A contractor has purchased a small excavator for $280,000 that she plans to use for ten years. She anticipates that the used excavator can be sold for $25,000 after ten years of use. Average annual earnings generated by the excavator are estimated to be $125,000, and the average operating and labor costs are estimated to be $75,000. What is the estimated rate of return that the excavator will generate for the contractor?

Which of the following statements is true? a job costing system will have a separate work in process account for each of the major processes. a process costing system will have a single work in process account. a process costing system will have a separate raw materials account for each of the major processes. a process costing system will have a separate work in process account for each of the major processes.

You are chairman of the board of a successful technology firm. there is a nominal federal corporate tax rate of 35 percent, yet the effective tax rate of the typical corporation is about 12.6%. your firm has been clever with use of transfer pricing and keeping money abroad and has barely paid any taxes over the last 5 years; during this same time period, profits were $28 billion. one member of the board feels that it is un-american to use various accounting strategies in order to avoid paying taxes. others feel that these are legal loopholes and corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to minimize taxes. one board member quoted what the ceo of exxon once said: “i’m not a u.s. company and i don’t make decisions based on what’s good for the u.s.” what are the alternatives? what are your recommendations? why do you recommend this course of action?

On analyzing her company’s goods transport route, simone found that they could reduce transport costs by a quarter if they merged different transport routes. what role (job) does simone play at her company? simone is at her company.