Wholemark is an Internet order business that sells one popular New Year greeting card once a year. The cost of the paper on which the card is printed is $0.40 per card, and the cost of printing is $0.10 per card. The company receives $3.75 per card sold. Since the cards have the current year printed on them, unsold cards have no salvage value. Their customers are from the four areas: Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Hollywood, and Pasadena. Based on past data, the number of customers from each of the four regions is normally distributed with mean 2,300 and standard deviation 200. (Assume these four are independent.)
What is the optimal production quantity for the card?

Answer:

9644

Explanation:

cost of paper on which a card is printed = $0.40 per card

cost of printing = $0.10 per card

profit made per card sold = $3.75

number of areas where customers are located (n)= 4

mean of customers from each region = 2300

standard deviation for each region = 200

note : each region is independent

The optimal production quantity for the card can be calculated going through these steps

first we determine

the cost of card = $0.10 + $0.40 = $0.50

selling value = $3.75

salvage value = 0

next we calculate for the z value

= ( selling value - cost of card) /  ( selling price - salvage value )

= ( 3.75 - 0.50 ) / 3.75  = 0.8667

Z( 0.8667 ) = 1.110926 ( using excel formula : NORMSINV ( 0.8667 )

next we calculate

u = n * mean demand

  = 4 *  2300 = 9200

б = [tex]200\sqrt{n}[/tex] = 200 * 2

  = 400

Hence optimal production quantity for the card

= u + Z (0.8667 ) * б

= 9200 + 1.110926 * 400

= 9644.3704

≈ 9644

Appendix 1: Gross and net methods for sales discounts
The following were selected from among the transactions completed by Strong Retail Group during August of the current year:
Aug. 5. Sold merchandise on account to M. Quinn, $7,500, terms 2/10, n/30. The
cost of the merchandise sold was $4,200.
9. Sold merchandise on account to R. Busch., $4,000, terms 1/10, n/30. The
cost of the merchandise sold was $2,100.
15. Received payment on account for the sale of August 5 less the discount.
20. Sold merchandise on account to S. Mooney, $6,000, terms n/eom. The
cost of the merchandise sold was $3,300.
25. Received payment on account for the sale of August 9. 31.Received
payment on account for the sale of August 20.
A. Journalize the August transactions using the gross method of recording sales discounts.
Aug. 5 Accounts Receivable-M. Quinn 7,500
Sales 7,500
Cost of Goods Sold 4,200
Inventory 4,200
Accounts Receivable-R. Busch 4,000
Sales 4,000
Cost of Goods Sold 2,100
B. Journalize the August transactions using the net method of recording sales discounts.

Tom Scott is the owner, president, and primary salesperson for Scott Manufacturing. Because of this, the company's profits are driven by the amount of work Tom does. If he works 40 hours each week, the company's EBIT will be $615,000 per year; if he works a 50 hour week, the company's EBIT will be $755,000 per year. The company is currently worth $3.85 million. The company needs a cash infusion of $1.95 million, and it can issue equity or issue debt with an interest rate of 7 percent. Assume there are no corporate taxes.
What are the cash flows to Tom under each scenario?

Which of the following best defines a financial intermediary? a claim by a buyer to a future payment by a seller a collection of stocks and bonds issued to investors a financial institution that transforms investor funds into financial assets an asset sold by a company which entitles the buyer to partial ownership

I WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST

Lean and Six Sigma models contradict one another,
True
False

Kirkwood acquires 100 percent of the outstanding voting shares of Soufflot Company on January 1, 2018. To obtain these shares, Kirkwood pays $400 cash (in thousands) and issues 10,000 shares of $20 par value common stock on this date. Kirkwood's stock had a fair value of $36 per share on that date. Kirkwood also pays $15 (in thousands) to a local investment firm for arranging the acquisition. An additional $10 (in thousands) was paid by Kirkwood in stock issuance costs.

