Operating Budgets Paper Arin Lawson February 23, 2015 SEC/370 “A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it” William Feather Operating budgeting helps to establish and achieve the costs and revenue to run your business. When having a budget plan it helps you follow a plan to control your day to day income for your business. There are two poplar budgeting strategy’s that are used by many companies; Incremental budgeting and Zero-based budgeting. There are also pros and cons to these budgeting strategies. Incremental budgeting is when you take last year’s budget and add more or less to it depending on what you’re looking to do with your budget for the year.
Quizzes 1. | Question : | (TCO 1) All of the following would require use of the equity method for investments except | | | Student Answer: | | Material inter-company transactions | | | | Investor participation in the policy-making process of the investee | | | | Valuation at fair value | | | | Technological dependency | | | | Significant control | | | | Points Received: | 2 of 2 | | Comments: | | | | 2. | Question : | (TCO 1) All of the following statements regarding the investment account using the equity method are true except | | | Student Answer: | | The investment is recorded at cost | | | | Dividends received are reported as revenue | | | | Net income of investee increases the investment account | | | | Dividends received reduce the investment account | | | | Amortization of fair value over cost reduces the investment account | | | | Points Received: | 2 of 2 | | Comments: | | | | 3. | Question : | (TCO 1) Luffman Inc. owns 30% of Bruce Inc. and appropriately applies the equity method. During the current year, Bruce bought inventory costing $52,000 and then sold it to Luffman for $80,000.
Caledonia Products Integrative Problem Shaneal Gaither, Nicolle Istre, Tara Shulfer, Laura Curry FIN/370 October 8, 2012 Instructor: Chrissy Helbling 1. Why should Caledonia focus on project free cash flows as opposed to the accounting profits earned by the project when analyzing whether to undertake the project? Caledonia should focus on free cash flow rather than accounting profits. The reason being is because with free cash flow that money coming in can be immediately reinvested into different projects or areas of the firm to start earning higher revenue. By focusing on the incremental cash flows Caledonia can analyze and determine the benefits and the costs to any project.
Operating efficiency was improved using just-in-time and lean operations techniques. I used sales predictions to estimate how many units a sales person would be able to sell each day. This number determined how many units were to be produced each day. Therefore, limiting the number of inventory left over at the end of the quarter, and in turn eliminating waste. I also used marketing surveys to determine what customers wanted in the products RIE Tech was producing.
Quiz #1 1. TCO 1) The primary focus of the study of economics is on making the most efficient use of scarce productive resources. 2. (TCO 1) The key economic concept that serves as the basis for the study of economics is Student Answer: scarcity. 3.
The first way to improve working capital is to make the excess liquid funds work for the company. These funds should be invested back into the company. This can be accomplished by reducing long-term liabilities with high interest rates such as the mortgages on facilities. The second is to manage the inventory held by the company. Currently Competition Bikes purchases inventory for production the month before it goes to the production line.
The main purpose of the cash flow statement is to allow external users to assess the solvency and profitability of the company, to ensure the safety of their investment decisions. This projection can be made for the entire period covered by the business plan but because the date from it is used for making the Balance sheet it is recommended to go gradually year by
Another one is what academic standard must the employee maintain? What GPA must the employee maintain and what would happen if the standers are not meet? The most important reason for providing tuition reimbursement is in educating your employees making them more valuable, happier and becoming promotable. This leads to a higher employee retention rate. In 1996, Congress passed legislation making a corporate investment of up to $5,250 toward tuition reimbursements for an employee tax free.
Present Value’s definition and simplistic formula used for normal purchases, the concept’s importance to corporate finance and why present value is the very first topic taught in finance classes explain that present value is an essential knowledgeable tool to ensure we make the best decisions with our money (Ross et al, 2010). Basically present Value means “the present value of a future sum of stream or money of cash flows render a particular rate of return. At the discount rate future cash flows are discounted and the higher the discount rate, the lower the PV of the future cash flows. Finding out the allow discount rate is the central to properly valuing future cash flows, whether they are obligations or earnings.” Through the definition itself, an importance to corporate finance is explained as well as why professors begin a finance course with a basis explanation in the time value of money – discounting as well as investment risk included (Stephen A. et al, 2008). In the considered investment project
Week 2 Learning Team Reflection Team A agrees, this week introduced new concepts and understanding. Week two the main objectives we focused on were production and cost analysis. We discuss the relationship between the number of inputs and the law of diminishing marginal productivity, and analyze the relationship between productivity and the cost of production. We collectively discussed the objectives and illustrated the topic we feel comfortable with, any topics we struggled with and how these topics relate to application in our field. Colander (2010) explains the role of the firm in production and how firms strive to maximize profits through maximizing productivity and minimizing costs.