What are the key factor(s) for success in this industry/market

Answer:

Strategic Focus (Leadership, Management, Planning) People (Personnel, Staff, Learning, Development) Operations (Processes, Work) Marketing (Customer Relations, Sales, Responsiveness)

Explanation:

Whether you're operating an established small business or just starting out, an effective, ongoing marketing strategy is vital. But marketing without a plan will not only waste time and money; it may alienate your customers and stall the growth of your business.

To match your marketing strategies to the needs and expectations of your target customers and ensure that your business continues to grow, start by identifying your key success factors.

Key success factors (or KSF) are business strategies that are critical to a successful relationship with your customers.

Key success factors are decided by the needs and preferences of your market and customers, not by your business. However, consumers aren't going to tell you what those KSF are. Discovering your key success factors requires researching your customers to understand who they are, what they want from your company, and what prompts them to make a purchase.

A business generally has three to five key success factors that it needs to focus on to achieve its goals. Key success factors also may relate to areas of weakness that you must overcome to create a stronger relationship with your customers.

Once you understand and begin using your key success factors, they become part of your brand and business style.

Consider a simple example economy where there are two goods, coconuts and restaurant meals (coconut-based). There are two firms. A coconut producer collects and sells 10 million coconuts at $2.00 each. The firm pays $5 million in wages, $0.5 million in interest on an old loan, and $1.5 million in taxes to the government. We also know that 4 million coconuts are sold to the public for consumption, and 6 million coconuts are sold to the restaurant firm, which uses them to prepare meals. The restaurant sells $30 million in meals. The restaurant pays $4 million in wages and the government $3 million in taxes. The government supplies security and accounting services and employs only labor, and government workers are paid $5.5 million, collected in taxed by the government. Finally, consumers pay $1 million in taxes to the government in addition to the taxes paid by the two firms.

Required:
a. Compute GDP for this simple economy using the product approach.
b. Compute GDP for this simple economy using the expenditure approach.
c. Compute GDP for this simple economy using the income approach.

Analyzing Unearned Revenue Disclosures
The following disclosures (excerpted) are from the August 28, 2016, annual report of Costco Wholesale Corporation.
Revenue Recognition: We generally recognize sales, net of estimated returns, at the time the member takes possession of merchandise or receives services. When we collect payment from customers prior to the transfer of ownership of merchandise or the performance of services, the amount recieved is generally recorded as deferred revenue on the consolidated balance sheets until the sales or service is completed. Membership fee revenue represents annual membership fees paid by our memberships. We account for membership fee revenue, net of estimated refunds, on a deferred basis, whereby revenue is recognized ratably over the one-year membership period.
Revenue
($ millions) August 28, 2016 August 30, 2015 August 31, 2014
Net Sales $116,073 $113,666 $110,212
Membership fees 2,646 2,533 2,428
Total revenue $118,719 $116,199 $112,640
Current Liabilities ($ millions) August 28, 2016 August 30, 2015
Accounts payable $7,612 $9,011
Current portion of long-term debt 1,100 1,283
Accrued salaries and benefits 2,629 2,468
Accured member rewards 869 813
Deferred membership fees 1,362 1,269
Other current liabilities 2,003 1,695
Total current liabilities $15,575 $16,539
(a) Which of the following statements best explains in layman terms how Costco accounts for the cash received for its membership fees?
Because Costco does not know how many of its members will continue to the end of the year, cash received from members is recorded as a liability and recognized as revenue only at year-end.
When it receives cash, the company records it as a current liability. Then, it recognizes revenue evenly over the year.
The company records revenue when the cash is received.
Because Costco has a refund policy, the company records revenue when the cash is received, less an allowance for expected membership terminations.
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(b) Use the balance sheet information on Costco's Deferred Membership Fees liability account and its income statement revenues related to Membership Fees earned during 2016 to compute the cash that Costco received during 2016 for membership fees.
Total cash received (in $ millions) = $Answer
(c) Use the financial statement effects template to show the effect of the cash Costco received during 2016 for membership fees and the recognition of membership fees revenue for 2016.
Use negative signs with answers, when appropriate.
Balance Sheet
Transaction ($ millions)
Cash Asset + Noncash Assets = Liabilities + Contributed Capital + Earned Capital
Receive cash in advance for membership fees Answer Answer Answer Answer Answer
Recognized membership fees earned Answer Answer Answer Answer Answer
Income Statement
Revenue - Expenses = Net Income
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Mathias Corporation manufactures and sells wire rakes. The rakes sell for $20 each. Information about the company's costs is as follows.

