Answer:
Option (a) is correct.
Explanation:
Pretax income = Contribution - Fixed cost
Contribution = Pretax income + Fixed cost
= $1,824,000 + $1,444,000
= $3,268,000
Sales - Variable Cost = Contribution
Variable Cost = Sales - Contribution
= (380,000 electric screwdrivers × $20.40 each) - $3,268,000
= $7,752,000 - $3,268,000
= $4,484,000
Answer:
Downward communication
Explanation:
Within an organization, downward communication refers to any communication that starts in a higher level of the organization and flows to a lower level of the organization.
In this case, since the board of directors is the highest level of a corporation, any communication that is sent to other parts of the corporation will always be downward communication.
Answer:
Earnings Per share = $0.83
Diluted Earnings per share = $0.71
Explanation:
Basic Earnings per share is how much each common stock share earns in profits and Diluted Earnings includes the options and bonds in its calculations for outstanding shares
formulas
Earnings Per share = (net income - Preferred stock dividends)/ outstanding number of shares
= $150/180
= $0.83
Diluted Earnings per share = (net income - Preferred stock dividends)/ outstanding number of shares
= $150/210
= $0.71
Outstanding number of shares in millions
opening 200
minus treasury stock - 24
issued stock 4
Basic outstanding shares = 180 shares
plus share Options 30
Diluted shares 210
Answer:
A) ability of Big Lots to imitate Wal-Mart's tightly integrated activity map.
Explanation:
Competitive advantage of a company is it's ability to leverage on unique capabilities and resources to gain more market share than others.
In this instance Big Lots is competing favourably by imitating unique capability of Walmart which is highly disciplined merchandise cost and inventory management system.
A business can imitate another's strategy in order to better compete with them.
For example acquiring a company to increase scale of operations to match a competitor.
Answer:
$680,000
Explanation:
Since Playa Company owns 90% of Seaside Corporation, it is considered Seaside's parent company and it must include all of Seaside's assets when it presents its consolidated balance sheet.
Total net assets reported = $480,000 (Playa's net assets at book value) + $200,000 (Seaside's net assets) = $680,000
