The city of Belle collects property taxes for other local governments—Beau County and the Landis Independent School District (LISD). The city uses a Property Tax Collection Custodial Fund to account for its collection of property taxes for itself, Beau County, and LISD. Prepare journal entries to record the following transactions and events for Belle’s Custodial Fund during calendar year 2019.

1. During 2019, property taxes were levied for Belle ($2,000,000), Beau County ($1,000,000) and LISD ($3,000,000). Assume taxes collected by the Custodial Fund will be paid to Belle’s General Fund.

2. Property taxes in the amount of $4,500,000 are collected. The percentage collected for each entity is in the same proportion as the original levy.

3. The amount owed to the city of Belle, Beau County, and LISD is recognized. The city of Belle charges an administrative fee to Beau County ($20,000) and LISD ($60,000) to collect the taxes, which reduces the amount owed to Beau County and LISD.

4. The Custodial Fund distributes the amount owed to the three governments.

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On January 1, 2017, Corgan Company acquired 70 percent of the outstanding voting stock of Smashing, Inc., for a total of $1,015,000 in cash and other consideration. At the acquisition date, Smashing had common stock of $800,000, retained earnings of $350,000, and a noncontrolling interest fair value of $435,000. Corgan attributed the excess of fair value over Smashing's book value to various covenants with a 20-year remaining life. Corgan uses the equity method to account for its investment in Smashing.

During the next two years, Smashing reported the following:

Corgan sells inventory to Smashing using a 60 percent markup on cost. At the end of 2017 and 2018, 30 percent of the current year purchases remain in Smashing's inventory.

A) Prepare Journal entries for G*, S, A, I, D, E, TI, G. with debit and credits to each account.

4. Briefly discuss the amending of receipts entered into manual accounts receivable system

5. Why is it important to verify bad and doubtful debt status through liaison with debtors?

6. Explain the importance of completing the reporting procedures and required documentation for bad and doubtful debts

Arrange the following items in proper balance sheet presentation: (Amounts to be deducted should be indicated with parentheses or a minus sign.)
  

Break even analysis accompany fixed operating cost are 430000 its variable costs are 2.95 per unit and the product sales prices is 4.50 what is the company break even point that is at what unit sales volume will its income equal its cost

With zero-based budgeting, each expenditure item must be justified for the new budget period.” Explain.

Troy Engines, Ltd., manufactures a variety of engines for use in heavy equipment. The company has always produced all of the necessary parts for its engines, including all of the carburetors. An outside supplier has offered to sell one type of carburetor to Troy Engines, Ltd., for a cost of $32 per unit. To evaluate this offer, Troy Engines, Ltd., has gathered the following information relating to its own cost of producing the carburetor internally:

*One-third supervisory salaries; two-thirds depreciation of special equipment (no resale value).

Required:

1. Assuming the company has no alternative use for the facilities that are now being used to produce the carburetors, what would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 17,000 carburetors from the outside supplier?

2. Should the outside supplier’s offer be accepted?

3. Suppose that if the carburetors were purchased, Troy Engines, Ltd., could use the freed capacity to launch a new product. The segment margin of the new product would be $170,000 per year. Given this new assumption, what would be the financial advantage (disadvantage) of buying 17,000 carburetors from the outside supplier?

4. Given the new assumption in requirement 3, should the outside supplier’s offer be accepted?

1. Prior to liquidating their partnership, Craig and Jenny had capital accounts of $74,060 and $125,920, respectively. The partnership assets were sold for $242,930. The partnership had $27,060 of liabilities. Craig and Jenny share income and losses equally.

Determine the amount received by Jenny as a final distribution from liquidation of the partnership.

2. Emerson and Dakota formed a partnership dividing income as follows:

1. Annual salary allowance to Emerson of $39,600
2. Interest of 10% on each partner's capital balance on January 1
3. Any remaining net income divided equally.

Emerson and Dakota had $20,000 and $126,400, respectively, in their January 1 capital balances. Net income for the year was $222,400.

