On the way to lower floors, an elevator begins its descent from rest at a constant acceleration, ascending the first 0.5 m in 0.85s. What is the apparent weight of a 75 kg man inside the accelerator during this time interval?
.1 kn
.18 kn
.74 kn
.3 kn
In: Physics
Write a program in c++ using only while and for loops . Use of arrays and functions is not allowed.
Given the first value, generate the next ten terms of the
sequence like 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 22, 26,
38, 62, 74, 102, 104, …
Explaination with code is required.
In: Computer Science
which is generally true of wages during a recession?
Companies will find it more necessary to pay efficiency wages
Lower revenue will necessitate a shrinking of the wage gap between high and low paid workers
Companies are likely to lower wages due to a lack of competing jobs
Wages for low-wage workers tend to increase to compensate for economic hardship
None of the above
In: Economics
Which of the following is FALSE about a Laffer curve?
A) It illustrates the relationship between tax revenue and income tax rates
B) Its bell-shape is due to income effect and substitution effect
C) It is upward sloping if substitution effect is greater than income effect
D) It is upward sloping if income effect is greater substitution effect
E) None of above
In: Economics
Nailed It! Construction (Nailed It! or the “Company”), an SEC registrant, is a construction company that manufactures commercial and residential buildings. On March 1, 20X1, the Company entered into an agreement with a customer, Village Apartments, to construct a residential apartment building for a fixed price of $1.5 million. The Company estimates that it will incur costs of $1 million to complete construction of the apartment building. The apartment building will only transfer to Village Apartments once the construction of the entire building is complete. In addition, Village Apartments has various design requirements that would require Nailed It! to incur significant costs to rework the building prior to selling it to a customer other than Village Apartments. To construct the apartment building, Nailed It! acquires standard materials that it regularly uses in construction contracts for both residential and commercial buildings. These materials are used to manufacture generic component parts for inclusion in Village Apartments’ residential buildings. These standard materials remain interchangeable with other items until they are deployed in a Village Apartments building. The Company has made the following purchases and incurred the following costs throughout the construction progress:
As of June 30, 20X1, in total, Nailed It! has purchased $75,000 of component parts. As of June 30, 20X1, $25,000 of component parts remain in inventory and $50,000 have been integrated into the project. Further, Nailed It! has incurred $12,500 of direct costs to integrate the component parts into the Village Apartments construction project during the three months ended June 30, 20X1. •During the three months ended September 30, 20X1, Nailed It! purchased an additional $500,000 of component parts ($575,000 in total). Of the $575,000 of component parts, $325,000 remain in inventory and $200,000 have been integrated into the project during the three months ended September 30, 20X1. During the three months ended September 30, 20X1, Nailed It! incurred an additional $50,000 of direct costs to integrate the component parts into the Village Apartments construction project. •As of September 30, 20X1, Nailed It! determined that the project was over budget and revised its cost estimate from $1 million to $1.25 million.•As of December 31 20X1, the construction project was completed. During the three months ended December 31, 20X1, Nailed It! purchased an additional $425,000 of generic component parts ($1 million in total). Of the $1 million component parts, $0 remain in inventory and $750,000 were integrated into the project during the three months ended December 31, 20X1. Nailed It! has incurred $187,500 of direct costs to integrate the component parts into the Village Apartments construction project during the three months ended December 31, 20X1.
If Village Apartments cancels the contract, Nailed It! will be entitled to reimbursement for costs incurred for work completed to date plus a margin of 20 percent, which is considered to be a reasonable margin. Nailed It! will not be reimbursed for any materials that have been purchased for use in the contract but have not yet been used and are still controlled by Nailed It!.
Required:
1.Does the performance obligation meet any of the criteria or recognition of revenue over time?
2.How should the entity recognize revenue for the satisfaction of its performance obligation? What amount of revenue should be recognized for the following periods:
2a.The three months ended June 30, 20X1?
2b.The three months ended September 30, 20X1?
2c.The three months ended December 31, 20X1?
1. If company Nailed It! changes its initial cost estimate from 1,000,000 to 1,250,000 on September 30, 20x1 how does that impact revenue. I have been trying to understand how to use the input method on recording the revenue to the Nailed it! case. Can anyone help me understand it better? I understand 2a, and 2b. I do not understand 2c. I do not understand how the costs are different and how it became a loss of -62,500 at the end of December 31,20x1
2. I would like to know also how to understand the journal entries that i would need to apply at the end of the yearr.
I have already submitted the case for review two times, and both times no one has been able to give me the solid answer to this.
