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a Janice Toy Inc. is a toy manufacturer in Hong Kong. Recently, the company introduced a...

a Janice Toy Inc. is a toy manufacturer in Hong Kong. Recently, the company introduced a new electronic bear to the market. Although there are no other companies that sell this type of toy, the sales figure is not ideal and customers are not aware of the toy. Suppose you are the marketing manager of this company. Identify and explain the stage of product life cycle that this toy falls into, and suggest the corresponding marketing actions to be taken.

b GFE Limited is a company that sells audio products, such as earphones, speakers, mixer and other related accessories to retailers in Hong Kong. John is the owner of this company and he wishes to repackage his products to promote his company and increase sales.
What factors should he consider when designing the packaging of his
products? Explain.

In: Operations Management

Question 2 The following trial balance was extracted from the books of R Giggs at the...

Question 2
The following trial balance was extracted from the books of R Giggs at the close of business on 28 February 2007.
Dr Cr
RM RM
Purchases 92,800
Sales 157,165
Cash at bank 4,100
Cash in hand 324
Capital 11,400
Drawings 17,100
Office furniture 2,900
Rent 3,400
Wages and salaries 31,400
Discount received 160
Discount allowed 820
Accounts receivable 12,316
Accounts payable 5,245
Inventory 1/3/2006 4,120
Provision for doubtful debts 405
Motor vehicles 3,750
Motor expenses 615
Bad debts 730
174,375 174,375

Additional information:
1. Inventory as at 28/2/2007 was RM2,400.
2. Wages and salaries accrued at 28/2/2007 RM340.
3. Rent prepaid at 28/2/2007 RM230.
4. Motor expenses owing at 28/7/2007 RM72.
5. Increase in provision for doubtful debts by RM91.
6. Provide for depreciation as follows: office furniture RM380, motor vehicles RM1,250.
Required:
Draw up the Income Statement (Profit and Loss) for the year ended 28/2/2007 together with a Financial Positions (Balance Sheet) as at 28/2/2007.

Question 2
The following trial balance was extracted from the books of R Giggs at the close of business on 28 February 2007.
Dr Cr
RM RM
Purchases 92,800
Sales 157,165
Cash at bank 4,100
Cash in hand 324
Capital 11,400
Drawings 17,100
Office furniture 2,900
Rent 3,400
Wages and salaries 31,400
Discount received 160
Discount allowed 820
Accounts receivable 12,316
Accounts payable 5,245
Inventory 1/3/2006 4,120
Provision for doubtful debts 405
Motor vehicles 3,750
Motor expenses 615
Bad debts 730
174,375 174,375

Additional information:
1. Inventory as at 28/2/2007 was RM2,400.
2. Wages and salaries accrued at 28/2/2007 RM340.
3. Rent prepaid at 28/2/2007 RM230.
4. Motor expenses owing at 28/7/2007 RM72.
5. Increase in provision for doubtful debts by RM91.
6. Provide for depreciation as follows: office furniture RM380, motor vehicles RM1,250.
Required:
Draw up the Income Statement (Profit and Loss) for the year ended 28/2/2007 together with a Financial Positions (Balance Sheet) as at 28/2/2007.    

In: Accounting

Seacrest Company has 10,000 shares of cumulative preferred 2% stock, $50 par and 50,000 shares of...

Seacrest Company has 10,000 shares of cumulative preferred 2% stock, $50 par and 50,000 shares of $10 par common stock. The following amounts were distributed as dividends:

Year 1 $20,000
Year 2 5,000
Year 3 30,000

Determine the dividends per share for preferred and common stock for each year. Round all answers to two decimal places. If an answer is zero, enter '0'.

Preferred Stock
(dividend per share)
Common Stock
(dividend per share)
Year 1 $ $
Year 2 $ $
Year 3

$

Journalize the entries to record the following transactions for Mountain Realty Inc. Refer to the Chart of Accounts for exact wording of account titles.

Aug. 26 Issued for cash 108,000 shares of no-par common stock (with a stated value of $5) at $9.
Oct. 1 Issued at par value 43,000 shares of preferred 1% stock, $10 par for cash.
Nov. 30

Issued for cash 15,000 shares of preferred 1% stock, $10 par at $12 .

