Company A has been experiencing lost sales and high returns recently, so they have decided to undertake a comprehensive quality
program. The program would require additional inspection of products prior to shipment at an estimated cost of 45000, and the upgrading of production equipment at an estimated cost of 400000. Company A knows that if it undertakes this program, it will be able to reduce warranty repair costs by 25000. They also know they will be able to avoid lost profits by retaining customers, but they cannot quantify that benefit with any degree of precision.Should company A go ahead with the quality program?
The incremental cost of improving quality far outweigh the incremental benefit
Even though loss of profit was avoided by retaining existing customers , yet the quality improvement program dies not guarantee additional customers and profit to write off or reduce the incremental cost .
Therefor , it is not advisable fort the company to go on with the quality program.
Failure of credit customers to pay their bills is considered a bad debt in Accounting. This is recored as a bad debt expense in journal entries in the <em>period when the credit sale occurred</em>. This ensures that these bad debt expense matches the revenues earned during that period. In a company's financial statements, bad debt expense is recorded in the Income statement as <em>selling expenses.</em>
When comparing Mexico to Scotland, you would expect Scottish workers to have greater productivity and higher labour cost per worker
Explanation:
One may expect that a Scotland plant will be less labour intensive and efficient per worker than just Mexican facilities as a more advanced technological nation and that "higher productivity and low labour cost" will be the right answer.
Both possibilities for lower productivity can be excluded as they demonstrate lower productivity. "Higher productivity, but less energy per job" is not the solution because it recognises lower labour costs per worker rather than higher.
The increase in labour productivity relies, according to certain studies, on three key factors: innovation and capital goods saving, modern technology and human capital.
If Stealth bank holds deposits of $600 million but has a current market value of $400 million, It holds reserves of $30 million and government bonds worth $80 million.
Therefore the value of the bank's total liabilities will be the fair value of the bank loans $400 million + reserves of $30 million and government bonds worth $80 million.
Hence, the value of the bank's total liabilities is $510 million
