A business students claims that on average an MBA students is required to prepare more than five cases per week. To examine the claim, a statistics professor ask a random sample of ten MBA students to report the number of cases they prepare weekly. The results are given below. Can the professor conclude that the claim is true, at the .05 level of significance, assuming the number of cases is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 1.5?

1) Is the test statistic for this test Z or t?

2) What is the value of the test statistic of the test? ( Enter 0 if this value cannot be determined with the given information.)

3) What is the pvalue of the test? (Enter 0 if this value cannot be determined with the given information.)

4) What is the relevant bound of the rejection region? (Enter 0 if this value cannot be determined with the given information.)

5) What decision should be made?

Select one:

a. Do not reject the null hypothesis

b. Accept the null hypothesis

c. Can not be determined from given information

d. Reject the null hypothesis

MBA_Salary table contains the annual salaries, in thousands of dollars, earned by individuals who graduated with MBAs in 2015 and 2016 from a certain business school in Canada. We would like to determine whether the distribution of salaries for 2015 MBA graduates is higher than for 2016 MBA graduates. a) Create a boxplot and compare the distribution of salaries for 2015 and 2016 graduates. b) Perform the appropriate non-parametric test at a 5% significance level to determine whether the salary for 2015 graduates is higher than for 2016 graduates. State the hypotheses clearly and show your manual calculation for all the relevant steps in the test. c) Use Excel to perform the appropriate non-parametric test in part (b). How does the result from Excel compare with your conclusion in part (b).

MBA Corp is considering whether to expand widget production. This would require the purchase of a new widget-producing machine at a cost of $5,400,000. The machine would produce 450,000 widgets per year during its useful life of three years, and would be depreciated for tax purposes at a rate of $1,800,000 per year. The machine would not have any salvage value. Expanding widget production would also require the use of a building that could otherwise be leased for $500,000 per year. Working capital required for the new machine would be 12% of the next year’s sales. Widget prices are $20 and are expected to remain stable. The materials and labor required to produce a widget cost $12, and these costs are also expected to remain stable. The corporate income tax rate is 30%. The discount rate is 6% per year. (a) Forecast the incremental cash flows resulting from the purchase of a widget machine on a year-by-year basis and draw them on a timeline. (b) Decide whether MBA Corp should go ahead with the purchase of the new machine.

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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.

You are the auditor of Crane Inc., the Canadian subsidiary of a public multinational engineering company that offers a defined benefit pension plan to its eligible employees. Employees are permitted to join the plan after two years of employment, and benefits vest immediately. You have received the following information from the fund trustee for the year ended December 31, 2020:

Other relevant information:

Prepare a pension work sheet for the company. Assume IFRS is followed.

Prepare the employer’s journal entries to reflect the accounting for the pension plan for the year ended December 31, 2020.

On January 1, 2018 Vulcan Company purchased 400 of the 1000 shares of Star Trek company stock for $60,000.                                                                                                                  

At this time, Star Trek had a truck with a book value of $40,000 and a fair market value of $80,000. The truck has a life of 5 years with no salvage value and Star Trek uses straight line depreciation                                                                                                                              

On July 1, 2018 Star Trek paid a dividend of $1 per share                                                                                                                              

On December 31, 2018 Star Trek reported a profit of $11,000 and its stock was selling $151 per share                                                                                                                      

On July 1, 2019 Star Trek paid a dividend of $2 per share                                                                                                                               

On December 31, Star Trek reported a loss of $5000 and its stock was selling for $148 per share                                                                                                                 

On July 1, 2020 Star Trek announced that it wasn't paying any dividends in 2020.                                                                                                                              

On December 31, 2020 Star Trek reported a profit of $3000 and its stock was selling for $155 per share                                                                                                                  

On January 31, 2021 Vulcan sold its entire investment in Star Trek at $150 per share                                                                                                                      

REQUIRED                                                                                                                          

A) MAKE ALL THE JOURNAL ENTRIES CONNECTED WITH VULCAN'S INVESTEMENT IN STAR TREK IN                           2018                                                                                                      

                2019                                                                                                      

                2020                                                                                                      

                2021                                                                                                      

                B) FILL IN THE FOLLOWING TABLE                                                                                                                           

                                2018       2019       2020                                                      

INVESTMENT IN STAR TREK                                                                                                                        

INVESTMENT INCOME                                                                                                                  

Q2: You have just graduated from MBA program with finance major. Immediately after graduation you have been hired as a financial analyst in a highly prestigious listed company name Cornejo. Your first assignment is to estimate the cost of equity capital and stock price of the company. Your assistant gathered the following information for you:

• The dividend per share (DPS) record of the company over the last 5 years is as follows:

• Risk free rate is 3.5 percent
• Market risk premium is 5 percent
• Cornejo Co has an estimated beta of 1.10
• The company’s dividend growth rate is expected to remain constant for the foreseeable future.

Required:

1. Estimate the company’s cost of equity capital using CAPM.  
2. Draw and briefly define the security market line (SML).
3. Extrapolate a past growth rate. (
4. Estimate the current price of the company’s shares.
5. State clearly any limitations and assumptions that you made in your calculations.

An American company sells merchandise on account to a Swiss company for CHF 50,000 on 1/12/2019 when the rate was 1 CHF = 0.9 USD. On 31/12/2019 the rate was 1 CHF = 0.96 USD. On 25/1/2020 the Swiss company pays its obligation to the US company (the rate was 1 CHF = 1.01 USD), which keeps the foreign cash it and converts the amount to US dollars on 10/2/2020, when the rate was 1 CHF = 0.99 USD. Required: Provide the journal entries on each of the above mentioned dates (Note: CHF means Swiss franc). NOTE: IF YOU CANNOT CLEARLY WRITE THE JOURNAL ENTRIES LIKE YOU WOULD ON A PAPER EXAM, PLEASE MENTION dr OR cr NEAR EACH ACCOUNT IN THE JOURNAL ENTRY AS APPROPRIATE.

An American company sells merchandise on account to a Swiss company for CHF 50,000 on 1/12/2019 when the rate was 1 CHF = 0.9 USD. On 31/12/2019 the rate was 1 CHF = 0.96 USD. On 25/1/2020 the Swiss company pays its obligation to the US company (the rate was 1 CHF = 1.01 USD), which keeps the foreign cash it and converts the amount to US dollars on 10/2/2020, when the rate was 1 CHF = 0.99 USD. Required: Provide the journal entries on each of the above mentioned dates (Note: CHF means Swiss franc). NOTE: IF YOU CANNOT CLEARLY WRITE THE JOURNAL ENTRIES LIKE YOU WOULD ON A PAPER EXAM, PLEASE MENTION dr OR cr NEAR EACH ACCOUNT IN THE JOURNAL ENTRY AS APPROPRIATE.