The declaration, record, and payment dates in connection with a cash dividend of $659,000 on a corporation’s common stock are June 15, August 10, and September 15.

Journalize the entries required on each date. If no entry is required, simply skip to the next transaction. Refer to the Chart of Accounts for exact wording of account titles.

Olde Wine Corporation has 265,500 shares of $30 par common stock outstanding. On February 15, Olde Wine Corporation declared a 1% stock dividend to be issued May 2 to stockholders of record on March 27. The market price of the stock was $50 per share on February 15.

Journalize the entries required on February 15, March 27, and May 2. If no entry is required, simply skip to the next transaction. Refer to the Chart of Accounts for exact wording of account titles.

In: Accounting

Job order cost accounting for a service company The law firm of Furlan and Benson accumulates...

Job order cost accounting for a service company

The law firm of Furlan and Benson accumulates costs associated with individual cases, using a job order cost system. The following transactions occurred during July:

July 3. Charged 500 hours of professional (lawyer) time at a rate of $220 per hour to the Obsidian Co. breech of contract suit to prepare for the trial.
10. Reimbursed travel costs to employees for depositions related to the Obsidian case, $25,200.
14. Charged 140 hours of professional time for the Obsidian trial at a rate of $250 per hour.
18. Received invoice from consultants Wadsley and Harden for $65,900 for expert testimony related to the Obsidian trial.
27. Applied office overhead at a rate of $80 per professional hour charged to the Obsidian case.
31. Paid administrative and support salaries of $36,400 for the month.
31. Used office supplies for the month, $12,300.
31. Paid professional salaries of $160,100 for the month.
31. Billed Obsidian $327,500 for successful defense of the case.

a. Provide the journal entries for each of these transactions.

July 3 Work in Process
Salaries Payable
July 10 Work in Process
Cash
July 14 Work in Process
Salaries Payable
July 18 Work in Process
Consultant Fees Payable
July 27 Work in Process
Office Overhead
July 31 Admin. sal. Office Overhead
Cash
July 31 Supplies Office Overhead
Supplies
July 31 Prof. sal. Salaries Payable
Cash
July 31 Billed Accounts Receivable
Fees Earned
July 31 Cost Cost of Services
Work in Process

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b. How much office overhead is over- or underapplied? Enter your answer as a positive number.
$ Overapplied

c. Determine the gross profit on the Obsidian case, assuming that over- or underapplied office overhead is closed monthly to cost of services.
$

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Refer to the accompanying data set and construct a 90​% confidence interval estimate of the mean...

Refer to the accompanying data set and construct a 90​% confidence interval estimate of the mean pulse rate of adult​ females; then do the same for adult males. Compare the results.

Pulse Rates (beats per minute)

Males Females

82 83

72         94

48       59

57        64

54 56

62 80

53 78

74 86

53 86

63 58

73 35

61 65

65 85

76 76

83 75

65 64

64 68

93 79

41 59

84 63

74 82

64 82

72 68

70 75

57 88

66 91

58 87

82 93

73 89

64 97

66 69

96 92

57 84

65 80

58 73

58 53

68 99

bpm < μ < bpm

​(Round to one decimal place as​ needed.)

In: Statistics and Probability

A college physics professor thinks that two of her sections scored differently on the final exam.  ...

A college physics professor thinks that two of her sections scored differently on the final exam.  

She collects the scores for the two classes and stores them in a file.

We do not know anything about the test score distributions.

Answer the following. Use alpha = 0.05.

a). What is the value of the test statistic?

b). What is the p-value?

c). Is she correct in stating that the final exam scores from the two sections are not equal to each other?

Here are the score sets

Set 1: 74, 79, 65, 58, 67, 61, 63, 64, 62, 72, 66, 58, 66, 63, 61, 73, 77, 68, 62, 67, 81, 80, 58

Set 2: 75, 77, 76, 82, 88, 91, 92, 70, 89, 85, 71, 82, 91, 77, 67, 87, 92, 88, 94, 85, 97, 93, 74

In: Statistics and Probability

1- What might be the underlying motivations of Geely's acquisition of foreign auto brand? 2- How...

