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On January 1, 2020, Pearl Company makes the two following acquisitions. 1. Purchases land having a...

On January 1, 2020, Pearl Company makes the two following acquisitions.

1. Purchases land having a fair value of $360,000 by issuing a 4-year, zero-interest-bearing promissory note in the face amount of $566,467.
2. Purchases equipment by issuing a 7%, 9-year promissory note having a maturity value of $520,000 (interest payable annually).


The company has to pay 12% interest for funds from its bank.

(a) Record the two journal entries that should be recorded by Pearl Company for the two purchases on January 1, 2020.
(b) Record the interest at the end of the first year on both notes using the effective-interest method.


(Round present value factor calculations to 5 decimal places, e.g. 1.25124 and the final answer to 0 decimal places e.g. 58,971. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts. Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)

No.

Date

Account Titles and Explanation

Debit

Credit

(a) 1.

January 1, 2020

enter an account title to record the first purchase on January 1, 2017

enter a debit amount

enter a credit amount

enter an account title to record the first purchase on January 1, 2017

enter a debit amount

enter a credit amount

enter an account title to record the first purchase on January 1, 2017

enter a debit amount

enter a credit amount

2.

January 1, 2020

enter an account title to record the second purchase on January 1, 2017

enter a debit amount

enter a credit amount

enter an account title to record the second purchase on January 1, 2017

enter a debit amount

enter a credit amount

enter an account title to record the second purchase on January 1, 2017

enter a debit amount

enter a credit amount

(b) 1.

December 31, 2020

to record the interest on the first note using the effective-interest method on December 31, 2017

enter a debit amount

enter a credit amount

to record the interest on the first note using the effective-interest method on December 31, 2017

enter a debit amount

enter a credit amount

2.

December 31, 2020

to record the interest on the second note using the effective-interest method on December 31, 2017

enter a debit amount

enter a credit amount

to record the interest on the second note using the effective-interest method on December 31, 2017

enter a debit amount

enter a credit amount

to record the interest on the second note using the effective-interest method on December 31, 2017

enter a debit amount

enter a credit amount

In: Accounting

You are the Human Resources (HR) Manager of Australian Travel InsuranceCo, founded in May 2018, which...

You are the Human Resources (HR) Manager of Australian Travel InsuranceCo, founded in May 2018, which specialises in providing travel insurance and advice to travellers. Australian Travel InsuranceCo has rapidly grown to be a market leader in providing travel insurance, with consistently strong ratings and reviews. The company has also expanded considerably in only a short amount of time, from 10 staff initially, to now employing 35 ‘Travel Specialists’ in its Sydney office. All staff provide tailored advice to customers via phone and email as well as process insurance claims received. The CEO, Mark Strong, believes the company can improve on its already exceptional performance and be the market leader in this sector.
The group of 35 staff, managed by 5 team leaders, have developed a strong sense of collegiality working together at the Sydney office. In addition to having regular company lunches and a competitive table tennis tournament, there was a high level of morale amongst workers.
Inspired from his reading in practitioner magazines about the benefits of flexible working practices for individual and company performance, Strong saw value in considering how the company could work more flexibly. With Sydney rental prices increasing, Strong also believed the company could save money on some of its overheads by having fewer staff needing to come into the office each day. Strong was also inspired by his reading of the new ‘in vogue’ way to appraise performance – holding regular performance ‘conversations’ instead of an annual performance review. Strong is a strong believer of evidence-based Human Resource Management practice and thought the company’s new approach would follow a new trend in performance management he had been reading about. Following discussions with other members of senior management in late 2019, the company introduced a modified performance management system and a new flexible working policy in January 2020.
Before the announcement, each team of Travel Specialists would set their annual performance goals with their Team Leader in January. In July, Team Leaders would conduct a mid-year check-in to see how each team was performing against the set targets. Each team of Travel Specialists were measured on how many insurance claims they closed each month and their quality of customer service, judged by star ratings received from customers at the close of each claim and customer comments. Each team would then receive a final appraisal and single performance score in December. This was linked to salary increases for the following year and an annual bonus for the best performing team.
Under the new performance management system, Travel Specialists would now have their performance measured on an individual basis. Instead of an annual performance appraisal, Travel Specialists would have individual performance feedback sessions every 6 weeks with their Team Leader. Each session would have a particular ‘theme’, such as ‘strengths’, ‘growth’ or ‘my values’. There would still be consideration of the Travel Specialist’s KPI’s (claims closed each month) and ratings from customer feedback. Strong believed this was a way to build more ‘individual accountability’ for performance outcomes. Under the new flexible working policy, staff were also encouraged to start working ‘remotely’ from their home for 3 days each week.
Mark Strong held a meeting with senior management and Team Leaders 2 months into the operation of the new policies to receive feedback. The feedback was disappointing to say the least. Travel Specialists and Team Leaders felt under pressure to constantly discuss performance issues and were given no extra time to complete these discussions (the same KPI’s still had to be met). The ‘themes’ did not seem so relevant either to help in improve their performance. Despite Strong’s desire to achieve some cost savings, morale was dropping from Travel Specialists frequently working remotely. Team Leaders have also reported less staff engagement. Some Travel Specialists are consistently late to virtual team meetings and others aren’t communicating with their Team Leaders in a timely manner.
Strong is pleased with the cost savings being made, but less pleased with business having declined 10% in the last month. Customers are also receiving poorer service. While Travel Specialists previously received consistent 4/5 and 5/5 ratings for customer service, since January 2020 ratings have fallen to 3/5 on average.
Strong isn’t keen on reverting to the ‘old’ ways of working, but still sees some value in the new performance and working practices that have been introduced, seeing these practices as the way of the future based on his reading from practitioner magazines. Help is needed to refine the company’s performance management practices and recommend solutions.



