Answer:
An adjustment to retained earnings is necessary when when there is a change from LIFO to FIFO.
Calculating the effect on retained earnings:
- In the year 1 company followed LIFO and recorded ending inventory at $177500. Had it followed FIFO it would have recorded at $195000. So there would be increase in income of $17500 (195000 - 177500).
- In year 2 it followed LIFO and recorded opening inventory at $177500 and closing inventory at $355000 and thereby recording Net closing stock of $177500 (355000 - 177500). Had it followed FIFO it would have recorded a net stock of $195000.(390000-195000). So there would be increase in income by of $17500 (195000 - 177500).
So in total of 2 years there would be an increase of $35000 Net income i.e., Retained earnings and increase in stock value of $35000.
The journal entry is:
Inventory A/c Dr $35,000
To Retained earnings A/c $35,000
Explanation:
Answer:
c. lower the risk of supply disruption
Explanation:
Having multiple suppliers is always a good sourcing strategy, as it <u>minimizes the risk of supply disruption</u>. If one of the suppliers fails to maintain the contract due to various reasons (bad business operating), the risk is dispersed among a few suppliers, so there is the contingency principle applied.
This way, the supply chain never gets disrupted.
Answer:
They should operate Mine 1 for 1 hour and Mine 2 for 3 hours to meet the contractual obligations and minimize cost.
Explanation:
The formulation of the linear programming is:
Objective function:
Restrictions:
- High-grade ore: 
- Medium-grade ore: 
- Low-grade ore: 
- No negative hours: 
We start graphing the restrictions in a M1-M2 plane.
In the figure attached, we have the feasible region, where all the restrictions are validated, and the four points of intersection of 2 restrictions.
In one of this four points lies the minimum cost.
Graphically, we can graph the cost function over this feasible region, with different cost levels. When the line cost intersects one of the four points with the lowest level of cost, this is the optimum combination.
(NOTE: it is best to start with a low guessing of the cost and going up until it reaches one point in the feasible region).
The solution is for the point (M1=1, M2=3), with a cost of C=$680.
The cost function graph is attached.
Answer:
a. October 4th
b. November 15th 2019
c. November 14th 2019.
d. December 13th, 2019 (Note: This is assumed based on the explanation below as it is not specifically stated in the question).
Explanation:
a. What date is the declaration date?
The declaration date is the date the announcement to pay the next dividend is made by the board of directors of a company. In this case, the declaration date is October 4th, 2019.
b. What date is the holder of record date?
The holder of record date refers to the cut-off date set by a company to ascertain the eligible shareholders that will receive the next dividend payment. In this case, the holder of record date is November 15th 2019.
c. What date is the ex-dividend date?
The ex-dividend date refers to date that a seller of stock is still eligible to receive dividend despite that the stock has already been sold to a by him. This is because it is the person that hold the security on the ex dividend date that will receive the dividend payment not the holder on the payment date. Generally, ex-dividend date is usually one business day before the record date. In this case,he ex-dividend date is November 14th 2019.
d. What date is the payment date?
The payment date refers to the actual day that eligible shareholders are paid the declared dividend by the company. It is usually a few weeks or month after the ex-dividend date. If we assumed to be a month, the payment date would be December 13th, 2019.
Answer:
D) Both A. and B. are true.
- A) The schedule provides no information as to whether Jurisdiction M's tax is horizontally equitable.
- B) Jurisdiction M's tax is vertically equitable.
Explanation:
When we are talking about horizontal equity of a tax, we are talking about how the tax base is measured and the ability that taxpayers have to pay the tax. There is nothing here about tax base or taxpayers' ability to pay.
On the other hand, vertical equity deals with the tax rate structure. In this case, the tax rate is progressive, meaning that it increases as the taxpayers' income increases. Progressive taxes are vertically equitable.
