Mr. Manning is looking to invest in a one-year stock option and has four possible options. The four options have various rates of return based on whether or not the market rises or fall within the coming year. After consulting with his financial planner, he has the following estimates based on the various market outcomes:

Stock Market Rising Market Stable Market Falling
SUA $68,082 $47,373 $36,362
YSP $64,850 $49,320 $44,865
HTC $57,198 $52,949 $50,605
YHA $59,766 $59,766 $59,766

Mr. Manning’s planner has estimated that the probability the market rises is 60%, stays stable is 30%, and falls is 10%. To assist Mr. Manning in his decision, build a decision tree to model the decision and answer the following question. You do not need to upload your decision tree for this question.

Required:
a. Which stock is the best expected value decision and what is the expected value of that decision?
b. Which stock is the worst expected value decision?

Answer:

Mr. Manning

a. YHA is the best expected value decision with an expected value of $59,766.

b. HTC is the worst expected value decision.

Explanation:

a) Data and Calculations:

Stock    Market Rising    Market Stable    Market Falling

SUA          $68,082              $47,373              $36,362

YSP           $64,850             $49,320              $44,865

HTC           $57,198             $52,949              $50,605

YHA          $59,766             $59,766              $59,766

Expected Value:

Stock     Market Rising    Market Stable    Market Falling   Expected Value

Probability    60%                   30%                   10%

SUA          $68,082*60%   $47,373*30%    $36,362*10%     =  $58,697

YSP          $64,850*60%   $49,320*30%    $44,865*10%     =     58,163

HTC          $57,198*60%   $52,949*30%    $50,605*10%     =   55,264

YHA         $59,766*60%   $59,766*30%    $59,766*10%     =   59,766

SUA = $40,849.20 + $14,211.90 + $3,636.20 = $58,697.30

YSP = $38,880 + $14,796 + $4,486.50 = $58,162.50

HTC = $34,318.80 + $15,884.70 + $5,060.50 = $55,264

YHA = $35,859.60 + $17,929.80 + $5,976.60 = $59,766

Suppose that Expresso and Beantown are the only two firms that sell coffee. The following payoff matrix shows the profit (in millions of dollars) each company will earn depending on whether or not it advertises:

Beantown
Advertise Doesn't Advertise
Expresso Advertise 8, 8 15, 2
Doesn't Advertise 2, 15 9, 9

For example, the upper right cell shows that if Expresso advertises and Beantown doesn't advertise, Expresso will make a profit of $15 million, and Beantown will make a profit of $2 million. Assume this is a simultaneous game and that Expresso and Beantown are both profit-maximizing firms.

If Expresso decides to advertise, it will earn a profit of $ ____________ million if Beantown advertises and a profit of $ _________ million if Beantown does not advertise. If Expresso decides not to advertise, it will earn a profit of $ ____________ million if Beantown advertises and a profit of $_________ million if Beantown does not advertise.

Product A consists of two units of Subassembly B, two units of C, and one unit of D. B is composed of four units of E and two units of F. C is made of two units of H and three units of D. H is made of five units of E and two units of G. To produce 100 units of A, determine the numbers of units of B, C, D, E, F, G, and H required using the low-level coded product structure tree.
Level 0 100 units of A
Level 1 units of B
units of C
Level 2 units of F
units of H
units of D
Level 3 units of E
units of G

Prime Bank is offering your company the use of their lockbox services. They estimate that you can reduce your average mail time by 1.5 days and they can save you a combined clearing and processing time of 1 day by putting the checks into the clearing system sooner. Your firm receives 198 checks a day with an average value of $2,300 each. The current T-Bill rate is .011 percent per day. Assume a 365-day year. Prime Bank will charge your firm an annual fee of $27,500 plus $.20 per check. What is the annual net savings from installing this system

Cullumber Company incurred the following costs while manufacturing its product.

Materials used in product $121,000 Advertising expense $46,000
Depreciation on plant 61,000 Property taxes on plant 15,000
Property taxes on store 7,600 Delivery expense 22,000
Labor costs of assembly-line workers 111,000 Sales commissions 36,000
Factory supplies used 24,000 Salaries paid to sales clerks 51,000

Work in process inventory was $13,000 at January 1 and $16,600 at December 31. Finished goods inventory was $61,000 at January 1 and $45,700 at December 31.

