A partnership begins its first year with the following capital balances: Alfred, Capital $ 48,000 Bernard, Capital 58,000 Collins, Capital 68,000 The articles of partnership stipulate that profits and losses be assigned in the following manner: Each partner is allocated interest equal to 10 percent of the beginning capital balance. Bernard is allocated compensation of $16,000 per year. Any remaining profits and losses are allocated on a 3:3:4 basis, respectively. Each partner is allowed to withdraw up to $4,000 cash per year. Assuming that the net income is $58,000 and that each partner withdraws the maximum amount allowed, what is the balance in Collins capital account at the end of that year

When randy, a general manager of a national retailer, moved to a different store in his company that was having difficulty, he knew that sales were low and after talking to his employees, he found morale was also low. at first randy thought attitudes were poor due to low sales, but after working closely with employees, he realized that the poor attitudes were actually the cause of poor sales. randy was able to discover the cause of the problem by utilizing skills.

Activity-based costing (abc) is not truly a cost collection mechanism as much as it is an inventory valuation method. the main purpose for implementing an activity-based cost system is to try to overcome some of the cost distortions that occur in traditional costing from product differences when there are variations in size and complexity. however, one of the disadvantages of utilizing abc is that the additional information gathering necessary to implement costing with that level of detail might be beyond the reach of some companies with resource or financial constraints. with this in mind, what kinds of industries or companies do you think would benefit most from using activity-based costing and why? in designing or modifying an accounting system to capture appropriate costs for abc, what considerations do you think would need to be made?

What level of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio) is appropriate for the movie rating system that you see in tv guide?