Mr. Jim Cruz is the manager of the GJ Sizzles Restaurant, a 60 seater casual grill room restaurant with American type of service that is located downtown. The restaurant is always busy specially on Sundays and Saturdays. Last Saturday, around 9 o’clock in the morning, Mr. Cruz was rattled because of the chaos created by the customers who were asking for their orders and some were waiting to be attended. This was the first time that the restaurant experienced this kind of situation. When he investigated what happened, Ron and James, the waiters on duty, told Mr. Cruz that Billy called them that he can’t report to work because he has important thing to attend to. Chris, the senior waiter was on day-off. There was also a delay in the preparation of food in the kitchen. Questions to answer

What do you think are the root cause of the problem?

Do you think Mr. Cruz has a negligence on the situation? Point out those things.

If you were Mr. Cruz, what will you do to avoid the reoccurence of the problems?

What do you think may be the possible reasons on the delay of food from the kitchen?

Net income and owner's equity for four businesses four different proprietorships, jupiter, mars, saturn, and venus, show the same balance sheet data at the beginning and end of a year. these data, exclusive of the amount of owner's equity, are summarized as follows: total assets total liabilities beginning of the year $550,000 $215,000 end of the year 844,000 320,000 on the basis of the preceding data and the following additional information for the year, determine the net income (or loss) of each company for the year. (hint: first determine the amount of increase or decrease in owner's equity during the year.) jupiter: the owner had made no additional investments in the business and had made no withdrawals from the business. mars: the owner had made no additional investments in the business but had withdrawn $36,000. saturn: the owner had made an additional investment of $60,000 but had made no withdrawals. venus: the owner had made an additional investment of $60,000 and had withdrawn $36,000. jupiter net income $ mars net income $ saturn net income $ venus net income $

You work as the sales manager for a company that sells office supplies to businesses of all sizes. because the profit margins are razor-thin, you need to ensure that you are getting the very best prices on paper, pencils, pens, post-it notes, and other office supplies from the manufacturers. when reviewing the quarterly profit statement, you realize that your costs are higher than they should be, and you trace the higher costs back to an employee who has been lax about getting competitive bids to ensure the lowest prices. when you conduct your research to determine the reason for the higher costs, and take action to bring those costs back down, in which of the key management processes are you taking part?

Flounder supply company, a newly formed corporation, incurred the following expenditures related to land, to buildings, and to machinery and equipment. abstract company’s fee for title search $1,066 architect’s fees 6,499 cash paid for land and dilapidated building thereon 178,350 removal of old building $41,000 less: salvage 11,275 29,725 interest on short-term loans during construction 15,170 excavation before construction for basement 38,950 machinery purchased (subject to 2% cash discount, which was not taken) 112,750 freight on machinery purchased 2,747 storage charges on machinery, necessitated by noncompletion of building when machinery was delivered 4,469 new building constructed (building construction took 6 months from date of purchase of land and old building) 994,250 assessment by city for drainage project 3,280 hauling charges for delivery of machinery from storage to new building 1,271 installation of machinery 4,100 trees, shrubs, and other landscaping after completion of building (permanent in nature) 11,070 instructions determine the amounts that should be debited to land, to buildings,and to machinery and equipment. assume the benefits of capitalizing interest during constructionexceed the cost of implementation. indicate how any costs notdebited to these accounts should be recorded.