HomeSuites is a chain of all-suite, extended-stay hotel properties. The chain has 22 properties with an average of 150 rooms in each property. In year 1, the occupancy rate (the number of rooms filled divided by the number of rooms available) was 80 percent, based on a 365-day year. The average room rate was $215 for a night. The basic unit of operation is the “night,” which is one room occupied for one night.
The operating income for year 1 is as follows:
| HomeSuites | |||
| Operating Income | |||
| Year 1 | |||
| Sales revenue | |||
| Lodging | $ | 138,150,000 | |
| Food & beverage | 26,980,800 | ||
| Miscellaneous | 14,454,000 | ||
| Total revenues | $ | 179,584,800 | |
| Costs | |||
| Labor | $ | 57,376,000 | |
| Food & beverage | 23,126,400 | ||
| Miscellaneous | 16,381,200 | ||
| Management | 2,518,000 | ||
| Utilities, etc. | 44,000,000 | ||
| Depreciation | 11,000,000 | ||
| Marketing | 15,400,000 | ||
| Other costs | 5,000,000 | ||
| Total costs | $ | 174,801,600 | |
| Operating profit | $ | 4,783,200 | |
In year 1, the average fixed labor cost was $418,000 per property. The remaining labor cost was variable with respect to the number of nights. Food and beverage cost and miscellaneous cost are all variable with respect to the number of nights. Utilities and depreciation are fixed for each property. The remaining costs (management, marketing, and other costs) are fixed for the firm.
At the beginning of year 2, HomeSuites will open two new properties with no change in the average number of rooms per property. The occupancy rate is expected to remain at 80 percent. Management has made the following additional assumptions for year 2:
The average room rate will increase by 5 percent.
Food and beverage revenues per night are expected to decline by 20 percent with no change in the cost.
The labor cost (both the fixed per property and variable portion) is not expected to change.
The miscellaneous cost for the room is expected to increase by 25 percent, with no change in the miscellaneous revenues per room.
Utilities and depreciation costs (per property) are forecast to remain unchanged.
Management costs will increase by 8 percent, and marketing costs will increase by 10 percent.
Other costs are not expected to change.
Required:
Prepare a budgeted income statement for year 2. (Round your per unit average cost calculations to 2 decimal places.)
In: Accounting
a large hotel chain, has been using activity-based costing to determine the cost of a night's stay at their hotels.
One of the activities, "Inspection," occurs after a customer has checked out of a hotel room.
Fitzgerald
inspects every
10th
room and has been using "number of rooms inspected" as the cost driver for inspection costs. A significant component of inspection costs is the cost of the supplies used in each inspection.
Dawn
McAdams,
the chief inspector, is wondering whether inspection labor-hours might be a better cost driver for inspection costs.
Dawn
gathers information for weekly inspection costs, rooms inspected, and inspection labor-hours as follows:
|
Week |
Rooms Inspected |
Inspection Labor-Hours |
Inspection Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Week 1 |
260 |
85 |
$1,800 |
|
Week 2 |
328 |
129 |
2,560 |
|
Week 3 |
341 |
101 |
2,310 |
|
Week 4 |
437 |
142 |
2,850 |
|
Week 5 |
200 |
67 |
1,460 |
|
Week 6 |
245 |
80 |
1,750 |
|
Week 7 |
258 |
127 |
1,780 |
|
Week 8 |
331 |
146 |
2,260 |
Dawn
runs regressions on each of the possible cost drivers and estimates these cost functions:
Inspection
Costs=$246.60
+
($6.17
x Number of rooms inspected)
Inspection
Costs=$787.71
+
($11.94
x Inspection labor-hours)
|
1. |
Explain why rooms inspected and inspection labor-hours are plausible cost drivers of inspection costs. |
|
2. |
Plot the data and regression line for rooms inspected and inspection costs. Plot the data and regression line for inspection labor-hours and inspection costs. Which cost driver of inspection costs would you choose? Explain. |
|
3. |
Dawn expects inspectors to inspect306 rooms and work for124 hours next week. Using the cost driver you chose in requirement 2, what amount of inspection costs shouldDawn budget? Explain any implications ofDawn choosing the cost driver you did not choose in requirement 2 to budget inspection costs. |
In: Accounting
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In: Computer Science
HomeSuites is a chain of all-suite, extended-stay hotel properties. The chain has 12 properties with an average of 200 rooms in each property. In year 1, the occupancy rate (the number of rooms filled divided by the number of rooms available) was 75 percent, based on a 365-day year. The average room rate was $218 for a night. The basic unit of operation is the “night,” which is one room occupied for one night.
The operating income for year 1 is as follows.
| HomeSuites | |||
| Operating Income | |||
| Year 1 | |||
| Sales revenue | |||
| Lodging | $ | 143,226,000 | |
| Food & beverage | 19,710,000 | ||
| Miscellaneous | 9,855,000 | ||
| Total revenues | $ | 172,791,000 | |
| Costs | |||
| Labor | $ | 40,506,000 | |
| Food & beverage | 15,111,000 | ||
| Miscellaneous | 11,169,000 | ||
| Management | 2,519,000 | ||
| Utilities, etc. | 24,000,000 | ||
| Depreciation | 6,000,000 | ||
| Marketing | 30,100,000 | ||
| Other costs | 8,019,000 | ||
| Total costs | $ | 137,424,000 | |
| Operating profit | $ | 35,367,000 | |
In year 1, the average fixed labor cost was $419,000 per property. The remaining labor cost was variable with respect to the number of nights. Food and beverage cost and miscellaneous cost are all variable with respect to the number of nights. Utilities and depreciation are fixed for each property. The remaining costs (management, marketing, and other costs) are fixed for the firm.
