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48. Zed and Jaffry are married and file jointly every year. They have 3 children (ages 6, 10 and 17) who are dependents. They have a W-2 income of $92,000. They have $11,000 in Federal taxes withheld. Zed and Jaffry have the following expenses for the year: Interest on a home equity loan taken out in 2018 (loan issued for $100,000, used solely for college education) $1,900 Interest on first mortgage (original loan balance $450,000) $11,400 Property taxes on personal residence $8,600 State income tax $7,200 State sales tax $3,900 What is Zed and Jaffry’s taxable income?

Do you think that auditors are hesitant to recognize a going concern in case they are wrong? Why or why not ?

Tami Tyler opened Tami’s Creations, Inc., a small manufacturing company, at the beginning of the year. Getting the company through its first quarter of operations placed a considerable strain on Ms. Tyler’s personal finances. The following income statement for the first quarter was prepared by a friend who has just completed a course in managerial accounting at State University.

Ms. Tyler is discouraged over the loss shown for the quarter, particularly because she had planned to use the statement as support for a bank loan. Another friend, a CPA, insists that the company should be using absorption costing rather than variable costing and argues that if absorption costing had been used the company probably would have reported at least some profit for the quarter.

At this point, Ms. Tyler is manufacturing only one product—a swimsuit. Production and cost data relating to the swimsuit for the first quarter follow:

Required:

1. Complete the following:

a. Compute the unit product cost under absorption costing.

b. What is the company’s absorption costing net operating income (loss) for the quarter?

c. Reconcile the variable and absorption costing net operating income (loss) figures.

3. During the second quarter of operations, the company again produced 33,350 units but sold 38,350 units. (Assume no change in total fixed costs.)

a. What is the company’s variable costing net operating income (loss) for the second quarter?

b. What is the company’s absorption costing net operating income (loss) for the second quarter?

c. Reconcile the variable costing and absorption costing net operating incomes for the second quarter.

During 2018, Pina Inc., a furniture store, issued two different series of bonds, details of which follow:

First issue: 670 $100, 10% bonds, at par, each convertible into 6 common shares.

Second issue: 390 $100, 7% bonds, at par, each convertible into 3 common shares.

For the year ended December 31, 2020, the company had net income of $53,850. Throughout 2020, 2,500 common shares were outstanding; none of the bonds were converted or redeemed. The company’s tax rate was 19%. (For simplicity, ignore the requirement to record the debt and equity portions of the convertible bond separately).

1. Calculate basic earnings per share for the year ended December 31, 2020.

2. Calculate diluted earnings per share for the year ended December 31, 2020.

1.

A company has bonds with a principal value of $1,000,000 outstanding. The unamortized premium on the bonds is $14,400. The company redeemed the bonds at 101. What is the company’s gain or loss on the redemption?

Group of answer choices

$4,400 gain

$4,400 loss

$0

$10,000 loss

$10,000 gain

2.

In the current year, a corporation had sales of $500,000, net income of $150,000, interest expense of $30,000, and tax expense of $20,000. Its net sales were $1,000,000 and its cost of goods sold was $200,000. What was its times interest earned for the year?

Group of answer choices

5.00

4.00

7.50

6.67

5.55

Construction (Nailed It! or the “Company”), an SEC registrant, is a construction company that manufactures commercial and residential buildings. On March 1, 20X1, the Company entered into an agreement with a customer, Village Apartments, to construct a residential apartment building for a fixed price of $1.5 million. The Company estimates that it will incur costs of $1 million to complete construction of the apartment building. The apartment building will only transfer to Village Apartments once the construction of the entire building is complete. In addition, Village Apartments has various design requirements that would require Nailed It! to incur significant costs to rework the building prior to selling it to a customer other than Village Apartments. To construct the apartment building, Nailed It! acquires standard materials that it regularly uses in construction contracts for both residential and commercial buildings. These materials are used to manufacture generic component parts for inclusion in Village Apartments’ residential buildings. These standard materials remain interchangeable with other items until they are deployed in a Village Apartments building. The Company has made the following purchases and incurred the following costs throughout the construction progress:

•As of June 30, 20X1, in total, Nailed It! has purchased $75,000 of component parts. As of June 30, 20X1, $25,000 of component parts remain in inventory and $50,000 have been integrated into the project. Further, Nailed It! has incurred $12,500 of direct costs to integrate the component parts into the Village Apartments construction project during the three months ended June 30, 20X1.

