pendix E: Kytrina Casio Information

For your fifth client, your boss wants you to prepare Form 1040, Schedule A, B, and

supporting forms (e.g., 4684) for Kytrina Casio for the most recent tax year.

Facts: Kytrina is a 30-year old single person. She is a graphic artist who also works in

an antique store on weekends. For last year, she had the following information:

T

axpayer:

Kytrina Casio

123 Park Avenue

Flowers, TX

75000

Social Security No.

123-45-6789

INCOME

:

W-2 from 1

st

employer

Gross wages income:

$13,164

Federal Withholding

921

W-2 from 2d employer

Gross wages income:

50,000

Federal withholding

9,500

Interest income from bank

132

Interest income from brokerage firm

2,100

Ordinary "qualified" dividends from large U.S. corporation:

3,000

POSSIBLE DEDUCTIONS

:

Mortgage interest paid

6,700

State and local income taxes paid

1,400

Charitable contributions to a 501(c)(3) charity

1,800

Casualty loss, her garage, located in a federally declared

disaster area, was destroyed by the disaster. Cost and fair

market value were:

9,000

Insurance pay out for the garage disaster loss:

3,000

Property taxes on her home

2,600

Using these facts, prepare Form 1040, Schedules A, and B for Kytrina for the most

recent year for which there is a form (this is almost always the year prior to the present

year). Remember to consider both the standard deduction vs. itemized deduction. Also,

you may need other forms, such as the 4684 and instructions

Do you agree or disagree with the selected aspects for an organization? Explain

An organization must look for opportunities to improve customer loyalty by developing then implementing programs focused on taking advantage of their respective customers to increase revenues. Customers satisfaction is the key for organizations when they are attempting to create loyal customers.

There are several aspects that an organization must consider when creating loyalty programs in order to see a return on their initial investment. One vital aspect of the entire project begins with performing the proper and effective research. Since, there are numerous program models, establishing the correct program for a business will take time. Organizations must avoid creating programs just because they able to do so. Organizations should utilize data from a variety of sources to analyze what consumers value most and would most likely respond to.

Another aspect that organizations must consider keeping customer loyalty programs simple and easy to manage. “Incentives are widely used for wellness”. The more complex the reward program the more difficult it will be for any business to retain customers. Most businesses utilize a point system such as the Hilton Hotel chain that provides incentives for using their services. The more points gathered by the customer the larger the discount for programs such as these rewards consumers at a certain percentage.

One final aspect that should be considered is marketing of the program for if it’s done incorrectly or not at all, then all the work exhausted in it’s creation would be pointless. “Monetary reward has been defined as an incentive that can make a person wealthier and materially successful if s/he meets the criteria for receiving the reward. Proper investment into marketing a provide greater visibility of your reward program to encourage consumers towards their brand.

[HA260] Hospitality Managerial Accounting

Assignment #6

Name: _____________________

[Note] You are required to provide the process for full-credit consideration. If you provide just final answers, you will get credits up to 50% of full-credit.

Holly’s Hotel budgeted 800 room sales for the week ended April 24. The estimated average price per room was $18.50. The actual average price per room was 10 percent greater than anticipated, while room sales in units were 10 percent less than forecasted.

Complete the following table for the Hotel’s revenue variance analysis.

Calculate the budget variance.

Calculate the price variance.

Calculate the volume variance.

Calculate the price-volume variance.

For the same week, Holly’s Hotel’s head housekeeper, based on the work standard, budgeted 400 hours for room attendants to clean the rooms sold. The actual hours worked totaled 380. The estimated average wage rate for the attendants is $4.00 per hour. The wages paid totaled $1,444.

Complete the following table for the Hotel’s expense variance analysis.

Calculate the ATAO (Allowable time for actual output).

How many rooms can a room attendant clean per hour?

Given that 720 rooms had to be cleaned, how much time should have been spent in hours (ATAO)?

Calculate the efficiency variance.

What does the efficiency variance tell you? Were the room attendants efficient?

