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Consider the amount and timing of the following transactions made by J. Doe December, 2014 :...

Consider the amount and timing of the following transactions made by J. Doe

December, 2014 : Purchased, paid for and applied fertilizer for the 2015 crop. $10,000.

April, 2015: Purchased and paid for seed, fuel, etc. $80,000

November 2015 : Half of crops sold for $90,000. The rest placed in storage to sell in 2016, valued currently at $90,000.

December 31, 2015: Accrued interest, $1,000.

January 15, 2016: Paid accrued interest.

May, 2016: Remaining 2015 crop sold. $105,000

  1. What is the 2015 net farm income under cash accounting? (Show work.)

  1. What is the 2015 net farm income under accrual accounting? (Show work.)

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Income Statement The goal of a business is to make a profit. Financial statements such as...

Income Statement

The goal of a business is to make a profit. Financial statements such as income statements and balance sheets report how successful a business has been in achieving this goal.

1.    Use spreadsheet software to create an income statement for Sweet Treats using the data shown below step 8. Format the income statement similar to the one shown in Figure 1-2.2. Use appropriate number formats and rules under numbers as shown in Figure 1-2.2.

2.    Enter the appropriate headings and date the income statement for the year ended December 31 of the current year.

3.    Enter a formula to subtract the cost of goods sold from sales to find the gross profit on sales.

4.    Enter a formula to subtract the total operating expenses from the gross profit on sales to find the net income from operations.

5.    Enter a formula to subtract other expenses or add other income to find net income before income tax.

6.    Enter a formula to subtract income tax to find net income after income tax.

7.    Enter formulas to calculate the percentage of sales for gross profit on sales, net income from operations, net income before tax, and net income after tax. (Divide each number by sales.)

8.    One goal of Sweet Treats is to have net income that is 25 percent of sales or higher. Assuming the company sells the same amount of merchandise and expenses and taxes remain the same, how much would the company have to increase prices to meet this goal?

Data for an income statement for the year ended December 31 of the current year:

Sales                                                        $325,000

Cost of Goods Sold                                  175,000

Operating Expenses

                Advertising Expense                    1,000

                Delivery Expense                          2,000

                Office Supplies Expense 500

                Payroll Taxes Expense                 5,000

                Salaries Expense                         58,000

                Utilities Expense                            3,000

                Miscellaneous Expense                  400

Other Expense

                Interest                                             2,500

Income Tax                                                    11,500

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Supler Corporation produces a part used in the manufacture of one of its products. The unit...

Supler Corporation produces a part used in the manufacture of one of its products. The unit product cost is $21, computed as follows:

Direct materials $ 7
Direct labor 6
Variable manufacturing overhead 3
Fixed manufacturing overhead 5
Unit product cost $ 21

An outside supplier has offered to provide the annual requirement of 2,900 of the parts for only $13 each. The company estimates that 60% of the fixed manufacturing overhead cost above could be eliminated if the parts are purchased from the outside supplier. Assume that direct labor is an avoidable cost in this decision. Based on these data, the financial advantage (disadvantage) of purchasing the parts from the outside supplier would be:

Multiple Choice

  • ($3) per unit on average

  • $3 per unit on average

  • $6 per unit on average

  • ($8) per unit on average

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An investor has two bonds in his portfolio that have a face value of $1,000 and...

An investor has two bonds in his portfolio that have a face value of $1,000 and pay a 7% annual coupon. Bond L matures in 17 years, while Bond S matures in 1 year.

Assume that only one more interest payment is to be made on Bond S at its maturity and that 17 more payments are to be made on Bond L.

  1. What will the value of the Bond L be if the going interest rate is 5%? Round your answer to the nearest cent.
    $  

    What will the value of the Bond S be if the going interest rate is 5%? Round your answer to the nearest cent.
    $  

    What will the value of the Bond L be if the going interest rate is 10%? Round your answer to the nearest cent.
    $  

    What will the value of the Bond S be if the going interest rate is 10%? Round your answer to the nearest cent.
    $  

    What will the value of the Bond L be if the going interest rate is 11%? Round your answer to the nearest cent.
    $  

    What will the value of the Bond S be if the going interest rate is 11%? Round your answer to the nearest cent.

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Argue both sides to this case Bill runs a dry cleaning store called Bill’s Dry Cleaning....

