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O’Brien Company manufactures and sells one product. The following information pertains to each of the company’s first three years of operations:
| Variable costs per unit: | ||
| Manufacturing: | ||
| Direct materials | $28 | |
| Direct labor | $15 | |
| Variable manufacturing overhead | $5 | |
| Variable selling and administrative | $3 | |
| Fixed costs per year: | ||
| Fixed manufacturing overhead | $580,000 | |
| Fixed selling and administrative expenses | $100,000 | |
During its first year of operations, O’Brien produced 94,000 units and sold 76,000 units. During its second year of operations, it produced 80,000 units and sold 93,000 units. In its third year, O’Brien produced 82,000 units and sold 77,000 units. The selling price of the company’s product is $73 per unit.
Assume the company uses absorption costing and a FIFO inventory flow assumption (FIFO means first-in first-out. In other words, it assumes that the oldest units in inventory are sold first):
a. Compute the unit product cost for Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places.)
b. Prepare an income statement for Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)
4. Assume the company uses absorption costing and a LIFO inventory flow assumption (LIFO means last-in first-out. In other words, it assumes that the newest units in inventory are sold first):
a. Compute the unit product cost for Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3. (Round your intermediate calculations and final answers to 2 decimal places.)
b. Prepare an income statement for Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)
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9. Regulating a natural monopoly
Consider the local cable company, a natural monopoly. The following graph shows the monthly demand curve for cable services and the company's marginal revenue (MR), marginal cost (MC), and average total cost (ATC) curves.

Suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints.
Complete the first row of the following table.

Suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost.
Complete the second row of the previous table
Suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost.
Complete the third row of the previous table.
True or False: Over time, the cable company has a very strong incentive to lower costs when subject to average-cost pricing regulations.
True
False
In: Economics
Suppose you know that a company’s stock currently sells for $74 per share and the required return on the stock is 9.9 percent. You also know that the total return on the stock is evenly divided between a capital gains yield and a dividend yield. It's the company’s policy to maintain a constant growth rate in its dividends. What is the current dividend per share? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Hint: First, compute the current dividend yield. Then, use that to compute the next dividend paid (in dollars per share). Then, using the constant dividend growth rate, compute the last dividend paid. The dividend is equal to the dividend yield multiplied by the stock price. Remember that the current stock price reflects future dividends, starting with D1, where D1 = D0(1 + g).
In: Finance
Monopoly with linear inverse demand. Consider a monopolist facing a linear inverse demand curve p(q)= a- bq, and cost function C(q)= F + cq, where F denotes its fixed costs and c represents the monopolist's (constant) magical cost a>c
1. Graph demand, marginal revenue and marginal cost. Label your graph carefully, including intercepts
2. Solve the profit maximizing output q^m. To do this, first write down the expression for MR=MC and solve for the optimal quantity. Next find the price that consumers are willing to pay for qM using the demand curve.
3. Write the expression for monopoly profits in terms of parameters a, b, F, and C/
4. Show q^m, p^m, and π^m on your graph
5. Write an expression for quantity, price, and profits under perfect competition
In: Economics
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POSSIBLE PRICE OF STOCK E IN SIX MONTHS |
PROFIT OR LOSS PER SHARE IF A COVERED CALL STRATEGY IS USED |
PROFIT OR LOSS PER SHARE IF A COVERED CALL STRATEGY IS NOT USED |
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$47 |
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50 |
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52 |
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55 |
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57 |
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60 |
In: Finance
Enviro Company issues 6.50%, 10-year bonds with a par value of
$350,000 and semiannual interest payments. On the issue date, the
annual market rate for these bonds is 3.50%, which implies a
selling price of 125 7/8. The straight-line method is used to
allocate interest expense.
1. Using the implied selling price of 125 7/8.
what are the issuer’s cash proceeds from issuance of these
bonds?
2. What total amount of bond interest expense will be recognized over the life of these bonds?
Total Bond Interest Expense Over Life of Bonds:
Amount repaid:
20 payments of $11,375= $227,500
Par Value at Maturity $350,000
Total repayments $577,500
Less amount borrowed
Total bond interest expense
3. What is the amount of bond interest expense recorded on the first interest payment date?
In: Accounting
Upon its founding, the high-potential firm issued 10 million shares of stock in total, all held by the two co-founders after having been granted at $0.05 per share. No additional shares are to be issued. (A decision about issuing new shares would be reconsidered in the event the firm went public at some time in the future). One year after founding a VC invests $3.5 million in startup-stage financing at a share price of $1.25. In an additional round of financing several months later the VC invests an additional $6 million at a share price that places the company's valuation at double that after the first financing round. If the founders were able to liquidate their remaining shares immediately after this second round, what would their shares be worth in total?
| a. |
$8 mil |
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| b. |
$5 mil |
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| c. |
$12 mil |
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| d. |
$20 mil |
In: Finance
Quencher Limited is planning to produce mineral water. It is contemplating to purchase a plant with a capacity of 100,000 bottles a month. For the first year of operation the company expects to sell between 60,000 to 80,000 bottles. The budgeted costs at each of the two levels are as follows:
GHS
Particular 60,000 bottles 80,000 bottles
Material 360,000 480,000
Labour 200,000 260,000
Factory overheads 120,000 150,000
Administration expenses 100,000 110,000
The production would be sold through retailers who will receive a commission of 8% of sale price
Required
a) Compute the break-even point in GHS and units, if the company decides to fix the sales price at GHS16 per bottle.
b) Compute the break-even point in units, if the company offers a discount of 10% on purchase of 20 bottles or more, assuming that 20% of the sales will be to buyers who will avail the discount.
In: Accounting
The government has considered the following market
phenomena to be "bad" and has taken steps to correct
them:
The first wave of antitrust legislation was aimed at
breaking up monopolies (single sellers of unique products) and
outlawing monopoly practices (price "gouging" and price
discrimination). Diagram and explain why monopolies and monopoly
behavior are "bad."
The second wave of antitrust legislation was aimed at
preventing the growth of monopolizes (horizontal integration of
firms selling the same product) and outlawing behavior that sought
to either drive out competitors or prevent their entry
(discounting, entry-level pricing, and dumping). Explain why
excessive competition with intent to monopolize is
"bad."
Subsequently, the government has attacked, by litigation,
combinations based on other more strategic anti-competitive
behaviors, i.e., vertical integration and agglomeration.
Explain why vertical integration may be "bad."
Explain why agglomeration may be "bad."
In: Economics
On March 31st, 2020, Adtech Inc. issued $200,000, 9%, 10-year bonds. The bonds pay interest semi-annually, on September 30 and March 31. The first interest payment is on September 30, 2020. The bonds are issued at a price of 114 1/4 (i.e., $228,500). The issuance price implies an effective interest rate of 7%. Bond issue costs are $10,000, which are amortized using the straight-line method. Adtech's fiscal year-end is on December 31.
1. Prepare all necessary journal entries in relation to these bonds between March 30, 2020 and April 1st, 2021. Make sure you indent your credit and clearly mark the date for each journal entry.
2. What is the amount of the liability that Adtech has to the bondholders on September 30, 2021, after the interest payment on that date?
In: Accounting