Given the three types of consumer market in the interview, fast fashion, bifurcation, hyper-luxury markets, how these markets impact on consumers' well-being or happiness?

Depreciation for Partial Periods

Bar Delivery Company purchased a new delivery truck for $36,000 on April 1, 2019. The truck is expected to have a service life of 10 years or 180,000 miles and a residual value of $3,000. The truck was driven 12,000 miles in 2019 and 16,000 miles in 2020. Bar computes depreciation expense to the nearest whole month.

Required:

1. Compute depreciation expense for 2019 and 2020 using the following methods: (Round your answers to the nearest dollar.)
   1. Straight-line method

      2019	$ fill in the blank 1
      2020	$ fill in the blank 2

   2. Sum-of-the-years'-digits method

      2019	$ fill in the blank 3
      2020	$ fill in the blank 4

   3. Double-declining-balance method

      2019	$ fill in the blank 5
      2020	$ fill in the blank 6

   4. Activity method

      2019	$ fill in the blank 7
      2020	$ fill in the blank 8

2. For each method, what is the book value of the machine at the end of 2019? At the end of 2020? (Round your answers to the nearest dollar.)
   1. Straight-line method

      2019	$ fill in the blank 9
      2020	$ fill in the blank 10

   2. Sum-of-the-years'-digits method

      2019	$ fill in the blank 11
      2020	$ fill in the blank 12

   3. Double-declining-balance method

      2019	$ fill in the blank 13
      2020	$ fill in the blank 14

   4. Activity method

      2019	$ fill in the blank 15
      2020	$ fill in the blank 16

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The Project to be addressed by the Paper:

You have just graduated from Keiser University’s MBA program and have secured a position as a fund manager for a well known investment banking house. You have been given $25 million to manage/invest in a single stock. The fund is a pension/retirement fund so its perspective is long term with moderate risk of loss of capital and a required return of 9% per annum. Your assignment is to determine if the fund you are managing should invest $25 million dollars in the stock of the company you have selected for your first analysis/investment decision. Select a publicly traded US based company. Do not select a bank or financial intermediary (i.e Investment Bank, Insurance Company, Brokerage House etc). Your decision to invest or not invest will be supported by the research paper and a Power Point Presentation.

NOTE: Most of the data needed for this assignment can be found in Yahoo/finance. Go to Yahoo/finance, select your company, and view the table of contents on the left side of the page.

Your analysis, based on the concepts covered in this course, will address each of the following:

1.      Business Strategy Analysis: Develop an understanding of the business and

               competitive strategies of the company. Which of the three generic competitive

               strategies does the company utilize (low cost provider, differentiation, focus)?   This should be covered in not more than three paragraphs. Do not spend time

               writing a history of the company. This is an analysis, not a history lesson.

2.      Accounting Analysis: Do the accounting practices adopted by the company

generally reflect an accurate picture of the economic performance of the

company? Did your research find any public announcements of restatement of earnings or other financial statements that would indicate that the financial statements may be of dubious value? This can be done by reviewing the company's 8K filings with the SEC (a mandatory requirement for this paper). These filings can generally be found on the company's website under Investor Relations - SEC filings.

3.      Financial Analysis: Analyze financial ratios and cash flow measures of the

company relative to its historical performance. For purposes of this research paper a 2 year look back is sufficient and required. You must use at least 10 of the ratios noted on page 119 of the text including all four of the profitability ratios. (Liquidity: Current; Quick; Total assets assets turnover; fixed assets turnover; Days sales outstanding (DSO); Inventory turnover; Debt-to-assets ratio; Times-interest-earned; profit margin on sale; Basic earning power; return on total assets

4.      Prospective Analysis: Develop forecasted performance measures and list the   

assumptions associated with your forecast. List your assumptions and reasons for your forecast. You may also cite the works of other analysts who have published forecasted earnings for the time frame you are addressing. (Hint: take a look at Yahoo/finance - analysts opinion

5.      Conclusion: Will you or will you not invest $25 million in this particular

Company? Support your conclusion? Remember a negative conclusion is just as valid and valuable as a positive conclusion.

You set up your own business in merchandising sector in Scranton, PA - opening a luxury watch shop on 1/1/2020.

The following is related information about the business:

-   Specific sub-sector: Merchandising sector.

-   Location: Scranton, PA

-   Business model: merchandiser - buying and selling luxury watches.

-   Investment by owner: $1,000,000

- You hired a shop manager. In order to handle different aspects of business, you had one employee responsible for the purchasing, receiving, and storing of watches purchased. A second employee is responsible for the maintenance of account receivable records and collection from customers. A third employee has responsibility for personal records, timekeeping, preparation of payrolls, and distribution of payroll checks. As a part of his job, the shop manager would do some internal control functions. In addition, you hired one security officer, and 4 full-time sales assistants.

Requirements:

1. You are given the following economic events of the business in 2020

1/1/2020: Opened the business, invested $1,000,000 cash in the business.

1/1/2020: bought a building for the business purpose for $100,000 cash. The building has a useful economic life of 10 years.

