Name:_______________ Part I Open-ended question (10 points; 20% of exam) ID:____________ For Quick Start the first month in business has ended. In the last days of December 2005, they already received contributed capital of € 6,000 and they obtained a five-year bank loan of € 24,000 at an annual rate of interest of 10 percent. Interest has to be paid each year on October 31. On December 31, 2005 various store equipment was purchased at a total cost of € 12,000, paid in cash. It is expected that the equipment has to be replaced after five years.
However, this situation would make the company incur more loss next year, which is about negative $ 293,586. In the mean time, Barb Shepard, the company’s owner, wants to sell the company soon, and she knows a purchase price would be determined by three main factors: the absolute level of profits, the rate of growth in profits, and future potential growth in the market. Barb Shepard also wants to reduce bank debts as soon as possible. Therefore, the company needs new strategic initiatives very much to improve operating profitability and move forward next year. Each of three vice presidents has rendered a separate and distinct strategic initiative, and they are “Introduce a new product”, “Increase promotion”, and “Raise prices and cut costs” respectively.
Based on the assumptions contained in this plan, I estimate that the businesses will break-even in its first year of operations. Cash Flow Statement As the owner of Chagadama Christian Bookstore, I will invest $60,000. This money will be used to cover startup costs of $12,725 and initial operating costs. Fixed costs are limited to our office space and equipment lease at $1,800 per month, which includes a 1,000 square foot store on Main Street, a telephone system, and two photocopiers. As continued positive cash flows permit, the amounts I invested will be repaid.
Unfortunately in this case the customer Data Equipment Systems is unable to receive shipment until January 11, 2011 due to a lack of available warehouse space (Mintz & Morris, 2011). Reed needs to have that revenue recorded on the 2010 end-of-year financial report. Potential legal and ethical issues Reed is considering booking the $1.2 million sale in the December 2010 books and on December 30 approaches controller Marty Fuller to discuss the dilemma. Fuller explains the accounting rules about sales held for future delivery, although Reed understands the rules he
We're not going to build dams all around the United States. There's an innovation that is coming out of MIT that is mind boggling. He has also played varsity baseball for the last four years.The new store will have more than 24,000 square feet and will employ 38 people, plus seven Goodwill participants. Nearly 93 cents of every retail dollar spent at Goodwill provides vocational opportunities including jobs, training and job placement services to people with barriers to employment.Several Grant High School families have offered a matching challenge to benefit the Grant HS Foundation. The families will match dollar for dollar, up to $12,000, every contribution made to the foundation before May 31.
Alex expects the revenues to grow by 30% for the next three years because cleanup of the devastating tornado will take that long. You prepared ABI’s taxes in March of this year and Alex Lee, owner of ABI, Inc., has contacted you again for your advice. Jackson Lee, Alex’s oldest son, would like money to start a business and has said that this is a good avenue to avoid paying estate taxes after his father’s death. Alex’s wife died last year and he has not given any money to his children in the past.
Purpose: Name Assignment #1: Good Night Motel Background: * Justin McGregor, owner of Good Night Motel is offered a proposition from George Alward that would fill up all 30 units of the motel from Friday 10/26/12 – Saturday 10/27/12 * The renters are delegates to a church convention which fits the family-style reputation that the motel wants to maintain * Alward offered to pay $40/unit as opposed to the normal $80/unit * The dates that Alward wants are during the slow season where it struggled to fill up to ¼ of the rooms * In recent years, a further dip of an additional 7%-15% is expected in room occupancy * Revenues are expected to remain flat for the next several years Issues and Qualitative factors: * McGregor doesn’t want to take the deal because he says that Good Night barely broke even in the 2012 and is afraid that giving out these rooms for ½ price will be unfavorable * McGregor is also afraid that giving this deal might set future precedents Guidance: * A Cost Volume Profit (C-V-P) analysis should be done to determine breakeven point and contribution margins Computation: * McGregor’s take on the breakeven point in incorrect. He looked at the income statement and came in the conclusion that the motel only made $3,177 in 2012. * This is incorrect because depreciation is not a cash outflow and should not be considered. Total operating expense | $385,973.00 | less: depreciation | $54,700.00 | Total cash outflow | $331,273.00 | * He only needs to earn $331,273.00 in revenue to break even instead of the original $385,973.00 that he thought. He earned $389,150.00 which is well above that amount.
In 2004, delays and stoppages to the firm’s production due to the collapse of equipment cost Alliance $2.6 million in repairs and a two-week shutdown. Alliance’s obligation to pay a divide payment of $3 million to National Industrial Supplies, and their previous $4 million annual loan repayment to their bank cripple the firm’s ability to finance expenditures. The firm is facing a difficult decision with choosing between postponing capital improvements, renegotiating debt obligations, or reducing dividend payments to National. Capital improvements will potentially save the firm money in costs for repairs, production delays, and plant shutdowns. Moreover, Alliance’s customers are sensitive to delivery times.
3.1.10 Cash Budget The cash budget is “an estimation of the cash inflows and outflows for a business for a specific period of time. Cash budget are used to assess whether the entity has sufficient cash to fulfil regular operations and whether too much cash is being left in unproductive capacities”. (Reference 2) The cash budget is prepared in advance for the first 6 months, and a cash deficit of £20,364 and £2,228 were incurred in January and February. A second-hand bottling plant was purchased in January which cost £420,000. The business required £30,000 cash for working capital.
They both plan to retire 45 years from today. Because their budget seems tight right now, they had been thinking that they would wait at least 10 years and then start investing $2400 per year to prepare for retirement. Tricia just told Tom, though, that she had heard that they would actually have more money the day they retire if they put $2400 per year away for the next 10 years – and then simply let that money sit for the next 35 years without any additional payments – than they would have if they waited 10 years to start investing for retirement and then made yearly payments for 35 years (as they originally planned to do). Please help Tom and Tricia make an informed decision: Assume that all payments are made at the end of a year, and that the rate of return on all yearly investments will be 8% annually. 1.