Answer:
• may be required to incur high costs for abandoning old technologies in an effort to keep pace with suppliers.
• may need to continue producing suboptimal products rather than upgrading its technology
Explanation:
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Vertical integration occurs when the suppliers or retailers is being controlled or owned by a company and hence, control its supply chain. This brings about reduction in costs and the improvement in efficiencies.
When there are improvements in technology at the supply stage of the value chain, the company will need to:
• may be required to incur high costs for abandoning old technologies in an effort to keep pace with suppliers.
• may need to continue producing suboptimal products rather than upgrading its technology
Answer:
Decrease (debit) in equity, Cash Dividends Payable (credit, liability account)
Explanation:
The journal entry to record the declaration of the cash dividends involves a decrease (debit) to Retained Earnings (a stockholders' equity account) and an increase (credit) to Cash Dividends Payable (a liability account).
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Basing it on the information given, he
will owe an additional $731.
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identified, you just look up your income, find the column with your filing
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Answer:
This project should be rejected because the AAR is 10.68 percent.
Explanation:
The accounting rate of return of the project needs to computed,compared with the required accounting rate of return in order to decide whether the project should accepted or rejected:
Profit margin=$86,800*6%=$5208
Average operating assets=($97,500+$0)/2=$48.750
Accounting rate of return=profit margin/average operating assets*100
Accounting rate of return=$5,208/$48,750*100=10.68%
The project accounting rate of return is lower than the required accounting rate of return,hence the project should be rejected.
Answer:
A. Investors can hedge against a price decline by buying a call option.
Explanation: Investment risk can be defined as the probability or likelihood of occurrence of losses relative to the expected return on any particular investment.
Buying a call option entitles the buyer of the option the right to purchase the underlying futures contract at the strike price any time before the contract expires. Most traders buy call options because they believe a commodity market is going to move higher and they want to profit from that move.
A call option is a contract the gives an investor the right, but not the obligation, to buy a certain amount of shares of a security at a specified price at a later time.