Calculate the rate variance.

Note : the Answers should be computerized and in your own words please

Case Study

This is from an old story, back in the ’30s, in the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less. A 10 year-old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him.

“How much is an ice cream sundae?” the little boy asked. “Fifty cents,” replied the waitress.

The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied the coins he had. “Well, how much is a plain dish of ice cream?” he inquired. By now, more people were waiting for a table and the waitress was growing very impatient. “Thirty-five cents,” she brusquely replied. The little boy again counted his coins. “I’ll have the plain ice cream,” he said. The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and walked away. The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and left. When the waitress came back, she began to cry. As she wiped down the table, there placed neatly beside the empty dish were two nickels and five pennies. You see, he couldn’t have the sundae because he had to have enough money to leave her a tip.

You are required to write a report on the following:

1.      Compare Vroom’s Expectancy theory against Maslow’s need theory. Interpret from the case the situations where Vroom’s expectancy theory of motivation has been used in this story.

2.      Present your case in the class justifying how communication plays a vital role in keeping employees motivated in your organization. Compare the communication styles.

1. Received $28,500 cash from the issue of common stock. 2. Purchased inventory on account for $140,000. 3. Sold inventory for $172,500 cash. Sales tax was collected at the rate of 7 percent on the inventory sold. 4. Borrowed $18,000 from First State Bank on March 1, 2016. The note had a 7 percent interest rate and a one-year term to maturity. 5. Paid the accounts payable (see transaction 2). 6. Paid the sales tax due on $140,000 of sales. Sales tax on the other $32,500 is not due until after the end of the year. 7. Salaries for the year for the one employee amounted to $31,000. Assume the Social Security tax rate is 6.20 percent and the Medicare tax rate is 1.45 percent. Federal income tax withheld was $5,000. 8. Paid $2,600 for warranty repairs during the year. 9. Paid $12,500 of other operating expenses during the year. 10.Paid a dividend of $5,200 to the shareholders. Adjustments: 11. The products sold in transaction 3 were warranted. Park estimated that the warranty cost would be 6 percent of sales. 12. Record the accrued interest at December 31, 2016. 13. Record the accrued payroll tax at December 31, 2016. Assume no payroll taxes have been paid for the year and that the unemployment tax rate is 6.20 percent (federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60 percent and the state unemployment tax rate is 5.60 percent on the first $7,000 of earnings per employee). Cost of goods sold was 105,500

Now do the Statement of cash flows . balance sheet income statement statement of changes in stock holders equity

To try to determine whether the composition of the earth’s atmosphere has changed over time, scientists can examine the gas in bubbles trapped inside ancient amber.  (That’s the plot of Jurassic Park.) Assume that the following 9 measures are a random sample from the late Cretaceous era (75 to 95 million years ago). The data represent the percent of nitrogen in each sample.

63.4     65.0     64.4     63.3     54.8     64.5     60.8     49.1     51.0

You asked to conduct a hypothesis test to determine whether the mean is less than 61.

1. Conduct a hypothesis test using a 95% confidence interval.

a. What value for t will you use?

b. What is the sample mean?

c. What is the sample standard deviation?

d. What is the standard error?

e. Calculate the confidence interval.

f. What conclusion will you draw about the null hypothesis and why.

2. Conduct a hypothesis test using the traditional method.

a. Choose a level of significance (a)

b. Draw a t-diagram in which you place the mean at zero and t-value at which you will reject the null hypothesis. Clearly label the reject and do not reject region.

c. Calculate the test statistic using: x̅ -  μ) / SE where SE =  . s= sample standard deviation.

d. Place the value you get for t on your diagram. Does it fall in the reject or do not reject region?

e. What is your conclusion? State it in words in the context of this problem.

f. Calculate the p-value. Compare the p-value to . What conclusion will you draw and why?

g. Your conclusion in e and f should be the same. If not look over your work.

