You are the current "up-and-coming" corporate controller for a publicly traded company called Spartan Cruises, Inc. and as such, report to the CFO Tom Harris who in turn reports to the CEO Michele Lowry.

Spartan Cruises, headquartered in Miami, offers upscale cruises primarily to US citizens out of three ports as follows:

1.      15 ships operating out of Miami with Caribbean itineraries that are very profitable.

2.      10 ships operating out of Barcelona Spain with Mediterranean itineraries that are modestly profitable.

3.      5 ships operating out of Sydney Australia with Australian coast and New Zealand itineraries that are effectively break even from a financial perspective.

All 30 ships cost approximately $150.00 million/ship and are depreciated on a straight line basis over 10 years (with no residual or salvage value) - the 15 operating out of Miami are relatively new, the 10 operating out of Barcelona are 5 years old, and the 5 ships operating out of Sydney are much older and fully depreciated.

In addition, Spartan Cruises had previously signed contracts to purchase 3 additional ships at $150.0 million/ship that were scheduled to be delivered to Miami in mid-2022 but as of today, construction has not commenced. As part of the contract signing process for each ship, Spartan Cruises made a good-faith non-refundable deposit of $20.0 million/ship and recorded a combined asset of $60 million on their balance sheet.

Late last week, CFO Tom and CEO Michele attended a high-level economic summit in New York City and during the conference, credible market experts predicted that the cruise industry is about to go through permanent economic contraction and as such, will no longer enjoy the demand and revenue levels it enjoyed in recent years. Specifically, the experts predict that cruise industry revenues will be 70% lower than what the industry was otherwise anticipating over the next five years due primarily to the pandemic vulnerability passengers are exposed to as evidenced by the recent well-publicized coronavirus (something Spartan Cruises was fortunate to totally avoid).

On the private plane ride back from New York, Tom and Michele discussed how Spartan Cruises was going to adapt to this new reality given that the Barcelona & Sydney operations will probably become very unprofitable as incoming cash flow from cruise sales is expected to effectively evaporate.

Tom and Michele are considering discontinuing the Barcelona and Sydney operations, and cancelling the orders for the 3 new ships, and have asked you to quantify on a macro perspective what the financial impact would be if the Spartan Cruises Board of Directors decided to move in that direction and announce these discontinued operations before the end of the March 31 first quarter.

Q1.

what the effect might be for reflecting these "impairment issues" into the March 31, 2020 first quarter income statement

Q2.

other financial considerations that management might take into account when deciding on this potential action.

The following are the years that the big market crashes happened since 1900 in US stock market .

1929-1932

1987

2000-2002

2007-2009

2020

What are the economic and political background, triggers, and fundamental reasons of each market crash.

no word limit

Google just sold a $10 million face value of 3.75% US Treasury Notes that mature on May 15, 2030, and has a yield to maturity of 4.5%.

What is the flat price of the bond today (4/6/2020)?

What is the invoice price of the bond?

"Please can I get a feedback on this discussion post below" Can I get it in 2 hours please .thanks

Tesla is a company recently in the news for a conflict of interest between the SEC and the CEO Elon Musk due to an interest to bring the company private by the CEO who shared on Twitter his short term plans. Production issues, a number of layoffs and the increasing demand for the electric vehicles were expressed by the CEO as reasons to bring the company private that would allow the company to restructure its company internally. The company has since rescinded its position remaining as a public company. The SEC stated that it was swaying investors by stating that the company would do so when it reached a stock price of $420 forcing investors to make a decision or artificially driving the stock price to the sale price in order to bring the company private faster. Elon Musk has previously tweeted about its stock price in terms of its standing in the market however this is the first where the market has reacted to his tweets negatively. Possible solutions to the situation would be to address investors by other measures in addition to Twitter. Twitter being a social network for CEO’s to interact with customers and investors directly however a more formal approach might have been ideal in this situation.

Consider University of Minnesota as a business.

1.Who are University of Minnesota’s customers? Explain your answers.

2.What is/are University of Minnesota’s product(s)? Explain your answers.

3.Describe University of Minnesota’s supply chain in relation to your answer for #2.

