Regency Corp. uses a standard cost system to account for the costs of its one product. Fixed overhead is applied to production at a rate of $27.10 per unit, based on budgeted production is 2,445 per month. During November, Regency produced 2,295 units. Fixed overhead incurred totaled $70,420.

a. Calculate the fixed overhead spending variance.

b. Calculate the fixed overhead volume variance.

Wisner Corporation's financial statements for 2019 showed the following:

This company has debt of $120,000 and contributed capital of $200,000. A consultant recommended that a better capital structure would be $220,000 debt and contributed capital of $100,000. Assume the company pays no dividends, the interest on the debt would be paid in cash annually at 6%, and income taxes are paid in cash annually.

1. Prepare the adjusted income statement for 2018 as if Wisner was under the alternative capital structure.

2. Complete the following table for 2018: For ratios use year end balances.

3. What do you think of the consultant's recommendation?

Ferris Corporation makes a single product—a fire-resistant commercial filing cabinet—that it sells to office

furniture distributors. The company has a simple ABC system that it uses for internal decision making. The

company has two overhead departments whose costs are listed on the following page:

Manufacturing overhead .................................. $500,000

Selling and administrative overhead ................ 300,000

Total overhead costs ........................................ $800,000

The company’s ABC system has the following activity cost pools and activity measures:

Activity Cost Pool Activity Measure

Assembling units ..................... Number of units

Processing orders .................... Number of orders

Supporting customers ............. Number of customers

Other ........................................ Not applicable

Costs assigned to the “Other” activity cost pool have no activity measure; they consist of the costs of

unused capacity and organization-sustaining costs—neither of which are assigned to orders, customers, or

the product.

Ferris Corporation distributes the costs of manufacturing overhead and of selling and administrative

overhead to the activity cost pools based on employee interviews, the results of which are reported below:

Required:

1- Perform the first-stage allocation of overhead costs to the activity cost pools and find manufacturing overhead for Assembling units.

2-Compute activity rates for the activity cost pools and find the activity rate for processing orders

3-Compute activity rates for the activity cost pools and find the activity rate for supporting customers

4-Office Mart is one of Ferris Corporation’s customers. Last year, Office Mart ordered filing cabinets four different times. Office Mart ordered a total of 80 filing cabinets during the year. What is the ABC cost for Assembeling unit?

5-Office Mart is one of Ferris Corporation’s customers. Last year, Office Mart ordered filing cabinets four different times. Office Mart ordered a total of 80 filing cabinets during the year. What is the ABC cost for Processing orders?

Question 2
Heinrich Bauer Stahl Ltd is a company that manufactures steel products. The following trial
balance was extracted from the records of Heinrich Bauer Stahl on 31 December 2018.
Additional information:
 Heating, lights and power for manufacturing as well as rent are to be apportioned: 4/5
Factory, 1/5 office.
N$ N$
Balances
Inventory at 1 January 2018:
· Raw materials 6,800.00
· Finished goods 12,200.00
· Work in progress -
Transactions
Capital 30,000.00
Drawings 4,000.00
Sales 180,000.00
Purchases of raw materials 36,000.00
Carriage inwards 1,600.00
Factory wages 37,000.00
Office salaries 33,800.00
Heinrich Bauer: salary and expenses 20,800.00
Heating, lights and power for manufacturing 5,000.00
Rent 7,500.00
Factory insurance 1,900.00
Advertising 2,800.00
Bank 7,200.00
Cash 650.00
General expenses:
· Factory 2,400.00
· Office 1,500.00
Bad debts 1,300.00
Discount received 3,200.00
Carriage outwards 750.00
Plant and machinery, at cost less depreciation 18,200.00
Car, at cost less depreciation 8,400.00
Trade receivables and payables 15,400.00 12,000.00
225,200.00 225,200.00
Balances
Inventory at 31 December 2018:
· Raw materials 5,800.00
· Finished goods 16,400.00
· Work in progress -
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 Factory insurance is to be apportioned: ¾ Factory , ¼ office
 Heinrich Bauers’ expenses and salary are to be regarded as selling expense and has sole
use of the entity’s vehicle.
 Depreciation for the year should be charged as follows:
o Vehicle N$ 1,000.00
o Plant and Machinery N$ 3,000.00
 Factory insurance paid in advance at 31 December 2017 was N$ 300.00 and office
general expenses unpaid were N$ 150.
You are required to:
Prepare the following accounts in the general ledger of Heinrich Bauer Stahl Ltd:
1. Raw material inventory ( 3 Marks)
2. Factory overhead expenses ( 4 Marks)
3. Finished goods and
4. Prepare a statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income for the year
ending 31 December 2018. ( 11 Marks)

