Arnold Tofu Owns and Operates a Chain of 12 Vegetable

question 138

Essay

Arnold Tofu owns and operates a chain of 12 vegetable protein "hamburger" restaurants in Quebec.Sales figures and profits for the stores are in the table below.Sales are given in millions of dollars;profits are in hundreds of thousands of dollars.Calculate a regression line for the data.What is your forecast of profit for a store with sales of $24 million? $30 million?

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Definitions:

Subsidiary

A company that is controlled by another company, called the parent company, through the ownership of more than half of its voting stock.

Control Premium

An additional amount paid over the fair market value of a company to acquire a controlling interest in it.

Full Goodwill Method

An accounting approach where goodwill is calculated as the difference between the purchase price and the fair value of the identifiable net assets of the acquired entity, including the non-controlling interest's share of the net assets.