The book values for both Kirkwood and Souflout as of January 1, 2018 follow. The fair value of each of Kirkwood and Soufflot accounts is also included. In addition, Soufflot holds a fully amortized trademark that still retains a $40 (in thousands) value. The figures below are in thousands. Any related question also is in thousands.


Kirkwood Inc Book Value Fair Value
Cash 900 80 80
Receivables 480 180 160
Inventory 660 260 300
Land 300 120 130
Buildings (net) 1,200 220 280
Equipment 360 100 75
Accounts payable 480 60 60
Long-term liabilities 1,140 340 300
Common stock 1,000 80
Additional paid-in capital 200 0
Retained earnings 1,080 480


Required:
What amount will be reported for consolidated cash after the acquisition is completed?

Connors Corporation acquired manufacturing equipment for use in its assembly line. Below are four independent situations relating to the acquisition of the equipment. (FV of $1, PV of $1, FVA of $1, PVA of $1, FVAD of $1 and PVAD of $1) (Use appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided.)
A. The equipment was purchased on account for $25,000. Credit terms were 2/10, n/30. Payment was made within the discount period and the company records the purchases of equipment net of discounts.
B. Connors gave the seller a noninterest-bearing note. The note required payment of $27,000 one year from date of purchase. The fair value of the equipment is not determinable. An interest rate of 10% properly reflects the time value of money in this situation.
C. Connors traded in old equipment that had a book value of $6,000 (original cost of $14,000 and accumulated depreciation of $8,000) and paid cash of $22,000. The old equipment had a fair value of $2,500 on the date of the exchange. The exchange has commercial substance.
D. Connors issued 1,000 shares of its nopar common stock in exchange for the equipment. The market value of the common stock was not determinable. The equipment could have been purchased for $24,000 in cash.
Required:
For each of the above situations, prepare the journal entry required to record the acquisition of the equipment.

One year ago, Tyler Stasney founded Swift Classified Ads. Stasney remembers that you took an accounting course while in college and comes to you for advice. He wishes to know how much net income his business earned during the past year in order to decide whether to keep the company going. His accounting records consist of the T-accounts from his ledger, which were prepared by an accountant who moved to another city. The ledger at December 31 follows. The accounts have not been adjusted. Stasney indicates that at year-end, customers owe him $1,600 for accrued service revenue. These revenues have not been recorded. During the year, Stasney collected $4,000 service revenue in advance from customers, but he earned only $900 of that amount. Rent expense for the year was $2,400, and he used up $1,700 of the supplies. Stasney determines that depreciation on his equipment was $5,000 for the year. At December 31, he owes his employee $1,200 accrued salary.

Joni Splish Brothers Inc. has the following amounts reported in its general ledger at the end of the current year.

Organization costs $23,800
Trademarks 15,700
Discount on bonds payable 36,800
Deposits with advertising agency for ads to promote goodwill of company 11,800
Excess of cost over fair value of net identifiable assets of acquired subsidiary 76,800
Cost of equipment acquired for research and development projects; the equipment has an alternative future use 86,800
Costs of developing a secret formula for a product that is expected to be marketed for at least 20 years 82,600

Required:
On the basis of this information, compute the total amount to be reported by Hyde for intangible assets on its balance sheet at year-end.

Read the following sentences, and identify the error.

a. Paolo recruited job applicants for the company that showed promise.

The error in this sentence is a:_________ .

b. We will be visiting our accounts in California, Oregon, and visiting our accounts in Washington.

The error in this sentence is a:________ .

Before you decide whether to use passive or active voice, you should consider the purpose of your message and the nature of the situation. Read the scenario, and then fill in the blanks.

You work for a printing company, and you realize that your colleague sent incorrect price quotes to a client. You begin to write an e-mail to the client to apologize for the mistake. You want to remedy the situation without criticizing your colleague. The sentence excerpted from the e-mail uses ______________ voice. Given the purpose of your message, this voice ___________ appropriate.

