Assignment 3 Suggested Length: 750 to 1000 words Ethical Theories to Apply: Golden Rule and Virtue Ethics

1. Task You work in the Ethics Department for ABC Company (ABC). Your department is dedicated to advising its employees about their ethical obligations in the corporate setting. You are an internal consultant who provides advice and most importantly, recommendations for action to employees of the firm. All communications you receive in this capacity are confidential. Luke, an employee of ABC, comes to you with the following scenario and asks for your advice. He wants to fully consider the situation. Your task is to advise and recommend a course of action based on the specified ethical lenses and facts as given. Below are the facts that Luke provides to you. ***** Luke has been asked to work on a project that involves developing land recently purchased by ABC to build an adult entertainment retail store. According to the plan, the land is located on the corner of the neighborhood where Owen, Luke’s brother, lives. Luke knows that as soon as the plans for the store are made public, property values for the surrounding neighborhood will decrease significantly. ABC plans to publicly announce the project one month from today. Luke is concerned about his obligations of confidentiality to his company. However, Luke is also very close to Owen, who recently told Luke that he received an offer to sell his house at an "okay" price given the current real estate market. Owen is considering selling but hasn’t made any final decision yet. He wonders if he might get a better offer a few years from now when the real estate market improves. What is the ethical issue, why is this an issue, and what should Luke do about it?

***** For assignment 3, prepare a memo, setting out your analysis and recommendations, that considers ONLY the following two theories: Golden Rule and Virtue Ethics.

Answer:

My answer is a little long, so you will probably need to summarize it.

The ethical issue here is that you work for a company that is about to open a store that will make the price of your brother's house to plummet. Your brother has the option to sell his house right now, but if you tell him to accept the offer, you will be breaching your employment duties.

Is your duty towards your brother more or less important than the duty towards the company?

We can analyze both possible outcomes:

If we follow the golden rule: do to others what you would like them to do to you, then obviously we should tell Owen about our company's plans. If we were Owen, that information would be really important for us.

If we follow virtue ethics, then it gets a little bit more complicated. Is telling Owen about the new store a virtuous action? Would a virtuous person do it? To be honest, I'm not really sure what exactly is a virtuous person.

What I understand is that virtue ethics is based on who you are, and not what you really will do. So, the question here would be: Are you a good (or virtuous) brother? Are you a good (or virtuous) employee? In this case, you cannot be a virtuous employee and a virtuous brother at the same time, so it depends on which you value the most. Going back to the possible outcomes, I would prefer to be a virtuous brother in this case.  

Pitt Enterprises manufactures jeans. All materials are introduced at the beginning of the manufacturing process in the Cutting Department. Conversion costs are incurred uniformly throughout the manufacturing process. As the cutting of material is completed, the pieces are immediately transferred to the Sewing Department. Information for the Cutting Department for the month of May follows.

Work in Process, May 1 (54,000 units, 100% complete for direct materials, 35% complete with respect to conversion costs; includes $78,500 of direct material cost; $42,050 of conversion costs).

Units started in May 233,000
Units completed in May 208,000

Work in Process, May 31 (79,000 units, 100% complete for direct materials; 15% complete for conversion costs).

Costs incurred in May

Direct materials $391,440
Conversion costs $401,900

Required:
If Pitt Enterprises uses the FIFO method of process costing, compute the cost per equivalent unit for direct materials and conversion costs respectively for May.

Budgeted income amount $25.00
Actual amount $17.50
Dollar variance
Percent variance
F or U

Masterson, Inc., has 4.1 million shares of common stock outstanding. The current share price is $84, and the book value per share is $11. The company also has two bond issues outstanding. The first bond issue has a face value of $70 million, has a coupon rate of 5.1%, and sells for 98% of par. The second issue has a face value of $50 million, has a coupon rate of 5.60%, and sells for 108% of par. The first issue matures in 20 years, the second in 12 years. The most recent dividend was $3.95 and the dividend growth rate is 5 percent. Assume that the overall cost of debt is the weighted average of that implied by the two outstanding debt issues. Both bonds make semiannual payments. The tax rate is 21 percent. What is the company’s WACC?

