Answer:
Jones may decide that the equity method would not be appropriate to account for the investment when Jones Company does not have significant influences over the management/operation of Sandridge Company.
Although an investors holding from 25% of investee is very much likely to have significant influences on the investee, this may not be true all over the times. For Jones, to prove that it does not have significant influences over Sandridge, there may be some following evidences:
+ Jones and Sandridge sign an agreement that Jones surrenders significant rights as a shareholder;
+ There is/are investor(s)/group(s) of investors who has more voting right than Jones and whose visionary/mission for Sandridge is opposite to Jones's.
+ Sandridge tries to reject Jones' influences on its management by seeking lawsuit or by successfully prevent representatives from Jones on its Board of Directors.
Explanation:
Answer:
Accounting rate of return = 20.53%
Explanation:
<em>The accounting rate of return is the average annual income expressed as a percentage of the average investment.</em>
The simple rate of return can be calculated using the two formula below:
Accounting rate of return
= Annual operating income/Average investment
× 100
Average investment = (Initial cost + scrap value)/2
= 30,000/2= 15,000
Accounting rate of return = ( 3080/15,000) × 100
= 20.53%
Accounting rate of return = 20.53%
Answer:
Bond,treasury
Explanation:
A bond refers to the contract between borrower and lender stipulating that the borrower must pay periodic interests and principal on specified dates .
The interest is also known as coupon payment has fixed rate usually quoted in the bond agreement which could be paid annually or semi-annually to te lenders.
Treasury refers to the bond issued by the national government such as the U.S government and carries a lower rate of return as the risk attached too is low ,hence lower risk brings about lower return since the government is not likely to default in discharging its obligations
Explanation:
The organizational structure and culture are essential for the design of a strategic plan aligned with the organization's purpose.
What happens is that the structure and culture of an organization constitute its identity, its way of organizing itself and creating an environment designed to obtain the objectives and goals stipulated by strategic planning. So it can be said that there is no way to develop a strategic plan without considering the structure or culture, because it is through these two variables that action plans are developed and modeled according to what the company is, and what it plans to be in the future. All organizational systems must be foreseen in the planning and be developed with the same degree of importance, because together they form the organizational whole that will lead a company to be well positioned in the market, achieve continuous improvement in its processes, achieve competitive advantage in the market, etc.
Answer:
The correct answer is option D.
Explanation:
Sunk costs can be defined as those costs which already been incurred and cannot be recovered anymore. These costs are excluded from business decision making.
It is can be referred to as a cost that is no longer relevant.
The $8 paid for a ticket, after the person starts watching the movie is a sunk cost as it cannot be recovered anymore.
Sunk costs are contrasted to relevant cost which is yet to be incurred in the future. Cost pf machinery, equipment, etc are examples of sunk cost.