accounting basics

.) $ arks 1 M 2 CFO Salary Profit From Operation Total Assets Alibaba 5 700.000 $ 72,176,092.000 6 13,201,739,000 $ 114,065,666,000 S Amaron 5 160 000 5 177.166,000,000 S 4,100,000,000 $ 131,310,000,000 $ 5 Anheuser durch $ 52,129,000,000 $ 225,000 5 16,098,000,000 S 68,000,000,000 $ 6 Apple Inc 5 1.000.000 5 260,174,000,000 $ 63,930,000,000 $ 338,516,000,000 $ 7 Bank of America $1,000,000 $ 91,244,000,000 $ 32,754,000,000 $ 2,434,079,000,000 $ Costco $ 4,441,790S 152,703,000,000 S 4,737,000,000 $ 45,400,000,000 S Dominos 5 520.000 S 4,616,774,000 $ 1,402.499,000 $ 1,382,092,000 S 10 Dunkin Donuts 487,019 $ 1,370,227,000 $ 451,050,000 $ 3,920,024,000 S 11 Ferrari $ 620,000 $ 1,805,310,000 $ 917,466,000 $ 5,446,372,000 $ 12 Google 5 650,000 $ 90,272,000,000 $ 23,716,000,000 $ 197,295,000,000 $ 13 GoPro Inc $ 454,7405 1,194,651,000 22.333.000 792.803,000 $ 14 HEM $ 800,000 $ 232,755,000,000 17,346,000,000 $ 120,485,000,000 $ 15 Huawei 420,000 $ 858,833,000,000 S 77,835,000,000 $ 858,661,000,000 $ 16 Johnson & Johnson 796,538 S 82,059,000,000 $ 17,328,000,000 $ 91,790,000,000 $ 17 LVMH 5 700,000 $ 46,826,000,000 S 10,003,000,000 44,998,000,000 $ 18 McDonalds $ 1,600,467 S 7.843,000,000 $ 4,069,000,000 $ 34,249,600,000 $ 19 Microsoft 5 570,000 125,843,000,000 42,959,000,000 $ 286,556,000,000 20 Moderne $ 560,401 5 60,209,000 5 (545,720,000) 1,589,422,000 $ 21 Netflix $ 2,800,000 S 20,156,447,000 $ 2,604,254,000 $ 33,975, 712,000 $ 22 Nike $ 1,050,000 $ 39,117,000,000 4,801,000,000 $ 23,717,000,000 $ 23 Nintendo $ 300,000 $ 10,914,000,000 $ 2,270,000,000 $ 15,366,000,000 $ 24 Samsung Electronics 5 217,9955 230,400,000,000 S 27,800,000,000 352,564,497.000 S 25 Sano $ 200,000 $ 36,126,000,000 $ 3,125,000,000 $ 112,736,000,000 $ 26 Simon Property Group Inc. 5 367,692 5 5,755, 189,000 $ 2,907,831,000 $ 31,231,630,000 $ 27 Spotify $ 560,000 $ 6,764,000,000 $ (73,000,000) 5,122,000,000 S 28 Tencent $ 1,200,000 377,289,000,000 $ 188,694,000,000 $ 953,986,000,000 $ 29 Tesla $ 500,000 $ 24,578,000,000 S 169,000,000) 34,309,000,000 $ 30 The Walt Disney Company $ 312,500 69,570,000,000 $ 10,913,000,000 $ 193,984,000,000 $ 31 Volkswagen S 580,256 S 252,632,000,000 16,960,000,000 $ 488,071,000,000 $ 32 Walmart $ 892,948 S $23,964,000,000 $ 20,568,000,000 $ 236,495,000,000 $ 33 34 35 1) of the four possible x-variables, which is the best predictor of CFO salarles? 36 37 382) For the answer to 1), what is the intercept and what does this number mean for determining a CFO's salary? 39 40 Cash 33,435,980,000 20,522,000,000 7,100,000,000 48,844,000,000 161,560,000,000 8,384,000,000 190,615,000 621,152,000 897,946,000 10,715,000,000 150,301,000 12,312,000,000 170,684,000,000 11,000,000,000 8,542,000,000 898,500,000 11,356,000,000 235,876,000 5,018,437,000 4,466,000,000 7,677,000,000 26,885.999,000 9,427,000,000 669,373,000 1,065,000,000 132,991,000,000 6,268,000,000 5,418,000,000 25,923,000,000 9,465,000,000 41 3) In the data provided for operating profit, there are noticable outliers. Ust the outliers and explain what is causing them to be outliers. 42 43 444) What would be a better predictor of a CFO's salary than the four listed x-variables? Explain your answer. 5