Use the information about Billy's Burgers to answer the following question(s):

Billy's Burgers

Figures in​ $ millions

Income Statement 2010 Balance Sheet 2010
Net Sales 246.0 Assets
Costs exc. Dep. 187.0 Cash 8.0
EBITDA 59.0 Accts. Rec. 21.0
Depreciation 17.2 Inventories 23.0
EBIT 41.8 Total Current Assets 52.0
Interest 12.0 Net PP​&E 145.0
Pretax Income 29.8 Total Assets 197.0
Taxes 10.4
Net Income 19.4 Liabilities and Equity Accts.
Payable 18.0 LongTerm Debt 82.0
Total Liabilities 100.0 Total​ Stockholders' Equity 97.0
Total Liabilities and Equity 197.0

Required:
Using the percent of sales method, and assuming 20% growth in sales, estimate Billy's Burgers' Accounts Receivable for 2011.

a. $21.0 million
b. $18.0 million
c. $25.2 million
d. $21.6 million

Example 1: Alex began putting money in his 401(k) in his early 20s; consequently, he will have financial security when he retires.
Example 2: Louise is the most qualified candidate for the position; therefore, we should hire her.

Identify the correctly written compound sentences. Check all that apply.

a. All e-mail, even once deleted, is retrievable and, therefore, you should avoid sending sensitive information in an e-mail.
b. E-mail facilitates collaboration between people in remote locations; however, when collaboration requires the exchange of large data files, it is often easier to use web-based collaboration software.
c. Many people prefer e-mail over phone conversations, they leave a written record.
d. E-mail can be an efficient way to communicate, and it makes communicating across time zones much easier.

Every year, management and labor renegotiate a new employment contract by sending their proposals to an arbitrator, who chooses the best proposal (effectively giving one side or the other $3 million). Each side can choose to hire, or not hire, an expensive labor lawyer (at a cost of $300,000) who is effective at preparing the proposal in the best light. If neither hires a lawyer or if both hire lawyers, each side can expect to win about half the time. If only one side hires a lawyer, it can expect to win nine tenths, or 0.9, of the time. Use the given information to fit in the expected payoff, in dollars, for each cell in the matrix.
Management (M)
No Lawyer Lawyer
No Lawyer L: M: S L: S M: S
Labor (L) Lawyer L: M: S L: S M: S
The Nash equilibrium for this game is for Management to_____a lawyer, and for Labor to_____a lawyer.

ogan Products computes its predetermined overhead rate annually on the basis of direct labor-hours. At the beginning of the year, it estimated that 40,000 direct labor-hours would be required for the period's estimated level of production. The company also estimated $466,000 of fixed manufacturing overhead expenses for the coming period and variable manufacturing overhead of $3.00 per direct labor-hour. Logan's actual manufacturing overhead for the year was $713,400 and its actual total direct labor was 41,000 hours.
Required:
Compute the company's pre-determined overhead rate for the year.

Tommy is from a small town and quit high school to get married. He and his wife have five kids, and his wife stays home with the children. Tommy is a hard worker and strives to provide for his family, although his skills are limited. Tommy has been a butcher for his entire career. He has been with his present company, a large retail grocer, for the past six years performing the same job. There are twelve people in the meat department, and each one specializes in cutting certain types of meat. Tommy's job is to cut ribeye steaks. Cutting ribeye steaks is very precise and requires holding and using a knife in the same way every day. This requirement has started to cause Tommy pain in his right hand. Although Tommy still likes his work, he is getting a little bored of the repetition and is bothered by the pain.

The quality of Tommy’s work has not suffered, but the store managers can tell that he is getting bored. What could they do to keep him better engaged?

a. Purchase special ergonomic mats to help with the pain associated with standing on the hard floor every day.
b. Motivate Tommy by giving him feedback about how skilled he is in cutting ribeye and explain that customers visit the store for his custom steaks.
c. Offer Tommy more money because he is so good at cutting meat.
d. Cross train the employees in the meat department, so beef cutters can learn how to cut pork and vice versa.
e. Administer a work personality quiz to Tommy to see if there is another area in the store where he could move to, such as the produce department.