In: Accounting
ADA Pharmaceutical Company produces three drugs—Diomycin, Homycin, and Addolin—belonging to the analgesic (pain-killer) family of medication. Since its inception four years ago, ADA has used a direct labor hour–based system to assign manufacturing overhead costs to products.
Eme Weissman, the president of ADA Pharmaceutical, has just read about activity-based costing in a trade journal. With some curiosity and interest, she asked her financial controller, Takedo Simon, to examine differences in product costs between the firm’s current costing and activity-based costing systems.
ADA has the following budget information for the year:
| Diomycin | Homycin | Addolin | |||||||||
| Cost of direct materials | $ | 198,000 | $ | 258,000 | $ | 251,000 | |||||
| Cost of direct labor | 243,000 | 227,000 | 256,000 | ||||||||
| Number of direct labor hours | 7,130 | 6,730 | 1,930 | ||||||||
| Number of capsules | 930,000 | 493,000 | 293,000 | ||||||||
ADA has identified the following activities and cost drivers and has assigned them a total overhead cost of $196,500.
| Activity | Cost Driver | Budgeted Overhead Cost | Budgeted Cost Driver Volume | |||||
| Machine setup | Setup hours | $ | 15,300 | 1,530 | ||||
| Plant management | Number of Workers | 35,300 | 1,130 | |||||
| Supervision of direct labor | Direct labor hours | 45,300 | 15,300 | |||||
| Quality inspection | Inspection hours | 49,700 | 1,015 | |||||
| Order expediting | Customers served | 50,900 | 610 | |||||
| Total overhead | $ | 196,500 | ||||||
Takedo selected the cost drivers with the following justifications:
SETUP HOURS: The cost driver of setup hours is used because the same product takes about the same amount of setup time regardless of size of batch. For different products, however, the setup time varies.
NUMBER OF WORKERS: Plant management includes plant maintenance and corresponding managerial duties that make production possible. This activity depends on the number of workers. The more workers involved, the higher the cost.
DIRECT LABOR HOURS: Supervisors spend their time supervising production. The amount of time they spend on each product is proportional to the direct labor hours worked.
INSPECTION HOURS: Inspection involves testing a number of units in a batch. The time varies for different products but is the same for all similar products.
NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS SERVED: The need to expedite production increases as the number of customers served by the company increases. Thus, the number of customers served by ADA is a good measure of expediting production orders.
Takedo gathered the following information about the cost driver volume for each product:
| Diomycin | Homycin | Addolin | |||||||||
| Setup hours | 165 | 565 | 765 | ||||||||
| Number of workers | 165 | 365 | 565 | ||||||||
| Direct labor hours | 7,130 | 6,730 | 1,930 | ||||||||
| Inspection hours | 115 | 165 | 665 | ||||||||
| Customers served | 38 | 93 | 465 | ||||||||
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Required:
1. Use the firm’s current costing system to calculate the unit cost of each product.
2. Use the activity-based cost system to calculate the unit cost
of each product.
In: Accounting
ADA Pharmaceutical Company produces three drugs—Diomycin, Homycin, and Addolin—belonging to the analgesic (pain-killer) family of medication. Since its inception four years ago, ADA has used a direct labor hour–based system to assign manufacturing overhead costs to products. Eme Weissman, the president of ADA Pharmaceutical, has just read about activity-based costing in a trade journal. With some curiosity and interest, she asked her financial controller, Takedo Simon, to examine differences in product costs between the firm’s current costing and activity-based costing systems. ADA has the following budget information for the year: Diomycin Homycin Addolin Cost of direct materials $ 198,000 $ 258,000 $ 251,000 Cost of direct labor 243,000 227,000 256,000 Number of direct labor hours 7,130 6,730 1,930 Number of capsules 930,000 493,000 293,000 ADA has identified the following activities and cost drivers and has assigned them a total overhead cost of $196,500. Activity Cost Driver Budgeted Overhead Cost Budgeted Cost Driver Volume Machine setup Setup hours $ 15,300 1,530 Plant management Number of Workers 35,300 1,130 Supervision of direct labor Direct labor hours 45,300 15,300 Quality inspection Inspection hours 49,700 1,015 Order expediting Customers served 50,900 610 Total overhead $ 196,500 Takedo selected the cost drivers with the following justifications: SETUP HOURS: The cost driver of setup hours is used because the same product takes about the same amount of setup time regardless of size of batch. For different products, however, the setup time varies. NUMBER OF WORKERS: Plant management includes plant maintenance and corresponding managerial duties that make production possible. This activity depends on the number of workers. The more workers involved, the higher the cost. DIRECT LABOR HOURS: Supervisors spend their time supervising production. The amount of time they spend on each product is proportional to the direct labor hours worked. INSPECTION HOURS: Inspection involves testing a number of units in a batch. The time varies for different products but is the same for all similar products. NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS SERVED: The need to expedite production increases as the number of customers served by the company increases. Thus, the number of customers served by ADA is a good measure of expediting production orders. Takedo gathered the following information about the cost driver volume for each product: Diomycin Homycin Addolin Setup hours 165 565 765 Number of workers 165 365 565 Direct labor hours 7,130 6,730 1,930 Inspection hours 115 165 665 Customers served 38 93 465 Part 1 Required: 1. Use the firm’s current costing system to calculate the unit cost of each product. 2. Use the activity-based cost system to calculate the unit cost of each product.
