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1. What are the main types of service providers to a mutual fund, which has a board of directors but usually no employees?

2. What is the unique procedure available to fund shareholders for challenging a fund adviser’s management fees as excessive? What factors do courts use in determining excessive fees?

3. What are the critical differences between mutual funds and closed-end funds? Why do you think closed-end funds have declined in popularity relative to mutual funds?

4. How are exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and unit investment trusts (UITs) different from index mutual funds, and from each other?

Red Co. is planning to invest some of its excess cash in 5-year bonds issued by Black Co. and in 2% of ordinary shares of Blue Co. Both Black’s bonds and Blue’s shares are traded actively on securities market. Red Co. plans to hold the bonds until the maturity date and trade the shares in short term. Regarding the accounting for these investments, answer the following questions:

1. How should Red classify the bonds and the shares?

2. What is the accounting treatment for the Black bonds? And what is the accounting treatment for the bonds if Red has the following strategies?

a) an active trading strategy for the bonds or

   b) a plan to sell the bonds in the long run.

3. Identify and explain the different types of classifications for equity investments.

The market for a particular good is described by the following demand and supply equations respectively: QD = 448 – 3.5P and QS = 2.5P – 80. Consider that after much discussion among policymakers and following a final vote, the government implements a 20% ad valorem tax on sellers of the good. The market adjusts and is currently in equilibrium.

1. After the tax is implemented, what quantity of the good is traded?

2. What price do buyers pay?

3. What price do sellers receive?

4. After the tax is implemented, do consumers or producers face any tax burden? If so, then state who faces a higher burden, and what this implies about the group’s price elasticity relative to the other group’s price elasticity.

briefly identify the determinants of profit and loss. Explain how two companies in the same industry might have radically different profit earnings during the same accounting period. What would you consider to be the important impact of the variables on competitive strategy?

I need a longer answer someone elaborate more.

The major determinants of Profit and Loss are as follows: ·

Sales Price and Sales volume

· Variable Expenses

· Fixed Expense

· Finance Cost

· Non-Cash Expenditure

· Salary & wages

Two companies of the same industry can have radically different profit earnings during same accounting period, and this can be due to any of the below mentioned reasons: 1) One company could have sold goods with low profit margin in comparison to other company leading to same sales figure but different profits. E.g. Company A sells 100 items at Rs. 10. Thus sales amount to Rs. 1000. Purchase price per unit is Rs. 5. Thus Company A earns a profit of Rs. 500 {i.e. 100*(10-5)}. Whereas company B sells 50 items at Rs. 20. Thus sales amount to Rs. 1000. Keeping the purchase price constant at Rs. 5 per unit. The profit reported by company B comes to Rs. 750 {i.e. 50*(20-5)}. 2) One company could have advantage of competitive purchase price in comparison to other company. This could be due to good bargaining power or due to good business relations. 3) One company could have borrowed money from bank at lower rate of interest than other company leading to less finance cost (interest expenses) during the year resulting in difference in profit margin. 4) One company could have aggressive sales strategy than the other leading to higher expenses resulting in different profit margin.

Few important competitive strategy variables are as follows:

1) Quality: Customers nowadays prefer quality products. Keeping an eye on innovation and quality will also lead to retention of existing customers.

2) Marketing/Advertisement: Advertising a product helps to gain the attention of a larger customer base. Thus, advertising in new publications or advertising more frequently helps to strengthen the customer base.

3) Location: This will help in easy availability of Raw Materials and Labour, lesser transportation cost, scope for expansion, accessibility to markets, etc.

4) Employee Training and Development: This is an important variable which many companies miss. Training of employees on a regular basis keeps them involved in the business and helps them enhance their skill and knowledge which in turn helps them to deliver better service.

5) SWOT Analysis: One should always carry out a SWOT (Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis to improve the business market share.

Mayfair Co. allows select customers to make purchases on credit. Its other customers can use either of two credit cards: Zisa or Access. Zisa deducts a 6.5% service charge for sales on its credit card. Access deducts a 5.5% service charge for sales on its card. Mayfair completes the following transactions in June.

Required:
Prepare journal entries to record the preceding transactions and events. (The company uses the perpetual inventory system.) (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field. Round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar.)

16. Camen Company projects the following​ sales:

January

February

March

Cash sales (45%)

$12,150

$13,500

$14,400

Sales on account (55%)

14,850

16,500

17,600

Total sales

$27,000

$30,000

$32,000

Camen collects sales on account in the month after the sale. The Accounts Receivable balance on January 1 is $13,100​, which represents December​'s sales on account. Camen projects the following cash receipts from​ customers:

Recalculate cash receipts from customers if total sales remain the same but cash sales are only 25​% of the total.Begin by computing the cash sales and sales on account for each month if cash sales are only 25​% of the total.

​Now, recalculate cash receipts from customers for each month if cash sales are only 25​%

of the total.