he following selecred rransaccions occurred during 2016 and 2017 for Mediterranean Importers. The company ends irs accouncin. g year on April 30. 2016 Learning Objective 4 Receivables 5I7 Recorded credit card sales of $96,000, net of processor fee of 1 %. Ignore Cost of Goods Sold. Loaned $23,000 to Jess Prich.et!, an executive with the company; on a one- year, 12% note. Accrued interest revenue on the Prichett note. Collected the maturity value of the Prichett note. Learning Objective 4 Feb. 1, 2017 Cash DR $21,200 Feb. Apr. 6 Apr. 30 ? 2017 Feb. 1 loaned $20,000 cash to Candace Smith on a one-year. 6% note. Sold goods to Green Masters. receiving a 90-day, 9% note for $10,000. Ignore Cost of Goods Sold. Made a single entry to accrue interest revenue on both notes. Collected the maturity value of the Green Masters note. Collected the maturity value of the Smith note. Journalize all required entries. Make sure co determine che missing maturity dare.

Munoz, Inc., produces a special line of plastic toy racing cars.​ Munoz, Inc., produces the cars in batches. To manufacture a batch of the​ cars, Munoz,​ Inc., must set up the machines and molds. Setup costs are​ batch-level costs because they are associated with batches rather than individual units of products. A separate Setup Department is responsible for setting up machines and molds for different styles of car.

Setup overhead costs consist of some costs that are variable and some costs that are fixed with respect to the number of​ setup-hours. The following information pertains to June​ 2015:

Calculate the efficiency variance for variable overhead setup costs.

A.

$ 623$623

favorable

B.

$ 4 comma 377$4,377

favorable

C.

$ 4 comma 377$4,377

unfavorable

D.

$ 623$623

unfavorable

Click to select your answer.

Ignacio, Inc., had after-tax operating income last year of $1,198,500. Three sources of financing were used by the company: $2 million of mortgage bonds paying 4 percent interest, $4 million of unsecured bonds paying 6 percent interest, and $10 million in common stock, which was considered to be relatively risky (with a risk premium of 8 percent). The rate on long-term treasuries is 3 percent. Ignacio, Inc., pays a marginal tax rate of 30 percent.

Required:

1. Calculate the after-tax cost of each method of financing. Enter your answers as decimal values rounded to three places. For example, 4.36% would be entered as ".044".

2. Calculate the weighted average cost of capital for Ignacio, Inc. Round intermediate calculations to four decimal places. Round your final answer to four decimal places before converting to a percentage. For example, .06349 would be rounded to .0635 and entered as "6.35" percent.

%

Calculate the total dollar amount of capital employed for Ignacio, Inc.

$

3. Calculate economic value added (EVA) for Ignacio, Inc., for last year. If the EVA is negative, enter your answer as a negative amount.

$

Is the company creating or destroying wealth?

Destroying

4. What if Ignacio, Inc., had common stock which was less risky than other stocks and commanded a risk premium of 5 percent? How would that affect the weighted average cost of capital?

What is the new EVA? In your calculations, round weighted average percentage cost of capital to four decimal places. If the EVA is negative, enter your answer as a negative amount.

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Rochelle is a general partner in Megawatt Partnership. For 2018, her schedule K-1 from the partnership reported her share of income and distributed cash as follows

Calculate the Self-employment tax that should be paid by Rochelle.

