A group of entrepreneurs want to purchase a rural hotel.

The renovation and purchase of the hotel has an estimated cost of €525,000.

This capital investment will be depreciated consistently over the next 5 years.

It is estimated that there will be 4,000 rooms total occupation per year, at a rate of €100 per room/night. Room occupation will rise by 5% year over year.

Running costs are estimated as €290,000 for the first year and will increase by 5% year over year.

The tax rate is 35%.

Step 1: Calculate the initial free cash flows correctly.

Step 2: If the partners require a minimum return of 8% on their investments, would you recommend that these businessmen buy the hotel? (Assume a continuous increase in cash flow of 1% from the 5^th year forwards). Why or why not?

Pecan Theater Inc. owns and operates movie theaters throughout Florida and Ga. Pecan Theater has declared the following annual dividends over a six-year period ending December 31 of each year, the outstanding stock of the company was composed of 30,000 shares of cumulative, 4% preferred stock, $100 par, and 100,000 shares of common stock, $25 par.

1. Determine the total dividends and the per share dividends declared on each class of stock for each of the six years. There were no dividends in arrears at the beginning of Year 1. Summarize the data in tabular form. If required, round your answers to two decimal places. If the amount is zero, please enter "0".
Year.    Total Dividends. Preferred/Common
1.           48,000                 total? per share?
2.           144,000
3.           288,000
4.           276,000
5.           336,000
6.           420,000
2. Determine the average annual dividend per share for each class of stock for the six-year period. If required, round your answers to two decimal places.
Average annual dividend for preferred_____ per share
Average annual dividend for common_____per share
3. Assuming a market price per share of $253 for the preferred stock and $31 for the common stock, determine the average annual percentage return on initial shareholders' investment, based on the average annual dividend per share for preferred stock and for common stock.
Preferred stock______%
Common stock______%

Alvis Construction Supply Company has a department that manufactures wood trusses (wood frames used in the construction industry). The following information is for the production of these trusses for the month of February:

Required

Using the weighted-average method, calculate the following:

1-a. Costs per equivalent unit. (Round your answers to 4 decimal places.)

1-b. Cost of goods completed and transferred out. (Round intermediate values to 4 decimal places.)

1-c. Costs remaining in the Work-in-Process Inventory account.

2. Assume that you are the company’s controller. The production department’s February equivalent unit cost is higher than expected. If the manager of the first department asks you to do him a favor by increasing the ending inventory completion percentage from 40 to 60% to lower the unit costs, how much would unit cost be affected by this request? (Round your answer to 4 decimal places.)

Alvis Construction Supply Company has a department that manufactures wood trusses (wood frames used in the construction industry). The following information is for the production of these trusses for the month of February: Work-in-process inventory, February 1 4,000 trusses Direct materials: 100% complete $ 10,480 Conversion: 20% complete $ 15,258 Units started during February 18,000 trusses Units completed during February and transferred out 17,000 trusses Work-in-process inventory, February 29 Direct materials: 100% complete Conversion: 40% complete Costs incurred during February Direct materials $ 59,040 Conversion $ 92,092 Required Using the weighted-average method, calculate the following: 1-a. Costs per equivalent unit. (Round your answers to 4 decimal places.) 1-b. Cost of goods completed and transferred out. (Round intermediate values to 4 decimal places.) 1-c. Costs remaining in the Work-in-Process Inventory account. 2. Assume that you are the company’s controller. The production department’s February equivalent unit cost is higher than expected. If the manager of the first department asks you to do him a favor by increasing the ending inventory completion percentage from 40 to 60% to lower the unit costs, how much would unit cost be affected by this request? (Round your answer to 4 decimal places.)

Case – Recreational Park Project

The public has recognized the benefits of recreation and parks as essential to their health and quality of life. A recent survey conducted in 2016 found that the construction of more recreational facilities was a top priority among residents in Lazarette Town (in the Caribbean).

As such, the town council in Lazarette, with the help of other key stakeholders, has sourced and secured three (3) million dollars of grant funds from the Caribbean Wellness Community (CWC) for the development of a mini outdoor recreational park on three (3) acres of land donated by a benevolent resident of the town.

The park will contain sporting facilities among other recreational facilities (e.g. walking trails, children playground, tennis court, basketball court, work out stations, benches, shower facilities, rest rooms etc.). All major key stakeholders and sponsors have unanimously agreed that that the facility should cater for residents of all ages. Additionally, a group of minority stakeholders has expressed their requirements of having an eco-friendly and climate resilient facility. The park should be completed and ready for use by 2022, i.e. the project duration should not exceed two years.

