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Many of you shop at various retail chain store operations like Walmart or The Bay. Based...

Many of you shop at various retail chain store operations like Walmart or The Bay. Based on your understanding of how these retail chain stores are managed, would you agree or disagree that one location of a large retail store chain should be treated as an investment center? What about the maintenance department at that one location? What about a single department (i.e. automotive or children’s clothing) within the store?

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The following balance sheets are taken from the records of Golding Company (numbers are expressed in...

The following balance sheets are taken from the records of Golding Company (numbers are expressed in thousands):

20X1 20X2
Assets
Cash $130,000 $150,000
Accounts receivable 25,000 20,000
Plant and equipment 50,000 60,000
Accumulated depreciation (20,000) (25,000)
Land 10,000 10,000
Total assets $195,000 $215,000
Liabilities and equity
Accounts payable $ 10,000 $ 5,000
Bonds payable 8,000 18,000
Common stock 120,000 120,000
Retained earnings 57,000 72,000
Total liabilities and equity $195,000 $215,000

Additional information is as follows:

A. Equipment costing $10,000,000 was purchased at year-end. No equipment was sold; and
B. Net income for the year was $25,000,000; $10,000,000 in dividends were paid.

Required:

1. Prepare a statement of cash flows using the indirect method.
2. Conceptual Connection: Assess Golding’s ability to use cash to acquire Lemmons Company. Consider the information in Exhibit 14.2 (p. 795) and Example 14.6 (p. 800) as part of your analysis.

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Pacific Rim Industries is a diversified company whose products are marketed both domestically and internationally. The...

Pacific Rim Industries is a diversified company whose products are marketed both domestically and internationally. The company’s major product lines are furniture, sports equipment, and household appliances. At a recent meeting of Pacific Rim’s board of directors, there was a lengthy discussion on ways to improve overall corporate profitability. The members of the board decided that they required additional financial information about individual corporate operations in order to target areas for improvement.

Danielle Murphy, the controller, has been asked to provide additional data that would assist the board in its investigation. Murphy believes that income statements, prepared along both product lines and geographic areas, would provide the directors with the required insight into corporate operations. Murphy had several discussions with the division managers for each product line and compiled the following information from these meetings.

Product Lines
Furniture Sports Appliances Total
Production and sales in units 140,000 176,400 140,000 456,400
Average selling price per unit $ 9.00 $ 20.00 $ 23.00
Average variable manufacturing cost per unit 5.00 10.00 15.00
Average variable selling expense per unit 2.00 2.50 2.75
Fixed manufacturing overhead,
excluding depreciation
$ 524,000
Depreciation of plant and equipment 365,120
Administrative and selling expense 1,180,000
  1. The division managers concluded that Murphy should allocate fixed manufacturing overhead to both product lines and geographic areas on the basis of the ratio of the variable costs expended to total variable costs.

  2. Each of the division managers agreed that a reasonable basis for the allocation of depreciation on plant and equipment would be the ratio of units produced per product line (or per geographical area) to the total number of units produced.

  3. There was little agreement on the allocation of administrative and selling expenses, so Murphy decided to allocate only those expenses that were traceable directly to a segment. For example, manufacturing staff salaries would be allocated to product lines, and sales staff salaries would be allocated to geographic areas. Murphy used the following data for this allocation.

Manufacturing Staff Sales Staff
Furniture $ 115,000 United States $ 55,000
Sports 135,000 Canada 95,000
Appliances 75,000 Asia 245,000
  1. The division managers were able to provide reliable sales percentages for their product lines by geographical are

Percentage of Unit Sales
United States Canada Asia
Furniture 40 % 20 % 40 %
Sports 40 % 40 % 20 %
Appliances 30 % 30 % 40 %

Murphy prepared the following product-line income statement based on the data presented above

PACIFIC RIM INDUSTRIES
Segmented Income Statement by Product Lines
For the Fiscal Year Ended April 30, 20x0
Product Lines
Furniture Sports Appliances Unallocated Total
Sales in units 140,000 176,400 140,000
Sales $ 1,260,000 $ 3,528,000 $ 3,220,000 $ 8,008,000
Variable manufacturing and selling costs 980,000 2,205,000 2,485,000 5,670,000
Contribution margin $ 280,000 $ 1,323,000 $ 735,000 $ 2,338,000
Fixed costs:
Fixed manufacturing overhead $ 90,568 $ 203,778 $ 229,654 $ $ 524,000
Depreciation 112,000 141,120 112,000 365,120
Administrative and selling expenses 115,000 135,000 75,000 855,000 1,180,000
Total fixed costs $ 317,568 $ 479,898 $ 416,654 $ 855,000 $ 2,069,120
Operating income (loss) $ (37,568 ) $ 843,102 $ 318,346 $ (855,000 ) $ 268,880

Required:

  1. Prepare a segmented income statement for Pacific Rim Industries based on the company’s geographical areas. The statement should show the operating income for each segment. (Do not round your intermediate calculations and round your final answers to the nearest dollar amount.)

