You have just been hired as a financial analyst for Barrington Industries. Unfortunately, company headquarters (where all of the
firm's records are kept) has been destroyed by fire. So, your first job will be to recreate the firm's cash flow statement for the year just ended. The firm had $100,000 in the bank at the end of the prior year, and its working capital accounts except cash remained constant during the year. It earned $5 million in net income during the year but paid $700,000 in dividends to common shareholders. Throughout the year, the firm purchased $5.4 million of machinery that was needed for a new project. You have just spoken to the firm's accountants and learned that the annual depreciation expense for the year is $460,000; however, the purchase price for the machinery represents additions to property, plant, and equipment before depreciation. Finally, you have determined that the only financing done by the firm was to issue long-term debt of $1 million at a 6% interest rate. What was the firm's end-of-year cash balance?
The answer is d. Centralized purchasing is where individual, local purchasing departments, such as at the plant level, make their own purchasing decisions.
Explanation:
Centralized purchasing is a purchasing system in which all the departments of a company with a wide geographical distribution can make purchases through a common purchasing organization.
"The return patterns around earnings announcement is an example of behaviorial pattern exhibiting as more investors flock to buy the stock which has shown better earnings thus driving up the price. In an efficient market, this information would already be built into the price and thus there would not be any appreciable change in price post earning announcement".
