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1 year ago

Which of the following is not an example of a barrier to entry?

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Answer: A college student starts a part-time tutoring business is not an example of a barrier to entry.

This is not an example of barrier to entry since in this particular case others students can easily utilize the same opportunity and enter into this particular business. In this case there is no legal barriers so that others cannot enter or exit into this industry or business.

Therefore the correct option is (d).

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A product has a demand of 4000 units per year. Ordering cost is $20, and holding cost is $4 per unit per year. The cost-minim

lesya692 [45]

Answer:

A. 200 units per order

Explanation:

To solve this you have to use the economic order quantity formula:

$Q_{opt} = \sqrt{\frac{2DS}{H}}$

Where:

Demand = 4,000

S= supply cost = ordering cost = 20

H= holding cost = 4

$Q_{opt} = \sqrt{\frac{2*4000*20}{4}}$

Economic Order Quantity = 200

How to Remember:

Demand per year and order cost goes in the dividend.

Holding cost goes in the divisor.

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2 years ago

Rank the following three single taxpayers in order of the magnitude of taxable income (from lowest to highest). (First mean high

Firlakuza [10]

Answer:

Ahmed's ranking is Third (Lowest Taxable Income)

Baker's ranking is Second

Chin's ranking is First (Highest Taxable Income)

Explanation:

In order to determine the rankings, lets compute each taxpayer's taxable income by making the necessary deductions as applicable. Taxable income calculated for each taxpayer below in serial order. Before we calculate, lets have an idea of how deductions are made.

AGI is defined as the adjusted gross income which is calculated as an individual's gross income minus the expenses that qualify as deductible. These expenses include the likes of contributions to the IRA, payment of interest on student loans, alimony payments, contributions to self-employment insurance, moving expenses, some business related expenses pertaining to educators, artists etc, and some rental expenses associated with a business activity. Therefore, intuitively, we can see that a taxpayer with the highest amount of deductions for AGI would benefit the most when calculating taxable income.

Itemized deductions are expenses that a taxpayer can incorporate to lower their taxable income by reducing their adjusted gross income (AGI). These include certain medical expenses, markup on house loans and charities. Taxpayer's can chose between either opting to deduct itemized expenses or standard deductions which is a fixed deduction allowed under tax law. Obviously, a taxpayer would go for the deduction amount which is the highest. Standard deduction is $ 5,950. Therefore, among the taxpayer's, the one with the highest amount of itemized deductions would benefit the most.

Lets calculate taxable income now.

(1) Ahmed

Gross Income: 80,000

Less Deduction for AGI: (8,000)

Adjusted Gross Income: 72,000

Less higher of itemized deduction or standard deduction: (5,950)

Taxable Income: 66,050

(2) Baker:

Gross Income: 80,000

Less Deduction for AGI: (4,000)

Adjusted Gross Income: 76,000

Less higher of itemized deduction or standard deduction: (5,950)

Taxable Income: 70,050

(3) Chin:

Gross Income: 80,000

Less Deduction for AGI: (0)

Adjust Gross Income: 80,000

Less higher of itemized deduction of standard deduction: (8,000)

Taxable Income: 72,000

As we can see from the above, since Ahmed has the highest deductions for AGI he has the lowed adjusted gross income. He can then take use of the fact that he can deduct a standard deduction of 5,950 (while not having any itemized deductions) to further lower his taxable income.

Chin did not have an deductions for AGI which made his taxable income the highest.

Note: Taxpayers can also deduct personal and dependency deductions but these have been excluded in the context of the question based on the assumption that these deductions have either not been made or would be equal for all three taxpayers. The answer would not be affected in either case.

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1 year ago

Barnett Industries, Inc., issued $600,000 of 8% bonds on January 1, 2019. The bonds pay interest semiannually on July 1 and Janu

Vera_Pavlovna [14]

Answer:

1. The selling price of the bonds is $590.976.46

2 .The journal entry for the issuance of the bonds and bond issue costs would be as follows:

Debit Credit

Cash $538,976.26

Discount on bonds payable $39,023.74

Unamortized bonds issue costs $22,000

Bonds Payable $600,000

3. Assuming that Barnett uses IFRS, the journal entry for the issuance of the bonds would be as follows:

Debit Credit

Cash $600,000

Bonds Payable $600,000

Explanation:

In order to calculate the selling price of the bonds we would have to calculate first the present value of particular and present value of interest, hence:

present value of particular=($600,000×0.414643)=$248,785.80

present value of interest=$600,000×4%13.007936=$312,190.46

Therefore, selling price of the bonds=present value of particular+present value of interest

1. Selling price of the bonds=$248,785.80+$312,190.46=$590.976.46

2. The journal entry for the issuance of the bonds and bond issue costs would be as follows:

Debit Credit

Cash $538,976.26

Discount on bonds payable $39,023.74

Unamortized bonds issue costs $22,000

Bonds Payable $600,000

3. Assuming that Barnett uses IFRS, the journal entry for the issuance of the bonds would be as follows:

Debit Credit

Cash $600,000

Bonds Payable $600,000

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2 years ago

QUESTION 11 Given the following information, calculate the equity dividend rate for this investment: first-year NOI: $18,750; be

Alja [10]

Answer: D. 2.2%

Explanation: Equity Dividend Rate is calculated by dividing the Before Tax Cash Flow by the Acquisition price. If you need the answer in percentage form, you then multiply by 100.

Here, before-tax cash flow = $11,440

Acquisition price = $520,000

So Equity Dividend Rate = $\frac{11440}{520000}$ X 100

Equity Dividend Rate = 2.2%

In this question, you do not need the Net Operating Income (NOI). You only need the NOI if the Before Tax Cash Flow is not given and the debt service payment is. If this is the case, you subtract the debt service payment from the NOI to get the Before Tax Cash Flow.

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2 years ago

After sugar refiner has produced fine sugar for baking purposes, what is left over is used to produce molasses. This technology

Blizzard [7]

Answer:

ECONOMIES OF SCOPE

Explanation:

Economies of Scope concept implies producing different , but related products will reduce the per unit cost of production of the firm (relatively lesser than if the products would have been produced separately.

This happens because of backward & forward linkages in interrelated but different goods' inputs & outputs .

Ex : In this case, another byproduct - molasses has been produced of waste from sugar production, which could have otherwise been purchased input.

Economies of Production is cost reduction due to quantity & not variety production. Diseconomies of Scale & Diseconomies of Scope are their opposite phenomenas leading to cost rise . So , none of these 3 are apt.

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1 year ago