Writing Assignment is to develop marketing mix strategies to ensure a value offering for my the target market "Kids and kids grown up futuristic fantasy Park" service for Walt Disney Need to answer the below questions any input will be appreciate

Offering. Describe your product or service offering as it is currently in terms of features and benefits, price and the total cost of ownership as discussed in the week's readings. Is it more product dominant or service dominant? What are the tangible and intangible aspects?

Type of consumer offering. Based on the four categories of type of offerings discussed in course content, describe the category in which your product or service offering belongs. Based on your new target market, would that category of the offering change and if so, how? How would it change the marketing strategy?

Product line extensions or new product development. Should the current product or service be modified to more fully meet the needs of your new target market? Would the changes constitute a new product line, a product line extension or a new product? If no product changes are needed, how does the same product or service meet the need of your target market differently than current customers? Would the product line extension or new product allow the offering to occupy uncontested space in the perceptual map for the target market as covered in thr previous paper?

Product lifecycle. In which stage of the product lifecycle is your product or service offering now? Would the changes described in number 3 above change the lifecycle stage and if so how? What would this mean to the lifecycle marketing strategy?

Use the following information to answer the next four questions: Consider two municipalities, A and B, in the same province. Residents in municipality A enjoy attending outdoor music concerts (a public good) held in their public park. Each resident in municipality A has a marginal benefit curve for these concerts given by MB=10-2Q, where Q is the number of outdoor concerts. There are 100 residents in this municipality. Residents in municipality B do not enjoy outdoor music concerts (they are more into sports activities). Each resident in municipality B therefore receives no marginal benefit for these concerts. There are 400 residents in municipality B. Each municipality has the same constant marginal cost of providing these concerts given by MC=125. Suppose outdoor music concerts are typically financed by municipalities with distortionary taxation and that the marginal cost of public funds is MCF=1.6 (assume with no tax exporting).

44. The efficient number of concerts in municipality A is _______________.

45. The efficient number of concerts in municipality B is _______________.

46. Now suppose the two municipalities amalgamate. As a result assume that each of the two municipalities is required to have the same number of concerts and that the number in each municipality is the average of the number before amalgamation. The total loss in net social welfare resulting from the requirement that the two municipalities provide the same number of concerts is $ ___________________.

47. Suppose that instead of financing their concerts with distortionary taxation each of the municipalities (before their amalgamation) had the option of shifting all their tax burden (of financing their concerts) to other jurisdictions through tax exporting. Under this scenario, the number of concerts provided by municipality A (before its amalgamation) would have been ____________.

Please answer with work!!

QUESTION 19

1. Let X and Y be consumption goods and let K be a capital good, and assume that these are the only three goods produced in the economy. True or false: To produce today more X requires that less Y or K today be produced, but to produce more K today does not require that less X or less Y be produced.

   	A.	True
   	B.	False
   	C.	DO NOT CHOOSE THIS ANSWER.
   	D.	DO NOT CHOOSE THIS ANSWER.

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QUESTION 20

1. Which of the following circumstances is most likely to decrease the elasticity of demand for Cory’s Checker Taxicab Service in New York City?

   	A.	New Yorkers' incomes fall.
   	B.	The number of Uber and Lyft drivers in Manhattan increases.
   	C.	A sudden and unexpected heavy rainfall starts in New York City.
   	D.	New Yorkers come to get greater enjoyment from driving their own cars and motorcycles to their destinations within New York City. QUESTION 17 Which of the following is best explained by the fact that people make decisions at the margin? A. If Molly has a comparative advantage over Jacob at producing bananas, then Jacob has a comparative advantage over Molly at producing fish. B. A mother who would, if she had to, sacrifice her life to save that of her child will not donate a kidney to a stranger. C. Each individual has preferences that are transitive. D. Rachel, who is seated in a park on a beautiful day in Fairfax, refuses to buy a bottle of fresh air from Ricky, who - having realized that everyone in constant need of air - has decided to try to earn his fortune by selling bottles of this necessary commodity.