Match the qualitative characteristics below with the following statements.1. Timeliness2. Completeness3. Free from error4. Understandability5. Faithful representation6. Relevance7. Neutrality8. Confirmatory valuea. Quality of information that assures users that information represents the economic phenomena that it purports to represent.b. Information about an economic phenomenon that corrects past or present expectations based on previous evaluations.c. The extent to which information is accurate in representing the economic substance of a transaction.d. Includes all the information that is necessary for a faithful representation of the economic phenomena that it purports to represent.e. Quality of information that allows users to comprehend its meaning.

Suppose the following data were taken from the 2017 and 2016 financial statements of American Eagle Outfitters. (All numbers, including share data, are in thousands.)
2017 2016
Current assets $ 890,400 $999,600
Total assets 1,950,000 1,878,000
Current liabilities 424,000 357,000
Total liabilities 573,300 552,132
Net income 166,830 337,600
Net cash provided by operating activities 300,000 452,600
Capital expenditures 271,000 246,500
Dividends paid on common stock 85,000 76,500
Weighted-average shares outstanding 201,000 211,000
a. Calculate the current ratio for each year. (Round answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25.)
2017 2016
Current ratio
b. Calculate earnings per share for each year. (Round answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25.)
2017 2016
Earnings per share $
c. Calculate the debt to assets ratio for each year. (Round answers to 1 decimal place, e.g. 29.5%)
2017 2016
Debt to assets ratio
d. Calculate the free cash flow for each year. (Enter negative amounts using either a negative sign preceding the number e.g.-45 or parentheses e.g. (45).)
2017 2016
Free cash flow

Eduardo has been reading about the use of drone technology in recent military conflicts and is not quite sure what to think. On the one hand, the use of drones means that military missions can be executed without putting American lives at risk. On the other hand, this very fact means that our political leaders might be quicker to resort to military solutions when other solutions might be available. Eduardo is also concerned about other effects of fully mechanized battle operations. For instance, unlike a human soldier, a drone can neither hear nor sympathize with a mother pleading for the life of her innocent child. Eduardo has decided to research the topic of military drones in more detail and write an essay in which he decides whether the use of drone technology is a positive or negative development in the history of American military action. Which type of argument will Eduardo be making?

a. Argument of fact
b. Argument of definition
c. Argument of evaluation
d. Policy argument

Alpha Inc. has receivables from unrelated parties with a face value of $5,000. It transfers these receivables to bank for $4,500, without recourse. It will continue to collect the receivables, depositing them in a non-interest-bearing bank account with the cash flows remitted to the bank at the end of each month. It is not allowed to sell or pledge the receivables to anyone else and is under no obligation to repurchase the receivables from bank. Which of the following is the appropriate treatment for these Accounts receivables?
A) It should show these receivables in its Balance Sheet.
B) It should amortize these receivables.
C) It should derecognize these receivables.
D) It should derecognize these receivables if it retains the interest earned on these.

coomer co had net sales of 600000 net income of 35260 and average total assets of 680000 what is the return on total assets

A company had a tractor destroyed by fire. The tractor originally cost $141,000 with accumulated depreciation of $74,400. The proceeds from the insurance company were $36,000. The company should recognize:

How is government in the United States today different from government in ancient Athens? O The United States is a direct democracy. The United States allows citizens to vote. The United States is a republic. O The United States has a unicameral legislature.​

Luke offered to sell his farm to Kent at $75,000, an offer which Kent declined. A week later, Luke offered to sell the farm for $65,000, stating that it was the final offer, it was valid for one month, and that he would not alter it. Two days later, Kent replied by saying that he was willing to pay $60,000 for the farm. A week after Luke received Kent's offer, Luke declined it. Ten days after that, Kent agreed to buy the farm for $65,000, but Luke refused to sell the farm. Kent decided to sue Luke for a breach of contract. The judge ruled in favor of Luke. Which one of the following is the reason for the ruling in Luke's favor?

a. Luke's original offer of $75,000 is still valid, even though rejected.
b. Kent acted in an incompetent manner with regards to the offer.
c. Kent's acceptance was past the set time period in the offer.
d. Kent's counteroffer of $60,000 had rendered the offer for $65,000 invalid.

