What is the history of healthcare reform? What are the key provisions of the Affordable Care Act of 2010? What are the key provisions of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015? What are the two major free-market initiatives and what is the impact of each on quality, cost and access? Lastly, please Include any additional initiatives that are current, and applicable, to healthcare today.
In: Operations Management
The Verbrugge Publishing Company's 2019 balance sheet and income statement are as follows (in millions of dollars).
Balance Sheet
Current assets $300 Current Liabilities $40
Net fixed assets $200 Advance payments by customers $80
Noncallable Preferred Stock, $6 coupon, $110 par value (1,000,000 shares) 110
Callable preferred stick, $10 coupon, no par, $100 call price (2,000,000 shares) 200
Common stock, $2 par value (5,000,000 shares) $10
Retained earnings $60
Total Assets $500 Total liabilities and equity $500
Income Statement
Net sales $540
Operating expense $516
Net operating income $24
Other income $4
EBT $28
Taxes(25%) $7
Net income $21
Dividends on $6 preferred $6
Dividends on $10 preferred $2
Income available to common stockholders $13
Verbrugge and its creditors have agreed upon a voluntary reorganization plan. In this plan, each share of the noncallable preferred will be exchanged for 1 share of $2.50 preferred with a par value of $35 plus one 9% subordinated income debenture with a par value of $75. The callable preferred issue will be retired with cash generated by reducing current assets.
a. Assume that the reorganization takes place and construct the projected balance. Show the new preferred stock at its par value. What is the value for total assets? For preferred stock? Enter your answers in millions. For example, an answer of $1 million should be entered as 1, not 1,000,000. Round your answers to the nearest whole number. The projected balance sheet (in millions of dollars) follows:
Current assets 100 Current Liabilities 40
Net fixed assets 200 Advance payments by customers 80
Noncallable Preferred Stock, $6 coupon, $110 par value (1,000,000 shares) 75
Callable preferred stick, $10 coupon, no par, $100 call price (2,000,000 shares) 35
Common stock, $2 par value (5,000,000 shares) 10
Retained earnings 60
Total Assets 300 Total liabilities and equity 300
What is the value for debt (i.e., liabilities)? Do not treat preferred stock as debt. Enter your answer in millions. For example, an answer of $1 million should be entered as 1, not 1,000,000. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.
$ ???? million
b. Construct the projected income statement. What is the income available to common shareholders in the proposed recapitalization? Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers in millions. For example, an answer of $1.23 million should be entered as 1.23, not 1,230,000. Round your answers to two decimal places. The projected income statement (in millions of dollars) follows:
Net sales 540
Operating expense 516
Net operating income 24
Other income 4
EBIT 28
Interest 6.75
EBT 21.25
Taxes (25%) 5.31
Net income 15.94
Dividends on $2.50 preferred 2.5
Income available to common stockholders 13.44
What were the total cash flows received by the noncallable preferred stockholders prior to the reorganization? What were the total cash flows to the original noncallable preferred stockholders after the reorganization? Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers in millions. For example, an answer of $1.23 million should be entered as 1.23, not 1,230,000. Round your answers to two decimal places.
Total cash flow to noncallable preferred stockholders before recapitalization: $ million
Total cash flow to noncallable preferred stockholders after recapitalization: $ million
What was the net income to common stockholders before the reorganization? After the reorganization. Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers in millions. For example, an answer of $1.23 million should be entered as 1.23, not 1,230,000. Round your answers to two decimal places.
Net income to common stockholders before recapitalization: $ million
Net income to common stockholders after recapitalization: $ million
Required pre-tax earnings are defined as the amount that is just large enough to meet fixed charges (debenture interest and/or preferred dividends). What are the required pre-tax earnings before and after the recapitalization? Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers in millions. For example, an answer of $1.23 million should be entered as 1.23, not 1,230,000. Round your answers to two decimal places.
Required pre-tax earnings before recapitalization: $ million
Required pre-tax earnings after recapitalization: $ million
How is the debt ratio (i.e., liabilities/total assets) affected by the reorganization? Round your answers to two decimal places.
Suppose you treated preferred stock as debt and calculated the resulting debt ratios. How are these ratios affected?
