Shamrock company owns a trade name that was purchased in an acquisition of mcclellan company. the trade name has a book value of $3,500,000, but according to gaap, it is assessed for impairment on an annual basis. to perform this impairment test, shamrock must estimate the fair value of the trade name. it has developed the following cash flow estimates related to the trade name based on internal information. each cash flow estimate reflects shamrock’s estimate of annual cash flows over the next 8 years. the trade name is assumed to have no salvage value after the 8 years. (assume the cash flows occur at the end of each year.) cash flow estimate probability assessment $384,700 20% 633,500 50% 753,700 30% click here to view factor tables (a) what is the estimated fair value of the trade name? shamrock determines that the appropriate discount rate for this estimation is 8%.

You are the manager of the packaging department in a cookie factory. (obviously, the packaging employees cannot eat the cookies that are transferred in during the period.) after your employees insert cookies into colorful packages (step 1) for display on store shelves, the packages of cookies are then boxed using cardboard cartons (step 2) for shipment to stores. each unit of product is represented by a carton of packaged cookies. the packaging department began the period with 1,000 units of cookies. during the period, 5,000 units of cookies were transferred in from the baking department and 5,500 units of cookies were transferred out to the finished goods department. the number of units of cookies in the ending inventory of the packaging department equals:

P8-4b dropping unfavorable division based on the following analysis of last year's operations of groves, inc., a financial vice president of the company believes that the firm's total net income could be increased by $160,000 if its design division were discontinued. (amounts are given in the thousands of dollars.) required provide answers for each of the following independent situations: a. assuming that total fixed costs and expenses would not be affected by discontinuing the design division, prepare an analysis showing why you agree or disagree with the vice president. b. assume that the discontinuance of the design division will enable the company to avoid 30% of the fixed portion of cost of services and 40% of the fixed operating expenses allocated to the design division. calculate the resulting effect on net income. c. assume that in addition to the cost avoidance in requirement (b), the capacity released by discontinuance of the design division can be used to provide 6,000 new services that would have a variable cost per service of $60 and would require additional fixed costs totaling $68,000. at what unit price must the new service be sold if groves is to increase its total net income by $180,000?

Economic analysis indicates that it will be politically more attractive to a. enact expansionary fiscal policy during a recession than to enact restrictive fiscal policy during an economic expansion. b. enact expansionary fiscal policy during an economic expansion than to enact restrictive fiscal policy during a recession. c. enact restrictive fiscal policy during an economic expansion than to enact expansionary fiscal policy during a recession. d. raise taxes than to increase spending.