Required:
Compute cost of goods manufactured.

Problem 2-15 (Algorithmic) Life Insurance (LO 2.8) Sharon transfers to Russ a life insurance policy with a cash surrender value of $24,800 and a face value of $74,400 in exchange for real estate. Russ continues to pay the premiums on the policy until Sharon dies 7 years later. At that time, Russ has paid $11,160 in premiums, and he collects the $74,400 face value. How much of the proceeds, if any, is taxable to Russ

At year-end, Chief Company has a balance of $22,000 in accounts receivable of which $2,200 is more than 30 days overdue. Chief has a credit balance of $220 in the allowance for doubtful accounts before any year-end adjustments. Using the aging of accounts receivable method, Chief estimates that 1.0% of current accounts and 12% of accounts over thirty days are uncollectible. What is the amount of bad debt expense

Which of the following show negative cash flow?

Which of these career positions typically advise customers of the amount of money they need to support their families in case of death or to protect themselves in case of an emergency with their homes or cars?

bank teller

insurance agent

financial manager

mortgage broker

Lens Junction sells lenses for $44 each and is estimating sales of 16,000 units in January and 17,000 in February. Each lens consists of 2 pounds of silicon costing $2.50 per pound, 3 oz of solution costing $3 per ounce, and 15 minutes of direct labor at a labor rate of $18 per hour. Desired inventory levels are: Jan. 31 Feb. 28 Mar. 31 Beginning inventory Finished goods 4,300 4,800 4,900 Direct materials: silicon 8,300 9,200 9,000 Direct materials: solution 11,000 12,200 12,900

The Baldwin Company has just purchased $40,900,000 of plant and equipment that has an estimated useful life of 15 years. Suppose at the end of 15 years this plant and equipment can be salvaged for $4,090,000 (1/10th of its original cost). What will be the book value of this purchase (excluding all other Plant and Equipment) after its first year of use

King Electronics, a retailer of video equipment, sold two VCR's to Larson, a psychologist, for her personal use in her home. The sale to Larson was made on credit. King retained a security interest in the VCR's sold but did not file a financing statement. Mills, A creditor of Larson, subsequently filed an attachment on the VCR's. Mills has asserted that his lien on the two VCR's is superior to King's security interest because King failed to perfect his security interest. Decide.

Blue Point Company is formulating its marketing expense budget for the month of September. Sales in units for August amounted to 4,000; sales volume in September is expected to increase by 10%. So far for the current year, fixed marketing expense per month amounted to $5,000 of salaries and $1,500 of depreciation. Variable marketing expense amount to $.15 paid in cash in the month of sale. What is the estimated cash payment for marketing expense in the month of September

In its first year, Barsky Corporation made charitable contributions totaling $30,000. The corporation's taxable income before any charitable contribution deduction was $250,000. In its second year, Barsky made charitable contributions of $15,000 and earned taxable income before the contribution deduction of $300,000. Assume neither year is 2020. Required: Compute Barsky's allowable charitable contribution deduction and its final taxable income for its first year. Compute Barsky's allowable charitable contribution deduction and its final taxable income for its second year

Last summer, Maria decided to join a bowling league with some colleagues from work. They formed a team and bowled together several times to get to know one another better. The week before the league started, the team had to come up with a name. During a meeting to discuss this, Maria and her teammate Tim got into a heated debate because Maria wanted their name to be The Lucky Strikes, whereas Tim wanted the team name to be The Pin City Pimps. While yelling at each other, it became clear that Maria thought she should be the team manager because she had formed the team. Tim was just as adamant that he should be team manager because he is the more experienced bowler.

1. As Sunita and Hubert argue about the team name, what stage of development is their bowling team in?

a. Storming
b. Norming
c. Performing
d. Forming

2. If a team leader wanted to help a team such as Sunita’s get through the storming stage of team development, he or she should take which of the following actions? Check all that apply.

a. Encourage participation by all team members.
b. Help the team discourage free riding.
c. Disband the team.
d. Watch for blocking, or disruptive, behaviors and help prevent them.

