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Discuss the validity of using the net present value method in making investment decisions for a professional football club.
Calculate by how much each of the following must change before the new product is no longer profitable.
The stockbrokers Merrill Lynch (ML) claimed that GCap Media plc (Capital), the business that owns the London-based Capital Radio commercial station.
The group planned to use much of the funds raised to expand operations mainly by investing in additional planes.
All this is slightly discouraging, given that the primary role of the stock market is to allow growing businesses to raise capital.
Identify three conditions that might be included in a long-term loan agreement, and state the purpose of each.
Brocmar plc has 10m ordinary £0.50 shares in issue. The market price of the shares is £1.80. The board of the business wishes to finance a major project.
Calculate the net cost of the factor agreement to the business and state whether the business should take advantage of the opportunity to factor.
The use of technology in inventories recording and reordering may be of vital importance to the survival of small businesses that are being threatened .
The 2001 survey of businesses in the UK food and drink sector found that ZBB is not much used by them.
Budgets are pilloried as being out of touch with the needs of modern business and accused of taking too long, costing too much and encouraging all sorts.
The selling price of a unit will be a consistent £100 and all sales will be made on one month's credit.
What is the total overhead cost for each patient that would be incorporated into any statistics?
Depreciation is to be provided at the rate of 5 percent a year on freehold property and 20 per cent a year on equipment.
Calculate the budgeted profit for May and reconcile it to the actual profit through variances, going into as much detail as is possible .
A comprehensive management accounting system is in place providing financial and operational performance measurement indicators to management.
What is the point in flexing the budget in the context of variance analysis?
A favourable direct labour rate variance can only be caused by staff working more efficiently than budgeted.
Brittany Ferries launches an investment In the spring of 2004, Brittany Ferries, the cross-Channel ferry operator, launched a new ship.
However, the average lifetime of a satellite is fifteen years during which time it is generating revenues.
The Group continues to subject all investments to rigorous examination of risks and future cash flows to ensure that they create shareholder value.
State, with supporting workings, the price that must be charged for products Y and Z such that the business would find it equally profitable to make and sell.
Why does the business bother to predetermine the recovery rate in the way outlined?
All direct labour is paid at the same hourly rate. A customer has asked the business to build a trailer for transporting a racing motorcycle to races.
In a job costing system, it is necessary to divide up the business into departments. Fixed costs (or overheads) will be collected for each department.