Argue both sides to this case
Bill runs a dry cleaning store called Bill’s Dry Cleaning. He is in deep financial trouble. His bank will no longer give him any credit and is threatening to demand immediate repayment of all money it has loaned to his business. Bill also owes money to other creditors and vendors.
Bill is desperate, so he approaches Christine, a very rich lady, and asks her to refinance his business. Christine reviews the business and its operations and says to Bill, “Listen, you’re a great dry cleaner but a lousy businessman. I’ll bail you out, but we have to divide up responsibilities a bit. If we’re going to make this business work, we have to be stricter about it. First, no more credit to professors. They’re lousy at paying their bills on time. Second, I want to determine who gets paid when. One of the arts of staying in business is stretching out your accounts payable. So, before you pay anyone, you check with me. Also, I want some upside potential. So long as you owe me money, I want 12% interest on whatever you owe me or 12% of the profits, whichever is higher. You pay me the 12% monthly, and quarterly I’ll decide whether to keep the past three month’s interest or take my share of the past three month’s profits.”
​Bill accepts Christine’s terms, with one condition: “We have to pay the employees on time. If we have the money, we pay them.” Christine accepts Bill’s condition, pays off the loan from the bank, and provides additional working capital to the business.
​The business continues to operate under the same name, and no one except Bill knows about Christine’s involvement. Bill stops extending credit to professors. Each month Christine reviews Bill’s accounts payable and sets the priorities for payment as follows: (1) pay Christine the money owed her; (2) pay overdue bills from people Bill intends to buy from again; (3) pay overdue bills from other people who are threatening to sue; and (4) pay others. Christine never does take a percentage of the profit because the 12% interest figure is always higher.
​Bill makes all decisions about which vendors to use. He also makes all personnel decisions (hiring, firing, salaries, etc.). Despite Christine’s help, the business fails in less than a year. Bill owes Christine $350,000; he owes creditors a total of $150,000 and $25,000 in unpaid wages to three employees. Bill has no money left.
Question: Are Bill and Christine partners, and if so, what kind of partners are they, and how (if at all) can the creditors and the employees collect from Christine? Explain.

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Grouper Corporation is preparing the comparative financial statements for the annual report to its shareholders for...

Grouper Corporation is preparing the comparative financial statements for the annual report to its shareholders for fiscal years ended May 31, 2017, and May 31, 2018. The income from operations for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2017, was $1,772,000 and income from continuing operations for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2018, was $2,440,000. In both years, the company incurred a 9% interest expense on $2,385,000 of debt, an obligation that requires interest-only payments for 5 years. The company experienced a loss from discontinued operations of $585,000 on February 2018. The company uses a 40% effective tax rate for income taxes.

The capital structure of Grouper Corporation on June 1, 2016, consisted of 977,000 shares of common stock outstanding and 20,100 shares of $50 par value, 6%, cumulative preferred stock. There were no preferred dividends in arrears, and the company had not issued any convertible securities, options, or warrants.

On October 1, 2016, Grouper sold an additional 475,000 shares of the common stock at $20 per share. Grouper distributed a 20% stock dividend on the common shares outstanding on January 1, 2017. On December 1, 2017, Grouper was able to sell an additional 781,000 shares of the common stock at $22 per share. These were the only common stock transactions that occurred during the two fiscal years.

Determine the weighted-average number of shares that Grouper Corporation would use in calculating earnings per share for the fiscal year ended:

Weighted-average number of shares

(1) May 31, 2017 Entry field with incorrect answer now contains modified data

(2) May 31, 2018 Entry field with incorrect answer

Prepare, in good form, a comparative income statement, beginning with income from operations, for Grouper Corporation for the fiscal years ended May 31, 2017, and May 31, 2018. This statement will be included in Grouper’s annual report and should display the appropriate earnings per share presentations. (Round earnings per share to 2 decimal places, e.g. $1.55.)

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Michael McNamara and Gregory Lau met while in university and always knew they wanted to be...

Michael McNamara and Gregory Lau met while in university and always knew they wanted to be in business together. Shortly after university Michael went to work for a large mulinational firm while Gregory pursued an MBA.

After several years of experience the firm Lau McNamara was established on July 1, 1984 and the firm experienced slow but steady growth over time. It is now 2020 and Lau McNamara has grown to total staff of 55 employees and revenues exceeding $13,000,000 a year. They have largely grown in the area of consulting, tax and accounting.

About 5 years ago they hired a rising star Rose Femia. She has exceeded all expectations and has been pushing to expand the services provided by the firm to include assurance services. Mr. McNamara with his extensive contacts has been asked to bid on a contract to perform audits for 3 municipalities within the province of Ontario.

He has assigned this task to Ms. Femia.

At the moment staff are fully scheduled, if Lau McNamara were to be awarded the contract, it must hire one new staff member at an annual remuneration of $60,000 to handle the additional workload.

Ms. Femia is convinced that obtaining the contract will lead to additional new clients from the respective municipalities. Expected new work (excluding the three municipalities) is 830 hours at an average billing rate of $90 per hour. Other information follows about the firm’s current annual revenues and costs:

Firm volume in hours (normal) 30,750
Fixed costs $ 575,000
Variable cost $ 35

/hr

Should the firm win the contract, the audits of the three municipalities will require 870 hours of expected work.

