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July 30, 2021

Determining next period’s forecast

The monthly electricity bill at the Chez Paul Restaurant over the past 12 months has been as follows: Month Amount (Sh.) December January February March April May June 30,660 27,190 30,570 30,640 29,730 31,530 29,720 July August September October November 33,070 30,010 27,550 30,130 27,940 Paul is considering using exponential […]
July 30, 2021

Under production, marketing and finance sub-systems

An increasing number of organizations operate sophiscated corporate planning models. Quite often these models feature integrated models for the production, marketing and finance sub-systems. While linkage between these models is important forecasts of the external environment are also needed and econometric models are frequently used to provide these forecasts. Required: […]
July 29, 2021

Discrete and continuous distributions

(a) Briefly explain each of the following distributions indicating whether it is a discrete or a continuous distribution. (i) Binomial distribution (3 marks) (ii) Poisson distribution (3 marks) (iii) Normal distribution (3 marks) (iv) Chi square distribution (3 marks) (v) Fisher (F) distribution (3 marks) (b) Give one example in […]
July 29, 2021

Explanatory notes on the taxes

Write explanatory notes on the taxes listed below and in each case indicate whether the tax complies with the main principles of a good tax system. (a) Presumptive tax on agricultural produce. (5 marks) (b) Cess on agricultural produce. (5 marks) (c) Trade licence chargeable to professionals. (5 marks) (d) […]
July 29, 2021

Claimable capital deductions

Kalamuka Maize Millers Limited purchased a building on 1 January 2005, for Sh.4,000,000. It was brought into use on the same day. The sellers construction cost comprised: Sh. Land Architects fees Leveling land Construction (including offices sh.160,000) 200,000 40,000 60,000 1,700,000 2,000,000 B.B. Ltd. purchased the whole of the Kalamuka […]
July 29, 2021

Economic conditions

Because of economic conditions, a firm reports that 30 percent of its accounts receivables from other business firms are overdue. The firm’s policy is that if an accountant takes a random sample of five such accounts and finds that exactly 20 percent of the accounts are overdue 10 percent of […]
July 29, 2021

Qualifying expenditure for the purposes of investment deductions

(a) What is meant by the term qualifying expenditure? ( 2 marks) (b) Name and briefly explain items which may be included in the qualifying expenditure for the purposes of investment deductions. ( 8 marks)
July 29, 2021

lowest probability that the store will sell

Mia Shillings Department Stores has compiled the following data concerning its daily sales. The sales for each day of the week are normally distributed with the following parameters: Day Mean (μ) in Sh. Standard deviations (σ) in Sh. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 120,000 100,000 100,000 120,000 140,000 160,000 […]
July 29, 2021

Random variable of interest

Mia Shillings Department Stores is planning to open a store in Washington DC. It has asked the Superior Marketing Company (SMC) to do a market study of randomly selected families within a five kilometer radius of the store. Among the questions is wishes SMC to ask each home owner are […]