Variable manufacturing cost per unit $6
Variable selling and administrative cost per unit 2
Fixed manufacturing overhead per month $300,000
Fixed selling and administrative cost per month 600,000

Required:
a. Determine the company's monthly break-even point in units.
b. Determine the sales volume (in dollars) required for a monthly operating income of $1,200,000.
c. Compute the company’s margin of safety if its current monthly sales level is $2,500,000.
d. Estimate the amount by which monthly operating income will increase if the company anticipates a $100,000 increase in monthly sales volume.

3. Identify TWO possible suitable sources of external finance Chris could consider, if the local bank
manager refuses to give him a loan for purchasing a new van for his business. (10 marks)
Please help

Suppose that France and Austria both produce rye and wine. France's opportunity cost of producing a bottle of wine is 4 bushels of rye while Austria's opportunity cost of producing a bottle of wine is 10 bushels of rye. By comparing the opportunity cost of producing wine in the two countries, you can tell that __________ has a comparative advantage in the production of wine and __________has a comparative advantage in the production of rye.


Suppose that France and Austria consider trading wine and rye with each other. France can gain from specialization and trade as long as it receives more than __________of rye for each bottle of wine it exports to Austria. Similarly, Austria can gain from trade as long as it receives more than __________of wine for each bushel of rye it exports to France.

Based on your answer to the last question, which of the following prices of trade (that is, price of wine in terms of rye) would allow both Austria and France to gain from trade?

a. 7 bushels of rye per bottle of wine
b. 4 bushels of rye per bottle of wine
c. 1 bushel of rye per bottle of wine
d. 11 bushels of rye per bottle of wine

garland mills purchased a certain piece of macinery 3 years ago for $500,000. Its present resale value is $320,000. Assuming that the macine's resale value decreases exponentially, what will it be 4 years from now

The following income statement items appeared on the adjusted trial balance of Foxworthy Corporation for the year ended December 31, 2021 ($ in 000s): sales revenue, $22,600; cost of goods sold, $14,650; selling expense, $2,330; general and administrative expense, $1,230; dividend revenue from investments, $230; interest expense, $330. Income taxes have not yet been accrued. The company’s income tax rate is 25% on all items of income or loss. These revenue and expense items appear in the company’s income statement every year. The company’s controller, however, has asked for your help in determining the appropriate treatment of the following nonrecurring transactions that also occurred during 2021 ($ in 000s). All transactions are material in amount.

1. Investments were sold during the year at a loss of $300. Foxworthy also had unrealized losses of $200 for the year on investments.
2. One of the company’s factories was closed during the year. Restructuring costs incurred were $2,000.
3. During the year, Foxworthy completed the sale of one of its operating divisions that qualifies as a component of the entity according to GAAP regarding discontinued operations. The division had incurred operating income of $800 in 2016 prior to the sale, and its assets were sold at a
loss of $1,800.
4. Foreign currency translation gains for the year totaled $600.

Required:
Prepare Foxworthy's single, continuous statement of comprehensive income for 2021, including basic earnings per share disclosures. Two million shares of common stock were outstanding throughout the year.

A company has the following aging schedule of its accounts receivable with the estimated percent uncollectible:______.
Age Group Amount Receivable Estimated Percent Uncollectible
Not yet due $ 175,000 4 %
0-60 days past due $ 40,000 10 %
61-120 days past due $ 10,000 30 %
More than 120 days past due $ 5,000 60 %
Assuming the balance of Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts is $3,000 (credit) before adjustment, which of the following would be recorded in the year-end adjusting entry?

The adjusted trial balance of Gary Cooper Co. as of December 31, 2014, contains the following.
GARY COOPER CO.
ADJUSTED TRIAL BALANCE
DECEMBER 31, 2020
Debit Credit
Cash $20,892
Accounts Receivable 8,340
Prepaid Rent 3,700
Equipment 19,470
Accumulated Depreciation-
Equipment $6,315
Notes Payable 7,120
Accounts Payable 6,892
Common Stock 21,420
Retained Earnings 12,730
Dividends 4,420
Service Revenue 13,010
Salaries and Wages Expense 8,260
Rent Expense 2,154
Depreciation Expense 251
Interest Expense 189
Interest Payable 189
$67,676 $67,676
Instructions:
(a) Prepare an income statement.
(b) Prepare a statement of retained earnings.
(c) Prepare a classified balance sheet.

