XYZ Office Supplies is about to introduce a new customer service program that will affect all its 355 sales and service employees. Job duties will be changed, and the employee rewards system will be altered to fit this new customer focus. Moreover, the company wants to improve the efficiency of work processes, thereby removing some of the comfortable (and often leisurely) routines that employees have followed over the years. Top management is concerned about the different types of forces resisting change that the company will potentially experience during this change process. The employees at XYZ discreetly weaken the new customer service program to prove that the decision is wrong and that the new program is not effective. Which of the following reasons to resist change is depicted in this scenario?
a. induce organizational learning.
b. negotiate with the employees.
c. use the stress management technique.
d. create an urgency for change.

Answer: d. Create an urgency for change.

Explanation:

Based on the information given, the reason to resist change that is depicted in this scenario is creating an urgency for change.

The urgency for change can be seen in situations such as the shifting of the reward system towards the new customers, getting employees closer to the customers and also by making job roles to be more focused towards customer.

Therefore, the correct option is D.

Ice House Industries, Inc. has three operating departments: Cooking, Churning and Freezing. Indirect factory costs for the current period were Administrative, $560,000 and Maintenance, $98,000. Administrative costs are allocated to operating departments based on the number of workers and maintenance costs are allocated to operating departments based on square footage occupied.
cooking depart churning depart freezing depart
number of employees 2,940 employees 4,900 employees 1,960 employees
square feet occupied 33,250 Sq Ft 38,000 Sq Ft 23,750 Sq Ft
1. Based on the above data, determine the administrative cost allocated to each operating department of Ice House Industries, Inc.
(A) Cooking: $168,000 Churning: $280,000 Freezing: $112,000
(B) Cooking: $186,666 Churning: $186,666 Freezing: $186,666
(C) Cooking: $112,000 Churning: $280,000 Freezing: $168,000
(D) Cooking: $280,000 Churning: $112,000 Freezing: $168,000
(E) Cooking: $219,333 Churning: $219,333 Freezing: $219,333
A. Choice A
B. Choice B
C. Choice C
D. Choice D
E. Choice E
2. Based on the above data, determine the maintenance cost allocated to each operating department of Ice House Industries, Inc.
(A) Cooking: $219,333 Churning:$219,333 Freezing: $219,333
(B) Cooking: $230,00 Churning: $263,200 Freezing:$164,500
(C) Cooking: $33,250 Churning: $38,000 Freezing:$23,750
(D) Cooking: $32,666 Churning: $32,666 Freezing:$32,666
(E) Cooking:$34,300 Churning: $39,200 Freezing:$24,500
A. Choice A
B. Choice B
C. Choice C
D. Choice D
E. Choice E

Fallon Company uses flexible budgets to control its selling expenses. Monthly sales are expected to range from $172,800 to $215,400. Variable costs and their percentage relationship to sales are sales commissions 7%, advertising 4%, traveling 4%, and delivery 1%. Fixed selling expenses will consist of sales salaries $35,500, depreciation on delivery equipment $7,500, and insurance on delivery equipment $1,100.

Required:
Prepare a monthly flexible budget for each $11,100 increment of sales within the relevant range for the year ending December 31, 2017.

he controller of Wildhorse Industries has collected the following monthly expense data for use in analyzing the cost behavior of maintenance costs. Month Total Maintenance Costs Total Machine Hours January $2,925 3,880 February 3,324 4,432 March 3,989 6,648 April 4,986 8,753 May 3,546 5,540 June 5,420 8,870 (a1) Determine the variable-cost components using the high-low method. (Round answer to 2 decimal places e.g. 2.25.) Variable cost per machine hour $

The model of competitive market relies on these three core assumptions:
1. There must be many buyers and sellers-a few players can't dominate the market.
2. Firms must produce an identical product--buyers must regard all seller's products as equivalent.
3. Firms and resources must be fully mobile, allowing for free entry into and ext from the industry.
The first two conditions imply that all consumers and firms are price takers. While the third is not necessarily for price-taking behavior, assume for this problem that a market cannon maintain competition in the long run without free entry.
Identify whether or not each of the following scenarios describes a competitive market, along with the correct explanation of why or why not.
a. Several stores in the mall sell hooded sweatshirts. Each store's sweatshirts reflect the style of that particular store. Additionally, some stores use higher-quality cotton than others, which is reflected in the apparel's prices.
b. In a small town, there are two providers of broadband internet access: a cable company and the phone company. The internet access offered by both providers is of the same speed.
c. There are hundreds of high schools students in need of algebra tutoring services in Dallas. Dozens of companies offer tutoring services, and the parents who seek out tutors view the quality of the tutoring at the different companies to be largely the same.
d. The government has granted a patent to a pharmaceutical company for an experimental AIDS drug. That company is the only firm permitted to sell the drug.
i. Yes, meets all assumptions.
ii. No, no free entry
iii. No, not many sellers
iv. No, not an identical product.

