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Course Objective

This assessment addresses the following course objective(s):

  • Analyze data sources and uses in the local, national, and global marketplaces.
  • Assess challenges for a domestic company marketing globally.

Instructions

Your CEO in Marketing, Miss Mary Moussoulias, the daughter of the owner, Frank Moussoulias, has promoted you to be in charge of the newly formed Product Distribution Division and wants you to provide her with vital information on the following elements:

  1. An ideal product distribution channel for men’s footwear.
  2. Consult your National Footwear Industry and analyze and evaluate the most successful and profitable members. Collect all vital information/data of the most successful and profitable organizations of the industry that have provided the National Footwear Industry with emphasis on their distribution channels.
  3. With the help of a certified marketing consultant, member of the Institute of Management Consultants in Washington, D.C., conduct a feasibility study on analyzing and evaluating non-traditional distribution channels (online, for example) for footwear and compare them against the current distribution channel you are using.
  4. If you decide to accept the new distribution channel, at least partially, determine the extent of losing old customers and gaining new ones due to the change.
  5. Assuming that the new distribution channel is the most profitable, then conduct a SWOT analysis that will provide you with reliable data about remaining under the present status quo, moving totally to the new distribution channel or having both distribution channels

Submit

You must prepare a written work where you respond to the case scenario.  The work must comply with APA academic writing standards.  You must support your answer using appropriate sources (at least 5 references) that are properly cited.  The paper will be approximately 5 pages in length

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The following questions deal with using the FASB Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) to answer accounting questions. Given the following scenarios below, where would you look within the ASC to find guidance? Use the appropriate ASC citation format (i.e. ASC Topic Number – Subtopic Number – Section Number – Subsection number). Explanations of the guidance are not required.
1. You have been assigned to audit a cable television company. You are unsure of whether the company has correctly recognized some of its deferred revenues (i.e. hookup revenues).
2. You are reading the footnotes of a company’s financial statements, and they note that within the revenue number recognized, they include sales of a product where the buyer has the right to return the product. You are unsure whether the company has met the appropriate conditions to recognize the revenue from those sales.
3. You have been hired to help keep accounting records for a film entertainment company. You are unsure whether and how to measure the value of a liability already recognized on the firm’s financial statements.
4. You have been tasked with accounting for the income taxes related to a business combination. A colleague of yours hands you some papers with guidance on how to complete the task. Unfortunately, you see some terminology that you are unfamiliar with.
5. A friend from a software company calls you and asks how to treat the following situation: His company is exchanging a license of its software to a customer in exchange for a license to the customer’s technology (i.e. a non-monetary transaction). He wants to know how to record this accounting transaction.
Please follow the instructions to log in.
1. http://aaahq.org/Research/FASB-GARS
2. Click on the green button that says ‘FASB User Login’. Do not click on the ‘Login’ button at the top right-hand side of the screen.
3. Input the username and password. The password is case sensitive.
 
 
Username: AAA50943
Password: X8q9gFS
 
 
 
 

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What are the four main steps involved within the CPM?

What are the four main steps involved within the CPM?

  1. What is the Building Cost Index (BCI)?

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The following questions deal with using the FASB Accounting Standard Codification (ASC) to answer accounting questions.  Given the following scenarios below, where would you look within the ASC to find guidance?  Use the appropriate ASC citation format (i.e. ASC Topic Number – Subtopic Number – Section Number – Subsection number).  Explanations of the guidance are not required.
 

  1. You have been assigned to audit a cable television company. You are unsure of whether the company has correctly recognized some of its deferred revenues (i.e. hookup revenues).

 

  1. You are reading the footnotes of a company’s financial statements, and they note that within the revenue number recognized, they include sales of a product where the buyer has the right to return the product. You are unsure whether the company has met the appropriate conditions to recognize the revenue from those sales.

 

  1. You have been hired to help keep accounting records for a film entertainment company. You are unsure whether and how to measure the value of a liability already recognized on the firm’s financial statements.

 

  1. You have been tasked with accounting for the income taxes related to a business combination. A colleague of yours hands you some papers with guidance on how to complete the task.  Unfortunately, you see some terminology that you are unfamiliar with.

 

  1. A friend from a software company calls you and asks how to treat the following situation: His company is exchanging a license of its software to a customer in exchange for a license to the customer’s technology (i.e. a non-monetary transaction). He wants to know how to record this accounting transaction.

 
Please follow the instructions to log in. 

  1. http://aaahq.org/Research/FASB-GARS
  2. Click on the green button that says ‘FASB User Login’. Do not click on the ‘Login’ button at the top right-hand side of the screen.
  3. Input the username and password.  The password is case sensitive.

 
 
Username: AAA50943
Password: X8q9gFS
 

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You will interview a working person about
▪ the ethical issues that person encounters at work or sees others encounter
▪ how those issues are resolved
▪ whether your subject believes the issues are handled fairly for all concerned
The interview description plus your comments about how this issue relates to one of the modules from this semester should total 500 to 750 words.

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You are a manager at a local accounting firm, and Kate and Sam Smith are your clients.  It is the end of the year, and they have come to ask your advice on some tax planning strategies, as well as help preparing their tax return.
Write a 4-page letter to Kate and Sam Smith which:
Walks them through their current year tax return.

  1. Detail which expenses they incurred that were nondeductible for tax purposes and explain why. The Smiths have always itemized deductions instead of taking the standard deduction on their tax return.  Explain how this may no longer be the best tax strategy due to changes in tax law under the TCJA.
  2. Regarding the investment opportunities you calculated in week 1, explain:
    1. Which investment opportunity you would recommend.
    2. What the conversion tax planning strategy is, and which of these investments employ this strategy.
    3. How “implicit taxes” may limit the benefits of the conversion strategy.
  3. Kate and Sam are considering purchasing a vacation home. They plan on spending several months each year vacationing in the home and renting out the property the rest of the year.  Provide an overview of the key tax considerations they should take into account when making this decision.Tax4001_Form1040ScheduleAcopy Week1-WritingProject

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For this assignment, go to: https:/ /www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml 

Step 1: Select the About EDGAR tab in the left column

  1. Read about the purpose of the EDGAR database and
  2. View the quick tutorial
  3. Write a brief paragraph on
    1. what the EDGAR database purpose is
    2. what EDGAR stands for (EDGAR is an acronym).

Step 2: Select the EDGAR SEARCH TOOL tab (see above) and select a publicly-traded company of your choice.

  • 1.  Select the most recent 10K and review the annual report. This report will be many, many pages so just scan the report to get a feel of the level of information in an annual report.
  • 2.  Based upon your review, answer the following questions:
  1. What is the name of your company?
  2. What is the CIK for your company?
  3. What is the purpose of the CIK?
  4. What is the SIC for your company?
  5. What is the purpose of the SIC?
  6. Using EDGAR, list 6 competitors of your company. (hint: use one of the codes in the EDGAR search bar).  Show a Screenshot the list of the 6 competitors listed by EDGAR.
  7. Who were the outside auditors of the current annual report?   What type of audit opinion did they receive?  Screen shot the audit opinion signed by the outside auditors. What are the types of audit opinions they could have received?
  8. What is the current year’s current ratio? Screen shot the location of the 10K where you found this information.
  9. What Inventory valuation method did they use? Where did you find this information? What GAAP did they use to assist you in finding this information?
  10. What information is found in the following forms on EDGAR?
    1.  8K
    2. 10Q
    3. 10K

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As the corporate management accountant, perform the duties assigned by the president. Use the case approach for this assignment.