CAM charges for retail leases in a shopping mall must be calculated. The retail mall consists of a total area of 2.8 million square feet, of which 800,000 square feet has been leased to anchor tenants that have agreed to pay $2 per rentable square foot in CAM charges. In-line tenants occupy 1.3 million square feet, and the remainder is a common area, which the landlord believeswill require $8 per square foot to maintain and operate each year. If the owner is to cover total CAM charges, how much will in-line tenants have to pay per square foot?

The current portion of long-term debt should
a. be paid immediately
b.not be separated from the long-term portion of debt
c. be reclassified as a current liability
d. be classified as a long-term liability

For each transaction,

1. Analyze the transaction using the accounting equation.
2. Record the transaction in journal entry form
3. Post the entry using T-accounts to represent ledger accounts.

Use the following (partial) chart of accounts—account numbers in parentheses: Cash (101); Accounts Receivable (106); Office Supplies (124); Trucks (153); Equipment (167); Accounts Payable (201); Unearned Landscaping Revenue (236); D. Tyler, Capital (301); D. Tyler, Withdrawals (302); Landscaping Revenue (403); Wages Expense (601), and Landscaping Expense (696).

a. On May 15, DeShawn Tyler opens a landscaping company called Elegant Lawns by investing $7,000 in cash along with equipment having a $3,000 value.
b. On May 21, Elegant Lawns purchases office supplies on credit for $500.
c. On May 25, Elegant Lawns receives $4,000 cash for performing landscaping services.
d. On May 30, Elegant Lawns receives $1,000 cash in advance of providing landscaping services to a customer.

Company XYZ closed at ​$ per share with a​ P/E ratio of . Answer the following questions. a. How much were earnings per​ share? b. Does the stock seem​ overpriced, underpriced, or about right given that the historical​ P/E ratio is​ 12-14?

The following are a trial balance and several transactions that relate to Lewisville's Concert Hall Bond Fund:


Lewisville Debt Service Fund Concert Hall Bond Fund Trial Balance July 1, 2012

Cash $60,000
Investments 40,000
Restricted fund balance $100,000
$100,000 $100,000

The following transactions took place between July 1, 2012, and June 30, 2013:


1. The city council of Lewisville adopted the budget for the Concert Hall Bond Fund for the fiscal year. The estimated revenues totaled $100,000, the estimated other financing sources totaled $50,000, and the appropriations totaled $125,000.
2. The General Fund transferred $50,000 to the fund.
3. To provide additional resources to service the bond issue, a property tax was levied upon the citizens. The total levy was $100,000, of which $95,000 was expected to be collected.
4. Property taxes of $60,000 were collected.
5. Revenue received in cash from the investments totaled $1,000.
6. Property taxes of $30,000 were collected.
7. The fund liability of $37,500 for interest was recorded, and that amount of cash was transferred to the fiscal agent.
8. A fee of $500 was paid to the fiscal agent.
9. Investment revenue totaling $1,000 was received in cash.
10. The fund liabilities for interest in the amount of $37,500 and principal in the amount of $50,000 were recorded, and cash for the total amount was transferred to the fiscal agent.
11. Investment revenue of S500 was accrued. Use the preceding information to do the following:
a. Prepare all the journal entries necessary to record the preceding transactions for the Concert Hall Bond Fund.
b. Prepare a trial balance for the Concert Hall Bond Fund as of June 30, 2013.
c. Prepare a statement of revenues, expenditures, and changes in fund balance and a balance sheet for the Concert Hall Bond Fund (assume all fund balance is restricted).
d. Prepare closing entries for the Concert Hall Bond Fund

You pay your neighbor $100 in exchange for the used washing machine she is selling. Your neighbor puts that $100 into her pocket and takes her family out to the movies and a nice dinner at the end of the week. She still has $20 left after this outing and decides to put the remaining $20 into her savings account. This is an example of:

Statz Company had sales of $1,900,000 and related cost of goods sold of $1,100,000 for its first year of operations ending December 31, 20Y1. Statz provides customers a refund for any returned or damaged merchandise. At the end of 20Y1, Statz Company estimates that customers will request refunds for 1.7% of sales and estimates that merchandise costing $12,000 will be returned. Assume that on February 3, 20Y2, Buck Co. returned merchandise with an invoice amount of $5,300 for a cash refund. The returned merchandise originally cost Statz Company $3,200.