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Mayfair Co. allows select customers to make purchases on credit. Its other customers can use either of two credit cards: Zisa or Access. Zisa deducts a 3.0% service charge for sales on its credit card. Access deducts a 2.0% service charge for sales on its card. Mayfair completes the following transactions in June.

Required:
Prepare journal entries to record the preceding transactions and events. (The company uses the perpetual inventory system.) (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field. Round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar.)

42-9. Definition of a Security. In 1997, Scott and Sabrina Levine formed Friendly Power Co. (FPC) and Friendly Power Franchise Co. (FPC-Franchise). FPC obtained a license to operate as a utility company in California. FPC granted FPC-Franchise the right to pay commissions to “operators” who converted residential customers to FPC. Each operator paid for a “franchise”—a geographic area, determined by such factors as the number of households and competition from other utilities. In exchange for 50 percent of FPC’s net profits on sales to residential customers in its territory, each franchise was required to maintain a 5 percent market share of power customers in that territory. Franchises were sold to telemarketing firms, which solicited customers. The telemarketers sold interests in each franchise to between fifty and ninety-four A-4 APPENDIX A: ALTERNATE CASE PROBLEMS—CHAPTER 42“partners,” each of whom invested money. FPC began supplying electricity to its customers in May 1998. Less than three months later, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a suit in a federal district court against the Levines and others, alleging that the “franchises” were unregistered securities offered for sale to the public in violation of the Securities Act of 1933. What is the definition of a security? Should the court rule in favor of the SEC? Why or why not? [SEC v. Friendly Power Co., LLC, 49 F.Supp.2d 1363 (S.D.Fla. 1999)]

Case Y X1 X2 X3 X4 X5 X6

1 43 45 92 61 39 30 51

2 63 47 73 63 54 51 64

3 71 48 88 76 69 68 70

4 61 35 86 54 47 45 63

5 81 47 85 71 66 56 78

6 43 34 51 54 44 49 55

7 58 35 70 66 56 42 67

8 71 41 64 70 57 50 75

9 72 31 81 71 69 72 82

10 67 41 78 62 49 45 61

11 64 34 65 58 60 53 53

12 67 41 72 59 41 47 60

13 69 25 61 55 44 57 62

14 68 35 75 59 47 83 83

15 77 46 75 79 74 54 77

16 81 36 52 60 74 50 90

17 74 63 77 79 71 64 85

18 65 60 78 55 77 65 60

19 65 46 83 75 59 46 70

20 50 52 76 64 56 68 58

1. What is the regression equation? (Perform a Multiple Regression Analysis and Paste the table in the first answer box.) 2. State the hypotheses to test for the significance of the independent factors. 3. Which independent factors are significant at alpha= 0.05? Explain. 4. State the hypotheses to test for the significance of the regression equation. Is the regression equation significant at alpha=0.05? Explain. 5. How much of the variability in Y is explained by your model? Explain. 6. What tools would you use to check if the model has multicollinearity problems? 7. Does this model have multicollinearity problems? Explain. 8. If you were to propose a simplified model, eliminating some variables, what would it be? Why? 9. What tools would you use to check if the model assumptions are met? 10. Does this model meet the assumptions? Explain.

FIllmore Steel Company of Texas manufacturers Part 748 (a component used in the developing of skyscraping buildings). The company has a capacity to produce 150,000 units per month and is currently operating at 75 percent of the capacity. The cost structure is as follows:

Per unit cost

Direct Materials $8.00

Direct Labor $6.00

Manufacturing overhead $12.00 _______

Manufacturing cost $26.00

In addition, the company incures $1.00 per unit on Freight and also pays 5% (on selling price) as sales commission. The regular selling price of Part 748 is $34.00 per unit. The manufacturing overhead rate is $24.00 per hour which 1/3 is varialbe and 2/3 is FIXED. It requires 1/2 hour to manufacture one unit. The direct materials and direct labor are considered as variable costs.

Hunai Manufacturing Company of Tokyo, Japan has approached the Fillmore Steel Company for the purchase of 30,000 units of Part 748 next month at $20.00 per unit, FOB shipping point. Fillmore Steel Company will NOT pay any sales commission on this special order. However, an additional FIXED cost of $13,000 for the month will have to be incurred for additional administrative and clerical work. This cost is exclusively related to the special order.

The management of Fillmore Steel Company has approaced you to solve this problem.

Required:

1. Prepare an income statement to analyze accept/reject alternative.

2. What is the minimum price at which Part 748 can be sold to Belfast Company by maintaing the current level of net income?

3. Calculate the contribution margin per unit and the break-even level (in units) disregarding the purchase offer from Hunai Manufacturing Company.

4. In case, if this special order is to be accepted, how best you can convince the regular customers, who are paying $34.00 for Part 748.

PLEASE show all calculations as this is a case project for an oral presentation. Thanks.