Do you feel that it is ethical or unethical for professionals such as, psychoanalyst Clotaire Rapaille (a French marketing consultant and the CEO and Founder of Archetype Discoveries Worldwide), to use their knowledge to help corporate clients market and sell their products?

1.        Angelo uses the equity method to account for its investment in Fischer on January 1. On the date of acquisition, Fischer’s land and buildings were undervalued on its balance sheet. During the year following the acquisition, how do these excesses of fair values over book values affect Angelo's Equity Income from Fischer?

a. Building, Decrease; Land, No Effect

b. Building, Decrease; Land, Decrease

c. Building, Increase;   Land, Increase

d. Building, Increase;   Land, No Effect

2.         On January 2, 2020, Campbell, Inc. purchased a 20% interest in Renner Corp. for $2,000,000 cash. During 2020, Renner's net income was $2,500,000 and it paid dividends of $750,000.

Equity Investment balance should Campbell report at December 31, 2020?

a. $2,500,000

b. $   500,000

c. $2,350,000

d. $2,150,000

3.        On December 31, 2020, Park Inc. paid $500,000 for all of the common stock of Smith Corp. On that date, Smith had assets and liabilities with book values of $400,000 and $100,000; and fair values of $450,000 and $125,000, respectively.

What amount of goodwill will be reported on the December 31, 2020 balance sheet?

a. $ 50,000

b. $100,000

c. $200,000

d. $175,000

4.         Francis, Inc. acquired 40% of Park's voting stock on January 1, 2020 for $420,000. During 2020, Park earned $120,000 and paid dividends of $60,000. During 2021, Park earned $160,000 and paid dividends of $50,000 on April 1 and $40,000 on December 1. On July 1, 2021, Francis sold half of its stock in Park for $275,000 cash.

The Equity Investment balance at December 31, 2020 is:

a. $420,000

b. $444,000

c. $408,000

d.   $492,000

5.         On January 1, 2020, Cracker Co. purchased 40% of Dallas Corp.'s common stock at book value of net assets. The balance in Cracker's Equity Investment account was $820,000 at December 31, 2020. Dallas reported net income of $500,000 for the year ended December 31, 2020, and paid dividends totaling $150,000 during 2020.

How much did Cracker pay for its 40% interest in Dallas?

a. $680,000

b. $500,000

c. $560,000

d. $760,000

Q1 (a) What is the significance of Marketing?

(b) “Marketing is both art and science.” Discuss.

(Please the Expert needs to submit a detailed answer which must be a standout in a very competitive MBA Marketing Class) .

1. The proportion of basketball players who have not had a missed shot in MBA last year is 27 out of a sample of top 60 players.

                     (5 marks)

                        Hint: The standard deviation of population and the standard deviation of the sample are unknown, thus you have to use the square root of p(1-p)/n as a best estimate of the standard deviation.

1. Test the hypothesis that the population proportion of basketball players who have not had a missed shot in MBA last year is greater than 0.42 using the critical value approach and a 0.05 level of significance.

2. Test the hypothesis that the population proportion of customers who are completely satisfied is different from 0.5 using the p-value approach and a 0.05 level of significance

Bank Reconciliation Statement.

The cash account for Corey’s Construction Company at August 31, 2020, indicated a book balance of $19,885. The bank statement received by the company indicated a balance of $39,473.63 as at August 31, 2020. A comparison of the bank statement and the accompanying cancelled cheques and memos with the records revealed the following:

1. A deposit of $6,794.62 was received by the bank on August 31 after the bank statement was prepared.

2. Cheques #251 for $1,200 and #260 for $1,333.25 were not presented to the bank for encashment as at August 31, 2020.
3. The bank erroneously debited a cheque drawn Corey’s Construction as $16,000 instead of $1,600.

4. The company’s accountant recorded a $3,500.00 cheque for payment of accounts payables as $35,000

5. The bank credited a deposit of $200 as $2,000 to Corey’s Construction account.
6. A cheque for $13,500 from a customer Ali Woods was returned for insufficient funds. The bank charged $50 for Wood’s NSF cheque. The company’s policy states that the bank charges associated with NSF cheques are to be recovered from the customer.
7. A note was collected by the bank of $21,000 on August 31 which included interest of $1,500
8. A debit memo from the bank showed service charge amounting to $2,500 as at August 31, 2020.