An individual has $2000 in physical assets, and $600 in cash initially. This person faces the following loss distribution to the wealth. Full insurance is available at $600

Probability Loss
0.5 0
0.1 200
0.2 400
0.1 1000
0.1 2000

The Individual can also buy partial insurance with i. a $200 deductible, or ii. 75% coinsurance, or iii. Upper limit on coverage, with the limit being $1000. The premium on each partial coverage policy is $450.

Required:
Provide a ranking of the four types of policies for the individual, in terms of preference if the preference function is given by U(FW) = LN(1+FW), where FW is final wealth of the individual.

Westerville Company accumulates the following data concerning a mixed cost, using units produced as the activity level.


Units Produced Total Cost

March 10,029 $16,724
April 8,765 15,312
May 10,480 17,492
June 8,600 14,860
July 9,293 15,781

Required:
a. Compute the variable cost per unit using the high-low method.
b. Compute the fixed cost elements using the high-low method.
c. Estimate the total cost if the company produces 8,170 units.

________ is used to make purchases while ________ is the total collection of pieces of property that serve to store value.

Which are possible employers in the Financial career cluster? Check ALL that apply.

A. private company
B. government
C. nonprofit organization
D. bank
E. stock market

The rule of 70 indicates that a 6% annual increase in the level of real GDP would lead to the output doubling in approximately _____ years.

The Pritzker Music Pavilion in downtown Chicago is a technologically sophisticated and uniquely designed performing arts venue that hosts live concerts attended by over half a million patrons a year. A group of local organizers, led by a prominent local businesswoman, would like to use the pavilion for a concert to benefit a non-profit, national network of investors and environmental organizations working with companies and investors to address sustainability challenges such as global climate change. If the pavilion management agrees to host the concert, the organizers will donate all profits to Ceres (or absorb any losses).

Based on the following revenue and cost information, the organizers would like answers to several questions.

1. There are three sources of revenue for the concert:
2. Tickets will be sold for $15.50 each.
3. A large multinational corporation headquartered in Chicago will donate $2.00 per ticket sold.
4. Each concert attendee is expected to spend an average of $17.00 for parking, food, and merchandise.
5. On the expense side, there are also three components:

A popular national group has agreed to perform at the concert. Normally, the group demands a significant fixed fee to perform, but to reduce the risk for the organizers, the group has agreed to perform for $6.00 per ticket sold. The organizers will pay several companies to operate the parking, food, and merchandise concessions. They will pay $21,000 plus 15% of all parking, food, and merchandise revenue. The organizers will pay the pavilion $85,000 plus $7.00 per person attending to cover its operating expenses (production, maintenance, advertising, etc.)

Required:
a. What is the estimated contribution margin per ticket sold for the benefit concert?
b. What are the estimated total fixed costs for the benefit concert?
c. What is the estimated profit from the benefit concert if 10,500 tickets are sold?
d. How many tickets must be sold in order for concert profit to be $100,000?
e. Assuming a tax rate of 31% on profits from the concert, what must dollar ticket sales be in order for after-tax concert profits to be $100,000?
f. Assume that the organizers can negotiate the fixed payment for the pavilion's operating expenses. If the organizers expect to sell 10,500 tickets, how much can they afford to pay and still earn a profit of $100,000 (ignore taxes)?