Required:
a. Journalize the adjusting entries on December 31 to record the expected customer returns.
b. Journalize the entries to record the returned merchandise and cash refund to Buck Co. on February 3.

Midland Petroleum is holding a stockholders’ meeting next month. Ms. Ramsey is the president of the company and has the support of the existing board of directors. All 12 members of the board are up for reelection. Mr. Clark is a dissident stockholder. He controls proxies for 42,001 shares. Ms. Ramsey and her friends on the board control 52,001 shares. Other stockholders, whose loyalties are unknown, will be voting the remaining 24,998 shares. The company uses cumulative voting.

Required:
a. How many directors can Mr. Clark be sure of electing?
b. How many can Ms Rmasey be sure of electing
c. How many votes could clark have if he had all the uncommitted votes
d. Does that give him control?
e. If nine directors were to be elected, and Ms. Ramsey and her friends had 70,001 shares and Mr. Clark had 48,001 shares plus half the uncommitted votes, how many directors could Mr. Clark elect?

Alan inherited $100,000 with the stipulation that he "invest it to financially benefit his family." Alan and his wife Alice decided they would invest the inheritance to help them accomplish two financial goals: purchasing a Park City vacation home and saving for their son Cooper’s education.

Vacation Home Cooper’s Education
Initial investment $50,000 $50,000
Investment horizon 5 years 18 years

Alan and Alice have a marginal income tax rate of 32 percent (capital gains rate of 15 percent) and have decided to investigate the following investment opportunities.

Required:
Determine the two annual after-tax rate of return.

31. Which one is not the barriers of Enterpreneurship:
(A) Lack of technical skills
(B) Political instability
(C) Technical knowledge
(D) Time pressure and distractions​

There are 3 factories on the Momiss River. Each emits 2 types of pollutants, labeled P1 and P2, into the river. If the waste from each factory is processed, the pollution in the river can be reduced. It costs $1500 to process a ton of factory 1 waste, and each ton processed reduces the amount of P1 by 0.10 ton and the amount of P2 by 0.45 ton. It costs $1000 to process a ton of factory 2 waste, and each ton processed reduces the amount of P1 by 0.20 ton and the amount of P2 by 0.25 ton. It costs $2000 to process a ton of factory 3 waste, and each ton processed reduces the amount of P1 by 0.40 ton and the amount of P2 by 0.30 ton. The state wants to reduce the amount of P1 in the river by at least 30 tons and the amount of P2 by at least 40 tons.

Required:
Formulate an LP that will minimize the cost of reducing pollution by the desired amounts. Do you think that the LP assumptions (Proportionality, Additivity, Divisibility, and Certainty) are reasonable for this problem?

In both the United States and France, the demand for haircuts is given by QD=300−10P . However, in the United States, the supply is given by QS=−300+20P , while in France, the supply is given by QS=−33.33+6.67P .

Required:
a. What are the equilibrium prices and quantities of haircuts in the two countries?
b. What are the new equilibrium prices and quantities of haircuts in the two countries?

The city of​ Belgrade, Serbia, is contemplating building a second airport to relieve congestion at the main airport and is considering two potential​ sites, X and Y. Hard Rock Hotels would like to purchase land to build a hotel at the new airport. The value of land has been rising in anticipation and is expected to skyrocket once the city decides between sites X and Y.​ Consequently, Hard Rock would like to purchase land now. Hard Rock will sell the land if the city chooses not to locate the airport nearby. Hard Rock has four​ choices: (1) buy land at​ X, (2) buy land at​ Y, (3) buy land at both X and​ Y, or​ (4) do nothing. Hard Rock has collected the following data​ (which are in millions of​ euros):


Site X Site Y
Current purchase price 29 18
Profits if airport & hotel built at this site 35 30
Sale price if airport not built at this site 8 4

Hard Rock determines there is a 55% chance the airport will be built at X (hence, a 45% chance it will be built at Y)

Set up a decision table (in millions of Euros) (enter as a whole number and include minus sign if necessary)


