Park Co. is considering an investment that requires immediate payment of $21,555 and provides expected cash inflows of $6,800 annually for four years. Park Co. requires a 8% return on its investments.

1-a. What is the net present value of this investment? (PV of $1, FV of $1, PVA of $1, and FVA of $1)

1-b. Based on NPV alone, should Park Co. invest?

1-c. What is the internal rate of return? (PV of $1, FV of $1, PVA of $1, and FVA of $1)

1-d. Based on its internal rate of return, should Park Co. make the investment?

The Manager at Rainbow Valley II advertises that the typical family visiting the park spends at least one hour in the park during weekends. A sample of 25 visitors during the weekends in the month of July revealed that the mean time spent in the Park was 63 minutes with a standard deviation of 8 minutes.

1. Using the 0.01 significance level and a one-tailed test, is it reasonable to conclude that the mean time in the Park is greater than 60 minutes? Show all steps in your test of hypothesis.

2. Repeat the analysis at the 0.05 significance level. (You may show only the calculations that change).

3. Repeat with a survey mean of 64 minutes at the .01 significance level. (You may show only the calculations that change).

4. What do you conclude from your analysis?

Hotel Occupancy

C++ Only

Program Description

Write a program that calculates the occupancy rate for a hotel. The program should read its data from a file named "hotel.dat". The first line of this file will be a single integer specifying the number of floors in the hotel. Each of the remaining (N) lines will have two integers; the number of rooms on that floor and the number of occupied rooms on that floor.

Your program should display the following:

• How many rooms the hotel has,
• How many rooms are occupied,
• How many are unoccupied, and
• The percentage of rooms that are occupied.

Notes

1. Your program should be named hotel.cc.
2. You can build this program initially to read from the keyboard, get that working, and then modify the program to read from the file.
3. You will need to create the "hotel.dat" data file.

Mermaid Beach Hotel Ltd (Mermaid Hotel) operates a seaside hotel on the Sunshine Coast, providing
accommodation, bar and restaurant facilities for tourists. Casual and part-time wages are a major
expense item, particularly during summer, when up to an additional 30 staff members are employed.
In order to keep track of casual and part-time wages, Mermaid Hotel’s operations manager prepares
a weekly roster (using Excel) showing:


• employee name
• employment position (e.g. bar staff)
• days and hours rostered for the week
• hourly rate
• any additional amounts to be paid (e.g. meal allowances).


Each employee’s immediate supervisor is required to sign a hard copy of the Excel roster spreadsheet
on a daily basis as evidence that the hours were worked as rostered. Any discrepancies (e.g. additional
hours) are recorded on a separate payroll adjustment form (PAF) and co-signed by the employee. The
Excel roster spreadsheet plus any PAFs are forwarded to the payroll officer at the end of the week and
used as the basis for that week’s casual and part-time employee payroll. Last year, you still placed
reliance on controls over casual and part-time wages, despite finding some breakdowns in controls,
as you were able to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence that the controls were operating
effectively. Assume that you have decided it is appropriate to test internal controls over the relevant
payroll transactions.


Required:

Briefly outline how the information provided above would affect the nature, timing and extent of tests of controls.

Glitz hotel, a 500-room hotel, rents hotel rooms for $120/night. At the current sales level of 400 rooms per night, Glitz currently makes a profit of $30/room:

                                        Per room

Sales                                 $120

Costs                                     90

Profit                                    30

It costs Glitz $90/night to maintain a room ($60 in depreciation, $25 in variable maintenance and $5 in fixed booking costs). Glitz has been approached by Conventions2000.com to purchase a block of 300 rooms for $80/room per night. If this special order is accepted, Conventions2000.com would take care of all booking costs for the rooms booked through Conventions2000.com.

Required:

1. Which are the relevant costs?
2. What is the net change in net income if Glitz accepts the special offer from Conventions2000.com?
3. What other issues should Glitz consider before accepting this special offer?

Sector hotel, a 500-room hotel, rents hotel rooms for $120/night. At the current sales level of 400 rooms per night, Glitz currently makes a profit of $30/room:

                                   Per room

Sales                          $120

Costs                              90

Profit                              30

It costs Sector $90/night to maintain a room ($60 in depreciation, $25 in variable maintenance and $5 in fixed booking costs). Sector has been approached by Conventions2000.com to purchase a block of 300 rooms for $80/room per night. If this special order is accepted, Conventions2000.com would take care of all booking costs for the rooms booked through Conventions2000.com.

Required:

1. Which are the relevant costs?
2. What is the net change in net income if Glitz accepts the special offer from Conventions2000.com?
3. What other issues should Glitz consider before accepting this special offer?

They decide to shop for furnishings for the new house. They choose items that amount to $3600.00. The store has 2 fixed installment loan options for purchasing: Option 1: 20% down payment and financing at 6% simple interest per year for 3 years. Option 2: no down payment and financing at 6.35% simple interest for 4 years. Answer each of the following questions separately, showing all your work to reach each answer.

A. Which option will result in smaller total finance charge? What will that total finance charge be?

B. Which option will result in the smaller monthly payment? What will that monthly payment be?

C. They decide to defer any purchases and invest a $3600 bonus that Maria will be getting from work in a savings account. The interest rate is 1.6% compounded every month. How much interest will they earn in 3 years?

D. They decide to defer any purchases and loan the $3600 bonus to a needy relative at 2.5% simple interest per year. How long will the term of the loan need to be if they want to earn $400 in interest (assuming the loan is not paid off early).

Classifying Relevant and Irrelevant Items

The law firm of Hannan, Taylor, and Masteller has been asked to represent a local client. All legal

proceedings will be held out of town in Boston.

Required

The law firm’s accountant has asked you to help determine the incremental cost of accepting this client.

Classify each of the following items on the basis of their relationship to this engagement. Items may

have multiple classifications.

Relevant costs Irrelevant costs

Opportunity Outlay Outlay Sunk

1. The case will require three attorneys to stay four

nights in a Boston hotel. The predicted hotel bill

is $2,400.

2. Hannan, Taylor, and Masteller’s professional staff

is paid $2,000 per day for out-of-town assignments.

3. Last year, depreciation on Hannan, Taylor, and

Masteller’s office was $25,000.

4. Round-trip transportation to Boston is expected to

cost $250 per person.

5. The firm has recently accepted an engagement that

will require partners to spend two weeks in Chi-

cago. The predicted out-of-pocket costs of this trip

are $8,500.

6. The firm has a maintenance contract on its com-

puter equipment that will cost $2,200 next year.

In a telephone conversation with a sales representative of a linen company, the manager of a hotel ordered $1,000 worth of sheets. Following the conversation, the manager wrote a memo to the file documenting the agreement, initialed it, and sent a copy to the sales representative. One of the linen company’s competitors learned of this contract and contacted the hotel to tell them that the sheets were poorly manufactured and that they should stop buying from the linen company and buy everything from the competitor. The hotel then cancels the contract and starts buying from the competitor.

The linen company’s sheets are not poorly manufactured. The linen company can sue both the competitor and the hotel for losses suffered, one for a tort and one for breach of contract, but the linen company is not allowed to recover twice for the same harm.

What is the tort that the linen company can sue for and who is the defendant?

Who should they sue for the breach of contract claim?

What damages would be recoverable from each defendant so that it would not be recovering the same damages twice?

Does the Statute of Frauds create a defense to the lawsuit against the hotel?

Why or why not?

Its a law question