Bank Reconciliation and Entries The cash account for Stone Systems at July 31, 20Y5, indicated a balance of $12,270. The bank statement indicated a balance of $15,440 on July 31, 20Y5. Comparing the bank statement and the accompanying canceled checks and memos with the records reveals the following reconciling items: Checks outstanding totaled $5,560. A deposit of $5,790, representing receipts of July 31, had been made too late to appear on the bank statement. The bank had collected $3,010 on a note left for collection. The face of the note was $2,860. A check for $800 returned with the statement had been incorrectly recorded by Stone Systems as $880. The check was for the payment of an obligation to Holland Co. for the purchase of office supplies on account. A check drawn for $400 had been incorrectly charged by the bank as $40. Bank service charges for July amounted to $50.

Required:
Prepare a bank reconciliation.

The technique recommended by the text to organize an analysis of external strategic factors is called

You are CEO of Rivet Networks, maker of ultra-high performance network cards for gaming computers, and you are considering whether to launch a new product. The product, the Killer X3000, will cost $900,000 to develop up front (year 0), and you expect revenues the first year of $800,000, growing to $1.5 million the second year, and then declining by 40% per year for the next 3 years before the product is fully obsolete. In years 1 through 5, you will have fixed costs associated with the product of $100,000 per year, and variable costs equal to 50% of revenues.
A. What are the cash flows for the project in years 0 through 51
B. Plot the NPV profile for this nvestment using discount rates from 0% to 50% in 5% increments.
C. What is the project's NPV if the project's cost of capital is 10%?
D. Use the NPV profile to estimate the cost of capital at which the project would become unprofitable; that is, estimate the project's IRR or calculate it using the data.
Initial investment $900,000
Revenues vear 1 $800,000
Revenues vear 2 $1,500,000
Revenues decline years 4000
Fixed costs vears 1-5 $100,000
Variable costs 50%

Randy likes baseball more than football, football more than basketball, and basketball more than baseball. Which assumption about consumer preferences does this violate

Daily demand for a certain product is normally distributed with a mean of 138 and a standard deviation of 13. The supplier is reliable and maintains a constant lead time of 7 days. The cost of placing an order is $17 and the cost of holding inventory is $0.40 per unit per year. There are no stock-out costs, and unfilled orders are filled as soon as the order arrives. Assume sales occur over 358 days of the year.
Your goal here is to find the order quantity and reorder point to satisfy a 73 percent probability of not stocking out during the lead time.
a. To manage inventory, the company is using
Continuous review system
Periodic review system
b. Find the order quantity. (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)
Order quantity books
c. Find the reorder point. (Use Excel's NORMSINV() function to find the correct critical value for the given α-level. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round "z" value to 2 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole number.)
Reorder point

Post the journal entries to the​ T-accounts, using transaction dates as posting references in the ledger accounts.

Jul.
1. Yardley contributed $68,000 cash to the business in exchange for common stock.
5. Paid monthly rent on medical equipment, $510.
9. Paid $16,000 cash to purchase land to be used in operations.
10. Purchased office supplies on account, $1 ,600.
19. Borrowed $26,000 from the bank for business use.
22. Paid $1 , 100 on account.
28. The business received a bill for advertising in the daily newspaper to be paid in August, $250.
31. Revenues earned during the month included $6,300 cash and $5,300 on account.
31. Paid employees' salaries $1 ,900, office rent $1 ,400, and utilities $600. Record as a compound entry.
31. The business received $1 ,340 for medical screening services to be performed next month.
31. Paid cash dividends of $6,900.

Assume a par value of $1,000. Caspian Sea plans to issue a 9.00 year, semi-annual pay bond that has a coupon rate of 8.04%. If the yield to maturity for the bond is 7.79%, what will the price of the bond be

Jupiter Explorers has $8,800 in sales. The profit margin is 4 percent. There are 5,300 shares of stock outstanding. The market price per share is $1.60. What is the price-earnings ratio

On August 20th, one of your employees comes to you with a vacation request. The employee’s available vacation time expires on September 1st, however she wants to take her vacation between September 20th through the 25th.


She asks you to submit her vacation request to the corporate office for the week prior to September 1st, and wants you to not schedule her for the days between the 20th and 25th, and she wants her "vacation" pay for those days.


Would you do it? Why? or Why Not?