Sarasota Corporation sells rock-climbing products and also operates an indoor climbing facility for climbing enthusiasts. During the last part of 2017, Sarasota had the following transactions related to notes payable.
Sept. 1 Issued a $16,800 note to Pippen to purchase inventory. The 3-month note payable bears interest of 9% and is due December 1. (Sarasota uses a perpetual inventory system.)
Sept. 30 Recorded accrued interest for the Pippen note.
Oct. 1 Issued a $22,800, 10%, 4-month note to Prime Bank to finance the purchase of a new climbing wall for advanced climbers. The note is due February 1.
Oct. 31 Recorded accrued interest for the Pippen note and the Prime Bank note.
Nov. 1 Issued a $27,600 note and paid $8,100 cash to purchase a vehicle to transport clients to nearby climbing sites as part of a new series of climbing classes. This note bears interest of 6% and matures in 12 months.
Nov. 30 Recorded accrued interest for the Pippen note, the Prime Bank note, and the vehicle note.
Dec. 1 Paid principal and interest on the Pippen note.
Dec. 31 Recorded accrued interest for the Prime Bank note and the vehicle note.
I was wondering how to do the journal entries for...
1. October 1st
2. November 1st
3. November 30th
4. December 31st

Marginal revenue,graphically is:_________

a. the slope of a line from the origin to a point on the total revenue curve.
b. the slope of a line from the origin to the end of the total revenue curve.
c. the slope of the total revenue curve at a given point.
d. the vertical intercept of a line tangent to the total revenue curve at a given point.
e. the horizontal intercept of a line tangent to the total revenue curve at a given point.

Think about a financial decision you made regarding the purchase of a big-ticket item or investment within the last five years. Provide a summary on the discussion thread, answering the following questions:What decision did you make?How prepared were you to make the decision?What was your thought process as you were making the decision?What financial information did you need to make the decision and why?What lessons have you learned that you will apply to future financial decisions?

In 1999, the Federal Trade Commission allowed Exxon and Mobil to merge. At the time, Exxon and Mobil were the top two firms in their industry, and their merger created the largest corporation in the world. To allow the merger, Exxon and Mobil agreed to sell 2,431 gas stations. Of these, 1,740 were in the mid-Atlantic states, 360 were in California, 319 were in Texas, and 12 were in Guam.

Why would the U.S. government require Exxon and Mobil to divest themselves of so many gas stations in localized parts of the country to be willing to allow the merger to occur?

a. Because these geographic regions had too many gas stations.
b. To protect consumers from inappropriate price decreases.
c. To ensure competition in these regions and protect consumers from unwarranted price increases.
d. To ensure that Exxon-Mobil would earn fair profits in these geographic areas.

Management of Mittel Company would like to reduce the amount of time between when a customer places an order and when the order is shipped. For the first quarter of operations during the current year the following data were reported: Inspection time 0.3 days Wait time (from order to start of production) 16.6 days Process time 2.8 days Move time 1.0 days Queue time 4.2 days
1. Compute the throughput time.
2. Compute the manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE) for the quarter. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
3. What percentage of the throughput time was spent in non–value-added activities? (Enter your answer as a percentage (i.e., 0.12 should be entered as 12).)
4. Compute the delivery cycle time.
5. If by using Lean Production all queue time during production is eliminated, what will be the new MCE? (Round your percentage answer to 1 decimal place (i.e., 0.123 should be entered as 12.3).)

Suppose that in a given month $51 million is deposited into the banking system while $55 million is withdrawn. Also suppose that the Fed has set the reserve requirement at 25 percent and that banks have no excess reserves at the beginning of the month. What is the maximum amount of new checkable-deposit money that can be created (or removed) by the banking system as a result of these deposits and withdrawals?

For a business owner, insurance is a cost just like any other expenses. How does buying business
insurance and offering insurance to employees affect the business's profit and success?

Calculating Liquidity Ratios SDJ, Inc., has net working capital of $1,050, current liabilities
of $4,300, and inventory of $1,300. What is the current ratio? What is the quick ratio?

A company's income statement reported net income of $80,000 during 2016. The income tax return excluded a revenue item of $6,000 (reported on the income statement) because under the tax laws the $6,000 would not be reported for tax purposes until 2017. Which of the following statements is incorrect assuming a 21% tax rate?

a. Income tax expense on the income statement exceeds the tax liability to the IRS.
b. The $6,000 of revenue creates a deferred tax liability.
c. A $2,100 deferred tax liability is reported as of December 31, 2014.
d. Income tax expense on the income statement is $25,900.

