Answer: Odd first interest payment
Explanation: The Interest paid on the first installment is a odd first Interest payment. Such scenario comes into play when a loan with a fixed installment payment date, which is 6 months in this case (January 1st and July 1st), begins on a date which does not allow the immediate use to f this regular payment schedule. Hence, the odd first Interst payment is adopted in other to enable the lender cove r the initial period before beung able to use the usual regular payment schedule. In this case the odd first Interest schedule is between June 1st to January 1st. After which regular payment schedule commences on July 1st.
Answer:
1. What amounts did Target report for the following items for the year ended January 30, 2016?
b) Income from current operations
$2,669 million
c) Net income or net loss
$2,737 million
d) Total assets
$37,431 million
e) Total equity
$10,953
2) What was Target’s basic earnings per share for the year ended January 30, 2016?
$4.74 per share
Why do you think Target has chosen to have its fiscal year end on January 30, as opposed to December 31?
I guess that Christmas Holiday season is very important for them and a large percentage of their revenue is generated during November and December. It reports at the end of January to have time to consolidate its financial statements.
3) Regarding Target’s audit report:
Who is Target’s auditor?
Ernst & Young
Did Target receive a "clean" (unmodified) audit opinion?
yes, it did
Answer:
The value of GDP is 75
Explanation:
GDP is equal to Consumption + Investment + Government Spending + Net Exports (Exports minus Imports), where total Investment is equal to Fixed Investment plus the Change in Inventories.
The change in GDP will therefore equal the change in Consumption + the change in Investment + the change in Government Spending + the change in Net Exports, where the change in Investment will equal the change in Fixed Investment plus the change in the Change in Inventories.
= Government purchases of goods and services (10) + Consumption Expenditures (70
)+ Exports (5
) - Imports (12) + Change in Inventories (-7
) + Construction of new homes and apartments (15
) - Sales of existing homes and apartments (22
) + Government payments to retirees (17
) + Business Fixed Investment (9)
= 75
A bond sale is a debt investment that is given by an investor to a particular corporate or governmental entity and is payable over a period of time at a variable or a fixed interest rate. It can affect the money supply, or the money of the country, because it encourages debtors to keep loaning from the government to finance their personal interests.
Introduction
“Project risk analysis,” as described by The Project Management Institute (PMI®), “includes the processes concerned with conducting risk management, planning, identification analysis, response, and monitoring and control on a project;./…” (PMI, 2004, p 237) These processes include risk identification and quantification, risk response development and risk response control.
Because these processes interact with each other as well as with processes in other parts of an organization, companies are beginning to measure risk across all of their projects as part of an enterprise portfolio.
Risk management can be as simple as identifying a list of technological, operational and business risks, or as comprehensive as in-depth schedule risk analysis using Monte Carlo simulation. But because risk is a driver in an organization's growth – the greater the risk, the greater the reward – the adoption of a structured enterprisewide project risk analysis program will give managers confidence in their decision-making to foster organizational growth and increase ROI for their stakeholders.
Choosing the right projects
How well an organization examines the risks associated with its initiatives, how well it understands the way that projects planned or underway are impacted by risk, and how well it develops mitigation strategies to protect the organization, can mean the difference between a crisis and an opportunity.
Examples abound of companies that have seen their fortunes rise or drop based on the effectiveness of their risk management – a pharmaceutical company makes headlines when its promising new drug brings unforeseen side effects. Or a large telecom corporation pours millions of dollars into perfecting long distance, while new technologies are presenting more exciting opportunities.
Today that pharmaceutical is distracted by lawsuits and financial payouts, finding itself with a shrinking pipeline of new drugs. The telecom, on the other hand, after using a portfolio risk management software application to rationalize and rank its initiatives, made the decision to shift its research dollars away from perfecting long distance and into developing VOIP -- rejuvenating and reinforcing its leadership position.
