Question 1 Completion with Options:
A. used equipment
B. storage warehouse
C. land for future building site
D. new office furniture
E. apartment complex
F. new delivery truck
Answer:
1. The assets purchased in the current year that are eligible to be expensed under Section 179 assuming the cost does NOT exceed the limitations are:
A. used equipment
D. new office furniture
F. new delivery truck
2. $561,000 is the maximum to be expensed with an adjusted basis of 100% for MACRS
Explanation:
There is a maximum deduction of $1,050,000 under section 179. The section affords eligible taxpayers the opportunity to reduce their tax burden in the first year that they purchase eligible properties.
Answer:
X-bar chart
Explanation:
In industrial statistics, the X-bar chart is a type of Shewhart control chart that is used to monitor the arithmetic means of successive samples of constant size, n. The X-bar chart shows how the mean or average changes over time .For example, one might take a sample of 5 shafts from production every hour, measure the diameter of each, and then plot, for each sample, the average of the five diameter values on the chart. For the purposes of control limit calculation, the sample means are assumed to be normally distributed, an assumption justified by the Central Limit Theorem.
Answer:
Explanation:
Gilroy has been enjoying a cost leadership advantage as a result of a high demand for its product in the market , which has made him to operate at a minimum efficient scale. This means that any action that disrupts the production activities of Gilroy crackers will be of great concern to the managers as demand for crackers might not be met and the cost competitive advantage lost.
One action here that could cause this is if a major storm shut down Gilroy's production for several days. Production will be affected and customers high demand might not be met as a result.