As a side note, Michael McNamara is adamant that fixed costs should be considered for this short term bid. Gregory Lau argues that they should be disregarded for short-term decision making.

Required:

1. If the Rose Femia’s expectations are correct, what is the lowest bid the firm can submit and still expect to increase annual net income? What would be the hourly billing rate for the county audit jobs just to break even on all the new business? (Round "Average billing rate" answer to 2 decimal places.)

2. If the contract is obtained at a price of $44,800, what is the minimum number of hours of new business in addition to the municipality work that must be obtained for the firm to break even on total new business? What is the margin of safety (MOS) regarding the municipality job audit proposal?

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First part of question. Second will come through now. Diversified Products, Inc., has recently acquired a...

First part of question. Second will come through now.

Diversified Products, Inc., has recently acquired a small publishing company that offers three books for sale—a cookbook, a travel guide, and a handy speller. Each book sells for $10. The publishing company’s most recent monthly income statement is shown below.

Product Line

Total
Company

Cookbook

Travel
Guide

Handy
Speller

Sales

$

300,000

$

90,000

$

150,000

$

60,000

Expenses:

Printing costs

102,000

27,000

63,000

12,000

Advertising

36,000

13,500

19,500

3,000

General sales

18,000

5,400

9,000

3,600

Salaries

33,000

18,000

9,000

6,000

Equipment depreciation

9,000

3,000

3,000

3,000

Sales commissions

30,000

9,000

15,000

6,000

General administration

42,000

14,000

14,000

14,000

Warehouse rent

12,000

3,600

6,000

2,400

Depreciation—office facilities

3,000

1,000

1,000

1,000

Total expenses

285,000

94,500

139,500

51,000

Net operating income (loss)

$

15,000

$

(4,500

)

$

10,500

$

9,000

Please see the url, for the second part of the question.

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I am not sure, but did you get the information for the second part of the question?

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Selected account balances from the adjusted trial balance for Olinda Corporation as of its calendar year-end...

Selected account balances from the adjusted trial balance for Olinda Corporation as of its calendar year-end December 31 follow.

Debit Credit
a. Interest revenue $ 14,000
b. Depreciation expense—Equipment $ 34,000
c. Loss on sale of equipment 25,850
d. Accounts payable 44,000
e. Other operating expenses 106,400
f. Accumulated depreciation—Equipment 71,600
g. Gain from settlement of lawsuit 44,000
h. Accumulated depreciation—Buildings 174,500
i. Loss from operating a discontinued segment (pretax) 18,250
j. Gain on insurance recovery of tornado damage 20,000
k. Net sales 998,000
l. Depreciation expense—Buildings 52,000
m. Correction of overstatement of prior year’s sales (pretax) 16,000
n. Gain on sale of discontinued segment’s assets (pretax) 34,000
o. Loss from settlement of lawsuit 23,250
p. Income tax expense ?
q. Cost of goods sold 482,500

2a. What is the amount of income from continuing operations before income taxes?
2b. What is the amount of the income tax expense?
2c. What is the amount of income from continuing operations?

Assume that the company’s income tax rate is 30% for all items.

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Tanek Corp.’s sales slumped badly in 2017. For the first time in its history, it operated...

Tanek Corp.’s sales slumped badly in 2017. For the first time in its history, it operated at a loss. The company’s income statement showed the following results from selling 575,500 units of product: sales $2,877,500, total costs and expenses $2,992,600, and net loss $115,100. Costs and expenses consisted of the amounts shown below.

Total

Variable

Fixed

Cost of goods sold $2,463,140 $1,830,090 $633,050
Selling expenses 287,750 105,892 181,858
Administrative expenses 241,710 78,268 163,442
$2,992,600 $2,014,250 $978,350


Management is considering the following independent alternatives for 2018.

1. Increase unit selling price 20% with no change in costs, expenses, and sales volume.
2. Change the compensation of salespersons from fixed annual salaries totaling $172,650 to total salaries of $69,060 plus a 5% commission on sales.


(a) Compute the break-even point in dollars for 2017. (Round final answer to 0 decimal places, e.g. 1,225.)

Break-even point

$


(b) Compute the contribution margin under each of the alternative courses of action. (Round final answer to 0 decimal places, e.g. 1,225.)

Contribution margin for alternative 1

%

Contribution margin for alternative 2

%



Compute the break-even point in dollars under each of the alternative courses of action. (Round selling price per unit to 2 decimal places, e.g. 5.25 and other calculations to 0 decimal places, e.g. 20% and also final answer to 0 decimal places, e.g. 1,225.)

Break-even point for alternative 1

$

Break-even point for alternative 2

$


Which course of action do you recommend?

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Your company has the sales for year 1 below. You want to select from one of...