What is the money multiplier when the reserve requirement is
Instructions: Round your responses to two decimal places.
a. 0.09?
b. 0.25?
C. 0.12?
833.33
d. 0.04?

Aquatic Equipment Corporation decided to switch from the LIFO method of costing inventories to the FIFO method at the beginning of 2021. The inventory as reported at the end of 2020 using LIFO would have been $53,000 higher using FIFO. Retained earnings at the end of 2020 was reported as $710,000 (reflecting the LIFO method). The tax rate is 35%.

Required:
a. Calculate the balance in retained earnings at the time of the change (beginning of 2009) as it would have been reported if FIFO had been used in prior years.
b. Prepare the journal entry at the beginning of 2009 to record the change in principle.

Blaine Air Transport Service, Inc., providing air delivery service for businesses, has been in operation for three years. The following transactions occurred in February:

February 1 Paid $310 for rent of hangar space in February.
February 2 Purchased fuel costing $490 on account for the next flight to Dallas.
February 4 Received customer payment of $850 to ship several items to Philadelphia next month.
February 7 Flew cargo from Denver to Dallas; the customer paid $870 for the air transport.
February 10 Paid $130 for an advertisement in the local paper to run on February 19.
February 14 Paid pilot $2,500 in wages for flying in January (recorded as expense in January).
February 18 Flew cargo for two customers from Dallas to Albuquerque for $4,700; one customer paid $1,100 cash and the other asked to be billed.
February 25 Purchased on account $2,540 in spare parts for the planes.
February 27 Declared a $220 cash dividend to be paid in March.

Required:
Prepare journal entries for each transaction.

Red Co. uses the product cost concept of applying the cost-plus approach to product pricing. Below is cost information for the production and sale of 40,000 units of its sole product. Red Co. desires a profit equal to a 15% rate of return on invested assets of $1,200,000.
Fixed factory overhead cost $80,000.00
Fixed selling and administrative costs 140,000.00
Variable direct materials cost per unit 7.00
Variable direct labor cost per unit 11.00
Variable factory overhead cost per unit 3.00
Variable selling and administrative cost per unit 2.00
What is the markup percentage for the company's product? (Round the answer to two decimal places.)
a 30.30%
b 43.50%
c 40.00%
d 35.60%

You borrow money on a self liquidating installment loan (equal payments at the end of each year, each payment is part principal part interest)
Loan amount $670,000
Interest Rate 11.4%
Life 54 years
Date of Loan January 1, 2021
Use the installment method - not straight line
Do NOT round any interrmediate numbers.
Do NOT turn this into a monthly problem.
Do NOT put in minus signs, answer all positive numbers.
Required:
1. What is the annual payment (round to the nearest $)?
$ ____
2. What are the total interest payments (round to the nearest $)?
$ _____
3. After 34 payments have been made, what percentage of the total interest has been paid (round to the nearest percentage point)?
____ %
4. After 34 payments have been made, what percentage of the total principal has been paid (round to the nearest percentage point)?
____ %
Redo the problem if the interest rate is 2%
(for a well designed spreadsheet this should take 30 seconds)
Required:
5. What is the annual payment (round to the nearest $)?
____$
6. What are the total interest payments (round to the nearest $)?
____$
7. After 34 payments have been made, what percentage of the total interest has been paid (round to the nearest percentage point)?
____ %
8. After 34 payments have been made, what percentage of the total principal has been paid (round to the nearest percentage point)?
____ %

Market screening is a method of market analysis and assessment that permits management to identify a small number of desirable markets by eliminating those judged to be less attractive.
When considering initial entry into international markets, or later expansion of international presence, companies Inust screen the large number of potential markets to identify the smaller subset of most promising candidates. This exercise examines one type of market screening, called country screening, and reviews the steps in this screening process as well as key tasks and considerations in each step.
Place the country screening steps in the order they occur, from first to last.
Rank the options below
1. Assess competitive forces such as the number, size, and financial strength of the competitors.
2. Assess economic and financial forces such as trends in inflation, currency exchange rates, and interest rates.
3. Assess sociocultural forces associated with doing business in a particular area or country,
4. Assess basic need potential of specific goods or services
5. Assess political and legal forces such as profit remittance barriers and policy stability
6. Assess prospective markets through personal visits to those markets with the best potential

Wildhorse Company purchased 300 of the 1000 outstanding shares of Ayayai Company's common stock for $570000 on January 2, 2021. During 2021, Ayayai Company declared dividends of $85000 and reported earnings for the year of $370000. If Wildhorse Company used the fair value method of accounting for its investment in Ayayai Company, its Equity Investments (Ayayai) account on December 31, 2021 should be

