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1. What are internal service funds? Give examples. Can internal service funds encourage dysfunctional decisions?
2. What is a proprietary fund? How do we report cash flows in proprietary funds?
3. Enterprise funds are used for all kinds of revenue-generating activities. How important are these funds for governments?
4. Oil and Gas revenues in Louisiana are important for funding education. What can you find about how Louisiana has dealt with the change in the price of oil?
5. Internal control in not-for-profit organizations has been questions for years. These entities are usually run by a host of volunteers, most of whom have no formal accounting or management experience. What are the problems associated with internal control in charitable organizations and what might be done to improve the process?
6. Choose any charitable organization and look up its financial statements. What financial statements are used by these organizations? What are some of the financial challenges that they face?
7. What are fiduciary funds? Permanent funds?
8. Discuss and describe the four types of trust funds.
9. Compare and contrast the way that governments and for-profit entities deal with pension plans.
10. One of the newest things that is occurring in postsecondary educaiton is the advent of the for-profit college/university. These institutions have changed methods in education and created increasing competition for students. What are some of the differences between for-profit and not-for-profit college/universities?
11. Numerous challenges face colleges and universities today. Many research institutions are dependent upon the federal government for funding, and the federal budget is facing severe deficits. Massive campuses require constant maintenance and improvements, and online servers providing for ever-increasing online studetns are expensive. Competition for studetns is growing, as states cut funding to their postsecondary institutions. Discuss one of these or other challenges and how accounting might be used to capture data and assist.
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Reverse annuity mortgage is made with balance not to exceed
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Assume that the capm assumptions hold in the market
: Tom's portfolio consists solely of an investment in Merck stock. Merck has an expected return of 13% and a volatility of 25%. The market portfolio has an expected return of 12% and a volatility of 18%. The risk-free rate is 4%. Assume that the CAPM a..
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Explain using supply and demand graphs
: How could the minimum wage rate and migrant housing standards be expected to affect the prices of consumer goods? Explain, using supply and demand graphs.
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Cash flow from operating activities and investing activities
: Which of the following is NOT a cash flow from operating activities. Which of the following is NOT a cash flow from investing activities? Which of the following is NOT a cash flow from operating activities
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What is a proprietary fund?
: Compare and contrast the way that governments and for-profit entities deal with pension plans
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What effect such law have on the quantity of labor demanded
: The government requires employers to pay time-and-a-half for labor in excess of forty hours a week. How should managers be expected to react to that law? What effect should such a law have on the quantity of labor demanded? Why?
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The risk-free rate and expected return on the market
: Consider the CAPM. The risk-free rate is 3% and the expected return on the market is 11%. What is the expected return on a stock with a beta of 1.95? Using the data from problem 20, what is the expected return on the stock according to the Fama and ..
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Calculate ocf and fcf
: Calculate OCF and FCF - calculate Apple company
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What is the payback period for this bond
: Suppose that a thirty-year U.S. Treasury bond offers a 4% coupon rate, paid semi annually. The market price of the bond is $1,000, equal to its par value. What is the payback period for this bond? With such a long payback period, is the bond a bad in..
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