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Matheson Electronics has just developed a new electronic device that it believes will have broad market...

Matheson Electronics has just developed a new electronic device that it believes will have broad market appeal. The company has performed marketing and cost studies that revealed the following information:

  1. New equipment would have to be acquired to produce the device. The equipment would cost $318,000 and have a six-year useful life. After six years, it would have a salvage value of about $18,000.
  2. Sales in units over the next six years are projected to be as follows:
Year Sales in Units
1 8,000
2 13,000
3 15,000
4–6 17,000
  1. Production and sales of the device would require working capital of $62,000 to finance accounts receivable, inventories, and day-to-day cash needs. This working capital would be released at the end of the project’s life.
  2. The devices would sell for $35 each; variable costs for production, administration, and sales would be $15 per unit.
  3. Fixed costs for salaries, maintenance, property taxes, insurance, and straight-line depreciation on the equipment would total $169,000 per year. (Depreciation is based on cost less salvage value.)
  4. To gain rapid entry into the market, the company would have to advertise heavily. The advertising costs would be:
Year Amount of Yearly
Advertising
1–2 $ 120,000
3 $ 51,000
4–6 $ 41,000
  1. The company’s required rate of return is 8%.

Click here to view Exhibit 12B-1 and Exhibit 12B-2, to determine the appropriate discount factor(s) using tables.

Required:

1. Compute the net cash inflow (incremental contribution margin minus incremental fixed expenses) anticipated from sale of the device for each year over the next six years.

2-a. Using the data computed in (1) above and other data provided in the problem, determine the net present value of the proposed investment.

2-b. Would you recommend that Matheson accept the device as a new product?

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Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Inc., makes two types of industrial component parts—the B300 and the T500. An absorption...

Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Inc., makes two types of industrial component parts—the B300 and the T500. An absorption costing income statement for the most recent period is shown:

Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc.
Income Statement
Sales $ 1,706,000
Cost of goods sold 1,267,012
Gross margin 438,988
Selling and administrative expenses 560,000
Net operating loss $ (121,012

)

Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,300 units of B300 at a price of $20 per unit and 12,500 units of T500 at a price of $40 per unit. The company’s traditional cost system allocates manufacturing overhead to products using a plantwide overhead rate and direct labor dollars as the allocation base. Additional information relating to the company’s two product lines is shown below:

B300 T500 Total
Direct materials $ 400,400 $ 162,500 $ 562,900
Direct labor $ 120,700 $ 42,600 163,300
Manufacturing overhead 540,812
Cost of goods sold $ 1,267,012

The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek’s ABC implementation team concluded that $53,000 and $101,000 of the company’s advertising expenses could be directly traced to B300 and T500, respectively. The remainder of the selling and administrative expenses was organization-sustaining in nature. The ABC team also distributed the company’s manufacturing overhead to four activities as shown below:

Manufacturing
Overhead
Activity
Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure) B300 T500 Total
Machining (machine-hours) $ 212,392 90,500 62,300 152,800
Setups (setup hours) 166,320 78 300 378
Product-sustaining (number of products) 101,400 1 1 2
Other (organization-sustaining costs) 60,700 NA NA NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 540,812

Required:

1. Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the company’s traditional costing system.

2. Compute the product margins for B300 and T500 under the activity-based costing system.

3. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments.

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Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Inc., makes two types of industrial component parts—the B300 and the T500. An absorption...

Hi-Tek Manufacturing, Inc., makes two types of industrial component parts—the B300 and the T500. An absorption costing income statement for the most recent period is shown:

Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc.
Income Statement
Sales $ 1,774,100
Cost of goods sold 1,243,873
Gross margin 530,227
Selling and administrative expenses 640,000
Net operating loss $ (109,773 )

Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,100 units of B300 at a price of $21 per unit and 12,800 units of T500 at a price of $40 per unit. The company’s traditional cost system allocates manufacturing overhead to products using a plantwide overhead rate and direct labor dollars as the allocation base. Additional information relating to the company’s two product lines is shown below:

B300 T500 Total
Direct materials $ 400,100 $ 162,200 $ 562,300
Direct labor $ 120,200 $ 42,000 162,200
Manufacturing overhead 519,373
Cost of goods sold $ 1,243,873

The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek’s ABC implementation team concluded that $57,000 and $101,000 of the company’s advertising expenses could be directly traced to B300 and T500, respectively. The remainder of the selling and administrative expenses was organization-sustaining in nature. The ABC team also distributed the company’s manufacturing overhead to four activities as shown below:

Manufacturing
Overhead
Activity
Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure) B300 T500 Total
Machining (machine-hours) $ 212,253 90,400 62,300 152,700
Setups (setup hours) 145,320 76 270 346
Product-sustaining (number of products) 101,400 1 1 2
Other (organization-sustaining costs) 60,400 NA NA NA
Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 519,373

Required:

1. Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the company’s traditional costing system.

2. Compute the product margins for B300 and T500 under the activity-based costing system.

3. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments

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Fastraq Inc. is in the business of design and manufacture of bike chains for both professional...

Fastraq Inc. is in the business of design and manufacture of bike chains for both professional and amateur cyclists. Two new titanium chain sets were introduced during the year – the Smooth and Extreme. They are currently selling for $110 and $155 respectively. The following data summarise the cost structure for the two chain sets:

Smooth

Extreme

Number of sets budgeted and produced

43,000

55,000

Number of sets sold

40,000

52,000

Direct labour hours per set

2

3

Direct labour cost per hour

$22

$22

Direct materials per set

$45

$61

The company adopts an absorption costing system. Overhead is applied to the two products based on direct labour hours using a flexible budget to calculate the overhead rate prior the commencement of the financial year.

Fastraq budgeted (and produced) 43,000 Smooth and 55,000 Extreme chain sets. Fixed manufacturing overhead was budgeted at $1,650,000 and variable manufacturing overhead was estimated to be $1.75 per direct labour hour. Actual overhead incurred for the year amounted to $2,100,000. Any over- or under-absorbed overhead is written off to cost of goods sold.

(e) Calculate how much of manufacturing overhead will be charged to the income statement if in the following year, Fastraq incurs total manufacturing overhead of $2,300,000 and sells off all of the brought forward inventory from the current year, under (i) absorption costing and (ii) variable costing.

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The city of Belle collects property taxes for other local governments—Beau County and the Landis Independent...

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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the decision to sell to extend credit to customers will decrease wage costs True False

the decision to sell to extend credit to customers will decrease wage costs
True
False

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On January 1, 2017, Corgan Company acquired 70 percent of the outstanding voting stock of Smashing,...

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:

Net Income Dividends Declared Inventory Purchases from Corgan
2017 $ 250,000 $ 45,000 $ 200,000
2018 230,000 55,000 220,000

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.

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4. Briefly discuss the amending of receipts entered into manual accounts receivable system 5. Why is...

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

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Arrange the following items in proper balance sheet presentation: (Amounts to be deducted should be indicated...

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

Accumulated depreciation $ 309,000
Retained earnings 89,000
Cash 10,000
Bonds payable 158,000
Accounts receivable 56,000
Plant and equipment—original cost 697,000
Accounts payable 43,000
Allowance for bad debts 6,000
Common stock, $1 par, 100,000 shares outstanding 100,000
Inventory 73,000
Preferred stock, $57 par, 1,000 shares outstanding 57,000
Marketable securities 24,000
Investments 29,000
Notes payable 38,000
Capital paid in excess of par (common stock) 89,000

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Break even analysis accompany fixed operating cost are 430000 its variable costs are 2.95 per unit...

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

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

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

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Lumberjacks, Inc. makes wood frames. They have a single department and they use process costing (FIFO...

Lumberjacks, Inc. makes wood frames. They have a single department and they use process
costing (FIFO method).  
On January 31, they had the following costs in WIP:
Material $        45,860
Conversion            95,340
$      141,200
There were 3,000 frames on hand at 1/31. The frames were 80% complete
wrt Materials costs but only 20% complete wrt Conversion costs.
During February, they started 18,450 frames into production. 2,200 frames were not completed
in February. The uncompleted units were 90% complete wrt materials and 40%
complete wrt Conversion costs.
Total manufacturing costs incurred in February were:
Material $      235,375
Conversion          488,250
$      723,625
1. What were the total costs to be accounted for?
2. What was the cost per equivlent unit of production for February for Material?
3. What was the cost per equivlent unit of production for February for Conversion?
4. What was the total cost of the frames transferred to finished goods in February?
5. What was the total cost in WIP at 2/28?

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