Your company has the sales for year 1 below. You want to select from one of three models for forecasting: a three-month moving average, a weighted moving average (you believe that the weights should be 0.2, 0.3, and 0.5), and an exponential smoothing average in which you use an alpha of 0.2 and an assumed forecast for January of year one of $35,000. Determine sales forecast for January year 2 and calculate MAD.


Jan Yr 1 34284
Feb 34000
Mar 31017
Apr 33406
May 34518
Jun 35469
Jul 35360
Aug 34894
Sep 34547
Oct 31015
Nov 31167
Dec 32925

A) Three-month moving average:
Sales forecast: $  
MAD:  

B) Weighted moving average:
Sales forecast: $  
MAD:  

C) Exponential moving average:
Sales forecast: $  
MAD:  

Which forecasting method should you use for your company? (enter A, B, C):

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Exchange Corp. is a company that acts as a facilitator in tax-favored real estate swaps. Such...

Exchange Corp. is a company that acts as a facilitator in tax-favored real estate swaps. Such swaps, know as 1031 exchanges, permit participants to avoid some or all of the capital gains taxes that would otherwise be due. The bookkeeper for the company has been asked to prepare a report for the company to help its owner/manager analyze performance. The first such report appears below:

  

Exchange Corp
Analysis of Revenues and Costs
For the Month Ended May 31
Actual
Unit Revenues
and Costs
Planning Budget
Unit Revenues
and Costs
Variances
Exchanges completed 30 25
Revenue $ 635 $ 710 $ 75 U
Expenses:
Legal and search fees 257 235 22 U
Office expenses 135 257 122 F
Equipment depreciation 25 30 5 F
Rent 75 90 15 F
Insurance 15 18 3 F
Total expense 507 630 123 F
Net operating income $ 128 $ 80 $ 48 F

Note that the revenues and costs in the above report are unit revenues and costs. For example, the average office expense is $257 per exchange completed on the planning budget; whereas, the average actual office expense is $135 per exchange completed.  

Legal and search fees is a variable cost; office expenses is a mixed cost; and equipment depreciation, rent, and insurance are fixed costs. In the planning budget, the fixed component of office expenses was $5,050.

All of the company’s revenues come from fees collected when an exchange is completed.

Required:  

1. Is the report prepared by the bookkeeper useful as a performance report?

Yes
No

  

2. Complete a performance report that would help the owner/manager assess the performance of the company in May. (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.)

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Write a 350- to 700-word paper comparing the impacts of fraudulent financial statements, asset misappropriation and...

Write a 350- to 700-word paper comparing the impacts of fraudulent financial statements, asset misappropriation and corruption on the organization.

Include the following:

  • How does each type of fraud impact the organization?
  • Consider the relative frequency.

Please help. I have been sick all week and having trouble finding the energy to get all my course work done. Also, I need it to include at least one reference.

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in the fourth quarter of last year, Colditz Company embarked on a major effort to improve...

in the fourth quarter of last year, Colditz Company embarked on a major effort to improve productivity. It redesigned products, reengineered manufacturing processes, and offered productivity improvement courses. The effort was completed in the last quarter of the current year. The controller’s office has gathered the following year-end data to assess the results of this effort:

Current
Year
Prior
Year
Units manufactured and sold 24,000 19,200
Selling price of the product $ 53 $ 53
Direct materials used (pounds) 15,300 14,300
Cost per pound of materials $ 10 $ 8
Direct labor hours 6,550 7,300
Hourly wage rate $ 25 $ 20
Power (kwh) 1,600 800
Cost of power per kwh $ 3 $ 3

Required

1. Prepare a summary contribution income statement for each of the 2 years, and calculate the change in operating income.

2. Compute the partial operational productivity ratios for each production factor in each year.

3. Compute the partial financial productivity ratios for each production factor in each year.

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Your firm is the auditor of Pinkglow Ltd, a manufacturer. You have obtained a summary of...

Your firm is the auditor of Pinkglow Ltd, a manufacturer. You have obtained a summary of the property, plant and equipment for the year ended 30 June 2018, which identifies cost and accumulated depreciation brought forward, additions and disposals in the year and depreciation charges. A review of the management letter from the previous year’s audit shows that there were some problems in relation to making a distinction between capitalisation and expenses; some items were capitalised when they should have been expensed and other capital items were included in repairs and maintenance in the income statement. Another risk identified from prior years relates to depreciation calculations; there is a range of depreciation rates within categories and there has been a concern that the rates applied to some assets have been too low. The depreciation policy disclosed in the financial report shows: •

buildings: 2–4% straight-line • plant and machinery: 5–10% straight-line • fixtures fittings and equipment: 5–20% straight line.

Required: Describe audit procedures to ensure: a) the accuracy of the summary of property plant and equipment b) all items of capital expenditure are included in additions for the year and that no expenses have been capitalised c) the depreciation rates are calculated appropriately. (this is auditing question but i could not find auditing in subject list so i choose finannce)

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