State of Nature
Alternatives Airport at X Airport at Y
buy land at X
buy land at Y
buy land at both X & Y
Do nothing
Probability 0.55 0.45

1. Accrual accounting is used by the vast majority of companies. *
O
True
O False​

A small nation of 10 people idolizes the TV show The Voice. All they produce and consume are karaoke machines and CDs, in the following amounts:

Karaoke Machines CDs
Quantity Price(Dollars) Quantity Price (Dollars)
2020 20 50 60 5
2021 21 70 80 6

Using a method similar to that used to calculate the consumer price index, the percentage change in the overall price level is_____________ . (Note: Use 2020 as the base year, and fix the basket at 2 karaoke machines and 6 CDs.) Using a method similar to that used to calculate the GDP deflator, the percentage change of the overall price level is_____________ . (Note: Again, use 2020 as the base year.) Which of the following statements is correct? Check all that apply.

a. The inflation rate in 2021 is not the same using the two methods.
b. The CPI allows the basket of goods and services to change.
c. The GDP deflator holds the basket of goods and services constant.

You are in the business of producing and selling snow shovels, and you need to determine how many shovels should be produced during each of the next four quarters to meet the following demands: 11,000 shovels in quarter 1; 48,000 shovels in quarter 2; 64,000 shovels in quarter 3; and 15,000 shovels in quarter 4.

Due to labor limitations, at most 65,000 shovels can be produced in any one quarter at a cost of $5/shovel. Additionally, a fixed cost of $30,000 must be paid for any quarter in which shovels are produced. You may assume that any shovels produced during a quarter can be used to satisfy demand for that quarter. At the end of the quarter, a holding cost of $0.50 per shovel in inventory is incurred. Currently, you have no shovels in inventory.

Required:
Formulate an integer-linear program to determine a production schedule that minimizes the sum of production and inventory costs over the next four quarters.

20. The consumer price index was 120 in 2013 and 126 in 2014. The nominal interest rate during this period was 8 percent. What was the real interest rate during this period? A) 3 percent B) 2 percent C) 3.3 percent D) 5.2 percent E) 12.8 percent

Nanjones Company manufactures a line of products distributed nationally through wholesalers. Presented below are planned manufacturing data for the year and actual data for November of the current year. The company applies overhead based on planned machine hours using a predetermined annual rate.

Planning Data
Annual November
Fixed overhead $1,200,000 $100,000
Variable overhead $2,400,000 $220,000
Direct labor hours 48,000 4,000
Machine hours 240,000 22,000


Data for November

Direct labor hours (actual) 4,200
Direct labor hours (plan based on output) 4,000
Machine hours (actual) 21,600
Machine hours (plan based on output) 21,000
Fixed overhead $101,200
Variable overhead $214,000

Nanjones’ variable overhead spending variance for November was:

a. $6,000 favorable.
b. $2,000 favorable.
c. $14,000 unfavorable.
d. $6,000 unfavorable.

Bristo Corporation has sales of 1,750 units at $40 per unit. Variable expenses are 30% of the selling price. If total fixed expenses are $39,000, the degree of operating leverage is:

Lambert Company acquired machinery costing $110,000 on January 2, 2019. At that time, Lambert estimated that the useful life of the equipment was 6 years and that the residual value would be $15,000 at the end of its useful life. Compute depreciation expense for this asset for 2019, 2020, and 2021 using the:

Consider each of the transactions below. All of the expenditures were made in cash.

a. The Edison Company spent $16,000 during the year for experimental purposes in connection with the development of a new product.
b. In April, the Marshall Company lost a patent infringement suit and paid the plaintiff $9,500.
c. In March, the Cleanway Laundromat bought equipment. Cleanway paid $10,000 down and signed a noninterest-bearing note requiring the payment of $20,000 in nine months. The cash price for this equipment was $27,000.
d. On June 1, the Jamsen Corporation installed a sprinkler system throughout the building at a cost of $32,000.
e. The Mayer Company, plaintiff, paid $16,000 in legal fees in November, in connection with a successful infringement suit on its patent.
f. The Johnson Company traded its old equipment for new equipment. The new equipment has a fair value of $11,200. The old equipment had an original cost of $9,400 and a book value of $4,200 at the time of the trade. Johnson also paid cash of $8,800 as part of the trade. The exchange has commercial substance.

Required:
Prepare journal entries to record each of the above transactions.