers altering their distribution systems to accommodate Walmart's need to control the stocks of goods in stores.
D. GM has limited bargaining power in the tire market, which lowers tire prices.
E. Walmart has significant bargaining power over its suppliers, which decreases the profitability of the suppliers.

Answer: E. Walmart has significant bargaining power over its suppliers, which decreases the profitability of the suppliers.

Explanation:

Walmart as buyers have significant bargaining power over their suppliers because they are quite large in size and therefore buy in bulk.

As a result of this, they can negotiate prices with suppliers that favor them not the suppliers which will decrease the profitability of the suppliers who would be compelled to sell to Walmart because of how much of their goods Walmart can buy.

John and Paul are brothers and both are United States citizen. Paul works in Mexico and maintains two (2) bank accounts in Mexico. The accounts are held in Paul's name but both John and Paul are allowed to write checks from the account. The combined account balances are $50,000. The accounts generate $100 of interest income. Paul pays taxes in Mexico and claim a foreign tax credit on his US Income Tax Return. Which of the following statements are most accurate?
a. Only John has a financial interest in the Mexican bank accounts and must file a FBAR. Paul is exempt from filing the FBAR as he paid taxes to Mexico on the accounts.
b. Both Paul & John have a financial interest in the Mexican bank accounts and are required to file a FBAR.
c. Neither John or Paul have a requirement to file an FBAR as the income generated from the account does not exceed $100.
d. None of the above.

Laramie Trucking's CEO is considering a change to the company's capital structure, which currently consists of 25% debt and 75% equity. The CFO believes the firm should use more debt, but the CEO is reluctant to increase the debt ratio. The risk-free rate, rRF, is 5.0%, the market risk premium, RPM, is 6.0%, and the firm's tax rate is 25%. Currently, the cost of equity, rs, is 11.5% as determined by the CAPM. What would be the estimated cost of equity if the firm used 60% debt?A) 10.95%.
B) 11.91%.C) 12.94%.D) 14.07%.E) 15.29%.

Baskin-Robbins is one of the world’s largest specialty ice cream shops. The company offers dozens of different flavors, from Very Berry Strawberry to lowfat Espresso ’n Cream. Assume that a local Baskin-Robbins in Raleigh, North Carolina, has the following amounts for the month of July 2021.Salaries expense $13,700 Sales revenue $69,800Inventory (July 1, 2021) 2,300 Interest income 3,300Sales returns 1,100 Cost of goods sold 28,700Utilities expense 3,600 Rent expense 6,700Income tax expense 6,000 Interest expense 400 Inventory (July 31, 2021) 1,100Required:1. Prepare a multiple-step income statement for the month ended July 31, 2021.2. Calculate the inventory turnover ratio for the month of July. Would you expect this ratio to be higher or lower in December 2021? Explain.3. Calculate the gross profit ratio for the month of July.

Corporation conducts get-rich-quickly workshops and uses two measures of activity, classes and students in the cost formulas in its internal financial and operating reports The cost formula for workshops is $540 per month plus $103 per class plus $34 per student Dev.774 expected its activity in January to be 11 classes and 120 students, but the actual activity was 6 classes and 125 students
The actual cost for workshops in January was $5,230.
What was Pexura774's spending variance for workshops in January?
a. $178 F
b. $523 F
c. $178 U
d. $523 U

The following units of an inventory item were available for sale during the year: Beginning inventory 8 units at $49 First purchase 15 units at $51 Second purchase 27 units at $53 Third purchase 14 units at $55 The firm uses the periodic inventory system. During the year, 26 units of the item were sold. The value of ending inventory rounded to the nearest dollar using average cost is (Round average cost per unit to three decimal place.)

During 2021, its first year of operations, Ashbaugh Industries recorded sales of $21,000,000 and experienced returns of $1,400,000. Returns are accounted for as they occur, with additional estimated returns accrued at the end of the period. Cost of goods sold totaled $12,600,000 (60% of sales). The company estimates that 8% of all sales will be returned. The year-end adjusting journal entry to account for anticipated sales returns would include a:

