Yado Steel Co Ltd (Yado Steel) entered into a loan agreement with Industry Bank to borrow RMB 20 million yuan for its expansion programme. Yado Steel provided its office building as property mortgaged for the debt, and made the registration as required. Mr Ding, one of the shareholders of Yado Steel, placed a guarantee letter of general liability in favour of Industry Bank.
Due to poor performance, Yado Steel failed to repay the debt when it came to maturity. Meanwhile, Industry Bank, under a restructuring plan, transferred the credit of RMB 20 million yuan together with the right of pledge to Oriental Assets Management Co (OAM). It also made a written notice to Yado Steel and Mr Ding, but failed to transfer the right of mortgage to OAM. On the contrary, Industry Bank concluded an agreement with Yado Steel before it went bankrupt, and settled other debts owed by the latter through the sale of the office building as mortgaged for the loan. Having found this fact, OAM, as a transferee of the credit, requested the court to order Mr Ding to bear its guarantor’s liability for the debt. Mr Ding asserted that he was a pledger with a general liability and would be responsible for the debt only if the things mortgaged could not satisfy the debt.
Required:
Answer the following questions in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Property Law and the Contract Law, and give your reasons for your answer:
(a) State whether the defence of Mr Ding should be supported by the court. (6 marks)
(b) State what was the cause of this dispute between OAM and Industry Bank. (4 marks)
《党政领导干部选拔任用工作条例》规定,凡本地区、本部门用人上的不正之风严重、干部群众反映强烈及对违反组织人事纪律的行为查处不力的,应当追究()主要领导成员和分管领导成员的责任。
A. 组织人事部门
B. 党委职能部门
C. 党委(党组)
D. 纪委
颈椎是由()组成
A. 5块
B. 6块
C. 7块
D. 8块
Noble is a restaurant that is only open in the evenings, on SIX days of the week. It has eight restaurant and kitchen staff, each paid a wage of $8 per hour on the basis of hours actually worked. It also has a restaurant manager and a head chef, each of whom is paid a monthly salary of $4,300. Noble’s budget and actual figures for the month of May was as follows:
The budget above is based on the following assumptions:
1 The restaurant is only open six days a week and there are four weeks in a month. The average number of orders each day is 50 and demand is evenly spread across all the days in the month.
2 The restaurant offers two meals: Meal A, which costs $35 per meal and Meal B, which costs $45 per meal. In addition to this, irrespective of which meal the customer orders, the average customer consumes four drinks each at $2·50 per drink. Therefore, the average spend per customer is either $45 or $55 including drinks, depending on the type of meal selected. The May budget is based on 50% of customers ordering Meal A and 50% of customers ordering Meal B.
3 Food costs represent 12·5% of revenue from food sales.
4 Drink costs represent 20% of revenue from drinks sales.
5 When the number of orders per day does not exceed 50, each member of hourly paid staff is required to work exactly six hours per day. For every incremental increase of five in the average number of orders per day, each member of staff has to work 0·5 hours of overtime for which they are paid at the increased rate of $12 per hour. You should assume that all costs for hourly paid staff are treated wholly as variable costs.
6 Energy costs are deemed to be related to the total number of hours worked by each of the hourly paid staff, and are absorbed at the rate of $2·94 per hour worked by each of the eight staff.
Required:
(a) Prepare a flexed budget for the month of May, assuming that the standard mix of customers remains the same as budgeted. (12 marks)
(b) After preparation of the flexed budget, you are informed that the following variances have arisen in relation to total food and drink sales:
(c) Noble’s owner told the restaurant manager to run a half-price drinks promotion at Noble for the month of May on all drinks. Actual results showed that customers ordered an average of six drinks each instead of the usual four but, because of the promotion, they only paid half of the usual cost for each drink. You have calculated the sales margin price variance for drink sales alone and found it to be a worrying $11,700 adverse. The restaurant manager is worried and concerned that this makes his performance for drink sales look very bad.
Required:
Briefly discuss TWO other variances that could be calculated for drinks sales or food sales in order to ensure that the assessment of the restaurant manager’s performance is fair. These should be variances that COULD be calculated from the information provided above although no further calculations are required here. (4 marks)