Tombro Industries is in the process of automating one of its plants and developing a flexible manufacturing system. The company is finding it necessary to make many changes in operating procedures. Progress has been slow, particularly in trying to develop new performance measures for the factory.

In an effort to evaluate performance and determine where improvements can be made, management has gathered the following data relating to activities over the last four months:

The president has read in industry journals that throughput time, MCE, and delivery cycle time are important measures of performance, but no one is sure how they are computed. You have been asked to assist the company, and you have gathered the following data relating to these measures:

Required:

1-a. Compute the throughput time for each month.

1-b. Compute the manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE) for each month.

1-c. Compute the delivery cycle time for each month.

3-a. Refer to the inspection time, process time, and so forth, given for month 4. Assume that in month 5 the inspection time, process time, and so forth, are the same as for month 4, except that the company is able to completely eliminate the queue time during production using Lean Production. Compute the new throughput time and MCE.

3-b. Refer to the inspection time, process time, and so forth, given for month 4. Assume that in month 6 the inspection time, process time, and so forth, are the same as in month 4, except that the company is able to eliminate both the queue time during production and the inspection time using Lean Production. Compute the new throughput time and MCE.

Minden Company is a wholesale distributor of premium European chocolates. The company’s balance sheet as of April 30 is given below:

The company is in the process of preparing a budget for May and has assembled the following data:

1. Sales are budgeted at $214,000 for May. Of these sales, $64,200 will be for cash; the remainder will be credit sales. One-half of a month’s credit sales are collected in the month the sales are made, and the remainder is collected in the following month. All of the April 30 accounts receivable will be collected in May.

2. Purchases of inventory are expected to total $122,000 during May. These purchases will all be on account. Forty percent of all purchases are paid for in the month of purchase; the remainder are paid in the following month. All of the April 30 accounts payable to suppliers will be paid during May.

3. The May 31 inventory balance is budgeted at $47,500.

4. Selling and administrative expenses for May are budgeted at $85,500, exclusive of depreciation. These expenses will be paid in cash. Depreciation is budgeted at $2,050 for the month.

5. The note payable on the April 30 balance sheet will be paid during May, with $390 in interest. (All of the interest relates to May.)

6. New refrigerating equipment costing $16,300 will be purchased for cash during May.

7. During May, the company will borrow $24,500 from its bank by giving a new note payable to the bank for that amount. The new note will be due in one year.

Required:

1. Calculate the expected cash collections from customers for May.

2. Calculate the expected cash disbursements for merchandise purchases for May.

3. Prepare a cash budget for May.

4. Prepare a budgeted income statement for May.

5. Prepare a budgeted balance sheet as of May 31.

Top executive officers of Vernon Company, a merchandising firm, are preparing the next year’s budget. The controller has provided everyone with the current year’s projected income statement.

  
Cost of goods sold is usually 70 percent of sales revenue, and selling and administrative expenses are usually 10 percent of sales plus a fixed cost of $77,000. The president has announced that the company’s goal is to increase net income by 15 percent.

Required

The following items are independent of each other.

1. Prepare a pro forma income statement. What percentage increase in sales would enable the company to reach its goal?

2. The market may become stagnant next year, and the company does not expect an increase in sales revenue. The production manager believes that an improved production procedure can cut cost of goods sold by 1 percent. Prepare a pro forma income statement still assuming the President's goal to increase net income by 15 percent. Calculate the required reduction in selling & administrative expenses to achieve the budgeted net income.

3. The company decides to escalate its advertising campaign to boost consumer recognition, which will increase selling and administrative expenses to $341,000. With the increased advertising, the company expects sales revenue to increase by 15 percent. Assume that cost of goods sold remains a constant proportion of sales. Prepare a pro forma income statement. Will the company reach its goal?

“I know headquarters wants us to add that new product line,” said Dell Havasi, manager of Billings Company’s Office Products Division. “But I want to see the numbers before I make any move. Our division’s return on investment (ROI) has led the company for three years, and I don’t want any letdown.”

Billings Company is a decentralized wholesaler with five autonomous divisions. The divisions are evaluated on the basis of ROI, with year-end bonuses given to the divisional managers who have the highest ROIs. Operating results for the company’s Office Products Division for this year are given below:

The company had an overall return on investment (ROI) of 15% this year (considering all divisions). Next year the Office Products Division has an opportunity to add a new product line that would require an additional investment that would increase average operating assets by $1,000,000. The cost and revenue characteristics of the new product line per year would be:

Required:

1. Compute the Office Products Division’s ROI for this year.

2. Compute the Office Products Division’s ROI for the new product line by itself.

3. Compute the Office Products Division’s ROI for next year assuming that it performs the same as this year and adds the new product line.

4. If you were in Dell Havasi’s position, would you accept or reject the new product line?

5. Why do you suppose headquarters is anxious for the Office Products Division to add the new product line?

6. Suppose that the company’s minimum required rate of return on operating assets is 12% and that performance is evaluated using residual income.

a. Compute the Office Products Division’s residual income for this year.

b. Compute the Office Products Division’s residual income for the new product line by itself.

c. Compute the Office Products Division’s residual income for next year assuming that it performs the same as this year and adds the new product line.

d. Using the residual income approach, if you were in Dell Havasi’s position, would you accept or reject the new product line?

