M/B= Market price per share/ Book value per share Market price per share = $75/ share Book value per share= Common equity/ shares outstanding = $6 billion/ 800 million shares = $6 billion/ .8 billion shares= 7.5 M/B = $75/ 7.5 = 10 (3-4) Price/Earnings Ratio: A company has an EPS of $1.50, a cash flow per share of $3.00, and a price/cash flow ratio of 8.0. What is its P/E ratio? P/E= Price per share/ Earnings per share Earnings per share = EPS= 1.50 Price per share = cash flow per share * price/ cash flow ration= $3 * 8 = $24 P/E = 24 / 1.50 P/E = 16 (3-5) ROE: Needham Pharmaceuticals has a profit margin of 3% and an equity multiplier of 2.0. Its sales are $100 million and it has total assets of $50 million. What is its ROE?
Question 4: Chavez Co. produces and sells duffel bags that are priced at $60 each. Chavez has received a request for a special order for 500 duffel bags at a price of $48 each. The current unit cost to produce a bag is $32 (direct material, $20; direct labor, $8; and unit-related overhead, $4). Chavez Co. has the capacity to produce the special order; however, one additional production run will be required costing $2,000. Should the order be accepted?
Consumers are buying more snack chips per person, an increase of 2 pounds over four years. * Frito-Lay is the worldwide leader manufacturing and marketing of snack chips. Frito-Lay is a national brand firm that distributes products nationwide. Frito-Lay accounts for 13 percent of snack-food sales in the United States, with about one half of retail sales in the snack chip category. Also, Frito-Lays has eight of the top ten selling snack chips.
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. is a FORTUNE® 50 company that serves approximately 15 million customers a week at more than 1,750 home improvement stores in the United States, Canada and Mexico (Lowe's Companies, Inc, 2011). Lowe’s offer several different incentives to shop which lures customer to the home improvement retail center. These incentives, such as the “My Lowe’s” program, price matching, the Lowe’s Consumer Credit Card and their own durable, long-lasting and cost effective products. INTRODUCTION Lowe’s Companies, Inc. is a FORTUNE® 50 company that serves approximately 15 million customers a week at more than 1,750 home improvement stores in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Lowe’s is an American chain of retail home improvement and appliances.
| | 6 | Purchased dry cleaning equipment for $36,000. Paid $14,000 in cash, the remainder to be paid in two weeks. | | 10 | Hired a worker, to be paid $550 per week. | | 17 | Paid the worker's weekly wage. | | 17 | Recorded cash received for services rendered during the week, $5,000.
Accounting and legal fees $150,000 Advertising $125,000 Freight-out $65,000 Interest $80,000 Loss on sale of long-term investments $35,000 Officers’ salaries $200,000 Rent for office space $160,000 Sales salaries and commissions $110,000 One half of the rented premises are occupied by the sales department. How much of the expenses listed above should be included in Perry’s general and administrative expenses for 201X? (TCO C) An income statement shows “income before income taxes and extraordinary items” in the amount of $3,000,000. The income taxes payable for the year are $1,500,000, including $260,000 that is applicable to an extraordinary gain. Thus, what is the “income before extraordinary items”?
Henry Ford instituted a forty-hour workweek, with the minimum salary being five dollars per day. All of the 26,000 workers in the factory were guaranteed the right to earn this payment. Many other companies and manufacturing plants adopted similar policies, which gave hundreds of thousands of people an opportunity to increase their quality of life. To this day, the forty-hour workweek that Ford set is still in place in most of the United States’ industries. With low prices from the massive jump in factory efficiency, a middle class citizen could now purchase the latest and greatest piece of technology in decades.
cost per hire | Sales Department | Increase revenue | Avg. Purchase Value | QC Department | Decrease Waste | Reject Ratio | Transportation Department | To increase efficiency of fuel usage | Fuel Usage/ton/km | Maintenance Department | Work Identification | % Available man hours used in proactive work | 2. Janice owns the Cute Cut Salon. She employs five stylists and pays each a base salary of $1,500 per month. One of the stylists serves as the manager, receiving an extra $500 per month.
He brings up a lot of arguments and points in his book and one he uses is Logos to better his points. One specifically he uses is his point on how the fast food industry is the largest group by far that employs low wage workers. He says no skill required and I really like this “The annual turnover rate in the fast food industry is about 300 to 400 percent. The typical fast food worker quits or is fired every 3 to 4 months” (90). Schlosser betters his argument with the use of strong facts and gives the points strength.
$7.25 an hour for full time equates to $15,000 per year which is more than $4,000 over poverty for a single person. Families of four in which both workers earn the minimum wage earn $30,000 for full time which is $6,000 over poverty. Another concern about raising the minimum wage is how it will affect the consumers. How much will a retail store or a fast food restaurant charge? How much will that hotel room be?