How much net income should be distributed to Dakota?

3. Malcolm has a capital balance of $63,200 after adjusting to fair market value. Celeste contributes $39,200 to receive a 25% interest in a new partnership with Malcolm.

Determine the amount and recipient of the partner bonus

4.A company had stock outstanding as follows during each of its first three years of operations: 4,000 shares of 9%, $100 par, cumulative preferred stock and 45,000 shares of $10 par common stock. The amounts distributed as dividends are presented below. Determine the total and per-share dividends for each class of stock for each year by completing the schedule. Round dividends per share to the nearest cent. Enter "0" if no dividends are paid.

What happens if an asset is partway through the useful life and an expenditure is made that significantly extends the estimated useful life?

Classifying Costs Assume you are going to become an entrepreneur and start your own business. Think about your talents and interests and come up with an idea for a small business venture that provides a unique product or service to local customers.

Pool Building Company

a) What would the major costs of your business be? Try to classify the costs into the areas of direct materials; direct labor; manufacturing overhead; and selling, general, and administrative expenses. (Hint: Not all businesses will have all of these cost classifications.)

b) Why would you need to determine the cost of providing your product or service to individual customers? In other words, what types of decisions would you expect to make based on job order cost information?

c) In general, would you expect your company’s indirect (overhead) costs to be less or more than the direct costs (direct labor and materials)? What allocation base do you think you would use to charge overhead costs to individual customers? How much do you think the overhead rate would need to be?

The Personnel Department at Hernandez Bros. is centralized and provides services to the two operating units: Miami and New York. The Miami unit is the original unit of the company and is well established. The New York unit is new, much like a start-up company. The costs of the Personnel Department are allocated to each unit based on the number of employees in order to determine unit profitability. The current rate is $560 per employee. Data for the fiscal year just ended show the following.

Miami New York

Number of employees 1,260 360

Number of new hires 16 26

Number of employees departing 14 24

Orlando, the manager of the New York unit, is unhappy with the results of the controller’s study. He asks the controller to develop separate rates for fixed and variable costs in the Personnel Department. The controller reports back to Orlando that the rates would be as follows:

Allocation based on Variable Rate Fixed Rate Total Rate

Employees $ 80 per employee $ 180 per employee $ 260 per employee

Transitions $ 2,060 per transition $ 4,015 per transition $ 6,075 per transition

Required: a. Orlando argues that New York should only be allocated the variable costs from this system, because the company would have to pay the fixed costs even if New York did not exist. Compute the cost allocated to each unit using the approach Orlando prefers.

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Upriver Parts manufactures two products, V-1 and V-2, at its River Plant. Selected data for an average month for the two products follow.

Production at the plant is automated and any labor cost is included in overhead. Data on manufacturing overhead at the plant follow.

Required:

a. Compute the unit costs for the two products V-1 and V-2 using the current costing system at Upriver (using machine hours as the allocation basis). (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
b. Compute the unit costs for the two products V-1 and V-2 using the proposed ABC system at Upriver.

On February 1, 2018, Cromley Motor Products issued 7% bonds, dated February 1, with a face amount of $60 million. The bonds mature on January 31, 2022 (4 years). The market yield for bonds of similar risk and maturity was 8%. Interest is paid semiannually on July 31 and January 31. Barnwell Industries acquired $60,000 of the bonds as a long-term investment. The fiscal years of both firms end December 31. (FV of $1, PV of $1, FVA of $1, PVA of $1, FVAD of $1and PVAD of $1) (Use appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided.)

Choose a cost in your organization (or personal life). Now identify what drives that cost. Keep in mind that the cost driver is something that can be counted!

For instance, if I choose gasoline cost, my cost driver is the number of miles I drive to meet at clients' offices. At home, the cost driver for my electric bill is the number of people-days at my house - i.e. some months everyone is gone (low bill), and other times many houseguests makes for a high electric bill. What are your examples?