Cass Corporation reported pretax book income of $10,600,000. During the current year, the reserve for bad debts increased by $17
2,500. In addition, tax depreciation exceeded book depreciation by $227,500. Cass Corporation sold a fixed asset and reported book gain of $87,000 and tax gain of $114,500. Finally, the company received $270,000 of tax-exempt life insurance proceeds from the death of one of its officers. Compute the company’s current income tax expense or benefit.
Contribution is the difference between the company's total revenue and the total variable cost. The ratio of the contribution to sales or revenue gives the contribution margin ratio.
The contribution may also be derived from the addition of the fixed cost and the operating income.
Contribution margin
= $115,000 + $54,000
= $169,000
Let the number of units to be sold to achieve targeted income be U
A company is implored to pay punitive damages if it only intentionally discriminated against employees or their federally protected rights.
The punitive charges paid under the Civil Rights Act of 1991 is $50,000 per violation, this covers an employee number of 14 - 100. While companies with over 500 employees are expected to pay $300,000 per violation.
Since Cellant Solar Energy, Inc. is involved in a case of intentional employee discrimination and it has 800 permanent employees working in different departments. The maximum punitive damage that they will have to pay under the Civil Rights Act of 1991 is $300,000.
Product Mix is defined as the combination of products produced to increase the market share of the company and ultimately the profits for a company. The Procter and Gamble (P&G) Company produces many different products including deodorants, cookies, shampoo, cake mix, disposable diapers, laundry detergents, bar soaps and many other types of products to increase the market share of the company.
According to Marxist-socialist tenets, law is strictly subordinate to prevailing economic conditions, such fundamental propositions as private ownership, contracts.
Marxists contend that compared to a capitalist society, a socialist one is far better for the majority of people. "The socialization of production is bound to result in the conversion of the means of production into the property of society," wrote Vladimir Lenin before the Russian Revolution.
The core tenets of the Marxist worldview hold that social class is the most significant category of people and that the economic circumstances of a society form its foundation. Another tenet states that community ownership of the means of production will replace private property as the primary institution of capitalism.