In: Accounting
Analyzing and Interpreting Pension and Health Care Footnote
Assume Xerox reports the following pension and retiree health care ("Other") footnote as part of its 10-K report.
| Pension Benefits | Retiree Health | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (in millions) | 2010 | 2009 | 2010 | 2009 |
| Change in Benefit Obligation | ||||
| Benefit obligation, January 1 | $ 10,467 | $ 10,302 | $ 1,592 | $ 1,653 |
| Service cost | 237 | 244 | 17 | 19 |
| Interest cost | 578 | 732 | 87 | 92 |
| Plan participants' contributions | 12 | 13 | 20 | 19 |
| Plan amendments | 11 | (234) | -- | 31 |
| Acturarial gain | (508) | (85) | (114) | (105) |
| Currency exchange rate changes | 331 | 564 | 21 | -- |
| Curtailments | (1) | (2) | -- | -- |
| Benefits paid/settlements | (629) | (1,067) | (102) | (117) |
| Benefit obligation, December 31 | $ 10,498 | $ 10,467 | $ 1,521 | $ 1,592 |
| Change in Plan Assets | ||||
| Fair value of plan assets, January 1 | $ 9,217 | $ 8,444 | $ -- | $ -- |
| Actual return on plan assets | 695 | 959 | -- | -- |
| Employer contribution | 256 | 355 | 82 | 98 |
| Plan participants' contributions | 12 | 13 | 20 | 19 |
| Currency exchange rate changes | 280 | 513 | -- | -- |
| Benefits paid/settlements | (629) | (1,067) | (102) | (117) |
| Fair value of plan assets, December 31 | $ 9,831 | $ 9,217 | $ -- | $ -- |
| Net funded status (including under-funded and non-funded plans) at December 31 | $ (667) | $ (1,250) | $ (1,521) | $ (1,592) |
| Pension Benefits | Retiree Health | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (in millions) | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
| Components of Net Periodic Benefit Cost | ||||||
| Defined benefit plans | ||||||
| Service cost | $ 237 | $ 244 | $ 234 | $ 17 | $ 19 | $ 20 |
| Interest cost | 578 | 732 | 581 | 87 | 92 | 90 |
| Expected return on plan assets | (668) | (802) | (622) | -- | -- | -- |
| Recognized net acturarial loss | 75 | 104 | 98 | 10 | 19 | 31 |
| Amortization of prior service credit | (20) | (18) | (3) | (12) | (13) | (24) |
| Recognized net transition obligation (asset) | -- | 2 | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Recognized curtailment/settlement loss | 33 | 93 | 54 | -- | -- | -- |
| Net periodic benefit cost | 235 | 355 | 343 | 102 | 117 | 117 |
| Defined contribution plans | 80 | 70 | 71 | -- | -- | -- |
| Total | $ 315 | $ 425 | $ 414 | $ 102 | $ 117 | $ 117 |
| Other Changes in Plan Assets and Benefit Obligations Recognized in Other Comprehensive Income | ||||||
| Net acturarial loss (gain) | (499) | (114) | ||||
| Prior service cost (credit) | 5 | -- | ||||
| Amortization of net acturarial (loss) gain | (108) | (10) | ||||
| Amortizaion of prior service (cost) credit | 20 | 12 | ||||
| Total recognized in other comprehensive income | (582) | (112) | ||||
| Total Recognized in Net Periodic Benefit Cost and Other Comprehensive Income | $ (267) | $ (10) | ||||
(a) Describe what is meant by service cost and interest cost (the
service and interest costs appear both in the reconciliation of the
PBO and in the computation of pension expense).
Service cost represents the wages earned by employees managing the pension plan during the current year. Interest cost is the expense we incur on funds borrowed by the pension plan.
Service cost represents the wages earned by employees managing the pension plan during the current year. Interest cost is an expense that accrues on the pension obligation during the year.
Service cost represents the additional pension benefits earned by employees during the current year but paid to employees in the future. Interest cost is the expense we incur on funds borrowed by the pension plan.
Service cost represents the additional pension benefits earned by employees during the current year but paid to employees in the future. Interest cost is an expense that accrues on the pension obligation during the year.
1.00 points out of 1.00
The correct answer is: Service cost represents the additional
pension benefits earned by employees during the current year but
paid to employees in the future. Interest cost is an expense that
accrues on the pension obligation during the year.
(b) What is the actual return on the pension and the health care
("Other") plan investments in 2010?
$Answer
million
Was Xerox's profitability impacted by this amount?
Xerox's profit is reduced by the expected return on pension assets. Because the health care ("Other") plan is not funded, there are no assets generating a return, hence there is no expected return offset for this plan.
The actual return for both plans is the income or loss that is reported in Xerox's income statement.
The expected return (not the actual return) on the pension plan assets impacts Xerox's income for 2010. Pension expense is reduced by this amount. Because the health care ("Other") plan is not funded, there are no assets generating a return, hence there is no expected return offset for this plan.