HolmesWatson (HW) is considering what the effect would be of reporting its liabilities under IFRS rather than U.S. GAAP. The following facts apply:

1. HW is defending against a lawsuit and believes it is virtually certain to lose in court. If it loses the lawsuit, management estimates it will need to pay a range of damages that falls between $6,900,000 and $11,900,000, with each amount in that range equally likely.
2. HW is defending against another lawsuit that is identical to item (a), but the relevant losses will only occur far into the future. The present values of the endpoints of the range are $4,900,000 and $9,900,000, with the timing of cash flow somewhat uncertain. HW considers these effects of the time value of money to be material.
3. HW is defending against another lawsuit for which management believes HW has a slightly worse than 50/50 chance of losing in court. If it loses the lawsuit, management estimates HW will need to pay a range of damages that falls between $4,900,000 and $10,900,000, with each amount in that range equally likely.
4. HW has $11,900,000 of short-term debt that it intends to refinance on a long-term basis. Soon after the balance sheet date, but before issuance of the financial statements, HW obtained the financing necessary to refinance the debt.

   
Required:
1. For each item, indicate how treatment of the amount would differ between U.S. GAAP and IFRS.
2. Consider the total effect of items a–d. If HW’s goal is to show the lowest total liabilities, which set of standards, U.S. GAAP or IFRS, best helps it meet that goal?
  

During January 2018, the first month of operations, a consulting firm had following transactions:

1. Issued common stock to owners in exchange for $22,000 cash.

2. Purchased $5,500 of equipment, paying $1,650 cash and signing a promissory note for $3,850.

3. Received $9,900 in cash for consulting services performed in January.

4. Purchased $1,650 of supplies on account; all of the supplies were used in January.

5. Provided consulting services on account in the amount of $17,600.

6. Paid $825 on account.

7. Paid $3,300 to employees for work performed during January.

8. Received a bill for utilities for January of $3,750; the bill remains unpaid.

What is the amount to be reported as total liabilities on the balance sheet at the end of January?

Explain the difference between a cost standard and an efficiency standard.  Give an example of each.

You have just been hired by FAB Corporation, the manufacturer of a revolutionary new garage door opening device. The president has asked that you review the company’s costing system and “do what you can to help us get better control of our manufacturing overhead costs.” You find that the company has never used a flexible budget, and you suggest that preparing such a budget would be an excellent first step in overhead planning and control. After much effort and analysis, you determined the following cost formulas and gathered the following actual cost data for March:

During March, the company worked 23,000 machine-hours and produced 17,000 units. The company had originally planned to work 25,000 machine-hours during March.

Calculate the activity variances for March. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values.)

Calculate the spending variances for March. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values.)

Packaging Solutions Corporation manufactures and sells a wide variety of packaging products. Performance reports are prepared monthly for each department. The planning budget and flexible budget for the Production Department are based on the following formulas, where q is the number of labor-hours worked in a month:

Trecek Corporation incurs research and development costs of $685,000 in 2017, 30 percent of which relate to development activities subsequent to IAS 38 criteria having been met that indicate an intangible asset has been created. The newly developed product is brought to market in January 2018 and is expected to generate sales revenue for 10 years.

Assume that a U.S.–based company is issuing securities to foreign investors who require financial statements prepared in accordance with IFRS. Thus, adjustments to convert from U.S. GAAP to IFRS must be made. Ignore income taxes.

Required:

1. Prepare journal entries for research and development costs for the years ending December 31, 2017, and December 31, 2018, under (1) U.S. GAAP and (2) IFRS.

2. Prepare the entry(ies) that Trecek would make on the December 31, 2017, and December 31, 2018, conversion worksheets to convert U.S. GAAP balances to IFRS.

Dorsey Company manufactures three products from a common input in a joint processing operation. Joint processing costs up to the split-off point total $315,000 per quarter. For financial reporting purposes, the company allocates these costs to the joint products on the basis of their relative sales value at the split-off point. Unit selling prices and total output at the split-off point are as follows:

Each product can be processed further after the split-off point. Additional processing requires no special facilities. The additional processing costs (per quarter) and unit selling prices after further processing are given below:

Required:

1. What is the financial advantage (disadvantage) of further processing each of the three products beyond the split-off point?

2. Based on your analysis in requirement 1, which product or products should be sold at the split-off point and which product or products should be processed further?