Basic Rules Flashcards

1
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Disposable Income

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Personal Income - Taxes

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2
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Discretionary Income

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= Disposable Income - Financial Obligations

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3
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Examples of Financial Obligations

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Insurance, Rent/Mortgage, Car payments, Retirement Savings, Child’s education… etc

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4
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Features & Examples of Macro Environment

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  • Beyond control of Any Company
  • government policy (fiscal policy, regulatory policy)
  • competition, technology, weather, religion, economy, culture, political situation, war
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5
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Micro Environment

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  • company has total or some control
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6
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4 P’s of Marketing

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  • Product - name, color, message
  • Price - the strategy (skimming pricing, ex iPhone vs penetrating pricing)
  • Place - mass distribution vs select stores
  • Promotion - advertising, publicity, sponsorship
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7
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Circular Flow

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Continuous flow of money within a society

One purchase/payment (transaction) leads to another transation

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8
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Total National Debt

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$30 trillion

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9
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Population of Labor Force

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158 million

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10
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US’s Debt/GDP ratio

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130%

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11
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Current unemployment rate

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3.6%

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12
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Types of Accounting

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  • Managerial Accounting
  • Financial Accounting
  • Intermediate Accounting
  • Auditing
  • Taxation (I & II)
  • International Accounting
  • Advanced Accounting
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13
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Properties of Financial Accounting

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MACRO LEVEL
provides high level financial information to:
- insiders (top management, employees, shareholders)
- outsiders (IRS, SEC, competitors, potential investors)

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14
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Properties of Managerial Accounting

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MICRO LEVEL

- manufacturing costs

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15
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Types of Manufacturing costs (3 categories)

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  • Materials
  • Labor
  • Manufacturing Overhead
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16
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Manufacturing Cost - Materials breakdown into…

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Direct & Indirect Materials

Though IM is mainly MOH

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17
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Labor Costs - breakdown into…

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Direct and Indirect Labor

Though IL is mainly MOH

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18
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Manufacturing Overhead (MOH) examples

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  • Indirect Material
  • Indirect Labor
  • Factory Rent
  • Factory Insurance
  • Factory Depreciation
  • Factory Supplies
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19
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Indirect Labor (Examples)

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  • supervision
  • overtime
  • idle time
  • legal advising
  • QC staff
  • administrative
  • materials handling
  • procurement
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20
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Indirect materials - definition

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Goods that are part of the overall manufacturing process, but are not integrated into the final product. They cannot be linked to a specific product or job.

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21
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Example - Indirect Materials

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  • PPE
  • cleaning supplies
  • disposable tools
  • fittings and fasteners
  • adhesives
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22
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Example Direct Labor

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  • technicians on production line
  • welders, painters, machinists

Note: they get factored into the direct cost of production of the product

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23
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GAAP

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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

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24
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Is GAAP limited to the US or international?

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International (though not all countries)

25
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Cycle of Money

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Movement of money from lender to borrower and back again

[loans are investments from the perspective of the lender who is buying a future cash flow from the borrower who is selling the future cash flow.]

26
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3 Legal forms of Business

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  • Sole Proprietorship
  • Partnership (General or Limited)
  • Corporations
27
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Pros of Sole Proprietorship

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  • don’t need permission to take action
  • easy to set up, do not need a charter
  • pay taxes on individual rate, so no double taxation like a corporation
28
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Cons of Sole Proprietorship

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  • unlimited liability
  • if owner dies, the business dies
  • owner has difficulty to expand the business > limited opportunities to raise capital due to limited collateral
29
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Properties of General Partnership

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  • jointly owned by 2+ individuals, spelled out the % each owns
  • partners have unlimited liability - both financially and legally
  • partners can take strategic decision
  • all partners pay taxes on an individual basis (part of personal income tax)
30
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Difference between Limited and General Partners

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in limited, their liabilities are limited to the amount of money they invested in the partnership

31
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Properties of Corporations

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  • legal entity separate from the owners (shareholders)
  • separates owners and the managers
  • advantageous to owners because shareholders have limited liability
32
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3 Values of common stock

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  • Par Value
  • Market Value
  • Book Value
33
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Definition: Par Value of Common Stock

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A value which is written on the stock/share

Very low value (few cents, may be a few $ in certain industries)

34
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Definition: Market Value of common stock

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Value of the stock which is being traded in stock exchanges

35
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Definition: Book Value of Common Stock

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Value of the company stock from an accounting point of view

36
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Book Value of a Stock =

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= (Total Stockholder’s Value - anything that belongs to preferred stock)/Total # of outstanding shares

37
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Definition Call Premium

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= Callable Price - Par Value

38
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Default Value of Par Value of Preferred Stock

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$100

39
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Value of FICA Tax (Social Security Portion)

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6.2%

40
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Value of FICA Tax (Medicare portion)

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1.45%

41
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Finance relies on strong

A

Accounting

42
Q

4 filing statuses on the W_4 form

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Single
Married filing jointly
Married filing separately
Head of household

43
Q

The US has what time of income tax rate

A

Graduated

44
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You will pay zero federal income tax withholding if

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you are in the zero tax bracket

45
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$12550, single is the limit for which tax bracket

A

zero income bracket

46
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STIW means

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State income tax withholding

47
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what is the state income tax of Massachusetts

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5.05%

48
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FICA stands for

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Federal Insurance Contributions Act

49
Q

SSA was established in ____ by ___

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1936, FDR

50
Q

The banking industry is charging consumers $____ per year in service charges and fees

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$15 billion

51
Q

What percentage of Americans do not have anything saved for retirement

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48%

52
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How many Americans are living below the poverty line

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35 million

53
Q

what is the federal poverty line

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$24k/year

54
Q

Marty Walsh was appointed

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US Secretary of Labor

55
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Grounding of 737 Max airplane is an example of

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Macro environment - government policy intervenes in company’s decision

56
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Weather impact is an example of

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Macro environment

57
Q

Things to control in a product

A

Name (chevy Nova)
Color
Message

58
Q

Skimming Pricing is

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Setting initial price very high, and then reduce it

Ex. iPhone

59
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Penetrating pricing is…

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Setting initial price very low, then after you capture the market you increase the price
Ex. Japanese cars in the USA