At a movie theater box office, all tickets are sequentially prenumbered. At the end of each day, the beginning ticket number is subtracted from the ending number to calculate the number of tickets sold. Then, ticket stubs collected at the theater entrance are counted and compared with the number of tickets sold. Which of the following situations does this control detect?

a. Some customers presented tickets purchased on a previous day when there wasn't a ticket taker at the theater entrance (so the tickets didn't get torn.)
b. A group of kids snuck into the theater through a back door when customers left after a show.
c. The box office cashier accidentally gives too much change to a customer.
d. The ticket taker admits his friends without tickets.

Isaiah is a Financial Quantitative Analyst for a major stock investment company. What does Isaiah do on a daily basis as a part of his job?

He researches, analyzes, and summarizes information about fraud.

He assesses financial situations using mathematical models.

He analyzes tax information using mathematical formulas.

He manages the paperwork for buying and selling securities.

Finlay, Inc., issued 10,000 shares of $51 par value preferred stock at $69 per share and 14,000 shares of no-par value common stock at $10 per share. The common stock has no stated value. All issuances were for cash. a. Prepare the journal entries to record the share issuances. b. Prepare the journal entry for the issuance of the common stock assuming that it had a stated value of $5 per share. c. Prepare the journal entry for the issuance of the common stock assuming that it had a par value of $1 per share.

A purely domestic firm that sources and sells only domestically, Multiple Choice should never hedge since this could actually increase its currency exposure. faces no exchange rate risk and should never hedge since this could actually increase its currency exposure. faces no exchange rate risk. faces exchange rate risk to the extent that it has international competitors in the domestic market.

Juan works for you in the Customer Service Department. He hates answering incoming customer calls and prefers to respond to customer emails. Juan is scheduled to answer the phones today and insists that you let him switch with Shawna, who is assigned to e-mail duty. Although you have refused to allow Juan to switch schedules in the past, you agree to do so today. What is your style for handling this conflict

Explain how art sellers use the 4 P's of marketing to promote expensive art to the desired patrons. Then, consider: Do you think it makes sense to view art as a product and promote it using the marketing mix? How is it similar to other products? On the other hand, what makes art different or "special" in comparison to the products we usually buy in a store?

Motorcycle Manufacturers, Inc. projected sales of 51,100 machines for the year. The estimated January 1 inventory is 6,460 units, and the desired December 31 inventory is 7,130 units. What is the budgeted production (in units) for the year

A manufacturing company applies factory overhead based on direct labor hours. At the beginning of the year, it estimated that factory overhead costs would be $341,900 and direct labor hours would be 48,900. Actual manufacturing overhead costs incurred were $307,800, and actual direct labor hours were 52,800. What is the predetermined overhead rate per direct labor hour

Von Bora Corporation is expected pay a dividend of $1.40 per share at the end of this year and a $1.50 per share at the end of the second year. You expect Von Bora's stock price to be $25.00 at the end of two years. Von Bora's equity cost of capital is 10%. The price you would be willing to pay today for a share of Von Bora stock, if you plan to hold the stock for two years is closest to:

Which of the following is/are true about kanban? A. The purpose of the kanban system is to ensure that parts are produced JIT to support subsequent processes. B. Some companies control the movement of the containers by using two types of kanban cards, production cards and withdrawal cards. C. Kanban cards take the place of shop paperwork used in traditional repetitive mass production. D. a and b are true

Elfalan Corporation produces a single product. The cost of producing and selling a single unit of this product at the company's normal activity level of 51,000 units per month is as follows:
Direct materials $48.10
Direct labor $9.20
Variable manufacturing overhead $2.20
Fixed manufacturing overhead $19.50
Variable selling & administrative expense $4.00
Fixed selling & administrative expense $19.00
The normal selling price of the product is $108.10 per unit.
An order has been received from an overseas customer for 3,100 units to be delivered this month at a special discounted price. This order would not change the total amount of the company's fixed costs. The variable selling and administrative expense would be $2.30 less per unit on this order than on normal sales.
Direct labor is a variable cost in this company.
Suppose there is not enough idle capacity to produce all of the units for the overseas customer and accepting the special order would require cutting back on production of 1,250 units for regular customers.
The minimum acceptable price per unit for the special order is closest to: (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.)
a. $92.10 per unit
b. $108.10 per unit
c. $69.10 per unit
d. $79.18 per unit

Chavez S.A., a Venezuelan company, wishes to borrow $8,000,000 for eight weeks (maturity). A rate of 6.250% per year is quoted by potential lenders in Great Britain, and Switzerland. British, and the Swiss-Euro bond definitions of interest (day count conventions) are 56 days and 60 days, respectively. Numbers of days in a financial year are 360. From which source should Chavez borrow?

Bach Instruments Inc. makes three musical instruments: flutes, clarinets, and oboes. The budgeted factory overhead cost is $2,948,125. Overhead is allocated to the three products on the basis of direct labor hours. The products have the following budgeted production volume and direct labor hours per unit:
Budgeted Production Volume Direct Labor Hours Per Unit
Flutes 2,000 units 2.0
Clarinets 1,500 3.0
Oboes 1,750 1.5
a. Determine the single plantwide overhead rate.
$ per direct labor hour
b. Use the overhead rate in (a) to determine the amount of total and per-unit overhead allocated to each of the three products, rounded to the nearest dollar.
Total Per Unit
Factory Overhead Cost Factory Overhead Cost
Flutes $ $
Clarinets
Oboes
Total $

Consider two perfectly negatively correlated risky securities, A and B. Security A has an expected rate of return of 12% and a standard deviation of return of 17%. B has an expected rate of return of 9% and a standard deviation of return of 14%.

Required:
a. What are the weights of A and B in the global minimum variance portfolio respectively?
b. What is the rate of return on the risk-free portfolio that can be formed with the two securities ?

Below are amounts found in the income statements of three companies.

Company Sales Revenue Cost of Goods Sold Operating Expenses Non-operating Expenses Income Tax Expense
Henry $12,000 $3,000 $4,000 $1,000 $1,000
Grace 15,000 10,000 6,000 3,000 0
James 20,000 12,000 2,000 0 2,000

Required:
a. For each company, calculate (a) gross profit, (b) operating income, (c) income before income taxes, and (d) net income.
b. For each company, calculate the gross profit ratio and indicate which company has the most favorable ratio.

Big Corporation receives management consulting services from its 95 percent owned subsidiary, Small Inc. For the year 20X8, Small billed Big $140,000. Small's labor cost and other associated costs for the employees providing services to Big totaled $121,000 in 20X8. Big reported $2,567,000 of income from its own separate operations for 20X8, and Small reported net income of $695,000. Based on the preceding information, what amount of income should be assigned to the noncontrolling shareholders in the consolidated income statement for 20X8