Questions:

1. As the HR Manager of Australian Travel InsuranceCo, identify and analyse the problems at the company in relation to performance management.

2. Recommend two practical solutions for Australian Travel InsuranceCo to help in refining and improving their performance management practices.



In answering both sections of this task, you are required to draw upon relevant performance management theories and concepts in identifying and analysing problems and recommending solutions.

In: Operations Management

Exercise 2 The following data represent the mutual fund prices reported at the end of the...

Exercise 2

The following data represent the mutual fund prices reported at the end of the week for selected 42 nationally sold funds.

10        17        15        18        22        19        10        17        18        25        11        13        35        28

27        29        39        31        35        33        22        24        28        35        45        50        47        38

41        31        21        11        49        38        35        25        33        42        27        15        28        34

  1. Organize the data.
  2. Present the data.

Exercise 3

Twenty MBA students have got the following marks out of 100 in three courses in the first semester.

Course

Marks out of 100

Marketing

79

85

92

95

77

82

85

88

90

92

82

92

93

84

80

90

88

87

80

75

Quantitative Methods

91

80

75

64

50

83

75

91

88

79

92

73

78

81

82

76

85

80

75

90

International Business

90

88

87

80

75

83

75

91

88

79

88

91

90

77

76

82

92

93

84

80

  1. Organize the above data in meaningful form.
  2. Present the data.
  3. Analyze and compare performance of students in three courses.

Exercise 4

A random sample of 8 MBA students from two sections of same batch are selected from of a B-School. The marks scored by these students are given below;

            

Section A

60

50

76

87

90

57

68

77

Section B

50

78

84

62

75

53

73

90

On the basis of sample statistic find out (show working),

  1. Which section is more consistent?                                                           
  2. Which section’s overall performance is better and why?

In: Statistics and Probability

The incomes of a population of lawyers have a normal distribution with mean US$88,000 and standard...

The incomes of a population of lawyers have a normal distribution with mean US$88,000 and standard deviation US$60,000. Forty-nine lawyers are selected at random from the above population to serve as a sample in a research project. Use the z for a sample mean formula and determine the probability that the one sample of 49 lawyers drawn at random will have a mean salary of US$90,000 or greater.

a. .03

b. .23

c. -.03

d.-.23

e. .5120

f..4880

g. .5910

h. .4090

In: Statistics and Probability

What is a multinational firm? Please describe the theory of international trade that you can only...

What is a multinational firm? Please describe the theory of international trade that you can only consume what you can produce without trade and you can consume more than you produce with trade? What happens to the US dollar value of the UK pound if the US$/UK£ rises? The US dollar price of the euro rose from $1.15 to $1.30 - please explain using the demand and supply graph for a foreign currency and explain what is the main cause of changes in D and S.

