Consider this situation. Julie is the owner of an airport shuttle. The shuttle transports passengers between Bowling Green and the Nashville Airport. Most customers pay with cash because there is a big discount. Since she is old and spends most of the time in Florida, she hired Mark, as the only employee and driver. Julie is far away from Bowling Green, therefore she has to believe Mark unless there is an unambiguously clear evidence against Mark’s claim/report. Assume that Mark is rational (in economics, rational is synonymous with selfish) and he will always cheat on Julie if doing so is beneficial (increasing his monetary benefits).

     Julie is considering the following five possible compensation methods:

            I)           Pay Mark a flat salary (e.g., $3,500 each month)

            II)         Pay Mark an amount equal to reported revenue less fixed amount

             (e.g., reported revenue less $3,000; negative pay if reported revenue < $3,000)

            III)       Pay Mark a certain percent of sales (e.g., 30% of reported fares from passengers)

4. Pay Mark on an hourly basis (e.g., $25 per hour * Reported work hours)
5. Pay Mark based on the mileage (e.g., $0.30 for each mile added in the mileage gauge)
6. Pay Mark based on his efforts (how hard he works)

Julie is trying to find the best method in avoiding potential cheating by Mark.

Required:

A. Which of the following methods is the best one as far as the owner Julie is concerned? And why?

B. For each of the other 5 methods (the ones you did not choose in A), explain why it is not good for Julie.

Question 2 options: Groovy Juice Mixers, Inc. Groovy Juice Mixers, Inc. mixes specialty drinks out of apple, guava, and papaya juices. Currently it has 1300, 700, and 600 gallons of each of these kinds of juices in inventory, respectively. Groovy currently has two products, Tropical Breeze and Guava Jive, which sell for $2.20 and $1.70 per gallon, respectively. Tropical Breeze is a mixture of all three ingredients that consists of 20% to 25% guava juice, and also 20% to 25% papaya juice. Guava Jive consists at least 50% and at most 55% guava. It does not have to contain papaya juice, but if it does, it may be at most 10% papaya. Assume inventory is a sunk cost, and that the costs of mixing are negligible. Therefore, Groovy's goal is to obtain the maximum possible revenue from the inventory on hand.

To do this problem you will need 6 Decision Variables:

TA = Number of Gallons of Apple Juice Used in Tropical Breeze

TG = Number of Gallons of Guava Juice Used in Tropical Breeze

TP = Number of Gallons of Papaya Juice Used in Tropical Breeze

GA = Number of Gallons of Apple Juice Used in Guava Jive

GG = Number of Gallons of Guava Juice Used in Guava Jive

GP = Number of Gallons of Papaya Juice Used in Guava Jive Find each of the following:

TA = TG = 608 TP = GA = GG = GP = 16 Total Revenue = (Leave off $ sign and commas) Hint: Total Revenue is between 5536 and 5646

AirQual Test Corporation provides on-site air quality testing services. The company has provided the following cost formulas and actual results for the month of February:

The company uses the number of jobs as its measure of activity. For example, mobile lab operating expenses should be $4,900 plus $30 per job, and the actual mobile lab operating expenses for February were $9,240. The company expected to work 150 jobs in February, but actually worked 154 jobs.

Required:

Prepare a flexible budget performance report showing AirQual Test Corporation’s revenue and spending variances and activity variances for February. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values.)

Brent Robertson and his banker were reviewing the quarterly income statements for his consulting business, Robertson and Associates, Inc. The banker was impressed with the growth of sales revenue and net income for the second quarter of this year compared with the second quarter of last year. Brent knew it had been a good quarter, but he didn't think it had been spectacular. Suddenly, Brent realized that he failed to close out the revenue and expense accounts for the prior quarter, which ended in March. Because those temporary accounts were not closed out, their balances were included in the second quarter amounts for the current year. Brent then realized that the banker had the financial statements but not the general ledger or any trial bal- ances. Thus, the banker would not be able to see that the accounting cycle from the first quarter was not properly closed and that this failure was creating a misstated income statement for the second quarter of the current year. The banker then commented that the business seemed to be performing so well that he would approve a line of credit for the business. Brent decided to not say anything because he did not want to lose the line of credit. Besides, he thought, it really did not matter that the income statement was misstated because his business would be sure to repay any amounts borrowed.

Should Brent have informed the banker of the mistake made? should he have redone the second quarter's income statement ? was Brent's failure to close the prior quarter's revenue and expense accounts unethical? Does the fact that the business will repay the loan matter?

Which of the following is a TRUE statement regarding the treatment of scrap by a​ firm?

A. Revenue received from the sale of scrap on a job lowers the total costs for that job.

B. Scrap is always allocated to a specific job.

C. Scrap is separated between normal and abnormal scrap.

D. There are costs assigned to scrap.

Analyze a project which has an investment cost of $2,000.  Every year, starting next year (t=1), the project will generate $100 in revenue, but it will also incur $30 in expenses.  The project will be considered an on-going project going on forever.  If the cost of financing this project is 6%, then the NPV of the project is what?

If a firm is producing its output where MR=MC, but is suffering (economic) losses, then it must be the case that

a) price is less than average total cost.

b) price exceeds marginal cost.

c) price is less than average variable cost.

d) price equals marginal revenue.

Last week we learned more about important concepts in the area of Distribution and about the job of Revenue Manager. Two of the most heavily negotiated points in the distribution channel agreements are Last Room Availability and Rate Parity. Which of these do you feel is the most beneficial to the hotel, and why?

Is the accumulated cost of construction work in progress recorded as an asset anywhere within the financial statements or notes? Which fund, or funds, account for cash received, or receivables created, from sales of general capital assets? Are the proceeds of sales of general capital assets reported as an other financing source or as revenue.

Using the simple percent-of-sales method to prepare a pro forma income statement assumes all expenses remain fixed percentages of the sales revenue.

Discuss the pros and cons of this approach. For example, you may discuss the validity of assuming fixed expenses or interest expense as a fixed percentage of sales.