BUSINESS ANALYSIS

select business that publicly trades on the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ

1. the company`s name on its name history if the name changed since the company was originally formed ( consider mergers etc.)
2. company`s trademark(s)

3. location of the company`s home office and whether they have offices located outside the US (if so, identify location(s))

4. description of the company`s general products or serviced

5. the company`s mission statement or business philosophy

6. whether the company is publicly traded and if so, the stock exchange on which the company`s shares are traded

7. the current CEO and summary of his/her business background

8. the identity on one of the company`s primary competitors

9. summary of the company`s corporate ethics policy and the URL to this policy

10. summary of company press release dated July 1, 2017 or later

11. summary of lawsuit in which the company has been involved as a plaintiff or as a defendant

Bramble Corporation operates a retail computer store. To improve delivery services to customers, the company purchases four new trucks on April 1, 2020. The terms of acquisition for each truck are described below.

Prepare the appropriate journal entries for the above transactions for Bramble Corporation.

thanks!

STRATEGY EXECUTION——“Strategic Risk Management”

1. Assume you are presenting (as a consultant) the concept of Strategic Risk Management to the executive team at a company that is considering implementing it for strategy execution. The pre-reads for the session included Strategic Risk Assessment Frameworks: A Guidebook for Management Teams Mark L. Frigo and Ricard J. Anderson 2017 and Creating and Protecting Value: Understanding and Implementing ERM Anderson and Frigo (COSO 2020), The CEO asks the following question: What are the primary benefits of Strategic Risk Management and Strategic Risk Assessment? In one short paragraph, please describe how you would reply to this question.

2. Situation: Assume you are presenting (as a consultant) the concept of Strategic Risk Management to the executive team at a company that is considering implementing it for strategy execution. One of the pre-reads for the session is Strategic Risk Management Excerpt from Strategic Analysis IMA SMA 2020 Frigo and Krumwiede, the CFO asks the following question: What are the strengths and limitations of Strategic Risk Management? In one short paragraph, please describe how you would reply to this question.

3. Situation: Assume you are presenting (as a consultant) the concept of Strategic Risk Management to the executive team at a company that is considering implementing it for strategy execution. One of the pre-reads for the session is Strategic Risk Management Excerpt from Strategic Analysis IMA SMA 2020 Frigo and Krumwiede, the CFO asks the following question: What role can CFOs play in Strategic Risk Management? In one short paragraph, please describe how you would reply to this question.

4. For one of the following companies (UPS, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Harley-Davidson, Southwest Airlines, Abbott, Marriott International), applying the DuPont ROI model, please describe in one short paragraph the top strategic risks of the company using the Strategic Risk Management framework described in Strategic Risk Assessment Frameworks: A Guidebook for Management Teams Mark L. Frigo and Ricard J. Anderson 2017 and Creating and Protecting Value: Understanding and Implementing ERM Anderson and Frigo (COSO 2020).

5. For one of the following companies (UPS, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Harley-Davidson, Southwest Airlines, Abbott, Marriott International), applying the DuPont ROI model, please describe in one short paragraph what Genuine Assets are at risk of the company using the Strategic Risk Management framework described in Strategic Risk Assessment Frameworks: A Guidebook for Management Teams Mark L. Frigo and Ricard J. Anderson 2017 and Creating and Protecting Value: Understanding and Implementing ERM Anderson and Frigo (COSO 2020).

A discussion question is as follow: please provide a response:

thanks for giving a clear picture on GDP figures. I was hoping you will add figures for US GDP in the second quarter of 2020 to ascertain the impact of Covid-19 on the US economy and the world overall. The US real GDP has shrunk 31.4% in the second of 2020 and yet to release the third quarter figures. This is comparable to five years of economic growth wiped out in a single quarter. I will expect the GDP to continue to decline but not too drastic. The US remains the world biggest economy in nominal GDP terms. IMF has advocated for more US government stimulus. According to IMF economist Gita Gopinath, “$2.2 trillion CARES Act approved in March would increase growth in the world's biggest economy by two percentage points next year, over the 3.1 percent GDP rise currently forecast.” (Scott and Touitou, 2020). Republicans have argued that increase in the stimulus increases debt and leads to wastage which has led to current impasse in Congress. Arguments whether to approve $1.8 trillion or 2.2 Trillion with the Democrats. Do you think the assertion by the economist is accurate and what are your thoughts?

Thank you

Company B sets its prices for all hospitals by marking up its cost of goods sold to those hospitals by 6%. For years, Company B believed that the 6% markup covered its selling and administrative expenses and provided a reasonable profit. However, in the face of declining profits, Company B decided to implement an activity-based costing system to help improve its understanding of customer profitability. The company broke its selling and administrative expenses into five activities as shown:

Company B gathered the data below for two of the many hospitals that it serves—University and Memorial (each hospital purchased medical supplies that had cost Company B $30,000 to buy from manufacturers):

1. Compute the total revenue that Company B would receive from University and from Memorial.

2. Compute the activity rate for each activity cost pool. (customer deliveries, manual order processing, electronic order processing, line item picking)

3. Compute the total activity costs that would be assigned to University and to Memorial.

4. Compute Company B's customer margin for University and for Memorial. (Hint: Do not overlook the $30,000 cost of goods sold that Company B incurred serving each hospital.)