What term means an explosive and seemingly uncontrollable inflation in which money loses value rapidly and may even go out of​ use? A. deflation B. hyperinflation C. stagflation D. maginflation

Bigham Corporation, an accrual basis calendar year taxpayer, sells its services under 12-month and 24-month contracts. The corporation provides services to each customer every month. On July 1, 2019, Bigham sold the following customer contracts:
Length of contract Total Proceeds
12 months $40,000
24 months $80,000
Determine the income to be recognized in taxable income in 2019 and 2020.
Length of Contract 2019 Income 2020 Income
12 months $ $
24 months $ $

Del Gato Clinic's cash account shows a $11,589 debit balance and its bank statement shows $10,555 on deposit at the close of business on June 30. Outstanding checks as of June 30 total $1,829. The June 30 bank statement lists a $16 bank service charge. Check No. 919, listed with the canceled checks, was correctly drawn for $467 in payment of a utility bill on June 15. Del Gato Clinic mistakenly recorded it with a debit to Utilities Expense and a credit to Cash in the amount of $476. The June 30 cash receipts of $2,856 were placed in the bank's night depository after banking hours and were not recorded on the June 30 bank statement.
Prepare its bank reconciliation using the above information.
DEL GATO CLINIC
Bank Reconciliation
June 30
Book balance
Add: Bank statement balance
Add:
Deduct: Deduct:
Adjusted bank balance Adjusted book balance

Consider the following scenario:
Cold Goose Metal Works Inc.’s income statement reports data for its first year of operation. The firm’s CEO would like sales to increase by 25% next year.

1. Cold Goose is able to achieve this level of increased sales, but its interest costs increase from 10% to 15% of earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT).
2. The company’s operating costs (excluding depreciation and amortization) remain at 70.00% of net sales, and its depreciation and amortization expenses remain constant from year to year.
3. The company’s tax rate remains constant at 40% of its pre-tax income or earnings before taxes (EBT).
4. In Year 2, Cold Goose expects to pay $300,000 and $2,306,475 of preferred and common stock dividends, respectively.
Complete the Year 2 income statement data for Cold Goose, then answer the questions that follow. Round each dollar value to the nearest whole dollar.
Cold Goose Metal Works Inc.
Income Statement for Year Ending December 31
Year 1 $30,000,000 21,000,000 1,200,000 $7,800,000$
Year 2 (Forecasted)
Net sales Less: Operating costs, except depreciation and amortization Less: Depreciation and amortization expenses Operating income (or EBIT) Less: Interest expense Pre-tax income (or EBT) Less: Taxes (40%) Earnings after taxes Less: Preferred stock dividends Earnings available to common shareholders Less: Common stock dividends Contribution to retained earnings 1,200,000 780,000 $7,020,000 2,808,000 $4,212,000s 300,000 $3,912,000 1,895,400 $1,605,525 $2,519,025
Given the results of the previous income statement calculations, complete the following statements:
In Year 2, if Cold Goose has 25,000 shares of preferred stock issued and outstanding, then each preferred share should expect to receive____________ ▼ in annual dividends
If Cold Goose has 200,000 shares of common stock issued and outstanding, then the firm's earnings per share (EPS) is expected to change from __________ in Year 1 to in ________ Year 2
Cold Goose's before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) value changed from _______ in Year 1 to in ______ Year 2
It is __________▼ to say that Cold Goose's net inflows and outflows of cash at the end of Years 1 and 2 are equal to the company's annual contribution to retained earnings, $1,605,525 and $2,519,025, respectively. This is because ▼ of the items reported in the income statement involve payments and receipts of cash

In 2013, Space Technology Company modified its model Z2 satellite to incorporate a new communication device. The company made the following expenditures:
Basic research to develop the technology $ 2,000,000
Engineering design work 680,000
Development of a prototype device 300,000
Acquisition of equipment 60,000
Testing and modification of the prototype 200,000
Legal and other fees for patent application on the new
communication system 40,000
Legal fees for successful defense of the new patent 20,000
Total $ 3,300,000
The equipment will be used on this and other research projects. Depreciation on the equipment for 2013 is $10,000.
During your year-end review of the accounts related to intangibles, you discover that the company has capitalized all of the above as costs of the patent. Management contends that the device simply represents an improvement of the existing communication system of the satellite and, therefore, should be capitalized.
Required:
Prepare correcting entries that reflect the appropriate treatment of the expenditures.
1. Record the correcting entry to expense R&D costs incorrectly capitalized
2. Record the correcting entry to capitalize the cost of equipment incorrectly capitalized as a patent.
3. Record the correcting entry to record depreciation on equipment used in R&D projects.