Budgeting, ethics, pharmaceutical company. Chris Jackson was recently promoted to Controller of Research and Development for BrisC or, a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company that manufactures prescription drugs and nutritional supplements. The company’s total R&amp ; D cost for 2017 was expected (budgeted) to be $5 billion. During the company’s midyear budget review, Chris realized that current R&amp ; D expenditures were already at $3.5 billion, nearly 40% above the midyear target. At this current rate of expenditure, the R&amp ; D division was on track to exceed its total year-end budget by $2 billion!
In a meeting with CFO Ronald Meece later that day, Jackson delivered the bad news. Meece was both shocked and outraged that the R&D spending had gotten out of control. Meece wasn’t any more understanding when Jackson revealed that the excess cost was entirely related to research and development of a new drug, Vyacon, which was expected to go to market next year. The new drug would result in large profits for BrisCor, if the product could be approved by year-end. Meece had already announced his expectations of third-quarter earnings to Wall Street analysts. If the R&D expenditures weren’t reduced by the end of the third quarter, Meece was certain that the targets he had announced publicly would be missed and the company’s stock price would tumble. Meece instructed Jackson to make up the budget shortfall by the end of the third quarter using "whatever means necessary." Jackson was new to the controller’s position and wanted to make sure that Meece’s orders were followed. Jackson came up with the following ideas for making the third-quarter budgeted targets:
1. Stop all research and development efforts on the drug Vyacon until after year-end. This change would delay the drug going to market by at least 6 months. It is possible that in the meantime a BrisCor competitor could make it to market with a similar drug.
2. Sell off rights to the drug Martek. The company had not planned on doing this because, under current market conditions, it would get less than fair value. It would, however, result in a one-time gain that could offset the budget shortfall. Of course, all future profits from Martek would be lost. Capitalize some of the company’s R&D expenditures, reducing R&D expense on the income statement. This transaction would not be in accordance with GAAP, but Jackson thought it was justifiable because the Vyacon drug was going to market early next year. Jackson would argue that capitalizing R&D costs this year and expensing them next year would better match revenues and expenses.
3. Referring to the "Standards of Ethical Behavior for Practitioners of Management Accounting and Financial Management,"
4. Which of the preceding items are acceptable to use? Which are unacceptable? What would you recommend Jackson do?

person who provides services directly to individuals

Jaguar Plastics Company has been operating for three years. At December 31 of last year, the accounting records reflected the following: Cash 23000 Accounts payable 21000
Investments (short-term) 34000 Notes receivable (long-term) 36000
Accounts receivable 4200 Accrued liabilities payable 5300
Inventory 26000 Additional paid-in capital 90900
Equipment 49000 Retained earnings 33900
Factory building 101000 Notes payable (current) 48,000
Intangibles 4100
During the current year, the company had the following summarized activities:
a. Purchased short-term investments for $8,400 cash.
b. Lent $5,600 to a supplier who signed a two-year note.
c. Purchased equipment that cost $23,000; paid $5,600 cash and signed a one-year note for the balance.
d. Hired a new president at the end of the year. The contract was for $87,000 per year plus options to purchase company stock at a set price based on company performance. The new president begins her position on January 1 of next year.
e. Issued an additional 1,400 shares of $0.50 par value common stock for $11,000 cash.
f. Borrowed $16,000 cash from a local bank, payable in three months.
g. Purchased a patent (an intangible asset) for $1,900 cash.
h. Built an addition to the factory for $30,000; paid $8,100 in cash and signed a three-year note for the balance.
i. Returned defective equipment to the manufacturer, receiving a cash refund of $3,100.
Required:
Post the current year transactions to T-accounts for each of the accounts on the balance sheet.

A suggested project requires initial fixed assets of $227,000, has a life of 4 years, and has no salvage value. Assume depreciation is straight-line to zero over the life of the project. Sales are projected at 51,000 units per year, the price per unit is $47, variable cost per unit is $23, and fixed costs are $842,900 per year. The tax rate is 23 percent and the required return is 11.5 percent. Ignore taxes. What is the DOL at the base-case output level of 51,000 units

Suppose a Canadian firm and a Japanese firm both produce rice. Also suppose the ratio of the price of land divided by the price of labour is lower in Canada than in Japan. If they both seek to maximize economic profit, the Canadian firm will use the two inputs, land and labour, in such a way that its land/labour ratio in production:_________.
A. is equal to one.
B. is higher than that of the Japanese firm.
C. is equal to that of the Japanese firm.
D. is lower than that of the Japanese firm.
E. can't be determined without knowing the absolute prices of land and labour in each country,

You are working as a communication specialist for BMW which is releasing a new luxury car in March 2021. BMW have already carried out a market survey and have already determined the price of the product and the targeted audience.



Now that your company have to start a sale campaign, you have been asked to elaborate with your team the communication strategy for conducting this campaign during spring and summer (From March to August).



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Mohamed income elasticity for good A is equal to -1.5. His current income is Br.40, 000 per year and he buys 200 units of good A annually. If his income falls to Br.36, 000 how many units of good A will he purchase?

Billie Bob purchased a used camera (five-year property) for use in his sole proprietorship in the prior year. The basis of the camera was $2,400. Billie Bob used the camera in his business 60 percent of the time during the first year. During the second year, Billie Bob used the camera 40 percent for business use. Calculate Billie Bob's depreciation deduction during the second year, assuming the sole proprietorship had a loss during the year.

If an economist is a proponent of free trade amongst nations, what would be concerning about the proliferation of regional trade agreements?
A. The nations involved with regional trade agreements make the economies more independent from each other.
B. Regional trade agreements may restrict trade from outside of the regions in the agreement.
C. Terms of regional trade agreements often conflict with agreements of the Anti- Tariff Act.