Accounting Help for College and University Students

Annual bread-even point

A barber asked me to evaluate his business. He has five barbers working for him. Each barber is paid $4 per hour plus $6 for each haircut and works 40hrs week and a 50-week year. Rent and other fixed expenses ($1,750) per month. What is the contribution margin per haircut? What is the annual break-even point (in number of h ...continues

Accounting - Exam Review

Cleug is replacing one of his machines. He can choose between machine A or machine B. Details of the machine are as follows... Estimated receipts and payments are as follows... Required: a) Calculate the accounting rate of return (ARR) for each machine. [12] b) Calculate the payback period for each machine. [4] c) Cal ...continues

Financial Management

I do not actually need the 2500 words I just need help with the calcualtions. of the figures and the formulas if they are any. And also points on recommendations. This not an assignment but a past exam paper that was given to us to prepare for our upcoming exam.

T-bond futures : the change in equity in a one-contract short futures position

The contract size for T-bond futures is $100,000. If bond futures decline from 96-04 to 94-12 the change in equity in a one-contract short futures position would be? (ignore transaction cost)

Managerial Accounting Information for Decisions and Control (Make or Buy)

Please assist me with the attached "Make or Buy" question. Thank you.

Calculating value at risk for a portfolio

A trader at a bank holds a portfolio consisting of a $300,000 position in asset A and a $500,000 position in asset B. a. Assume the daily volatility of asset A is 1.8% and that of asset B is 1.2%, and the the correlation between their returns is 0.2 (ie. 20%). What is the 3-day, 95% value at risk for the portfolio? b. Ca ...continues

Internal and external uses of financial statements

Why Evaluate Financial Statements?

Corporate Finance: Cost of Common Equity / Equity Capital; NPV Technique; Capital Budgeting

**Please see attachment for multiple choice options. 1. For a typical firm with a given capital structure, which of the following is correct? (Note: All rates are after taxes.) 2. Which of the following approaches to estimating the cost of common equity is the least difficult to estimate? 3. Wyden Brothers has no ...continues

Production Cost Variance Analysis

Located in Florida, LightFlight Boat Builders served boaters with a small, lightweight fiberglass sailboat capable of being carried on a car roof. Though the firm could hardly be considered as one of the nation's industrial giants, its burgeoning business had required it to institute a formal system of cost control. Jim Carson, ...continues

Historical volatility: Using the data set for EUR/USD and SFR/USD exchange ratesa. a) Calculate the historical daily volatilities for the two exchange rates. b. Calculate the historical annual volatilities for the two exchange rates. c. What is the correlation between movements in the two exchange rates?

Historical volatility. Using the below (attached in Excel) data set for EUR/USD and SFR/USD exchange rates, a. Calculate the historical daily volatilities for the two exchange rates. b. Calculate the historical annual volatilities for the two exchange rates. c. What is the correlation between movements in the two exchang ...continues