To ensure that the project is completed on time, within scope and on budget, the funding agency and the Lazarette Town Council require that a dedicated and knowledgeable project team is assigned to the project. CWC has expressed the need for the project deliverables to be of ‘high’ quality to guarantee stakeholders’ satisfaction and safety. The CWC requires that ‘tight’ procurement processes should be followed to ensure transparency, accountability and economy. It is anticipated that most of the goods, works and services for building the park will be procured from vendors, suppliers and contractors in the town. In addition, CWC has detailed the need for both positive and negative projects risk to be properly managed throughout the project.

In response to CWC implied and expressed requirements, the Lazarette Town Council has selected and appointed your team to provide project management services for the Recreational Park Project. As a proactive team, your team has decided to use ‘best practices’ in project management to plan project activities and get approval from key project stakeholders before constructing or building the facility. Give the type and nature of the project, the intention is to use a traditional/waterfall approach to project management activities instead of the largely popular and contemporary agile methodology used other industries.

Your team understands the value of planning before doing, and the council’s concerns of not losing the grant funding from CWC. In addition, your team is keen on building a good reputation in the

town. With a can do attitude and the need to increase the chances of the project success, the project management team (your 5-member group) is determined to ensure that the team utilizes the ‘best practices’ for planning, executing and controlling this valuable community based project.

1. Propose an initial risk register for the Recreational Park Project. The risk register should contain a minimum of 10 risks.

* Use template of your choice fo

The time that takes to complete a certain type of construction projects has a mean of 35.5 months and a standard deviation of 1.5 months.

a. According to the Tchebysheff’s theorem, at least what percentage of these projects must have taken between 26.5 months and 44.5 months to complete?

b. If in addition we are told that the relative frequency curve for the completion times is a bell-shaped curve, then approximately what percentage of these projects would take more than 34 months to completed?

If a hotel sells room nights for $80 with a $20 variable cost per room and incurs $17,000 in fixed expenses monthly. What is the breakeven revenue?

$22,666.97

$22,666.87

$22,666.77

$22,666.67

A survey claims that the average cost of a hotel room in Atlanta is more than $125.50 per night. To test this claim, a researcher selects a random sample of 55 hotel rooms and finds that the mean cost per night is $130.75. The standard deviation of the population, σ, is known to be $2.50. At a = 0.05, is there enough evidence to support the claim?

Use the P-Value Method of Testing.

In your work space below, you will need to have -
1. The null hypothesis, Ho
2. The alternative hypothesis, H1
3. The test statistic
4. The type of test(left, right, two-tailed) and the p-value
5. The decision to accept Ho or reject Ho

The Cheyenne Hotel in Big Sky, Montana, has accumulated records of the total electrical costs of the hotel and the number of occupancy-days over the last year. An occupancy-day represents a room rented for one day. The hotel’s business is highly seasonal, with peaks occurring during the ski season and in the summer.

Required:

1. Using the high-low method, estimate the fixed cost of electricity per month and the variable cost of electricity per occupancy-day. (Do not round your intermediate calculations. Round your Variable cost answer to 2 decimal places and Fixed cost element answer to nearest whole dollar amount.)

2. What other factors in addition to occupancy-days are likely to affect the variation in electrical costs from month to month? (You may select more than one answer. Single click the box with the question mark to produce a check mark for a correct answer and double click the box with the question mark to empty the box for a wrong answer. Any boxes left with a question mark will be automatically graded as incorrect.)

• Systematic factors like guests, switching off fans and lights.unanswered
• Number of days present in a month.unanswered
• Income taxes paid on hotel income.unanswered
• Seasonal factors like winter or summer.unanswered
• Fixed salary paid to hotel receptionist.

Exercise 5A-1 High-Low Method [LO5-10]

The Cheyenne Hotel in Big Sky, Montana, has accumulated records of the total electrical costs of the hotel and the number of occupancy-days over the last year. An occupancy-day represents a room rented for one day. The hotel’s business is highly seasonal, with peaks occurring during the ski season and in the summer.

Required:

1. Using the high-low method, estimate the fixed cost of electricity per month and the variable cost of electricity per occupancy-day. (Do not round your intermediate calculations. Round your Variable cost answer to 2 decimal places and Fixed cost element answer to nearest whole dollar amount.)

2. What other factors in addition to occupancy-days are likely to affect the variation in electrical costs from month to month? (You may select more than one answer. Single click the box with the question mark to produce a check mark for a correct answer and double click the box with the question mark to empty the box for a wrong answer. Any boxes left with a question mark will be automatically graded as incorrect.)

Systematic factors like guests, switching off fans and lights.unanswered

Number of days present in a month.unanswered

Income taxes paid on hotel income.unanswered

Seasonal factors like winter or summer.unanswered

Fixed salary paid to hotel receptionist.

You are hoping to get an estimate of the number of birch trees in a local park. You have a satellite image of the park, and plan to use quadrat sampling to estimate the number of birch trees in the park. The park is 1000m by 1000m. Describe how you can set up your quadrat and how you would then use the data you collect to estimate the number of trees in the entire park. (Include a sample calculation).