Essay about Waltham Motors

Waltham Motors Division Sharon Michaels, the division controller, is concerned regarding the performance at Waltham Motors Division for the month of May. The company lost a major customer contact during this time, and she needs the performance report analyzed. Sharon Michaels must report the information to the corporate headquarters of Marco Corporation. Waltham Motors is a subsidiary of Marco Corporation and was acquired in late 2003. This analysis is for the month of May 2004. Accounting…

SWOT analysis of General Motors This is a General Motors Company SWOT analysis for 2013. For more information on how to do SWOT analysis please refer to our article. Company background General Motors Company (GM) is a corporate that designs, builds and sells cars and trucks. Name Industries served Geographic areas served Headquarters Current CEO Revenue Profit Employees Main Competitors General Motors Company Automotive Worldwide U.S. Daniel Akerson $ 152.3 billion (2012) $ 4.9 billion (2012) 202…

Question bank for Energy Managers & Energy Auditors Chapter 3.2: Electric Motors Part–I: Objective type questions and answers 1. The synchronous speed of a motor with 6 poles and operating at 50 Hz frequency is ___. a) 1500 2. b) 1000 c) 3000 d) 750 The efficiency figures for energy efficient motors (in comparison with standard efficiency motor) can be generally higher by____%. a) 1% b) 3-7% c) 10% and above d) 8-10% 3. The power consumption, in case of centrifugal loads (like pump, fan, blower…

Waltham Oil and Lube Center, Inc. Question 1 The journal entries are: 1) $40,000 Capital contribution Cash 40,000 Capital 40,000 2) $40,000 Deposit with National Deposit – National 40,000 Cash 40,000 3) $6,000 furniture purchase Furniture 6,000 Cash 6,000 4) $10,000 Capital contribution Cash 10,000 Capital 10,000 5) $1,200 Insurance payment (12 months) Prepaid Insurance…

Q1. Using budget data, how many motors would have to be sold for Waltham Motors Division to break even? Answer Q1: Breakeven Fixed costs $260,000.00 = ---------------------------------- = ---------------------- = 13,326 units number of units Unit contribution margin $19.51 UCM (Unit Contribution margin) = USP (Unit Selling Price) UVC (Unit Variable Costs) = = $48.00 - $28.49 = $19.51 USP = Sales / Units sold = $864,000.00/18,000 = $48.00 UVC =…

1. Using budget data, how many motors would have to be sold for Waltham Motors Division to break even? Budgeted CM / Budgeted units sold = $351,200 / 18,000 = $19.51 per unit Budgeted FC / 19.51 = 260,000 / 19.51 = 13,326 units 2. Using budget data, what was the total expected cost per unit if all manufacturing and shipping overhead (both variable and fixed) was allocated to planned production…

Managerial Accounting Case ‘Waltham Motors Division’ Answer 1: Breakeven point If Waltham Motors Division sells 13,326 units, it will breakeven. But why Waltham incurred net losses when it sold more than 13,326 units in May? The unfavorable cost variances (see answer 2 and 3) and Waltham’s high operating leverage were major reasons for its financial problems. Waltham’s operating leverage is 3.85 times, which indicates that the operating income is very sensitive to changes in sales. Answer…

Question 1: Using budget data, how many motors would have to be sold for Waltham Motors Division to breakeven? In order to calculate the breakeven point, we use the following equation and budget data: Breakeven Sales*Unit Price-Unit Variable Cost= Fixed Costs Breakeven=Fixed CostsUnitary Price-Unitary Variable Cost Breakeven point=260,000864000/18000-512800/18000=13,226 units Q2. Using budget data, what was the total expected cost per unit if all manufacturing and shipping overhead (both variable…

Andrew Martin COMM 336 Informative Paper 4/4/2013 Tesla Motors Tesla Motors is a car company that designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicles. This public company was founded in 2003 by Ian Wright, JB Straubel, Marc Tarpenning, Martin Eberhard and most notably Elon Musk. Its headquarters is located in Palo Alto, California, with its main production plant in Fremont, California. The company was named after Nikola Tesla, a renowned electrical engineer and physicist. Its goal is to increase…

Forth to interact with the real world. We will explore how to control motors of various types (such as servomotors and stepper motors), switch power to devices, and sense the environment. Each article will present a project that can be used to demonstrate the ideas we are going to discuss. In this first article, I want to lay the foundation for the future columns and discuss the use of the PC parallel port to control stepper motors. We will adopt the fantasy that we are working on some microprocessor-based…