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 and Explanation:
The preparation of the operating activities section is presented below
Cash Flows from operating activities
Net Income $88,000
Adjustment made for non cash items:
Depreciation Expense $19,000
Add: Decrease in Account Receivable $15000 ($70,000 - $85,000)
Less: Increase in Inventory $(5000) ($40,000 - $35,000)
Less: Decrease in accounts payable $(8000) ($54,000 - $62,000)
Net cash flows from operating activities $109,000
Answer:
Credence properties
Explanation:
Dentistry has a Credence property because it is a Service provided by medical specialized professionals. medical diagnoses and legal services have credence properties, or characteristics. A consumer may find a service with Credence property impossible to evaluate even after purchase and consumption. To reduce this uncertainty, service consumer like Sarah turns to personal sources of information like her friends during the purchase decision process
Answer:
have a high "divorce rate."
Explanation:
A strategic alliance can as well reffered to as strategic partnership and can be regarded as agreement that exist between two parties or more so that they can work in acheiving some objectives they agreed on even though they still remains as an independent organization to each other. It should be noted that Experience indicates that strategic alliances have a high "divorce rate."
Answer:
18.60%
Explanation:
Total labor force = $8 million + $35 million = $43 million
Unemployment Rate = (Unemployed/Labor force)*100
Unemployment Rate = $8 million/$43 million * 100
Unemployment Rate = 0.1860465 * 100
Unemployment Rate = 18.60%