A Quality Analyst wants to construct a sample mean chart for controlling a packaging process. He knows from past experience that whenever this process is under control, package weight is normally distributed with a mean of twenty ounces and a standard deviation of two ounces. Each day last week, he randomly selected four packages and weighed each:

Day Weight (ounces)
Monday 23 22 23 24
Tuesday 23 21 19 21
Wednesday 20 19 20 21
Thursday 18 19 20 19
Friday 18 20 22 20

What are the upper and lower control limits for these data?

a. UCL = 22.644 LCL = 18.556
b. UCL = 22.700 LCL = 18.500
c. UCL = 22.755 LCL = 18.642
d. UCL = 21.814 LCL = 19.300

Martha is looking into investing a portion of her recent bonus into the stock market. While researching different companies, she discovers the following standard deviations of one year of daily stock closing prices. Handy Prosthetics: Standard deviation of stock prices =$1.05 El Lobo Malo Incorporated: Standard deviation of stock prices =$9.82 Based on the data and assuming these trends continue, which company would give Martha a stable long-term investment?

You are 25 years old and are considering full-time study for an MBA degree. Tuition and other direct costs will be $60,000 per year for two years. In addition, you will have to give up your current job that has a salary of $50,000 per year. Assume tuition is paid and salary received at the end of each year. By how much does your salary have to increase (in real terms) as a result of getting your MBA degree to justify the investment? Assume a real interest rate of 2% per year, ignore taxes, assume that the salaries for both jobs increase at the rate of inflation (i.e. they stay constant in real terms), and that you retire at 65. Note: the $1 for T periods annuity formula is (1/r)*[1-1/(1+r)^T]. g

Shondura Inc. focuses on both local responsiveness and standardization in global business. The company typically begins with a strong emphasis in a single strategy and then works to minimize the downsides associated with that strategy as much as possible as they begin to implement the second strategy. Which of the following is best exemplified in this case?

a. A multidomestic strategy
b. A global strategy
c. An arbitrage strategy
d. A transnational strategy

The Chilton Corporation specializes in manufacturing one type of desk lamp. Chilton allocates variable manufacturing overhead costs on the basis of machine hours. Chilton budgeted 0.3 machine hours per lamp and allocates overhead at a rate of $1.90 per machine hour. Last year Chilton manufactured 19,000 lamps, used 7,600 machine hours and incurred actual overhead costs of $12,920. What was​ Chilton's variable manufacturing overhead efficiency variance last​ year?
A. ​$9,660 favorable
B. ​$4,140 unfavorable
C. ​$4,140 favorable
D. ​$9,660 unfavorable

Jeremy Ortiz is an employee of Insulor Flooring, where his job responsibilities include selling service contracts to customers. Jeremy is single with two withholding allowances. He receives an annual salary of $36,000 and receives a 3 percent commission on all sales. During the semimonthly pay period ending September 29, 20XX, Jeremy sold $20,000 of service contracts.

Required:
Complete the payroll register for the September 29 pay period.

The following statements provide some analysis of policy regarding the global financial crisis of the late 2000s. Categorize each statement as positive or normative. Statement Positive or Normative?

a. The financial crisis was caused by faulty mathematical models that encouraged excessive risk taking.
b. The lack of effective regulation contributed to a risk-seeking culture in the financial services industry.
c. Central banks should have imposed tighter regulations on banks to prevent the financial crisis.
d. Executives of banks that received financial assistance from the government should not have received bonuses.

Assume the following information for Windsor Corp.

Accounts receivable (beginning balance) $139,000
Allowance for doubtful accounts (beginning balance) 11,450
Net credit sales 940,000
Collections 917,000
Write-offs of accounts receivable 5,600
Collections of accounts previously written off 1,600

Uncollectible accounts are expected to be 9% of the ending balance in accounts receivable.

Required:
Prepare the entries to record sales and collections during the period.