1. Prepare Corey’s Construction Company adjusted cash book for August 31^st. 2020.

The following information is extracted from several articles2 about oil market. An intensifying oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia has created “very painful” market conditions for the world’s largest crude oil producers. International benchmark Brent crude traded at $32.97 Thursday, down almost 8%, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) stood at $30.40, around 7.8% lower. Oil prices have almost halved since the start of the year. Last week, Saudi Arabia failed to secure Moscow’s support for deeper output cuts at a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, known as OPEC plus. OPEC had proposed to deepen cuts by 1.5 million barrels per day and Russia was asked to cut an extra 300,000 bpd. “There was no point in cutting until after everyone understood how sharply demand could fall. We cannot fight a falling demand situation when there is no clarity about where the bottom (of demand) is,” Pavel Sorokin, the Russia’s deputy energy minister, said. “It is very easy to get caught in a circle when, by cutting once, you get into an even worse situation: oil prices would shortly bounce back before falling again as demand continued to fall.” Cooperation between two (Saudi Arabia and Russia) of the world’s three largest oil producers — the third is the United States — appears to be at an end. 2How a Saudi-Russian Standoff Sent Oil Markets Into a Frenzy. 9th March 2020. New York Times Russia to OPEC - deeper oil cuts won't work. 12th March 2020. Reuter The losers — and even bigger losers — of an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia. 12th March 2020. CNBC

a) With aid of diagram, explain how the fall in crude oil demand affect the output of OPEC plus members.

b) Discuss why Russia refuse to follow Saudi Arabia’s proposal to cut crude oil production with aid of diagram.

Question 2: The following information is extracted from several articles2 about oil market.

An intensifying oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia has created “very painful” market conditions for the world’s largest crude oil producers. International benchmark Brent crude traded at $32.97 Thursday, down almost 8%, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) stood at $30.40, around 7.8% lower. Oil prices have almost halved since the start of the year.

Last week, Saudi Arabia failed to secure Moscow’s support for deeper output cuts at a meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, known as OPEC plus. OPEC had proposed to deepen cuts by 1.5 million barrels per day and Russia was asked to cut an extra 300,000 bpd.

“There was no point in cutting until after everyone understood how sharply demand could fall. We cannot fight a falling demand situation when there is no clarity about where the bottom (of demand) is,” Pavel Sorokin, the Russia’s deputy energy minister, said.

“It is very easy to get caught in a circle when, by cutting once, you get into an even worse situation: oil prices would shortly bounce back before falling again as demand continued to fall.”

Cooperation between two (Saudi Arabia and Russia) of the world’s three largest oil producers — the third is the United States — appears to be at an end.

2How a Saudi-Russian Standoff Sent Oil Markets Into a Frenzy. 9th March 2020. New York Times Russia to OPEC - deeper oil cuts won't work. 12th March 2020. Reuter The losers — and even bigger losers — of an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia. 12th March 2020. CNBC

a) With aid of diagram, explain how the fall in crude oil demand affect the output of OPEC plus members.

b) Discuss why Russia refuse to follow Saudi Arabia’s proposal to cut crude oil production with aid of diagram.

the following data show the yearly budgets for leading business for leading business sectors in the United States, in thousand dollars. compute the test value for a difference in means budget. Beverages 163 136 43 41 38 20 18: Electronics 44 35 31 28 22 21 11: food producers 52 37 36 21 19 18 17: Supportive services 47 43 42 34 31 21 17.

Although it is difficult to believe in the twenty-first century, there are indeed countries with large businesses that have a cash-only policy. Cuba is one of them, and Armenia used to be one. Credit cards are either not accepted or are risky to use. Looking at this issue from the point of view of the country, do you think that this policy is a help or a hindrance to the economic strength of their country? Would someone from the United States be able to do business with a company in a country like Cuba under these circumstances?

It is known that 76.3% of all high school students age 16 or older in the United States have driven a car in the past month. Suppose you take a random sample of 82 high school students age 16 or older. What is the probability that less than 70% of the students in your sample have driven a car in the past month?

a) 0.0901

b) 0.1075

c) 0.2776

d) this cannot be determined as the central limit theorem conditions are violated.