Wave Marine Products had sales revenue of $850,000 for the year-ended December 31, 2017.

a. December revenue totaled $120,000, and in addition, Big Wave collected sales tax of 5%. The tax amount will be sent to the state of Florida early in January.
b. On August 31, Big Wave signed a six-month, 4% note payable to purchase a boat costing $85,000. The note requires payment of principal and interest at maturity
c. On August 31 Big Wave received cash of S2,400 in advance for service revenue. This revenue will be earned evenly over six months.
d. Revenues of $850,000 were covered by Big Wave service warranty. At January 1, estimated warranty payable was $11,600. During the year, Big Wave recorded warranty expense of $34,000 and paid warranty claims of $34,800.
e. Big Wave owes $70,000 on a long-term note payable. At December 31, 12% interest for the year plus $35,000 of this principal are payable within one year.

Required:
For each item, indicate the account and the related amount to be reported as a current liability on the Big Wave Marine balance sheet at December 31.

Selected Information from Balance Sheets (As of Year End for Years 0 and 1)
Year 0 Year 1
Cash 1,000 2,000
Accounts Receivables 1,000 5,000
Inventory 5,000 4,000
Property, Plant and Equipment (net) 12,000 11,000
Accounts Payable 5,000 4,000
Unearned Revenue 2,000 1,000
Bonds Payable 5,000 6,000
Common Stock 3,000 4,000
Retained Earnings 5,000 7,000
Income Statement (Year 1)
Sales 20,000
Costs of Goods Sold (8,000)
Wage Expense (4,000)
Depreciation Expense (2,000)
Loss from PP&E Sale (1,000)
Net Income Before Tax 5,000
Tax Expense (2.000)
Net Income 3.000
In the space provided, prepare the Operating section of the statement of cash flow for Year 1, using the indirect approach.

Alternative price indexes
Because there isn't one single measure of inflation, the government and researchers use a variety of methods to get the most balanced picture of how prices fluctuate in the economy. Two of the most commonly used price indexes are the consumer price index (CPI) and the GDP deflator. The GDP deflator for this year is calculated by dividing the_____using______by the_____using_____and multiplying by 100. However, the CPI reflects only the prices of all goods and services.
Indicate whether each scenario will affect the GDP deflator or the CPI for the United States.
Scenario Shows up
in the...
GDP Deflator
Index CPI
An increase in the price of a Chinese-
made phone that is popular among
U.S. consumers.
A decrease in the price of a Treewood
Equipment feller buncher, which is a
commercial forestry machine made in
the U.S. but not bought by U.S. consumers.

Sheridan Company sells radios for $50 per unit. The fixed costs are $445000 and the variable costs are 60% of the selling price. As a result of new automated equipment, it is anticipated that fixed costs will increase by $65000 and variable costs will be 50% of the selling price. The new break-even point in units is:

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The following events took place for Rushmore Biking Inc. during February, the first month of operations as a producer of road bikes:

Purchased $400,000 of materials.
Used $362,100 of direct materials in production.
Incurred $104,200 of direct labor wages.
Applied factory overhead at a rate of 42% of direct labor cost.
Transferred $483,700 of work in process to finished goods.
Sold goods with a cost of $460,300.
Revenues earned by selling bikes, $761,600.
Incurred $154,800 of selling expenses.
Incurred $75,300 of administrative expenses.

Required:
Prepare the income statement for Rushmore Biking for the month ending February 28

Is there an existential threat of social media?​

Townsend Industries Inc. manufactures recreational vehicles. Townsend uses a job order cost system. The time tickets from November jobs are summarized as follows:

Job 201 $4,280
Job 202 2,140
Job 203 1,690
Job 204 3,140

Factory supervision 1,460 Factory overhead is applied to jobs on the basis of a predetermined overhead rate of $22 per direct labor hour. The direct labor rate is $15 per hour. If required, round final answers to the nearest dollar.

Required:
a. Journalize the entry to record the factory labor costs.
b. Journalize the entry to apply factory overhead to production for November.