Answer:
1) This question is about whether diversification is good or bad for a large corporation. Whether diversification can be considered good or bad depends on the corporation itself, there is no one answer fits all. In this case, Sony is divided into 12 segments or divisions and each of them generates their own cash flows and offers their own products or services.
High tech companies generally tend to diversify a lot because they need to continuously produce innovative products or improve their existing ones. E.g. Google got so large and diversified that it turned into Alphabet which owns more than 200 companies (most of them through acquisitions). Sony's largest revenue sources are gaming services, financial services and home entertainment.
When we think about Sony we probably think about consumer electronics, the Playstation or even movies, but in order to be profitable, Sony had to expand and diversify. Sony's revenues are shifting from consumer electronics to services (including financial, gaming, network, music and movies), so that means that their diversification model actually worked.
2) Sony's goal with Future Lab is to create customer value and new lifestyles, whether they are able to do so depends on how well they work it out. Future Labs is based on San Francisco, and it should serve as a place where innovative prototypes should be tested by real users. The goal is that Sony can learn from actual real life user experiences in order to improve their products and services. The real life customers and users that want to participate in Sony's program must pay a fee for doing so, but they can also experience prototypes before anyone else.
Answer:
Process-oriented.
Explanation:
A functional (departmental) organizational structure is a type of structure used to organize staffs by dividing them into various departments based on their skill set, roles or functions and knowledge.
These departments which are vertically structured may include, finance, IT, sales and marketing, research and development, customer service etc. Also, the various departments are headed by a functional manager who are saddled with the responsibility of overseeing, managing and reporting to the executive management.
Similarly, a type of layout in the manufacturing process that features departments or other functional groupings in which similar activities are performed is generally referred to as being process-oriented.
One of the main advantages of a process-oriented layout is that it mitigates or reduces difficulties associated with material flow variability for a product.
Answer:
A
Explanation:
Nonprofit corporation are corporations that do not earn profits. Revenue earned are usually used in the running of the business or for they are donated.
These type of corporations are usually tax exempt. Their activities usually range from religious, charitable or scientific activities
Renata and Danuta are running a charitable organisation that would be catering for homebound destitute
Answer:
Shellhammer Company
Ending inventory = $712
Cost of goods sold = $2,492
Explanation:
a) Data and Calculations:
Date Item Units Unit Cost Total Cost
September 1 Inventory 100 $3.34 $334.00
September 8 Purchases 450 3.50 1,575.00
September 18 Purchases 350 3.70 1,295.00
September 30 Total 900 $3,204.00
Ending inventory 200
Cost of goods sold 700
Weighted Average cost = Total cost of goods available for sale/Total units available for sale
= $3,204/900 = $3.56
Value of Ending Inventory = $3.56 * 200 = $712
Value of Cost of goods sold = $3.56 * 700 = $2,492
b) The weighted average inventory costing, under the period inventory system, used by Shellhammer is an assumption that the costs attributable to ending inventory and cost of goods sold are determined from the average cost per unit and that these the average cost is ascertained at the end of the period. Therefore, the cost of beginning inventory and purchases are accumulated and divided by the units of goods available for sale.
Answer:
$18,711.57
Explanation:
The amount that the Bob will be getting at the beginning of the each month for the next 30 years shall be determined through the present value of annuity formula which shall be determined as follows:
Present value of annuity=R+R[(1-(1+i)^-n)/i]
R=Amount that he will be getting per month for next 30 years=?
i=interest rate per month=5/12=0.4167%
n=number of payment involved=30*12=360 and since the first payment is made at the start of month, therefore the n=359
Present value of annuity=$3,500,000
$3,500,000=R+R[(1-(1+0.4167%)^-359)/0.4167%]
$3,500,000=R+186.05R
$3,500,000=187.05R
R=$18,711.57=payment per month