At the beginning of 2014, Hardin Company had 220,000 shares of $10 par common stock outstanding. During the year, it engaged in the following transactions related to its common stock:

Required:

1. Determine the weighted average number of shares outstanding for computing the current earnings per share. Round your interim computations and final answer for the number of shares to nearest whole number.
_____ shares

2. Determine the number of common shares outstanding at December 31, 2014.
_____ shares

Denton Company manufactures and sells a single product. Cost data for the product are given:

The product sells for $53 per unit. Production and sales data for July and August, the first two months of operations, follow:

The company’s Accounting Department has prepared the following absorption costing income statements for July and August:

Required:

1. Determine the unit product cost under:

a. Absorption costing.

b. Variable costing.

2. Prepare variable costing income statements for July and August.

3. Reconcile the variable costing and absorption costing net operating incomes.

Under the direct write-off method, when is bad debt expense (uncollectible accounts expense) recognized? Under the allowance method, when is bad debt expense recognized? Name 1 reason why the direct write-off method is NOT allowed by FASB?

Phillip and Case are in the process of forming a partnership to import Belgian chocolates, to which Phillip will contribute one-third time and Case full time. They have discussed the following alternative plans for sharing profit and losses. a. In the ratio of their initial investments, which they have agreed will be $164,000 for Phillip and $246,000 for Case. b. In proportion to the time devoted to the business. c. A salary allowance of $4,000 per month to Case and the balance in accordance with their initial investment ratio. d. A $4,000 per month salary allowance to Case, 10% interest on their initial investments, and the balance equally. The partners expect the business to generate profit as follows: Year 1, $101,000 loss; Year 2, $151,000 profit; and Year 3, $251,000 profit. Required: Complete a schedule for each of the four plans being considered by showing how the partnership profit or loss for each year would be allocated to the partners. (Enter all amounts as positive value. Round the final answer to the nearest whole dollar.)

Plan a

:year 1  calculations share to philp share to case total plan

year 2

year 3

plan B

year 1  calculations share to philp share to case total plan

year 2

year 3

It is now January 1, 2001. You plan to make only 5 deposits of $500 each, one every 6 months, with the first payment being made today. If the bank pays a nominal interest rate of 10%, but uses semiannual compounding, how much will be in your account after 5 years?

What is the difference between a multi-step income statement and a single-step income statement? Which one is preferable?

Five Measures of The ability of a company to make its periodic interest payments and repay the face amount of debt at maturity.Solvency or The ability of a firm to generate earnings.Profitability

The balance sheet for Garcon Inc. at the end of the current fiscal year indicated the following:

Income before income tax was $545,300, and income taxes were $81,200 for the current year. Cash dividends paid on common stock during the current year totaled $72,072. The common stock was selling for $22 per share at the end of the year.

Determine each of the following. Round answers to one decimal place, except for dollar amounts which should be rounded to the nearest whole cent. Use the rounded answers for subsequent requirements, if required.

Question:

Elmo has the following information for the month of October, its first month of operations

Work in Process October 1st $0

Units completed & transferred out in October $120,000

Work in Process October 30th $32,000

100% completed for materials

80% completed for conversion costs

Costs added in October shown below

Materials $145,900

Direct Labour $ 96,000

Overhead $108,000

(1.) Determine the equivalent units of production for October.

(2.) Determine the cost of the ending work-in-process.
(3.) Determine the cost of goods completed.
(4) What is meant by the term equivalent full units?

Costco purchased a truck from a company going out of business for $40,000. An appraisal indicated the fair value of the truck to be $42,000. Costco estimated the truck would provide future benefits for 3 years and would bring an $8,800 residual value at the end of the 3-year period.

How much is the depreciation expense for the second year if the company uses the double- declining-balance method?

On July 31, 2017, Wildhorse Company engaged Minsk Tooling Company to construct a special-purpose piece of factory machinery. Construction was begun immediately and was completed on November 1, 2017. To help finance construction, on July 31 Wildhorse issued a $328,800, 3-year, 12% note payable at Netherlands National Bank, on which interest is payable each July 31. $232,800 of the proceeds of the note was paid to Minsk on July 31. The remainder of the proceeds was temporarily invested in short-term marketable securities (trading securities) at 10% until November 1. On November 1, Wildhorse made a final $96,000 payment to Minsk. Other than the note to Netherlands, Wildhorse’s only outstanding liability at December 31, 2017, is a $28,600, 8%, 6-year note payable, dated January 1, 2014, on which interest is payable each December 31. Calculate the interest revenue, weighted-average accumulated expenditures, avoidable interest, and total interest cost to be capitalized during 2017. Interest revenue $ Weighted-average accumulated expenditures $ Avoidable interest $ Interest capitalized $ Prepare the journal entries needed on the books of Wildhorse Company at each of the following dates. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.) (1) July 31, 2017. (2) November 1, 2017. (3) December 31, 2017. Date Account Titles and Explanation Debit Credit (To record the note.) (To record the payment to Minsk.) (To record the proceeds from the investment.) (To record the payment to Minsk.) 12/31 Click if you would like to Show Work for this question: Open Show Work

Beans manufactures a single product, details of which are as follows.

Annual fixed production overheads are budgeted to be $10 million and the company expects to produce 200,000 units each year. Overheads are absorbed on a per unit basis.

Fixed operational expenses for the quarter are as follows

·         Selling costs $400,000

·         Administrative costs $1,500,000

·         Distribution costs $600,000

Actual stock data for quarter of 2020 are given below.

Required-

a.       Calculate Opening stock.

b.      Prepare a Marginal Costing Statement.

c.       Prepare an Absorption Costing Statement.

d.      Reconcile profit figures from both statements.