ACCOUNTING CASES, RESEARCH, AND ANALYSIS GROUP ASSIGNEMNT #1 MEMORANDUM TO: Professor Siyi Li FROM: Group 5 DATE: October 3, 2013 SUBJECT: Performance Based Stock Compensation This memo is an analysis of the case in which the Company Sooner or Later Inc granted “at the money” performance based stock options and the fair value is not easily determinable. The grant-date fair value of each award is $9. With the revenue target factored into the fair value assessment the grant-date fair value is $6. Management believes it is probable the company will achieve cumulative revenue in excess of $10 million. General Priciple – Performance are only recorded when the target is proable to be acheived Sooner and Later Inc On January 1, 2006, Sooner or Later Inc. granted 1,000 “at-the-money” employee stock options (i.e., the exercise price was equal to the stock price on the grant date).
If production is kept the same, the company is predicted to sell every unit produced which would avoid a stockpile of inventory and also safeguarding an extra 5,000,000 units in ending inventory in case sales go above 30,000,000. In the end, B.E. Company’s net income would increase by a substantial amount due to an increase in sales rather than an increase in ending
If the inventory were to rise significantly for any particular item, it would indicate either the item is not popular, viewed as too expensive, or may be held up, off-site warehouses (depots) However, the turnover of goods is maximized by a seven day, 69 hour work, which includes weekends. Generally, inventory is sold before payment is required from vendors. Greater Sales volume and quick inventory turnover increase the percentage of inventory paid through payment terms and minimizes costs by working capital (Costco, 2012). Most other costs are minimized, such as advertising, which is limited to only existing members, new warehouse openings and
Other fixed and variable costs are 40 per cent which allows 10 per cent profit per dollar. An increase in marginal costs will affect marginal revenue. Fortunately for the Snack Cart, the marginal cost does not greatly impact marginal demand. Dedicated customers are willing to pay the price in order to have their favorite products available in the manner they have grown accustom. The purchase price of supplies and products does not fluctuate so significantly that marginal revenue is affected unless there are weather-related events which create a decrease in supply.
Mantkelow (2014) explains lean manufacturing as based on "finding inefficiencies and removing wasteful steps that don't add value to the end product." Lean operations helps to reduce waste in production by using resources to only produce what the customer is demanding. A company that is using lean operations has measurable throughput. “Every minute that a product is not sold the cost accumulates and the competitive advantage is lost, this is the manufacturing cycle time” (Heizer and Render, 2010) this analysis could have been used to scale down production in the third and fourth quarter when it became obvious there was excess inventory. For starters, there is no value in holding 60 days' worth of inventory, to adopting lean principles would immediately help us to commit to inventory reduction and better alignment between production and demand.
Question 1 In summary: Product Line 1 (time in minutes) Line 2 (time in minutes) Profit ( $ ) X1 SUPER 3 4 42 X2 EXCELLENT 6 2 87 Let X1 = Number of SUPER model produced during 8 hour shift. X2 = Number of EXCELLENT model produced during 8 hour shift. Max 42X1 + 87X2 ST X1 + X2 ≤ 480 3X1 + 6X2 ≤ 480 4X1 + 2X2 ≤ 480 X1, X2 ≥ 0 It is recommended to produce 80 units of EXCELLENT and none SUPER in order to get the maximum profit (See attached print-out, table № 1). If the company wants to produce SUPER, the maximum profit will reduce by $1.5 per each unit, with $6960 - $1.5 = $6958.5 (See attached print-out, table № 2). As the company has extra 320 minutes
One of our major goals this year is to avoid expenses. That is why there is a 10 percent reduction in personnel and administration cost. In order for us to be effective cost must be avoided. Advertising was not chosen due to the cap put onto the publications/public information expenses. We cannot afford and will not be approved for extra advertising without research that proves that this advertising will increase revenues more than the cost.
Andrew Miring’u John A Grummel U.S Government December 11, 2011 BUSH TAX CUTS ON THE WEALTHY BE MADE PERMANENT During recessions, the government will occasionally offer a tax cut as an economic stimulus. In rough terms, a tax cut of one trillion dollars over ten years will "give back" an amount equal to about one percent of consumer spending annually over that period. The first question about tax cuts is, exactly how do they stimulate the economy? This is not a Remember, if the government gives us a tax cut they'll still have to make up the budget shortfall somehow, mainly by selling more bonds to American citizens (who happen to be the same people getting the tax cut) or foreigners (who will raise the money by selling us more of their
(Points : 5) sales under $1,000,000 no accountants on staff insignificant receivables and payables all sales and purchases on account 5. (TCO D) Two companies report the same cost of goods available for sale, but each employs a different inventory costing method. If the price of goods has increased during the period, then the company using _____. (Points : 5) LIFO will have the highest ending inventory FIFO will have the highest cost of goods sold FIFO will have the highest ending inventory LIFO will have the lowest cost of goods sold 6. (TCOs A, E) Equipment with a cost of $192,000 has an estimated salvage value of $18,000 and an estimated life of 4 years or 12,000 hours.
Remember that supply is a schedule of how many units suppliers are willing to offer at different prices. When costs fall, the supply curve increases or shifts to the right. Since changes in producer costs is not a demand factor, there would be no impact on demand. | | | | Points Received: | 10 of 10 | | Comments: | | | | 2. | Question : | (TCO A) Ceteris paribus, coffee Brand X and coffee Brand A are substitutes in consumption.