Answer:
Gain $1,600
Explanation:
Amount Realized = (290 shares × $93) − $240
=$26,970-$240
= $26,730
Adjusted Basis = (290 shares × $86) + $190
=$24,940+$190
= $25,130
Gain = $26,730 − $25,130
= $1,600
Therefore the amount of the gain/loss Kevin must report on his 2019 tax return will be $1,600
Answer:
Sally is guilty of insider trading violation which she has done by tipping the information to Alice.
Explanation:
Sally has committed an unlawful practice by giving away inside information to a friend named Alice. The inside (confidential) information is used to get tipped off, or it can be used to tip off someone else which leads to further unlawful practices which in this case is ‘Check Kitting’, and it is a type of theft and larceny which is used to get the advantage of non-existing funds.
Answer:
b. 5.75
Explanation:
Times Interest earned ratio is the measure of ability of a company to pay the interest on its debts. It is the ratio of earning before interest and tax and interest expense as below.
Times Interest Earned Ratio = Earning before interest and tax / Interest Expense
Times Interest Earned Ratio = $86,250 / $15,000
Times Interest Earned Ratio = 5.75 times
Answer:
Country Club
Explanation:
The Blake and Mouton's Leadership Grid has this Country Club which emphasise on the people more, that is about their well being.
This environment concludes that if employees are happy and in good positive attitude they will automatically work hard and achieve the results.
In this case the management is not much conscious about the results as they believe that results will be better, but generally it is observed that due to lack of any managerial control and directions the task is not achieved.
Back in 2015, McDonald’s was struggling. In Europe, sales were down 1.4% across the previous 6 years; 3.3% down in the US and almost 10% down across Africa and the Middle East. There were a myriad of challenges to overcome. Rising expectations of customer experience, new standards of convenience, weak in-store technology, a sprawling menu, a PR-bruised brand and questionable ingredients to name but a few.
McDonald’s are the original fast-food innovators; creating a level of standardisation that is quite frankly, remarkable. Buy a Big Mac in Beijing and it’ll taste the same as in Stratford-Upon Avon.
So when you’ve optimised product delivery, supply chain and flavour experience to such an incredible degree — how do you increase bottom line growth? It’s not going to come from making the Big Mac cheaper to produce — you’ve already turned those stones over (multiple times).
The answer of course, is to drive purchase frequency and increase margins through new products.
Numerous studies have shown that no matter what options are available, people tend to stick with the default options and choices they’ve made habitually. This is even more true when someone faces a broad selection of choices. We try to mitigate the risk of buyers remorse by sticking with the choices we know are ‘safe’.
McDonald’s has a uniquely pervasive presence in modern life with many of us having developed a pattern of ordering behaviour over the course of our lives (from Happy Meals to hangover cures). This creates a unique, and less cited, challenge for McDonald’s’ reinvention: how do you break people out of the default buying behaviours they’ve developed over decades?
In its simplest sense, the new format is designed to improve customer experience, which will in turn drive frequency and a shift in buying behaviour (for some) towards higher margin items. The most important shift in buying patterns is to drive reappraisal of the Signature range to make sure they maximise potential spend from those customers who can afford, and want, a more premium experience.
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