On January 1, Mitzu Co. pays a lump-sum amount of $2,700,000 for land, Building 1, Building 2, and Land Improvements 1. Building 1 has no value and will be demolished. Building 2 will be an office and is appraised at $660,000, with a useful life of 20 years and a $80,000 salvage value. Land Improvements 1 is valued at $540,000 and is expected to last another 18 years with no salvage value. The land is valued at $1,800,000. The company also incurs the following additional costs. Cost to demolish Building 1 $ 346,400 Cost of additional land grading 187,400 Cost to construct Building 3, having a useful life of 25 years and a $400,000 salvage value 2,242,000 Cost of new Land Improvements 2 having a 20-year useful life and no salvage value 168,000 2. Prepare a single journal entry to record all the incurred costs assuming they are paid in cash on January 1.

Onsider the following subscription behavior information from genie, a web site that provides tools for constructing a family tree (ancestor search). subscriptions cost $9.99 per month, but you are charged for the entire year at the time of purchase. there is a one-year minimum term when you sign up for the service. once purchased, subscriptions are set to renew automatically unless the subscriber cancels them. when a membership renews, it renews for a one-year term and again you are charged for the entire year. there are no variable costs associated with providing this service to an individual customer, but genie does engage in customer relationship activities that they believe will increase customer retention. these customer relationship activities cost genie about $10 per year per customer. based on a sample of 1000 customers that joined genie five years ago, near the time when the company was founded, they were able to determine how many of those customers remained subscribers in the second year, third year etc. based on this information, genie calculated the average annual retention rate to be 20%. genie uses an annual discount rate of 8%. a. last year, genie spent $10,000 placing advertisements on google. genie management believes that these advertisements were responsible for about 300 new subscribers. would you recommend to genie management that they purchase more google ads? b. suppose a newly-introduced loyalty program increases the number of customers that remained to 30%. does this new data change your answer to 9.a? c. do you have any hesitations or concerns about making recommendations to management based on your above estimate of customer lifetime value?

Why should managers invest any excess cash

Ursus, inc., is considering a project that would have a five-year life and would require a $1,650,000 investment in equipment. at the end of five years, the project would terminate and the equipment would have no salvage value. the project would provide net operating income each year as follows (ignore income taxes.):