The budget director for Kanosh Cleaning Services prepared the following list of expected selling and administrative expenses. All expenses requiring cash payments are paid for in the month incurred except salary expense and insurance. Salary is paid in the month following the month in which it is incurred. The insurance premium for six months is paid on October 1. October is the first month of operations; accordingly, there are no beginning account balances.

October November December
Budgeted S&A Expenses
Equipment lease expense $5,800 $5,800 $5,800
Salary expense 6,700 7,200 7,600
Cleaning supplies 2,880 2,720 3,040
Insurance expense 1,800 1,800 1,800
Depreciation on computer 2,400 2,400 2,400
Rent 2,100 2,100 2,100
Miscellaneous expenses 710 710 710
Total operating expenses $22,390 $22,730 $23,450
Schedule of Cash Payments for S&A Expenses
Equipment lease expense
Prior month's salary expense 100%
Cleaning supplies
Insurance premium
Depreciation on computer
Rent
Miscellaneous expenses
Total disbursements for operating expenses $22,290 $18,030 $18,850


Required:
a. Complete the schedule of cash payments for S&A expenses by filling in the missing amounts.
b. Determine the amount of salaries payable the company will report on its pro forma balance sheet at the end of the fourth quarter.
c. Determine the amount of prepaid insurance the company will report on its pro forma balance sheet at the end of the fourth quarter.

April is studying finance in college. She wants to enter a career that will analyze the risk of for a company. Which career pathway would be best suited for this ?

Brokerage Clerk

Risk Management Specialist

Tax Preparer

Insurance Sales Agent

Evan phoned his representative when he received his most recent statement on his deferred annuity. Evan is 65 and purchased the fixed annuity seven years ago to be a conservative part of his portfolio. Evan has read and heard a lot about how the market is beginning to take off and that variable annuities have considerable growth potential. He wants to get out of the fixed annuity and purchase a variable annuity to earn a higher return. The representative should:

On January 1, 2010, Desert Company purchased a machine for $820,000. At the time, management estimated the useful life to be 20 years with a salvage value of $80,000 and will use straight-line depreciation. On January 1, 2020, the company reviewed the asset for impairment and determined that its future net cash flows totaled $420,000 and its fair value was $360,000. Desert has decided to continue to use the machine. What is the amount of depreciation expense Desert will record for this machine in 2020 after accounting for any potential impairment?

Andrew is deciding whether to remain in the home he has lived in for the past ten years, which is located very near his work, or to move into a newer home that is located in the suburbs farther from his job. The old house was purchased for $160,000 and has a market value of $220,000. The new home can be purchased for $285,000. Which of the following is not relevant to Andrew's decision?

a. Driving distance to work
b. Cost of the old house
c. Market value of the old house
d. Cost of the new house

General Motors Corporation reported the following information in its 10-K report:

Inventories at December 31 ($ millions) 2008 2007
Productive material, work in process, and supplies $4,849 $6,267
Finished product, service parts, etc. 9,426 10,095
Total inventories at FIFO 14,275 16,362
Less LIFO allowance (1,233) (1,423)
Total automotive and other inventories, less allowances $13,042 $14,939

The company reports its inventory using the LIFO costing method during 2007 and 2008.

Required:
a. At what dollar amount are inventories reported on its 2008 balance sheet?
b. At what dollar amount would inventories have been reported in 2008 if FIFO inventory costing had been used?

The standard cost of Product B manufactured by Pharrell Company includes 2.3 units of direct materials at $6.70 per unit. During June, 26,800 units of direct materials are purchased at a cost of $6.65 per unit, and 26,800 units of direct materials are used to produce 11,500 units of Product B. (a) Compute the total materials variance and the price and quantity variances. Total materials variance $ Materials price variance $ Materials quantity variance

Tucan Company manufactures a product requiring 0.5 ounces of platinum per unit. The cost of platinum is approximately $300 per ounce; the company maintains an ending platinum inventory equal to 10% of the following month's production usage. The following data were taken from the most recent quarterly production budget:

July August September
Planned production in units 1,000 11,00 980

The cost of platinum to be purchased to support August production is:_______