1/1/2020: purchased 100 luxury watches for $200,000 with $100,000 cash payment, the remaining amount payable on 2/1/2021. (each watch costs $2,000)

3/1/2020: purchased 50 luxury watches for $250,000 with cash. Each watch costs $5,000.

4/1/2020: purchased 40 luxury watches for $240,000 with cash. Each costs $6,000.

6/1/2020: Sold 130 watched for $1,300,000. Of which $300,000 cash was received at the time of sale. The remaining amount to be received on 5/2/2021.

7/1/2020: paid $1,200 in advance for 12 months’ property insurance (7/1/20 to 7/1/21).

8/1/2020: borrowed $500,000 from a local Chase bank. Interest rate is 12%/year. Interest is paid every 6 months- the first payment date is 2/1/2021. Principal would be paid on 8/1/2021.

9/1/2020: to expand business, you rent a showroom in the next building. Paid $24,000 cash in advance for 12 month’s rent.

12/31/2020: Paid 2020 utilities expense, advertising expense, and miscellaneous expense for $5000, $15,000, and $4,000, respectively.

Salary is paid on the last day of each month. Each month’s salary expense is $20,000.

Notes:

• On 12/31/2020: Physical inventory showed that there were 60 luxury watches on hand at the end of the period. The company used periodic inventory system, and used FIFO costing method.
• Your business used straight-line depreciation method for all fixed assets.
• Ignore tax.

Requirement: Prepare an excel file that includes

1. Tab 1 titled “accounting entries”: prepare all journal entries, adjusting entries, closing entries needed for the period ending on 12/31/2020 based on above economic events

You set up your own business in merchandising sector in Scranton, PA - opening a luxury watch shop on 1/1/2020.

The following is related information about the business:

-   Specific sub-sector: Merchandising sector.

-   Location: Scranton, PA

-   Business model: merchandiser - buying and selling luxury watches.

-   Investment by owner: $1,000,000

- You hired a shop manager. In order to handle different aspects of business, you had one employee responsible for the purchasing, receiving, and storing of watches purchased. A second employee is responsible for the maintenance of account receivable records and collection from customers. A third employee has responsibility for personal records, timekeeping, preparation of payrolls, and distribution of payroll checks. As a part of his job, the shop manager would do some internal control functions. In addition, you hired one security officer, and 4 full-time sales assistants.

Requirements:

1. You are given the following economic events of the business in 2020

1/1/2020: Opened the business, invested $1,000,000 cash in the business.

1/1/2020: bought a building for the business purpose for $100,000 cash. The building has a useful economic life of 10 years.

1/1/2020: purchased 100 luxury watches for $200,000 with $100,000 cash payment, the remaining amount payable on 2/1/2021. (each watch costs $2,000)

3/1/2020: purchased 50 luxury watches for $250,000 with cash. Each watch costs $5,000.

4/1/2020: purchased 40 luxury watches for $240,000 with cash. Each costs $6,000.

6/1/2020: Sold 130 watched for $1,300,000. Of which $300,000 cash was received at the time of sale. The remaining amount to be received on 5/2/2021.

7/1/2020: paid $1,200 in advance for 12 months’ property insurance (7/1/20 to 7/1/21).

8/1/2020: borrowed $500,000 from a local Chase bank. Interest rate is 12%/year. Interest is paid every 6 months- the first payment date is 2/1/2021. Principal would be paid on 8/1/2021.

9/1/2020: to expand business, you rent a showroom in the next building. Paid $24,000 cash in advance for 12 month’s rent.

12/31/2020: Paid 2020 utilities expense, advertising expense, and miscellaneous expense for $5000, $15,000, and $4,000, respectively.

Salary is paid on the last day of each month. Each month’s salary expense is $20,000.

Notes:

• On 12/31/2020: Physical inventory showed that there were 60 luxury watches on hand at the end of the period. The company used periodic inventory system, and used FIFO costing method.
• Your business used straight-line depreciation method for all fixed assets.
• Ignore tax.

Requirement: Prepare an excel file that includes

Tab 2 titled “income statement”: prepare a multiple-step income statement for year ended 12/31/2020.

According to the expectations theory, what is the expected one-year treasury security rate (i.e. forward rate, f) three years from today if today’s rates on treasury securities of different maturities are as follows:

One-year US Treasury Note: 4.5%

Two-year US Treasury Note: 4.8%

Three-year US Treasury Note: 5.2%

Four-year US Treasury Note: 5.3%

Five-year US Treasury Note: 5.3%

Members of the Board of Directors for a certain firm that has 12 seats on the Board for which members are elected for six-year terms. The firm is currently using an election system that puts all members of the Board up for reelection every six years. An alternative is proposed by the CEO that will put only two Board members up for reelection every single year. He justifies this request by saying that reelecting entire board carries the risk that the entire board may be changed, hence the firm would lose valuable experience.

Objective Students are expected to argue in favor of positions they may not necessarily agree with, and in the process, learn to understand where opposing views come from. Such skills are necessary to stay away from "incestuous amplification" that arises from groups of people who think alike. You are required to defend the request made by the CEO to change the election system as if it was made in a court of law in front of a judge.