1- What might be the underlying motivations of Geely's acquisition of foreign auto brand?
2- How does cooperation in international business offer competitiveness?
3- What role can the government play in promoting internationalisation?

China Globalises London's Black Cabs lobalisation refers to international transactions, co- company for last 70 years. Coventry city is the birth place of operation, and competition among firms. China has British motor industry and has long tradition of manufacturing become one of the most active trading nations in an iconic automobile brands like Jaguar, Rover, Triumph, and increasingly globalised world. China's pursuit in transforming Armstrong Siddeley. The FX4 model taxis rolled out in 1959 itself into an industrial economy gave birth to a thriving auto from Coventry plant set the quintessential shape for the black mobile industry and Geely Automobile Holdings Limited was cabs. They formed partnership with Geely in 2006 which fi- founded in 1986. Geely is a subsidiary of Li Shufu's Zhejiang nally acquired the taxi maker in 2012 for £11.4 million after it Geely Group. They began with motorcycle production and went into administration. London Taxi Company's current annual eventually started manufacturing cars in 1997. Geely's moto production is approximately 2000 taxis. Geely has been con- of 'Happy Life, Geely Drive' encompasses its customers, sup- stantly investing to increase capacity and competitiveness since pliers and human resource to manufacture safe, environmental acquisition. The company has recently announced a £250 friendly and god value automobiles. Relentless pursuit of bet million investment to build a new factory with a production ter technology, foreign brands and oversees market resulted capacity of approximately 36000 cars annually. This new in- in Geely's European acquisition of Volvo cars in 2010 and vestment is celebrated locally and nationally due to 1000 new London Taxi Company (LTC) in 2012. jobs creation and boost to the local economy. Geely's ambition London Taxi Company is the manufacturer of the iconic to put iconic London taxis in all major cities in the world require London Black Cabs. Coventry has been the home of the lots of innovation in emission technology and globalising the London taxi experience. The current technology is not suitable The Chinese state extended its support to fund Geely's for bigger cities due to high emission, less fuel efficiency and oversees ambitions. China EXIM bank is offering a 20 billion bulky weight. The company has pledged to invest a further £80 yuan credit line to Geely. This is exciting news for privately million in research and development of TX5 model with hybrid owned enterprises in China as favourable credit lines were engines. Hybrid and electric taxis are expected to roll out from mostly available for the state owned enterprises (SOEs) until the new factory in 2018. recently. This is an expected move from new Chinese leader- Western manufacturers are also developing strong manu- ship team under chronic overcapacity and mounting losses of facturing bases in China to tap the opportunities presented the State Owned Enterprises. by the increasing purchasing powers of Chinese people. Geely's ownership of London Taxi Company is an ex- Competition from foreign manufacturer, cost pressures due ample of multinational corporations (MNCs) from emerging to stringent regulatory requirements at home and volatility in economies acquisition in the industrial hearts of developed some export markets are some of the current challenges for countries. This is a fairly new phenomenon in international Geely. The management is searching for new opportunities to business which becoming more and more common with grow- overcome these challenges. ing powers of emerging economies.

In: Operations Management

What is the marginal revenue (MR) and marginal cost (MC) as a function of Q? At what quantity is

The Company X has a monopoly on the beer market. Market demand is given by ?? = 200 - 4? and the company's short-term cost as a function of ? is given by ? (?) = ?2 + 40

What is the marginal revenue (MR) and marginal cost (MC) as a function of Q? At what quantity is ?? = ???

In: Economics

Write a script pitch of a new product or service to an existing company of your...

Write a script pitch of a new product or service to an existing company of your choosing. Demonstrate your target customer, the problem you are solving, the value of your idea, and the revenue potential of the target you selected. Be sure to discuss differentiation and the existence of competition.

In: Economics

Your company is a fitness center. On December 1, 2015, a customer pays $600 for 1-year...

Your company is a fitness center. On December 1, 2015, a customer pays $600 for 1-year membership to the center.   When you collected the cash, you credited Unearned Revenue, a liability account.

The adjusting journal entry on December 31, 2015 is:

In: Accounting