In: Economics

1. What is assimilation according to sociologists? 2. Identify two advantages of assimilation to the USA....

1. What is assimilation according to sociologists?

2. Identify two advantages of assimilation to the USA. Explain why these are advantageous t US society

3. Identify two disadvantages of assimilation to US society. Explain why these are disadvantageous t US society

4. In what way is the Internal Colonialism Theory applicable to Native Americans? Explain fully drawing examples from Native Americans.

5. Summarize the Caste Theory. In what way is it applicable to the experiences of African Americans?  

In: Psychology

Litapi Fisheries has just finished registering with Patents and Company Registration Authority (PACRA) as a Supplier...

Litapi Fisheries has just finished registering with Patents and Company Registration Authority (PACRA) as a Supplier of Fish to Hotels, Boarding Schools, Colleges and Universities amongst other intended clients. The Supplying Company has been organized into Marketing, Procurement, Accounts, sales, Human Resource and IT Departments. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company has decided to start with rented office premises in the town center of Mongu town, his single light truck as the only start up transport. The IT department is supposed to maintain the IT infrastructure on which all the other departments store their information and also provide the electronic marketing support for the marketing department. In the last five years, the region which is their major source of fish has experienced droughts and floods. The fish storage facilities which have been gotten by loan from the local Radian Stores are new and use AC power which is often loadshaded, at times for longer periods.

a) The human Resource department has just hired you as their inaugural Business Continuity Manger and tasked you to come up with Business Continuity Management System specific to this company. Discuss the said Business Continuity Management System, clearly highlighting the Mitigation and Continuity Strategies.

b) Use PDCA process approach to show how this fishing company can improve its management operations.

In: Economics

Suppose that you are a dealer in sugar. On 26th March 2020 you hold 200,000 pounds...

Suppose that you are a dealer in sugar. On 26th March 2020 you hold 200,000 pounds of sugar in inventory that is worth $0.0379 per pound. The current price of a futures contract expiring 3 months later in June is $0.0450 per pound. Each futures contract is written on 100,000 pounds of sugar. You have decided to sell two June 2020 futures contract to hedge your planned sale of sugar later. Assume a zero interest rate so that you can ignore the cost of any initial margin or variation margins. The futures contract is cash settled.

Required:

  1. Calculate the original basis. Also calculate your net proceeds (from both the sale of sugar and the cash settlement of the futures contract if settlement of the futures contract takes place on the mandatory close out date). Assume the “type” of sugar and the sugar quality that underlies the futures contract exactly matches the physical sugar you hold as part of your inventory. Original Basis is: ? Net proceeds from sugar sale and settlement of any gain or loss on the two futures contract at maturity date or the mandatory close out date of the futures contract is: ?
  2. Now assume that the sugar is sold and the hedge is closed on 10th April 2020, when the spot price is $0.0474 and the June 2020 futures price is $0.0490. Calculate the net proceeds from both the sale of sugar and the cash settlement of the two futures contracts on 10th April 2020.

In: Finance

Illustration Capsule 5.1 discusses Amazon’s low-cost position in the electronic commerce industry. Based on information provided...

Illustration Capsule 5.1 discusses Amazon’s low-cost position in the electronic commerce industry. Based on information provided in the capsule, explain how Amazon has built its low-cost advantage in the industry and why a low-cost provider strategy is well suited to the industry.

MBA class. Business Strategy and policy class MB 695.

Book: Crafting and Executive Strategy: The Quest for Competitive advantage: conept and cases, 21st edition by Arthur Thompson

In: Accounting

Celestila Moonn, an UMB MBA student selected Google stock for Capital Market/Portfolio construction project. Last week,...

Celestila Moonn, an UMB MBA student selected Google stock for Capital Market/Portfolio construction project. Last week, Moonn realized that the stock lost 10% of its value since the stock was purchased. Moonn also noticed that Google pays no dividends yet investors are willing to buy shares in this firm.

In your initial post, briefly justify: How is this possible? Does this violate the basic principle of stock valuation? Do you support Moonn’s concerns?

In: Finance