Assume the following sales took place during 2020 for a variety of individual capital assets for Ron (all normal capital assets with gains subject to 0%, 15%, or 20% tax rates).

(I also want to make sure the characters of gain/loss and numbers are correct)

Second enter the information to the Form 8949

Column a: description of property, column b: date acquired, column c: date sold, column d: sales proceeds, column e: cost, column f: codes from instruction, column g:amount of adjustment, column h: gain or loss

Write a function that accepts a dictionary and produces a sorted list of tuples

The dictionary looks like this:

{‘US’: [{'Chicago, IL': ('2/1/2020 19:43', 2, 0, 0)}, {'San Benito, CA': ('2/3/2020 3:53', 2, 0, 0)}, {'Santa Clara, CA': ('2/3/2020 0:43', 2, 0, 0)}, {'Boston, MA': ('2/1/2020 19:43', 1, 0, 0)}, {'Los Angeles, CA': ('2/1/2020 19:53', 1, 0, 0)}, {'Orange, CA': ('2/1/2020 19:53', 1, 0, 0)}, {'Seattle, WA': ('2/1/2020 19:43', 1, 0, 0)}, {'Tempe, AZ': ('2/1/2020 19:43', 1, 0, 0)}], 'Australia' : [{'New South Wales': ('2/1/2020 18:12', 4, 0, 2)}, {'Victoria': ('2/1/2020 18:12', 4, 0, 0)}, {'Queensland': ('2/4/2020 16:53', 3, 0, 0)}, {'South Australia': ('2/2/2020 22:33', 2, 0, 0)}]

For these counts, I need to use the numbers that are bolded above). The returned sorted list (in descending order) will contain key-value pairs such that each key is a country and the corresponding value is the number of cases observed within that country.

For example: [('Australia', 13),(‘US’: 11)]

Taxation Questions

Q1: Anna converted cryptocurrency into $27,200 Australian dollars in October 2019. To complete the transaction, she incurred $950 in transaction fees. Therefore, Anna received $26,250 in cash. Anna had acquired the cryptocurrency in September 2018 for $9,200 Australian dollars

Determine the taxable capital gain (loss) on the sale of the Cryptocurrency. Briefly justify your answer/show all workings

Q2:

Anna sold shares she held in a construction company in March 2020 for $182,000. She had purchased the shares for $37,200 in December 1986. Anna has indicated that she has carried forward losses from prior years of $180,000 relating to a prior disposal of shares and land.

Determine the capital gain on the sale of the Shares. Briefly justify your answer/show all workings

Case Studies:

A. With a total US population of 103, 208,000 in 1918, the paper reveals that 675,000 have died from the H1N1virus. In contrast China had a poplation of 472,000,000 in 1918, it is shown that about 4,000,000 died from the H1N1 Virus.

B. As of April 1, 2020 the CDC provides following statistic on the COVID-19 pandemic: At 213,722 confirmed cases of infection it is revealed that 4,769 have died of the illness. In comparison China has confirmed 81,556 cases, of which 3,312 have died form the illness.

Project Questions:

1) Organize the data in a graphical representation that best describes the relationship of the data. (Histogram, Pie Chart, Box Plot, or any other graph you think works)

2) For case A and for case B translate the following questions into a hypothesis test and analyze the appropriate conclusion. A: Is there enough evidence to suggest that China had a higher death rate than the US regarding H1N1 virus? B: Is there enough evidence to suggest that China has a lower death rate than the US regarding COVID-19?

3) Develop a question that will allow you to compare the data from N1H1 virus of 1918 to the data from COVID-19 of 2020. Set it up as a hypothesis test question and analyze the conclusion. Careful: N1H1 used the total population, while COVID-19 applied death rate only to confirmed cases of infection.

Matt and Meg Comer are married and file a joint tax return. They do not have any children. Matt works as a history professor at a local university and earns a salary of $68,000. Meg works part time at the same university. She earns $35,500 a year. The couple does not itemize deductions. Other than salary, the Comers’ only other source of income is from the disposition of various capital assets (mostly stocks). (Use the tax rate schedules,Dividends and Capital Gains Tax Rates.) (Round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

a. What is the Comers’ tax liability for 2020 if they report the following capital gains and losses for the year?

Short-term capital gains $ 11,500

Short-term capital losses (4,500)

Long-term capital gains 17,500

Long-term capital losses (8,500)

b. What is the Comers’ tax liability for 2020 if they report the following capital gains and losses for the year?