4.List three or four Critical Success Factors for University of Minnesota

5.For each CSF from #4 identify three Key Performance Indicators

Required: Prepare journal entries for each of the following transactions under the Perpetual Inventory method—include recording date and all required revenue, expense and balance sheet accounts. The Widget Company sells only one product (widgets) and uses FIFO. December 31, 2019 inventory is as follows:

1. January 2, 2020: Received 1,000 widgets with a unit cost of $6.00. The units were shipped from the supplier on December 29, 2019 FOB shipping point. The widgets were not included in the December 31, 2019 inventory. Payment terms are 2/10, net 30. The company uses the Net Method for recording payment discounts.
2. January 5, 2020: Sold 3,000 widgets for $11.00 each and shipped FOB shipping point. Payment terms are 1/10, net 30. The company uses the Gross Method for recording sales discounts.
3. January 6, 2020: Paid in full for the 1,000 widgets received on January 2, 2020.
4. January 10, 2020: Customer returned 200 of the widgets sold and shipped on January 5, 2020. All items were in excellent condition and returned to inventory.
5. January 15, 2020: Received 2,500 widgets with unit cost of $90. Payment terms are net 30—no payment discount offered. Atlas Freight Company billed Widgets $250.00 for delivering the widgets and Widgets paid Atlas immediately.
6. Calculate the following for January 2020:
   1. Inventory quantity on hand and account balance at the end of the month
   2. Net Sales, Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit for January 2020

A prospective MBA student earns $60,000 per year in her current job and expects that amount to increase by 14% per year. She is considering leaving her job to attend business school for two years at a cost of $45,000 per year. She has been told that her starting salary after business school is likely to be $90,000 and that amount will increase by 10% per year. Consider a time horizon of 10 years, use a discount rate of 12%, and ignore all considerations not explicitly mentioned here. Assume all cash flows occur at the start of each year (i.e., immediate, one year from now, two years from now,..., nine years from now). Also assume that the choice can be implemented immediately so that for the MBA alternative the current year is the first year of business school. What is the net present value of the more attractive choice? Please round your answer to the nearest dollar. Please check your answer I have received the wrong answer for this question before.

Aaron Levie is the co-founder of Box. Assume that his company currently has $250,000 in equity, and he is considering a $100,000 expansion to meet increased demand. The $100,000 expansion would yield $16,000 in additional annual income before interest expense. Assume that the business currently earns $40,000 annual income before interest expense of $10,000, yielding a return on equity of 12% ($30,000/$250,000). To fund the expansion, he is considering the issuance of a 10-year, $100,000 note with annual interest payments (the principal due at the end of 10 years).

Required

Using return on equity as the decision criterion, show computations to support or reject the expansion if interest on the $100,000 note is (a) 10%, (b) 15%, (c) 16%, (d) 17%, and (e) 20%.

What general rule do the results in part 1 illustrate?

Interns,

Mr. Howell, the prestigious founder and owner of our company would like you to perform an analysis on the company’s weekly revenues. He is requiring that the current weekly marginal revenue be at least $5,000 per week and if it is not currently at that level how fast should sales be changing to reach the target marginal revenue level. The most current information regarding weekly revenues can be found in Mr. Howell’s email below.

To be solved using derivatives.

“Mr. Kleppin,

It has come to my attention that our weekly marginal revenues may not be at the minimum level of $5,000 per week as I required. According to the sales report, we are currently selling 1,000 DVD’s per week and sales are currently rising by 200 DVD’s a week (gotta love the Marvel Universe! Customers can’t get enough!). They also inform me that our current selling price is $20 and that the price is dropping by $1 per week to encourage more sales. I would like you, Mr. Kleppin, to give the interns a chance to earn one of the 10 available positions at the end of their internship by giving them the opportunity to do the analysis. Again, I need to know if we are at the minimum level of $5,000 per week in marginal revenue, and if not, at what level should our sales per week be at so as to achieve the minimum marginal revenue level.”

The comparative balance sheets for 2021 and 2020 and the income statement for 2021 are given below for Arduous Company. Additional information from Arduous’s accounting records is provided also.

Additional information from the accounting records:

1. Investment revenue includes Arduous Company’s $12 million share of the net income of Demur Company, an equity method investee.
2. Treasury bills were sold during 2021 at a gain of $3 million. Arduous Company classifies its investments in Treasury bills as cash equivalents.
3. Equipment originally costing $80 million that was one-half depreciated was rendered unusable by a flood. Most major components of the equipment were unharmed and were sold for $12 million.
4. Temporary differences between pretax accounting income and taxable income caused the deferred tax liability to increase by $8 million.
5. The preferred stock of Tory Corporation was purchased for $30 million as a long-term investment.
6. Land costing $52 million was acquired by issuing $26 million cash and a 10%, four-year, $26 million note payable to the seller.
7. The right to use a building was acquired with a 15-year lease agreement; present value of lease payments, $94 million. Annual lease payments of $7 million are paid at the beginning of each year starting January 1, 2021.
8. $65 million of bonds were retired at maturity.
9. In February, Arduous issued a stock dividend (6.0 million shares). The market price of the $5 par value common stock was $7.50 per share at that time.
10. In April, 1 million shares of common stock were repurchased as treasury stock at a cost of $14 million.

Required:
Prepare the statement of cash flows for Arduous Company using the indirect method. (Amounts to be deducted should be indicated with a minus sign. Enter your answers in millions (i.e., 10,000,000 should be entered as 10).)