Two methods can be used to produce expansion anchors. Method A costs $65,000 initially and will have a $18,000 salvage value after 3 years. The operating cost with this method will be $28,000 in year 1, increasing by $3600 each year. Method B will have a first cost of $108,000, an operating cost of $8000 in year 1, increasing by $8000 each year, and a $38,000 salvage value after its 3-year life. At an interest rate of 8% per year, which method should be used on the basis of a present worth analysis

A firm has current assets that could be sold for their book value of $22 million. The book value of its fixed assets is $60 million, but they could be sold for $90 million today. The firm has total debt with a book value of $40 million, but interest rate declines have caused the market value of the debt to increase to $50 million. What is this firm's market-to-book ratio

Oriole Company uses a periodic inventory system. For April, when the company sold 600 units, the following information is available. Units Unit Cost Total Cost April 1 inventory 270 $30 $ 8,100 April 15 purchase 440 36 15,840 April 23 purchase 290 39 11,310 1,000 $35,250 Compute the April 30 inventory and the April cost of goods sold using the FIFO method. Ending inventory $enter a dollar amount Cost of goods sold $enter a dollar amount

1. A manufacturer of industrial motors has identified ten new prospective customers for its products and estimated each customer's annual sales potential as follows:
Customer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Sales Potential
(in $1,000,000s) $113 $106 $84 $52 $155 $103 $87 $91 $128 $131
The company would like to allocate these ten prospective customers to five of its current salespeople in the most equitable way possible. (Each customer may be assigned to only one sales person.) To do this, ideally, the customers assigned to each of the five salespeople would have exactly the same sales potential. If such a solution is not possible, the company would like to minimize the total amount by which the actual sales potentials for the customers assigned to each salesperson deviate from the ideal allocation.
a. Ideally, what sales potential should be assigned to each salesperson?
b. Formulate a mathematical programming model for this problem.
c. Implement your model in a spreadsheet and solve it.
d. What is the optimal solution and the optimal objective value?
e. Suppose we instead want to minimize the maximum amount by which any salesperson's assigned sales potential deviates from the ideal allocation. What is the optimal solution and optimal objective value?

Computing Straight-Line and Double-Declining-Balance Depreciation
On January 2, 2016, Dechow Company purchases a machine to help manufacture a part for one of its key products. The machine cost $306,180 and is estimated to have a useful life of six years, with an expected salvage value of $32,760.
Compute each year's depreciation expense for 2016 and 2017 for each of the following depreciation methods.
a. Straight-line.
b. Double-declining balance.

Carlton Office Systems Inc. needs to improve overall organizational efficiency. To accomplish this, the company has implemented a complete redesign of all business systems and reporting hierarchies. During this process, significant cuts were made in middle management staff. What organizational trend is taking place at this company

Last year, Pastis Productions reported $100,000 in sales and $40,000 in cost of goods sold. The company estimates it would have doubled its sales and cost of goods sold had it allowed customers to buy on credit, but it also would have incurred $50,000 in additional expenses relating to wages, bad debts, and interest. Using these estimates, calculate the amount by which Income from Operations would increase (decrease).

he SSC, a cash-method partnership, has a balance sheet that includes the following assets on December 31 of the current year: Basis FMV Cash $ 180,000 $ 180,000 Accounts receivable 0 60,000 Land 90,000 120,000 Total $ 270,000 $ 360,000 Susan, a one-third partner, has an adjusted basis of $90,000 for her partnership interest. If Susan sells her entire partnership interest to Emma for $120,000 cash, how much capital gain and ordinary income must Susan recognize from the sale

Suppose a hypothetical economy is currently in a situation of deficient aggregate demand of $16 billion. Four economists agree that expansionary fiscal policy can increase total spending and move the economy out of recession, but they are debating which type of expansionary policy should be used. Economist A believes that the government spending multiplier is 4 and the tax multiplier is 2. Economist B believes that the government spending multiplier is 2 and the tax multiplier is 8.

Required:
Compute the amount the government would have to increase spending to close the output gap according to each economist's belief.

Skysong Itzek manufactures and sells homemade wine, and he wants to develop a standard cost per gallon. The following are required for production of a 50-gallon batch. 3,800 ounces of grape concentrate at $0.07 per ounce 54 pounds of granulated sugar at $0.45 per pound 60 lemons at $0.70 each 150 yeast tablets at $0.28 each 200 nutrient tablets at $0.17 each 1,900 ounces of water at $0.005 per ounce Skysong estimates that 5% of the grape concentrate is wasted, 10% of the sugar is lost, and 25% of the lemons cannot be used. Compute the standard cost of the ingredients for one gallon of wine. (Round intermediate calculations and final answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 1.25.) Standard Cost Per Gallon $