Concord Corp. designs and manufactures mascot uniforms for high school, college, and professional sports teams. Since each team’s uniform is unique in color and design, Concord uses a job order costing system. On January 1, the T-accounts for some of Concord’s primary balance sheet accounts were as follows:

During the year, the following events occurred:

1. Considering the results you have shown your manager, they now want to know (out of the    companies you have shortlisted) the following:

1. The social and environmental performance growth of the companies (3 points)
2. Which company has made the best improvement in their social and environmental performance from 2014 to 2015 (1 point)
3. Has any company demonstrated a decline in its social and environmental growth in the two years? (1 point)
4. Considering all the information you have collected what would your suggestion be to your manager? Is the data and information gained from it sufficient to choose a company to invest in? If you decide the data provided is not sufficient, what other data would you suggest collecting to enhance the current data? (4 points, no more than 100 words)

2015 data

Grady and Associates performs a variety of activities related to information systems and e-commerce consulting in Toronto, Canada. The firm, which bills $164 per hour for services performed, is in a very tight local labor market and is having difficulty finding quality help for its overworked professional staff. The cost per hour for professional staff time is $74. Selected information follows.

Billable hours to clients for the year totaled 8,400, consisting of information systems services, 5,040; e-commerce consulting, 3,360.

Administrative cost of $417,760 was (and continues to be) allocated to both services based on billable hours. These costs consist of staff support, $222,840; in-house computing, $157,000; and miscellaneous office charges, $37,920.

A recent analysis of staff support costs found a correlation with the number of clients served. In-house computing and miscellaneous office charges varied directly with the number of computer hours logged and number of client transactions, respectively. A tabulation revealed the following data:

Required:

2. Assume that the firm uses traditional costing procedures, allocating total costs on the basis of billable hours. Determine the profitability of the firm’s information systems and e-commerce activities, expressing your answer both in dollars and as a percentage of activity revenue.

3. Assume that the firm uses activity-based costing. Determine the profitability of the firm’s e-commerce and information systems activities, expressing your answer both in dollars and as a percentage of activity revenue.

4. Jeffrey Grady, one of the firm’s partners, doesn’t care where his professionals spend their time because, as he notes, “many clients have come to expect both services and we need both to stay in business. Also, information systems and e-commerce professionals are paid the same hourly rate.” Should Grady’s attitude change?

Below is the post-closing trial balance of Gracie Consultancy Services as at 30 June 2019:

The following transactions occurred during the month July 2019.

Required

a)     Journalise the transactions, including narrations.

b)    Prepare an unadjusted trial balance as at 31 July 2019

Compare and Contrast Various Selling Models

The purpose of this assignment is to compare and contrast two or more competing selling models. The basis for this paper will be The Challenger Sale (Dixon and Adamson) versus Strategic Selling (Miller & Heiman).

1. Provide an overview of both approaches. This overview should include the theoretical basis, practical application, and general steps or stages.
2. Take a position on which approach would be more effective for managing customer accounts that would be considered “Key Customers” or “Strategic Customers”. An example of a key or strategic account would be one where a the sale involves:
   1. A complex solution
   2. Multiple decision makers
   3. Significance in terms of revenue opportunity

Your arguments should provide rationale for your position and relate to specific outcomes (e.g., closing business, positioning as a business partner/consultant, long term relationship building, etc.)

3. Give a detailed example of how your approach would be applied to a sales opportunity (can be real or hypothetical) to achieve a very specific sales goal.

Compare and Contrast Various Selling Models

The purpose of this assignment is to compare and contrast two or more competing selling models. The basis for this paper will be The Challenger Sale (Dixon and Adamson) versus Strategic Selling (Miller & Heiman).

1. Provide an overview of both approaches. This overview should include the theoretical basis, practical application, and general steps or stages.
2. Take a position on which approach would be more effective for managing customer accounts that would be considered “Key Customers” or “Strategic Customers”. An example of a key or strategic account would be one where a the sale involves:
   1. A complex solution
   2. Multiple decision makers
   3. Significance in terms of revenue opportunity

Your arguments should provide rationale for your position and relate to specific outcomes (e.g., closing business, positioning as a business partner/consultant, long term relationship building, etc.)

3. Give a detailed example of how your approach would be applied to a sales opportunity (can be real or hypothetical) to achieve a very specific sales goal.

1.Owner's equity for our company is $500,000, and total liabilities are $250,000. The company paid $50,000 in dividends during the year. What do our total assets equal?

$250,000

$300,000

$700,000

$750,000

2.The net income for our company this year is $20,000. The beginning and ending retained earnings balances were $46,000 and $52,000, respectively. The company issued no common stock. Calculate the amount of dividends paid by the company this year.

$14,000

$54,000

$60,000

$106,000

3.Which of the following accounts is increased with a credit?

cash

prepaid insurance

salaries expense

unearned revenue

4.On August 21, we paid four months' rent in advance, which totaled $3,200. What account would we credit when we journalize this entry?

rent expense

cash

prepaid rent

account payable

5.On September 5, we received an $11,400 payment on account. What account would we debit when we journalize this entry?

accounts payable

cash

accounts receivable

fees earned

6.On September 11, we performed $5,750 of service and billed our customer. What account would we credit when we journalize this entry?

service revenue

cash

accounts receivable

retained earnings

7.On September 22, we purchased supplies on account for $1,150. What account would we debit when we journalize this entry?

supplies

cash

accounts payable

supplies expense

RNE Manufacturing Company sells its products offering 30 days’ credit to its customers. During 2018, its first year of operations, the following events occurred:​

This being for an online apparel E-Commerce business

Describe ethical issues that could arise with your company conducting electronic commerce. Make sure to include those that could occur in your relationship with vendors or other partners as well as with your customers. What steps would you take to ensure that the ethical issues that you identified would not occur in your company?

Explore the taxes that are potentially levied on your company’s activities. For the purposes of this question, assume that you are based in a small warehouse in Michigan and sell online to customers in other states and other countries. Include how your Capstone e-business would be affected by income taxes, transaction taxes, property taxes, use taxes, tariffs, and value added taxes.

Q2.choose any medical complex and answer these:

a-Specify the products and services produced and offered to its customers/clients.

b-Who are regarded as the customers/clients of this medical complex (consider the end users, retailers, other manufacturers, employees, etc.)?

c-Provide the department or division layout of the organization.

(ps. for example, the medical complex dealing with food company( that provide breakfast to employee in this medical complex., they deal with this x company provide medical supplies to its pharmacy ,,they deal with the manufacturers with provide them blah blah  and the end users, retailers are blah blah which blah blah ,you got the idea? pleas answer like this or answer it in your own professional words in 200 or 300 if you can ,, thank you