Kathy myers frequently purchases stocks and bonds, but she is uncertain how to determine the rate of return that she is earning. for example, three years ago she paid $20,000 for 940 shares of malti company’s common stock. she received a $752 cash dividend on the stock at the end of each year for three years. at the end of three years, she sold the stock for $23,000. kathy would like to earn a return of at least 13% on all of her investments. she is not sure whether the malti company stock provided a 13% return and would like some with the necessary computations. (ignore income taxes.)

Two products, qi and vh, emerge from a joint process. product qi has been allocated $34,300 of the total joint costs of $55,000. a total of 2,900 units of product qi are produced from the joint process. product qi can be sold at the split-off point for $11 per unit, or it can be processed further for an additional total cost of $10,900 and then sold for $13 per unit. if product qi is processed further and sold, what would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) for the company compared with sale in its unprocessed form directly after the split-off point?

Waterway company’s record of transactions for the month of april was as follows. purchases sales april 1 (balance on hand) 672 @ $6.00 april 3 560 @ $11.00 4 1,680 @ 6.08 9 1,568 @ 11.00 8 896 @ 6.41 11 672 @ 12.00 13 1,344 @ 6.51 23 1,344 @ 12.00 21 784 @ 6.61 27 1,008 @ 13.00 29 560 @ 6.79 5,152 5,936 (a) calculate average-cost per unit. (b) assuming that periodic inventory records are kept in units only, compute the inventory at april 30 using lifo and average-cost. (c) assuming that perpetual inventory records are kept in dollars, determine the inventory using (1) fifo and (2) lifo. (d) compute cost of goods sold assuming periodic inventory procedures and inventory priced at fifo.

During the holiday season, maria's department store works with a contracted employment agency to bring extra workers on board to handle overflow business, and extra duties such as wrapping presents. maria's is using during these rush times.