1. What is marginal revenue?

2. What is marginal cost?
3. Why is a monopolist's marginal revenue less than the price it charges for its product? d) Explain why marginal revenue and marginal cost are important determinants of a monopolist's profit maximizing price and output. As part of your answer, explain the process in a monopolistic market at an output below the profit maximizing output, and at the output above, and why the profit maximizing output is eventually chosen.

Explain in details the various methods of delayed or advanced revenue recognition lisited below:

-Revenue Recognized during the Production Process

-Revenue Recognized at the Completion of Production

-Revenue Recognized as Services Are Performed

-Revenue Recognized as Cash Is Received

-Revenue Recognized on the Occurrence of Some Event

How has General Motors performed in terms of revenue and profit this past year? (has revenue grown, did profit slip)

How has net income performed in the past 4 quarters and 5 years? What is the market capitalization for the company? Has it grown in the past year?

Please cite sources.

Thanks!

Revenue and cash receipts journals; accounts receivable subsidiary and general ledgers

Transactions related to revenue and cash receipts completed by Crowne Business Services Co. during the period April 2–30 are as follows:

Required:

1. Insert the following balances in the general ledger as of April 1:

After completing the recording of the transactions in the journals in part 3, total each of the columns of the special journals, and post the individual entries and totals to the general ledger. Insert account balances after the last posting. When posting to the general ledger, post in chronological order. However, if there is more than one entry on the same date, be sure to post transactions from the revenue journal before posting transactions from the cash receipts journal.

If an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank. In CNOW, Journal pages begin with “J”, Cash Receipts begin with “CR” and Cash Receipts begins with “R”. For example journal/ Cash Receipts/ Cash Receipts, page 1/36/40 respectively. POST. REF. is simply J1, CR36, and R40.

2. Insert the following balances in the accounts receivable subsidiary ledger as of April 1:

After completing the recording of the transactions in the journals in part 3, post to the accounts receivable subsidiary ledger in chronological order, and insert the balances at the points indicated in the narrative of transactions. Determine the balance in the customer's account before recording a cash receipt. If an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank. In CNOW, Journal pages begin with “J”, Cash Receipts begin with “CR” and Cash Receipts begins with “R”. For example journal/ Cash Receipts/ Cash Receipts, page 1/36/40 respectively. POST. REF. is simply J1, CR36, and R40.

3. Prepare a single-column revenue journal (p. 40) and a cash receipts journal (p. 36). Use the following column headings for the cash receipts journal: Fees Earned Cr., Accounts Receivable Cr., and Cash Dr. The Fees Earned column is used to record cash fees.

4. Using the two special journals and the two-column general journal (p. 1), journalize the transactions for April. Post to the accounts receivable subsidiary ledger, and insert the balances at the points indicated in the narrative of transactions. Determine the balance in the customer’s account before recording a cash receipt.

5. Total each of the columns of the special journals and post the individual entries and totals to the general ledger. Insert account balances after the last posting.

If an amount box does not require an entry, leave it blank.

6. What is the sum of the customer balances?
$

Does the sum of the customer balances agree with the accounts receivable controlling account in the general ledger?
   

7. Would an automated system omit postings to a controlling account as performed in step 5 for Accounts Receivable?

Alsup Consulting sometimes performs services for which it receives payment at the conclusion of the engagement, up to six months after services commence. Alsup recognizes service revenue for financial reporting purposes when the services are performed. For tax purposes, revenue is reported when fees are collected. Service revenue, collections, and pretax accounting income for 2017–2020 are as follows:

There are no differences between accounting income and taxable income other than the temporary difference described above. The enacted tax rate for each year is 40%.

(Hint: You may find it helpful to prepare a schedule that shows the balances in service revenue receivable at December 31, 2017–2020.)

Required:
1. Prepare the appropriate journal entry to record Alsup's 2018 income taxes, Alsup’s 2019 income taxes and Alsup’s 2020 income taxes. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field. Enter your answers in thousands.)

Alsup Consulting sometimes performs services for which it receives payment at the conclusion of the engagement, up to six months after services commence. Alsup recognizes service revenue for financial reporting purposes when the services are performed. For tax purposes, revenue is reported when fees are collected. Service revenue, collections, and pretax accounting income for 2020–2023 are as follows:

There are no differences between accounting income and taxable income other than the temporary difference described above. The enacted tax rate for each year is 25%.

(Hint: You will find it helpful to prepare a schedule that shows the balances in service revenue receivable at December 31, 2020–2023.)

Required:
1. to 3. Prepare the appropriate journal entries to record Alsup's 2021 income taxes, 2022 income taxes and 2023 income taxes. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field. Enter your answers in whole dollars.)

4. Complete the following table and answer the accompanying questions. Note: The missing variables can be computed using the mathematical definitions. This computation is best completed in MS Excel. Copy and paste the resulting table into this Word document.

A. At what level of labor (control variable) is profit (net benefit) maximized?

Your answer:

B. What is the relation between marginal revenue and marginal cost at this level of the control variable?                       

Your answer:

C. Graph Profit, Marginal Revenue, and Marginal Cost in a single line graph. Note that marginal revenue equals marginal cost where profit is maximized.

Chapter 16—Prob. 6

Alsup Consulting sometimes performs services for which it receives payment at the conclusion of the engagement, up to six months after services commence. Alsup recognizes service revenue for financial reporting purposes when the services are performed. For tax purposes, revenue is reported when fees are collected. Service revenue, collections, and pretax accounting income for 2017-2020 are as follows:

                          Service Revenue                 Collections                     Pretax Accounting

                                                                                                                                Income

2017                       $610,000                              $590,000                              $150,000

2018                          710,000                                720,000                             215,000

2019                      675,000                             650,000                            185,000

2020                       660,000                            685,000                            165,000

There are no differences between accounting income and taxable income other than the temporary difference described above. The enacted tax rate for each year is 40%. (Hint: You may find it helpful to prepare a schedule that shows the balances in service revenue receivable at December 31, 2017-2020,)

Required:

1. Prepare the appropriate journal entry to record Alsup’s 2018 income taxes, Alsup’s 2019 income taxes and Alsup’s 2020 income taxes. (Enter your answers in thousands. e.g. 150,000 should be entered as 150).)

Alsup Consulting sometimes performs services for which it receives payment at the conclusion of the engagement, up to six months after services commence. Alsup recognizes service revenue for financial reporting purposes when the services are performed. For tax purposes, revenue is reported when fees are collected. Service revenue, collections, and pretax accounting income for 2017–2020 are as follows:

There are no differences between accounting income and taxable income other than the temporary difference described above. The enacted tax rate for each year is 40%.

(Hint: You may find it helpful to prepare a schedule that shows the balances in service revenue receivable at December 31, 2017–2020.)

Required:
1. Prepare the appropriate journal entry to record Alsup's 2018 income taxes, Alsup’s 2019 income taxes and Alsup’s 2020 income taxes. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field. Enter your answers in thousands.)