Answer:
D. $375,000
Explanation:
given data
Purchases during the year = $12.0 million
Shipping costs from overseas = 1.5 million
Shipping costs to export customer = 1.0 million
Inventory at year end = 3.0 million
solution
we get here Seafood Trading’s year-end inventory valuation.
and we know here that shipping cost to export to customers is selling expense but not include the inventory.
so
shipping costs = ( Inventory at year-end ÷ Purchases during the year ) × Shipping costs from overseas ..................1
put here value and we get
shipping costs = [($3.0 million ÷ $12.0 million) × $1.5 million]
shipping costs = $375,000
Explain why the following are examples of monopolistic competition.
a) There are a number of fast-food restaurants in town, and they compete fiercely. Some restaurants cook their hamburgers over open flames. Others fry their hamburgers. In addition, some serve broiled fish sandwiches, while others serve fried fish sandwiches. A few serve ice cream cones for dessert, while others offer frozen ice cream pies.
b) There are a vast number of colleges and universities across the country. Each competes for top students. All offer similar courses and programs, but some have better programs in business, while others have stronger programs in the arts and humanities. Still others are academically stronger in the sciences.
Answer: In both situations, several companies are offering similar but not identical products, which means there is an imperfect competition.
Explanation:
In businesses, monopolistic competition occurs if different businesses offer differentiated products. This means that even when products are similar they have unique characteristics that cause one product cannot replace others. This occurs in the two examples presented because features such as different methods to cook hamburgers, or products such as fish sandwiches or ice cones in the first example make each of the restaurants to have differentiated products. This also applies to the second example, as some colleges are better in business, others in arts, others in science, etc.
Moreover, in monopolistic competition, there is imperfect competition because due to the differences in products the product of one business cannot directly compete or replace the products of another. Also, this causes the prices can be increased.
Multiple Choice Question Milky Company reports sales revenue of $200, an increase in deferred revenue of $2, and an increase in accounts receivable of $1. Using a journal entry to determine cash collected from customers, accounts receivable should be ____ and deferred revenue ___.
Answer: b. debited; credited
Explanation:
Deferred revenue has been paid to the company but the company does not recognize it as revenue yet because the goods or services it was paid for have not been delivered yet. It will therefore be classified as a liability until the goods or services are delivered. It will therefore be credited because increases in liabilities are credited.
Accounts Receivable is an asset account and as such any increase in it will be debited.
Gordy's Corp. has seven employees. Each earns $800 per week for a five day work week ending on Friday. This month, the last day of the month falls on a Thursday. The company should make an adjusting entry:
Answer:
The journal entry to record the wages expense for the month is:
Thursday, end of month, wages expense:
Dr Wages expense 640
Cr Wages payable 640
The adjusting entry made on Friday would be:
Friday, first day of the new month, wages expense:
Dr Wages expense 140
Dr Wages payable 640
Cr Cash 800
Consider an industry that is made up of nine firms each with a market share (percent of sales) as follows: a. Firm A: 30% b. Firm B: 20% c. Firms C, D, and E: 10% each d. Firms F, G, H, and J: 5% each What is the value of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index and how is the industry categorized?
Answer:
Herfindahl-Hirschman Index is 1400 and the industry is categorized as a competitive industry
Explanation:
The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index is a market indicator that is used to measure how competitive the companies or firms in an industry is. It tells whether the industry is highly competitive or monopolistic.
It is obtained by adding the square of the market share of all the firms in an industry. That is,
Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) = s1 + s2 + s3 +....... sn
(where s = market share of individual firms in an industry.)
From the question,
Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) = (30)² + (20)² + 10)² +(10)² + (10)²+ (5)²
+ (5)²+ (5)² + (5)²
= 600 + 400 + 100 +100 + 100 + 25 + 25 +
+ 25 + 25
= 1400
An industry with an Herfindahl-Hirschman Index of less than 1500 units is categorized as a COMPETITIVE INDUSTRY.
One with an index of between 1500 to 2500 is considered as moderately competitive.
While an industry with higher values of HHI tends towards a monopoly.
Businesses in a country are listed by size: small, medium, and large. Explain why business size is an example of an ordinal-scaled variable.
Answer:
The business-size contain values that may be used as a rank or order of a categorical variable.
Explanation:
Business size is an example of an ordinal scaled variable because it has a value that is used to rank the categorical variables. However, the variable size in the business is used to categorizing the business in small, medium, and large forms. moreover, the ordinal scaled variable exhibits the variables where the order matters but the difference between orders does not matters. That is why business size is an ordinal scaled variable.
Hudson Corp. operates several factories that manufacture medical equipment. The factories have a historical cost of $200 million. Near the end of the company’s fiscal year, a change in business climate related to a competitor’s innovative products indicated to Hudson’s management that the $170 million carrying amount of the assets of one of Hudson’s factories may not be recoverable. Management identified cash flows from this factory and estimated that the undiscounted future cash flows over the remaining useful life of the factory would be $150 million. The fair value of the factory’s assets is reliably estimated to be $135 million. The change in business climate requires investigation of possible impairment. Which of the following amounts is the impairment loss?
A) $15 million.
B) $20 million.
C) $35 million.
D) $65 million.
Answer:
C) $35 million.
Explanation:
The computation of the impairment loss is shown below:
= Carrying amount of the assets - fair value of the factory assets
= $170 million - $135 million
= $35 million
Since the carrying amount exceeds the fair value of the asset so the impairment loss is recorded and hence the same is to be considered.
Hence, the correct option is c.