At the beginning of year 2, HomeSuites will open three new properties with no change in the average number of rooms per property. The occupancy rate is expected to remain at 75 percent. Management has made the following additional assumptions for year 2.
Required:
Prepare a budgeted income statement for year 2. (Round your per unit average cost calculations to 2 decimal places.)
In: Accounting
Business Class
21. Tsymbal owns a parcel of real estate unencumbered by any liens (“free and clear”). She can be said to own the real estate:
a. conditionally;
b. subject to a life estate;
c. in fee simple absolute;
d. pursuant to a bailment contract.
22. Washington is a community property state.
T / F
23. In this type of deed, the seller not only conveys ownership in a parcel of real estate, but the owner also guarantees good title to the buyer.
a. a quit claim deed;
b. a sheriff’s deed;
c. a deed in trust;
d. a warranty deed.
24. This power allows the government to condemn private property and commit it to public use, after duly compensating the owner.
a, the power of fee simple absolute;
b. zoning;
c. eminent domain.
d. force majeure.
25. While she is attending a movie, McCulloch visits the restroom. While in the restroom, she removes her wristwatch and leaves it on the sink. Hasso finds the watch. The legal owner of the watch is:
a. McCulloch;
b. Hasso;
c. the owner of the theater;
d. the state of Washington.
In: Finance
You are given the sample mean and the population standard deviation. Use this information to construct the 90% and 95% confidence intervals for the population mean. Interpret the results and compare the widths of the confidence intervals. If convenient, use technology to construct the confidence intervals. A random sample of 6060 home theater systems has a mean price of $135.00135.00. Assume the population standard deviation is $15.8015.80. Construct a 90% confidence interval for the population mean.
The 90% confidence interval is (_,_). (Round to two decimal places as needed.)
Construct a 95% confidence interval for the population mean. The 95% confidence interval is (_,_). (Round to two decimal places as needed.) Interpret the results.
Choose the correct answer below.
A. With 90% confidence, it can be said that the population mean price lies in the first interval. With 95% confidence, it can be said that the population mean price lies in the second interval. The 95% confidence interval is wider than the 90%.
B. With 90% confidence, it can be said that the population mean price lies in the first interval. With 95% confidence, it can be said that the population mean price
In: Statistics and Probability
Question 4 [20 marks] Analyze if the statements that are presented below are True or False. You MUST justify your answer to get credit. Answers without justification (even if they are correct) will be given zero marks.
(a) In any Pareto-optimal allocation of a two-good economy, each consumer has to consume a positive amount of both goods.
(b) A monopolist never produces on the elastic segment of its average revenue curve.
(c) If a firm’s production exhibits increasing returns to scale, then the firm’s marginal costs are decreasing and below its average costs.
(d) Maroon Theater practices third-degree price discrimination and sells tickets to three groups of customers: students, regular customers and senior citizens. The inverse demand of the three groups is linear. Furthermore, the students’ and senior citizens’ elasticities of demand for tickets are −4 and −3, respectively. Because the price charged to regular customers is greater than the price charged to senior citizens, we know with certainty that the ticket price for students will be lower than the ticket price for regular customers.
In: Economics
Use the six-step hypothesis testing where appropriate:
1. You have been told that the mean price of two movie tickets including online service charges, a large popcorn, and two medium soft drinks is $38. Based on a sample of 10 theater chains and assuming a normal distribution, the sample mean was found to be $36.53 and the standard deviation was $3.38. At the 0.05 level of significance, is there enough evidence to indicate that the average price is now less than $38?
a. What is the appropriate null and alternative hypothesis for problem 1? Use both words and notations
b.What level of significance and sample size is used in this problem?
c.What type of problem is this? What formula will you use? Why?
d. What is the correct critical value for the problem? How did you find it?
e.What is the correct value for the test statistic? Provide the formula used and show work
f. Should you accept or reject the null hypothesis? How much confidence do you have in your decision? Restate the null of alternative hypothesis. What policy decision would you make?
In: Statistics and Probability
Can you use Twitter activity to forecast box office receipts on the opening weekend? The following data (stored in TwitterMovies indicate the Twitter activity (“want to see” and the receipts ($) per theater on the weekend a movie opened for seven movies. Solve this problem to two significant digits.
|
Movie |
Twitter Activity |
Receipts ($) |
|
The Devil Inside |
219,509 |
14,763 |
|
The Dictator |
6,405 |
5,796 |
|
Paranormal Activity 3 |
165,128 |
15,829 |
|
The Hunger Games |
579,288 |
36,871 |
|
Bridesmaids |
6,564 |
8,995 |
|
Red Tails |
11,104 |
7,477 |
|
Act of Valor |
9,152 |
8,054 |
In: Statistics and Probability
Amazing Productions performs London shows. The average show sells 1,000 tickets at $60 per ticket. There are 120 shows per year. No additional shows can be held as the theater is also used by other production companies. The average show has a cast of 60, each earning a net average of $320 per show. The cast is paid after each show. The other variable cost is program-printing cost of $8 per guest. Annual fixed costs total $459,200.
1)Compute revenue and variable costs for each show.
2)Use the equation approach to compute the number of shows Amazing Productions must perform each year to break even.
3)Use the contribution margin ratio approach to compute the number of shows needed each year to earn a profit of $4,264,000. Is this profit goal realistic? Give your reasoning.
4)Prepare Amazing Production's contribution margin income statement for 120 shows performed in 2016. Report only two categories of costs: variable and fixed.
In: Accounting