Imagine that you have decided you need to a purchase 2015 Range Rover Land Rover for $83,500. Conduct some research as to the cost of this car.  You have determined in this imagined scenario that you could afford to make a 10% down payment.  You can borrow the balance either from your local bank using a four-year loan or from the dealership’s finance company.  If […]

Table 4-1Garland Company Balance SheetAssets:Cash and marketable securities  $500,000Accounts receivable  800,000Inventories 1,350,000Prepaid expenses  50,000Total current assets $2,700,000Fixed assets 5,000,000Less: accum. depr.  (2,000,000)Net fixed assets  $3,000,000Total assets $5,700,000Liabilities:Accounts payable  $400,000Notes payable  900,000Accrued taxes  75,000Total current liabilities    $1,375,000Long-term debt  1,200,000Owner’s equity  3,125,000Total liabilities and owner’s equity $5,700,000Net sales (all credit)  $8,000,000Less: Cost of goods sold  (3,500,000)Selling and administrative expense (2,000,000)Depreciation expense  (250,000)Interest expense  (150,000)Earnings before taxes  2,100,000Income […]

Imagine that you are a financial manager researching investments for your client. Use the Strayer Learning Resource Center to research the stock of any U.S. publicly traded company that you may consider as an investment opportunity for your client. Your investment should align with your client’s investment goals. (Note: Please ensure that you are able to find enough information about this company in order to […]

Jan and Bill Smith need help developing a financial plan, creating a budget, examining their current financial services, and managing their use of credit. They have $5,000 in credit card debt toward which they pay $200 a month, a $400 monthly car payment, and a $1,000 monthly mortgage payment. They have less than $4,000 in savings. Their annual household is $60,000 a year. They are […]

Break Event Using the example of “From the Front Lines” in Chapter 6 of your text, calculate the break even for the number of procedures.  Use an electronic spreadsheet to show how you computed the break even and embed the spreadsheet in your paper.  Discuss the impact of the various reimbursements (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, private, or self-pay).  Think about your upcoming capital proposal and how […]

A company is experiencing lower than expected sales. The company’s executives agreed that in order to make up some of the lost revenue’s impact on the bottom line, expenses must be lower. One of the expenses to reduce was equipment that was purchased for $4,400,000 two years ago and which was estimated to have a useful life of eight years and a salvage value of […]

The financial team has been properly selected and charged to proceed with their analysis of EEV’s financial statements. In the course of their evaluation, they will be assessing the firm’s operating performance, benchmarking their competitors, and looking at the industry using financial ratios as their source of measurement. However, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Electronic Equipment USA agrees with numerous practitioners who promote the […]

One specialized type of security is called an equity futures. This is a contract that guarantees you a share of a particular company to be delivered to you not today, but sometime in the future, at a price that is determined by the market right now. This price is usually called the futures price of the stock (note – the term is plural – “futures”). […]

Introduction: • The past two modules have been a bit of a mash-up of different ideas and tools, which makes it difficult to ask you to perform a neat, simple task that covers all the material that we covered. Instead, we’re going to ask you to synthesize the bigger concepts from past lectures. We’re going to do so using a company that most everyone is […]

You will write a Research Paper using ForecastX and forecasting techniques covered in this course to forecast a business or economic variable chosen by the instructor. Review the sample paper provided to serve as your guide. Your Research Paper is to be 8–10 pages in length and follow specific APA guidelines. You should also include a reference page citing 2–3 scholarly sources not including the […]