In: Accounting
ADA Pharmaceutical Company produces three drugs—Diomycin, Homycin, and Addolin—belonging to the analgesic (pain-killer) family of medication. Since its inception four years ago, ADA has used a direct labor hour–based system to assign manufacturing overhead costs to products. Eme Weissman, the president of ADA Pharmaceutical, has just read about activity-based costing in a trade journal. With some curiosity and interest, she asked her financial controller, Takedo Simon, to examine differences in product costs between the firm’s current costing and activity-based costing systems. ADA has the following budget information for the year: Diomycin Homycin Addolin Cost of direct materials $ 195,000 $ 255,000 $ 248,000 Cost of direct labor 240,000 224,000 253,000 Number of direct labor hours 7,100 6,700 1,900 Number of capsules 900,000 490,000 290,000 ADA has identified the following activities and cost drivers and has assigned them a total overhead cost of $195,000. Activity Cost Driver Budgeted Overhead Cost Budgeted Cost Driver Volume Machine setup Setup hours $ 15,000 1,500 Plant management Number of Workers 35,000 1,100 Supervision of direct labor Direct labor hours 45,000 15,000 Quality inspection Inspection hours 49,400 1,000 Order expediting Customers served 50,600 595 Total overhead $ 195,000 Takedo selected the cost drivers with the following justifications: SETUP HOURS: The cost driver of setup hours is used because the same product takes about the same amount of setup time regardless of size of batch. For different products, however, the setup time varies. NUMBER OF WORKERS: Plant management includes plant maintenance and corresponding managerial duties that make production possible. This activity depends on the number of workers. The more workers involved, the higher the cost. DIRECT LABOR HOURS: Supervisors spend their time supervising production. The amount of time they spend on each product is proportional to the direct labor hours worked. INSPECTION HOURS: Inspection involves testing a number of units in a batch. The time varies for different products but is the same for all similar products. NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS SERVED: The need to expedite production increases as the number of customers served by the company increases. Thus, the number of customers served by ADA is a good measure of expediting production orders. Takedo gathered the following information about the cost driver volume for each product: Diomycin Homycin Addolin Setup hours 150 550 750 Number of workers 150 350 550 Direct labor hours 7,100 6,700 1,900 Inspection hours 100 150 650 Customers served 35 90 450 Required: 1. Use the firm’s current costing system to calculate the unit cost of each product. 2. Use the activity-based cost system to calculate the unit cost of each product.
In: Accounting
Modernization of NTUC Income
Sources: Melanie Liew, Computerworld, July 2004; “NTUC Income of Singapore Successfully Implemented eBaoTech Lifesystem,” ebaotech.com, accessed November 2008; Neerja Sethi & D G Allampallai, “NTUC Income of Singapore (A): Re-architecting Legacy Systems,” asiacase.com, October 2005
NTUC Income (“Income”), one of Singapore’s largest insurers, has over 1.8 million policy holders with total assets of S$21.3 billion. The insurer employs about 3,400 insurance advisors and 1,200 office staff, with the majority located across an eight-branch network. On June 1, 2003, Income succeeded in the migration of its legacy insurance systems to a digital webbased system. The Herculean task required not only the upgrading of hardware and applications, it also required Income to streamline its decade-old business processes and IT practices.
Until a few years ago, Income’s insurance processes were very tedious and paper-based. The entire insurance process started with customers meeting an agent, filling in forms and submitting documents. The agent would then submit the forms at branches, from where they were sent by couriers to the Office Services department. The collection schedule could introduce delays of two to three days. Office Services would log documents, sort them, and then send them to departments for underwriting. Proposals were allocated to underwriting staff, mostly at random. Accepted proposals were sent for printing at the Computer Services department and then redistributed. For storage, all original documents were packed and sent to warehouses where, over two to three days, a total of seven staff would log and store the documents. In all, paper policies comprising 45 million documents were stored in over 16,000 cartons at three warehouses. Whenever a document needed to be retrieved, it would take about two days to locate and ship it by courier. Refiling would again take about two days.
