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question 68

Multiple Choice

Use the following information for questions:
Direct Sales Inc.offers a two-year warranty against failure of its products.The estimated liability is 4% of sales in the year of sale and 6% in the second year.Sales for 2010 and 2011 were: $2,500,000 and $2,800,000, respectively.They incurred no warranty costs in 2010 but in 2011 they spent $175,000 on repairs related to the warranties from 2010 and 2011.
-The warranty liability as at the end of the 2011 year was:

• A)$75,000
• B)$280,000
• C)$355,000
• D)$530,000

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Definitions:

Profitability Ratios

Measures of the income or operating success of a company for a given period of time.

Operating Effectiveness

The efficiency with which a company utilizes its resources to produce goods or services and operates its business processes.

Horizontal Analysis

Horizontal analysis is a financial analysis technique that shows changes in the amounts of corresponding financial statement items over a period of time, aiding in the assessment of financial performance and trends.

Vertical Analysis

A financial analysis method that expresses each item in a financial statement as a percentage of a base amount, facilitating period-to-period and company-to-company comparisons.