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sdas [7]
3 years ago
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3. What do you think Firestone did wrong in their approach in South America and the United States? Why do you think the company

waited so long to tell customers about the problem?
Business
1 answer:
Whitepunk [10]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

I believe that this question is about the recall of defective Firestone tires on some Ford trucks and SUVs.

Recalls are not only embarrassing, they are also extremely expensive. On August, 2000, Firestone had to launch a massive recall in order to replace 23 million tires manufactured between 1991 and 1996. The recall itself costed almost $10 billion to Ford and Firestone (including closing factories and lost sales) and many more millions in lawsuits since more than 62 people died and more than 100 severe accidents happened.

First of all, both Firestone and Ford did everything wrong, Ford started the recall in Saudi Arabia while people in the US and South America were dying due to accidents resulting from exploding tires. They tried to keep the problem secret but it was simply too big.

They did everything to keep the issue because they knew about the magnitude of their failure, only the Takata airbag recall costed more money.  Most car manufacturers and auto parts suppliers are very big companies that move a lot of money, and any recall costs tons of money due to the number of cars produced and sold.

Ford reacted before Firestone, since most of the bad rep fell over them because consumers don't care who provides the parts, they care about the whole car. Until the US government intervened, Firestone kept trying to hide the problem. Japanese headquarters said it was an American problem and American management said they didn't know what was happening.

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The question is incomplete. Here is the complete question

The corporate charter of Martin Corporation allows the issuance of a maximum of 4,000,000 shares of $1 par value common stock. During its first three years of operation, Martin issued 3,200,000 shares at $15 per share. It later acquired 30,000 of these shares as treasury stock for $25 per share. Based on the above information, answer the following questions:

a. How many shares authorized?

b. How many shares were issued?

c. How many shares are outstanding?

d. What is the balance of the Common Stock account?

e. What is the balance of the Treasury Stock account?

Answer:

(a) 4,000,000 shares

(b) 3,200,000 shares

(c) 3,170,000 shares

(d) $3,200,000

(e) $750,000

Explanation:

(A) Number of shares that was authorized is 4,000,000

(B) Number of shares that was issued is 3,200,000

(C) The number of shares outstanding can be calculated as follows

= number of shares issued-acquired shares in the treasury stock

= 3,200,000-30,000

= 3,170,000

(D) The balance of common stock account can be calculated as follows

= number of shares that was issued-per value

= 3,200,000×$1

= $3,200,000

(E) The balance of the treasury stock account can be calculated as follows

= acquired shares in the treasury stock×price per share

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At the beginning of the year, Smith Company budgeted overhead of $129,600 as well as 13,500 direct labor hours. During the year,
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Answer:

Part 1

$9.60

Part 2

$11,129

Part 3

Journal 1

Debit : Overheads $172,500

Credit : Equipment lease $ 6,800

Credit : Depreciation on building 19,340

Credit : Indirect labor 90,400

Credit : Utilities 14,560

Credit : Other overhead 41,400

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Journal 2

Debit : Work In Process $173,760

Credit : Overheads $173,760

<em>Being overheads applied</em>

Part 4

under-applied overheads is $1,260

Part 5

$636,860

Explanation:

Overhead rate = Budgeted Overheads ÷ Budgeted Activity

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                        = $9.60

Total cost (Job K456)  = $2,750 + $5,355 + $3,024 = $11,129

Actual Overheads = $ 6,800 + $19,340 + $90,400 + $14,560 + $41,400 = $172,500

Applied overheads = 18,100 x $9.60 = $173,760

Since, Actual Overheads < Applied overheads, overheads have been under-applied. Amount of under-applied overheads is $1,260 ($173,760 - $172,500)

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then, ER = 5% + 2 (10% - 5%) = 15%

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then, ER = 5% + 3 (10% - 5%) = 20%

Similarly if \beta reduces to 1

then, ER = 5% + 1 (10% - 5%) = 10%

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