Department Alpha had no beginning inventory. The department added direct materials costing $55,040 and conversion costs of $88,660 during the month of July. Materials are added at the beginning of the process and conversion costs are added evenly throughout the process in this department. During the month, 40,000 units were completed. At the end of July, 3,000 units remained which were 10% complete with respect to conversion costs. What is the correct cost per equivalent unit for materials for July?

when the fed acts as a lender of last resort like it did in the financial crisis of 2007, it is performing its role of

Chance company had two operating divisions, one manufacturing farm equipment and other office supplies. Both divisions are considered separate components as defined by generally accepted accounting principles. The farm equipment component had been unprofitable, and on Sept. 1, 2016, the company adopted a plan to sell the assets of the division.
The actual sale was completed on Dec. 15, 2016, at the price of $600,000. The book value of the division's assets was $1,000,000, resulting in a before-tax loss of $400,000 on the sale. The division incurred a before-tax operating loss from operations of $130,000 from the beginning of the year through Dec. 15. The income tax rate is 40%. Chances after-tax income from its continuing operations is $350,000.
Required:
Prepare an income statement for 2016 beginning with income from continuing operations. Include appropriate EPS disclosures assuming that 100,000 shares of common stock were outstanding throughout the year.

The adjusted trial balance of Windsor, Inc. shows these data pertaining to sales at the end of its fiscal year, October 31, 2022: Sales Revenue $908,100; Freight-Out $13,400; Sales Returns and Allowances $19,800; and Sales Discounts $14,500.

Required:
Prepare the sales section of the income statement.

Broussard is already at full capacity, so its assets must grow at the same rate as projected sales. At the end of 2019, current liabilities were $1.4 million, consisting of $450,000 of accounts payable, $500,000 of notes payable, and $450,000 of accruals. The after-tax profit margin is forecasted to be 4%, and the forecasted payout ratio is 45%. Use the AFN equation to forecast Broussard's additional funds needed for the coming year. Enter your answer in dollars. For example, an answer of $1.2 million should be entered as $1,200,000.
Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest dollar.

Prepare an answer sheet with the column headings that follow. For each of the following transactions or adjustments, indicate the effect of the transaction or adjustment on assets, liabilities, and net income by entering for each account affected the account name and amount and indicating whether it is an addition (+) or a subtraction (-). Transaction a has been done as an illustration. Net income is not affected by every transaction. In some cases, only one column may be affected because all of the specific accounts affected by the transaction are included in that category.
Assest Liaabilities Net income

a. Recorded $200 Accumulated Depreciation

of depreciation Depreciation Expense

expense. -200 -200

a. Recorded $200 of depreciation expense.
b. Sold land that had originally cost $9,000 for $12,000 in cash.
c. Acquired a new machine under a financing lease.
d. The present value of future lease payments, discounted at 11%, was $11,000. Recorded the first annual payment of $2,500 for the leased machine (in part c).
e. Recorded a $6,600 payment for the cost of developing and registering a trademark. Recognized periodic amortization for the trademark (in part e) using a 40-year useful life. Sold used production equipment for $16,000 in cash.
f. The equipment originally cost $44,000, and the accumulated depreciation account has an unadjusted balance of $23,400.
g. It was determined that a $1,300 year-to-date depreciation entry must be recorded before the sale transaction can be recorded. Record the adjustment and the sale.

The following information pertains to Windsor Solar Panels, Inc.
July 1 Sold $128,000 of solar panels to Wildhorse Company with terms 3/15, n/30. Windsor uses the gross method to record cash discounts. Windsor estimates allowances of $1,500 will be honored on this sale.
12 Sold $82,000 of solar panels to Novak Corp. with terms of 4/10, n/60. Windsor expects no allowances related to this sale.
18 Novak Corp. paid Windsor for its July 12 purchase.
20 Wildhorse calls to indicate that the panels purchased on July 1 work well, but the color is not quite right. Windsor grants a credit of $2,100 as compensation.
29 Wildhorse Company paid Windsor for its July 1 purchase.
31 Windsor expects allowances of $5,340 to be grated in the future related to solar panel sales in July.
Prepare the necessary journal entries for Larkspur. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when the amount is entered. Do not indent manually. Record journal entries in the order presented in the problem. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter o for the amounts.)
Date Account Titles and Explanation Credit Debit
July 18