In 2002, despite periodic investments to upgrade the HP 3000 mainframe that hosted the core insurance applications as well as the accounting and management information systems, it still frequently broke down. When a system breakdown did occur, work had to be stopped while data was restored. Additionally, the HP 3000 backup system could only restore the data to the version from the previous day. This meant that backups had to be performed at the end of every day in a costly and tedious process, or the company would risk losing important data. In one of the hardware crashes, it took several months to recover the lost data. In all, the HP 3000 system experienced a total of three major hardware failures, resulting in a total of six days of complete downtime.
That was not enough. The COBOL programs that were developed in the early 1980s and maintained by Income’s in-house IT team also broke multiple times, halted the systems, and caused temporary interruptions. In addition, the IT team found developing new products in COBOL to be quite cumbersome and the time taken to launch new products ranged from a few weeks to months.
At the same time, transaction processing for policy underwriting was still a batch process and information was not available to agents and advisors in real-time. As a result, when staff processed a new customer application for motor insurance, they did not know if the applicant was an existing customer of Income, which led to the loss of opportunities for cross-product sales, as staff had to pass physical documents between each other and there was no means of viewing an up-to-date report on a customer’s history on demand. Furthermore, compatibility issues between the HP 3000 and employees’ notebooks caused ongoing problems, especially with a rise in telecommuting.
All this changed in June 2003, when Income switched to the Java based eBao LifeSystem from eBao Technology. The software comprised three subsystems - Policy Administration, Sales Management and Supplementary Resources — and fulfilled many of the company’s requirements, from customerorientated design to barcode technology capabilities, and the ability to support changes in business processes.
Implementation work started in September 2002 and the project was completed in nine months. By May 2003, all the customization, data migration of Income’s individual and group life insurance businesses and training were completed.
The new system was immediately operational on a high-availability platform. All applications resided on two or more servers, each connected by two or more communication lines, all of which were “load balanced.” This robust architecture minimized downtime occurrence due to hardware or operating system failures.
As part of eBao implementation, Income decided to replace its entire IT infrastructure with a more robust, scalable architecture. For example, all servicing branches were equipped with scanners; monitors were changed to 20 inches; PC RAM size was upgraded to 128 MB; and new hardware and software for application servers, database servers, web servers, and disk storage systems were installed. Furthermore, the LAN cables were replaced with faster cables, a fibre-optic backbone, and wireless capability.
In addition, Income also revamped its business continuity and disaster-recovery plans. A real-time hot backup disaster-recovery center was implemented, where the machines were always running and fully operational. Data was transmitted immediately on the fly from the primary datacentre to the backup machines’ data storage. In the event of the datacentre site becoming unavailable, the operations could be switched quickly to the disaster recovery site without the need to rely on restoration of previous day data.
Moving to a paperless environment, however, was not easy. Income had to throw away all paper records, including legal paper documents. Under the new system, all documents were scanned and stored on “trusted” storage devices - secured, reliable digital vaults that enabled strict compliance with stringent statutory requirements. Income had to train employees who had been accustomed to working with paper to use the eBao system and change the way they worked.
As a result of adopting eBao Life System, about 500 office staff and 3,400 insurance advisors could access the system anytime, anywhere. Staff members who would telecommute enjoyed faster access to information, almost as fast as those who accessed the information in the office.
This allowed Income to view a summary of each customer over different products and business areas. As a result, cross-selling became easier, and customer service could be improved. Simplified workflows cut policy processing time and cost by half, and greatly reduced the time required to design and launch new products from months to days.
Additionally, the systems allowed for online support of customers, agents and brokers.
CASE STUDY QUESTIONS
1. What were the problems faced by Income in this case? How were the problems resolved by the new digital system?
2. What types of information systems and business processes were used by Income before migrating to the fully digital system?
3. Describe the Information systems and IT infrastructure at Income after migrating to the fully digital system?
4. What benefits did Income reap from the new system?
5. How well is Income prepared for the future? Are the problems described in the case likely to be repeated?
In: Economics
In 2004, one county reported that among 3116 white women who had babies, 139 were multiple births. There were also 23 multiple births to 607 black women. Does this indicate any racial difference in the likelihood of multiple births? a) Test an appropriate hypothesis and state your conclusion. b) If your conclusion is incorrect, which type of error did you commit? a) Let p1 be the proportion of multiple births for white women and p2 be the proportion of multiple births for black women. Choose the correct null and alternative hypotheses below.
In: Statistics and Probability