How do consumer expectations affect the demand for a product?

We would like to invest $10,000 into shares of companies XX and YY.

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Answer:

c. $5,000 into each company

Explanation:

Let X be the actual (random) return from each share of XX, and Y be the actual return from each share of YY. Computing the returns from each option:

A) Investing $10,000 into XX

Given that variance = (standard deviation)²

Since XX cost $20 per share, only 500 shares can be bought.

Expected value = 500 * E(x) = 500 * 1 = 500

Variance = 500² * Var(x) = 500² * 0.5² = 62500

B) Investing $10,000 into YY

Since YY cost $50 per share, only 200 shares can be bought.

Expected value = 200 * E(y) = 200 * 2.5 = 500

Variance = 200² * Var(y) = 200² * 1² = 40000

C) Investing $5,000 into each company

Since XX cost $20 per share and YY cost $50 per share, only 250 shares of XX and 100 shares of YY can be bought.

Expected value = 250 * E(x) + 100 * E(y) = 250 * 1 + 100 * 2.5 = 500

Variance = 250² * Var(x) + 100² * Var(y) = 250² * 0.5² + 100² * 1 = 25625

Since all options have the same expected return, but option C has the lowest variance hence it is the least riskiest. So the best option is C

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3 years ago

You have $35,900 on deposit with no outstanding checks or uncleared deposits. One day you write a check for $4,200 and then depo

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Answer:

Explanation: from the question above, disbursement for the period is check for $4,200.

Collection for the period is a check for $6,800.

Net float is $35,900 + $6,800 - $4,200. = $38,500

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3 years ago

The following situations suggest a strength or a weakness in internal control. Identify each as a strength or weakness, and giv

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Answer: Options A and C are strengths while options B and D are weaknesses. See explanation below.

Explanation:

a. All employees must take at least five consecutive days off each year.

This is a strength in internal control. This would help to maintain stability in operational process and ensure leave days are effectively utilized. It also prevents staff from taking the leave days in piecemeal and sporadic manner thereby disrupting the operational process and causing team instability. It is also used to ensure leave days are promptly utilised and well accounted for.

b. The accounting department orders merchandise and approves invoices for payment.

This is a weakness in internal control. There should be a check and balance in this regard. In some organizations, proper scrutiny of the vendor and invoice is done by the Procurement Unit and the Expense Control Unit respectively. Even within the accounting department, there is approval hierarchy. Also, the unit within accounting department that is making the order should not be the one to approve the transaction.

c. Cash received over the counter is controlled by the sales clerk, who rings up the sale and places the cash in the register. The daily sales are recorded in the accounting records by the accounting department.

This is a strength in internal control as it ensures checks and balances. Fraud and error can be detected through this means. The accounting department should verify the transactions to the relevant supporting document before recording the transaction in the system.

d. The officer who signs checks need not examine the payment packet because he is confident the amounts are correct.

This is a weakness in internal control in the sense that checks signed by the officer is binding in the court of law. The officer cannot claim ignorance if anything goes wrong. There is therefore a need for proper scrutiny and relevant questions asked before checks are signed.

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3 years ago

Adams Company has employed a bookkeeper who is inexperienced. On December 28, after reviewing the records for the year, you disc

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Answer:

Debit Credit

Trade payable $300

Cash $300

Explanation:

First we have to reverse the wrong journal entry which has been made by the inexperienced bookkeeper in the Adams Company accounts:

Debit Credit

Trade payable $300

Cash $300

Now we have to record the correct journal entry in the accounts of Adam Company in respect of account settlement with supplier which is given as follow:

Debit Credit

Trade payable $300

Cash $300

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3 years ago

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On February 1, 2021, Arrow Construction Company entered into a three-year construction contract to build a bridge for a price of

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Answer:

2021

revenue 2,666,667

we have cost for 2,000,000

income for 666,667

2022

revenue 3.278.400‬

cost 2,500,000

income 778.400‬

2023

revenue 2,054,933‬

cost 3,800,000

loss 1,745,067‬

Explanation:

2,000,000/ (2,000,000 + 4,000,000) = 1/3

in 2021 a third of the contract was complete therefore we recognize a third of revenue:

8,000,000 x 1/3 = 2,666,667

we have cost for 2,000,000

income for 666,667

2,500,000 / (2,500,000 + 3,600,000) = 0,4098

we recognize revenues for 40.98 of the total contract value.

8,000,000 x 40.98 = 3.278.400‬

cost 2,500,000

income 778.400‬

2023

we recognize the remaining revenue.

8,000,000 - 2,666,667 - 3,278,400 = 2.054.933‬ revenue

cost 3,800,000

loss 1,745,067‬

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