The actual return for the pension plans is the income or loss that is reported in Xerox's income statement. Because the "Other" (health care) plan is funded on a pay-as-you-go basis, it does not affect Xerox's profit until the benefits are paid.
1.00 points out of 1.00
The correct answer is: The expected return (not the actual return)
on the pension plan assets impacts Xerox's income for 2010. Pension
expense is reduced by this amount. Because the health care
("Other") plan is not funded, there are no assets generating a
return, hence there is no expected return offset for this plan.
(c) Provide an example under which an "actuarial gain," such as the
$508 million gain in 2010 that Xerox reports, might arise.
An increase in the actual return on plan assets.
An increase in the discount rate.
An increase in the expected return assumption.
A reduction in the amount of benefit payments.
1.00 points out of 1.00
The correct answer is: An increase in the discount rate.
(d) What is the source of funds to make payments to retirees?
pension and health care liabilities
pension and health care assets
pension and health care obligations
operating cash flows
1.00 points out of 1.00
The correct answer is: pension and health care assets
(e) How much cash did Xerox contribute to its pension and health
care plans in 2010?
Pension = $Answer
million
Health care = $Answer
million
(f) How much cash did retirees receive in 2010 from the pension
plan and the health care plan?
Pension = $Answer
million
Health care = $Answer
million
How much cash did Xerox pay these retirees in 2010?
Answer
million
(g) Show the computation of the 2010 funded status for the pension
and health care plans.
Do not use negative signs with your answers.
Pension : $9,831 million - $Answer
million = $Answer
million Answerunderfundedoverfunded
Health care : $0 million - $Answer
million = $Answer
million Answerunderfundedoverfunded
(h) The company reports $108 million "amortization of net actuarial
(loss) gain" in the table relating to Other Comprehensive Income
and $75 million "Recognized net actuarial loss" and $33 million
"Recognized curtailment/settlement loss" in the net periodic
benefit cost table. (Note that $75 million + $33 million = $108
million.) The company also reports a $20 million "Amortization of
prior service (cost) credit" and a corresponding amount in the net
periodic benefit cost table. Describe the process by which these
amounts are transferred from Other Comprehensive Income to pension
expense in the income statement.
These amounts remain in AOCI unless they exceed the greater of 10% of pension assets or PBO at the beginning of the year. If the accumulated amounts exceed the maximum, the excess is amortized to income over a 10-year period.
These amounts remain in AOCI and are never amortized to income.
These amounts remain in AOCI unless they exceed the greater of pension assets or PBO at the beginning of the year. If the accumulated amounts exceed the maximum, the excess is amortized to income over the remaining service lives of the employees.
These amounts remain in AOCI unless they exceed the greater of 10% of pension assets or PBO at the beginning of the year. If the accumulated amounts exceed the maximum, the excess is amortized to income over the remaining service lives of the employees.
1.00 points out of 1.00
The correct answer is: These amounts remain in AOCI unless they
exceed the greater of 10% of pension assets or PBO at the beginning
of the year. If the accumulated amounts exceed the maximum, the
excess is amortized to income over the remaining service lives of
the employees.
In: Accounting
ChalaCorporation,whichbeganbusinessin2019appropriately,usestheinstallment
salesmethodofaccountingforitsinstallmentsales.Thefollowingdatawereobtained
forsalesduring2019and2020: 2019 2020
Kshs Kshs
Installmentsales 360,000 350,000
Costofinstallmentsales 234,000 245,000
Cashcollectionsoninstallmentsalesduring:
2019 150,000 100,000
2020 - 120,000Required:
Preparesummaryjournalentriesfor2019and2020toaccountfortheinstallmentsalesand
cash
collections.Thecompanyusesperpetualinventorysystem.
In: Accounting
B. Why was the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) created?
C. The ICC later was closed. Explain how the ICC began to run contrary to its original mission, leading to its eventual cancellation.
In: Economics
A nurse is working with a potentially violent client in a community clinic. What would the nurse implement to minimize personal risk?
A) Using protective devices
B) Staying close to a door
C) Keeping the door closed to ensure privacy
D) Wearing inexpensive jewelry to distract the client
In: Nursing
You have been asked to design a can with a volume of 500cm3 that is shaped like a right circular cylinder. The can will have a closed top. What radius r and height h, in centimeters, would minimize the amount of material needed to construct this can? Enter an exact answer.
In: Math
Five lbs of propane is contained in a closed, rigid tank
initially at 80 lbf/in.2, 50°F. Heat transfer occurs
until the final temperature in the tank is 0°F. Kinetic and
potential energy effects are negligible.
Determine the amount of energy transfer by heat, in Btu.
In: Mechanical Engineering
In: Finance
In: Advanced Math