Conner has located a research source that is sponsored by a pharmaceutical company. Based on the sponsorship,

3. This year, Paula and Simon (married filing jointly) estimate that their tax liability will be $200,000. Last year, their tota

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Answer:

When a taxpayer has an underpayment of estimated tax or fall behind on his/her tax prepayment, then he/she is required to pay a penalty on Form 2210. This penalty is called underpayment penalty.

According to the tax laws, Mr. P and Ms. S can avoid an underpayment penalty if their withholding's and estimated tax payments equal or exceed one of the following two safe harbors:

90 percent of current tax liability ($200,000 x 90% = $180,000)
110 percent of previous year tax liability (110% x $170,000 = $187,000)

From the above calculation, it is clear that Mr. P and Ms. S's withholding's ($175,000) do not equal or exceed the amount of two safe harbors. So, they need to increase their withholding's or make estimated payments to avoid underpayment penalty.

If Mr. P and Ms. S increase their withholding's by $5,000 or make estimated payments of $1,250

per quarter ($5000/4), they can avoid the underpayment penalty.

Mr. Paula and Simon average gross income is greater than $150,000, so 110% is taken.

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While it sounds reasonable that companies should focus on making the products it knows how to make really well, one downside of

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Answer:

Customer may not want the product which the company is making well.

Explanation:

It is not necessary that market needs those products which the company is producing perfectly. It cannot enter into product differentiation and cannot meet customer demands and needs of specific or altered products. The company can achieve specialization and can be a niche player in the market but also on the other hand company’s business is limited to only few products at which it is perfect. It cannot allow customization to its products.

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Punkeytown carries no insurance for possible claims and, as of January 1, 2019 (the start of its fiscal year), Punkeytown had no

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Answer: Will report a liability of $5000 for judgement debt and a claim of $11,000

Explanation:

The liability refers to the obligations of the firm which are certain is going to make payment as compensation.

The $5000 liability, although payment has not been made it's already Incurred by the company under the acural concept.

The claim of $11,000 is only probable and not certain even though amount and time of execution can be estimated, since it's not certain it will only be recorded as a claim in the goverments fund balance sheet.

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Discuss ten (10) different purposes of an evaluation of salesperson performance and how each purpose affects the performance eva

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Answer:

1. To ensure that compensation and other reward disbursements are consistent with actual performance

2. To identify salespersons who needs to be promoted

3. To identify salespersons who should be fired/terminated

4. To determine the specific training and counseling needs of individual

5. To provide information for effective human resource (Succession) planning

6. To identify criteria that can be used to recruit and select salespersons in the future

7. To advise salespersons of work expectations

8. To motivate salespersons

9. To help salespersons set their career goals

10. To enhance effective communications between salesperson and sales manager

Explanation:

How each purpose affects the performance evaluation process

1. To ensure that compensation and other reward disbursements are consistent with actual performance

Compensation and rewards affects the performance and it should be on the merit.

2. To identify salespersons who needs to be promoted

Promotion shall be given on the basis of evaluation

3. To identify salespersons who should be fired/terminated

Termination should be on the basis of performance evaluation

4. To determine the specific training and counseling needs of individual

Training shall be provided on the basis of evaluation

5. To provide information for effective human resource (Succession) planning

Succession planning should be on the basis of performance evaluation so that the exceptional performers must be retained,

6. To identify criteria that can be used to recruit and select salespersons in the future

It helps in understanding the factors that will be useful to recruit and select salespersons

7. To advise salespersons of work expectations

On the basis of evaluation, it will be decided to communicate the work expectations

8. To motivate salespersons

It will help in understanding the factors which motivate the salespersons

9. To help salespersons set their career goals

Salespersons will understand about their future and set their career goals.

10. To enhance effective communications between salesperson and sales manager

It will help to communicate effectively about the expectations of salesperson and sales manager and better coordination

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Assume that the short-run cost and demand data given in the tables below confront a monopolistic competitor selling a given prod

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Profit is maximized when Q = 4 and P = $40, with maximum profit = $90.

<u>Explanation:</u>

(a) (i) Marginal cost (MC) = Change in Total cost (TC) by Change in output (Q)

(ii) Total revenue (TR) = Price (P) into Q

(iii) Marginal revenue (MR) = Change in TR by Change in Q

(iv) Profit = TR - TC

Therefore:

Q TC MC P TR MR PROFIT

0 25 60 0 -25

1 40 15 55 55 55 15

2 45 5 50 100 45 55

3 55 10 45 135 35 80

4 70 15 40 160 25 90

5 90 20 35 175 15 85

6 115 25 30 180 5 65

7 145 30 25 175 -5 30

8 180 35 20 160 -15 -20

9 220 40 15 135 -25 -85

10 265 45 10 100 -35 -165

When Q = 4, MR = $25 and MC = $15, so MR > MC. When Q = 5, MR = $15 and MC = $20, so MR < MC. Therefore,

Profit is maximized when Q = 4 and P = $40, with maximum profit = $90.

(b) In the long run, new firms will enter the market by being attracted by positive short run profit. Therefore in long run, demand for individual firm will decrease, price for individual firm will decrease and profit will decrease until each existing firm earns zero economic profit.

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