A recent court case clearly has established that the interest paid to the ex-spouse is taxable to her, even though the principal on the note is exempt from tax as a transfer incident to divorce (Gibbs, TC Memo 1997-196). So if the recipient has to pay tax on the interest, the paying spouse should receive a corresponding deduction on his income tax return, right? Not necessarily. Until recently, the IRS has ruled that divorce-related interest is non-deductible personal interest, and has disallowed
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Show your work. Answer 100 points worth of questions. 1. (20 pts.) The total cost function at the Tate company is TC = 200 + 3Q + .5Q2, where TC is total cost, and Q is output. a. What is marginal cost (the derivative of TC with respect to Q) when Q = 1? b. What is marginal cost when Q = 5? c. What is marginal cost when Q = 10? d. Graph the TC function in Excel for values of Q ranging from 0 to 20 in increments of one. 2. (20 pts.) Find the partial derivative
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------------------------------------------------- Nike Case Study ------------------------------------------------- 15th June 2012 – OneMBA 2013 – Justin Lee Bennett 1. How does Joanna’s analysis (exhibit 5) differ from BEHH best practice, HV Chapter 10 and/or my lecture notes? a. The differences between Joanna’s calculation and the other sources mentioned above can be summarized as follows: a. She used statutory tax rates where as BEHH, Chapter 10 and class notes show best
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Agents TSR Darashaw Limited 6-10, Haji Moosa Patrawala Industrial Estate 20, Dr. E. Moses Road, Mahalaxmi Mumbai 400 011 Tel : 91 22 6656 8484 Fax : 91 22 6656 8494 E-mail: csg-unit@tsrdarashaw.com Website: www.tsrdarashaw.com 9 Corporate Office TCS House Raveline Street, Fort Mumbai 400 001 Tel : 91 22 6778 9999 Fax : 91 22 6778 9000 E-mail: investor.relations@tcs.com Annual Report 2010-11 Management Team Function Corporate CEO CFO Corporate Affairs Global Human Resources Geography Heads
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The Pear Computer Company has just developed a totally revolutionary new personal computer It estimates that it will take competitors at least two yeas to produce equivalent products. The demand function for the computer has been estimated to be P = 2,500 - .0005Q The marginal (and average variable) cost of producing the computer is $900. a. Compute the profit-maximizing price and output levels assuming Pear acts as a monopolist for its product. Answer: The monopolist would
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Corporation (TC) owns the marina and the inn. The corporation's strategy changed from development to operational sustainability with the institution of much-needed financial controls and reporting after it became clear that operational problems were preventing the company from securing new investors. According to Sandy Taggert (1976), president of TC, "we had a lot of people up to the minister but none would say yes." Jack is expected to reverse the marina's operational losses and ensure that TC can meet
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Profit = TR-TC. When total revenue exceeds total cost you will have a profit but when total cost exceeds total revenue you have a loss. In the graph below you can see at 8 units is where the maximum profit would be. After 8 units are produce you see the effect of diminishing returns as your profit for each unit produced gets smaller and smaller until it hits 15 units and you are now taking a loss for each unit produced. Profit maximization is determined by the greatest gap between TR & TC. Quantity
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1. Briefly describe the details of the fictitious business that you created for this assignment. There are currently 100 workers being utilized that work for 20 days per month at a wage of $70 per day. The workers produce 6,000 units of output per month with variable costs of $2,000 per day. The fixed costs are not disclosed and we are told they are "high enough" so the total costs exceed the firms total revenue. The price of the firm's output is $32 and the marginal cost of the last unit is $30
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are below Marriot Corporation 1.11; Hilton Hotels Corporation .76 ; Holiday Corporation 1.35 La Quinta Motor Inns .89; Ramada Inns, Inc 1.36. Step 2: For each firm in the industry, to estimate unlevered using the equity estimate: equity = [1 + (1-TC)Debt/Equity]unlevered unlevered of Marriot= 1.11/[1+(1-.44)*.41]=.90 unlevered of Hilton= 0.76/[1+(1-.44)*.14]=.70 unlevered of Holiday= 1.35/[1+(1-.44)*.79]=.94 unlevered of La Quinta= 0.89/[1+(1-.44)*.69]=.64 unlevered of Ramada= 1
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Assignment 2 SCMT 200 OP55: Introduction to Global Supply Chain Management (Due 11pm SUN MAR 15, 2015) Required: 1. (8 marks) Assume that you are at the end of May 2015. Suppose among the headlines in Edmonton Journal at the end of May 2015 are:’ * “Crude oil prices increased by 25% in the month of May 2015” * “Costs are Flying High – Fear of Inflation Looming” * “Another Real
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