Mason Company sold some machinery to the Finney Company on January 1, 2004. The cash selling price would have been $473,850. Finney entered into an installment salescontract which required annual payments of $125,000, including interest at 10%, over five years. the first payment was due on December 31, 2004. what amount ofinterest income should be included in Mason's 2005 income statement (the second year of the contract)? a.$12,500 b. $39,624 c. $25,000 d. $34,885

Airbus had reason to celebrate in 2003; for the frst time in the company’s history, it delivered more commercial jet aircraft than long-time rival Boeing. Airbus delivered 305 planes in 2003, compared to Boeing’s 281. The celebration, however, was muted because the strength of the euro against the U.S. dollar was casting a cloud over the company’s future. Airbus, which is based in Toulouse, France, prices planes in dollars, just as Boeing has always done. But more than half of Airbus’ costs are in euros. So as the dollar drops in value against the euro—and it dropped by more than 50 percent between 2002 and the end of 2009—Airbus’ costs rise in proportion to its revenue, squeezing profts in the process. In the short run, the fall in the value of the dollar against the euro did not hurt Airbus. The company fully hedged its dollar exposure in 2005 and was mostly hedged for 2006. However, anticipating that the dollar would stay weak against the euro, Airbus started to take other steps to reduce its economic exposure to a strong European currency. Recognizing that raising prices is not an option given the strong competition from Boeing, Airbus decided to focus on reducing its costs. As a step toward doing this, Airbus gave U.S. suppliers a greater share of work on new aircraft models, such as the A380 superjumbo and the A350. It also shifted supply work on some of its older models from European to American-based suppliers. This increased the proportion of its costs that were in dollars, making profts less vulnerable to a rise in the value of the euro and reducing the costs of building an aircraft when they were converted back into euros. Wings are assembled at the Airbus SAS factory in Broughton, United Kingdom. Completed wings are transported to Toulouse, France, or Hamburg, Germany, for fnal assembly. Source: © Christopher Furlong/Getty Images News/Getty Images In addition, Airbus pushed its European-based suppliers to start pricing in U.S. dollars. Because the costs of many suppliers were in euros, the suppliers found that to comply with Airbus’ wishes, they too had to move more work to the United States or to countries whose currency is pegged to the U.S. dollar. Thus, one large French-based supplier, Zodiac, announced that it was considering acquisitions in the United States. Not only was Airbus pushing suppliers to price components for commercial jet aircraft in dollars, but the company was also requiring suppliers to its A400M program, a military aircraft that will be sold to European governments and priced in euros, to price components in U.S. dollars. Beyond these steps, the CEO of EADS, Airbus’ parent company, publicly stated it might be prepared to assemble aircraft in the United States if that would help win important U.S. contracts. While this strategy made good sense for years, it worked against Airbus between mid-2014 and 2015 as the dollar rose rapidly against the euro.

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This feature describes how Airbus is protecting itself from exchange rate fluctuations. French aircraft maker Airbus prices its planes in dollars. However, because over half the company’s costs are in euros, the company has the potential to see significant fluctuations in its earnings if it does not hedge its foreign exchange exposure.

QUESTION 1. What type of foreign exchange exposure does Airbus face? How can Airbus protect itself from its exposure to changing exchange rates? How does the company’s switch to more U.S. suppliers help the company?

QUESTION 2. Airbus has asked its European-based suppliers to start pricing in U.S. dollars. What does Airbus hope to gain by this request? What does it mean for suppliers?

Identify and describe one best practice for a performance evaluation system*. Ideally, this should be a practice you have personally witnessed or experienced, so that you can provide an example to illustrate your best practice. Why does the item you identified represent a best practice?

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