•During the three months ended September 30, 20X1, Nailed It! purchased an additional $500,000 of component parts ($575,000 in total). Of the $575,000 of component parts, $325,000 remain in inventory and $200,000 have been integrated into the project during the three months ended September 30, 20X1. During the three months ended September 30, 20X1, Nailed It! incurred an additional $50,000 of direct costs to integrate the component parts into the Village Apartments construction project.

•As of September 30, 20X1, Nailed It! determined that the project was over budget and revised its cost estimate from $1 million to $1.25 million.

•As of December 31 20X1, the construction project was completed. During the three months ended December 31, 20X1, Nailed It! purchased an additional $425,000 of generic component parts ($1 million in total). Of the $1 million component parts, $0 remain in inventory and $750,000 were integrated into the project during the three months ended December 31, 20X1. Nailed It! has incurred $187,500 of direct costs to integrate the component parts into the Village Apartments construction project during the three months ended December 31, 20X1.

If Village Apartments cancels the contract, Nailed It! will be entitled to reimbursement for costs incurred for work completed to date plus a margin of 20 percent, which is
Case 7: Nailed It! Construction Page 2 Copyright 2018 Deloitte Development LLC All Rights Reserved. considered to be a reasonable margin. Nailed It! will not be reimbursed for any materials that have been purchased for use in the contract but have not yet been used and are still controlled by Nailed It!.

Required:

1.Does the performance obligation meet any of the criteria or recognition of revenue over time?

2.How should the entity recognize revenue for the satisfaction of its performance obligation? What amount of revenue should be recognized for the following periods:

2a.The three months ended June 30, 20X1?

2b.The three months ended September 30, 20X1?

2c.The three months ended December 31, 20X1?

Q3. What factors are used to determine a reporting entity’s functional currency? Provide at least oneexample for which a company’s local currency may not be its functional currency.

Q5. Explain the differences between translation and remeasurement.

Mills Corporation acquired as a long-term investment $300 million of 7% bonds, dated July 1, on July 1, 2018. Mills determined that it should account for the bonds as an available-for-sale investment. The market interest rate (yield) was 5% for bonds of similar risk and maturity. Mills paid $340 million for the bonds. The company will receive interest semiannually on June 30 and December 31. As a result of changing market conditions, the fair value of the bonds at December 31, 2018, was $320 million. Required: 1. & 2. Prepare the journal entry to record Mills’ investment in the bonds on July 1, 2018 and interest on December 31, 2018, at the effective (market) rate. 3. At what amount will Mills report its investment in the December 31, 2018, balance sheet? 4. Suppose Moody’s bond rating agency upgraded the risk rating of the bonds, and Mills decided to sell the investment on January 2, 2019, for $352 million. Prepare the journal entries to record the sale. Record any reclassification adjustment. Record the sale of the investment by Mills.

Differentiate among 4 various legal documents used in business transactions. Example: What is the difference between a Warranty deed and a Mortgage? That question counts as one document.

C issued a five percent five year $10,000,000 of bonds on June 1, 2019, interest payable each May 31. The market rate of interest was six percent. There were attorney and underwriter’s fees of $110,000 and C incurred additional salary costs of $35,000 relating to the bond issuance. Record the entries for June 1, 2019, December 31, 2019, and May 31, 2020.

6/1/2019                Cash                            9,890,000

                              Bond Issuance costs    110,000

                              Bonds Payable                                    10,000,000

                              Salary Expense            35,000

                              Cash                                                    35,000

For each audit activity, identify the PCAOB assertion that matches with the activity. Each activity has one answer, but the assertions are used more than once.

For each audit activity, identify the PCAOB assertion that matches with the activity. Each activity has one answer, but the assertions are used more than once.

Rantzow-Lear Company buys and sells debt securities expecting to earn profits on short-term differences in price, and holds these investments in its trading portfolio. The company’s fiscal year ends on December 31. The following selected transactions relating to Rantzow-Lear’s trading account occurred during December 2021 and the first week of 2022. 2021 Dec. 17 Purchased 145 Grocers’ Supply Corporation bonds at par for $652,500. 28 Received interest of $3,800 from the Grocers’ Supply Corporation bonds. 31 Recorded any necessary adjusting entry relating to the Grocers’ Supply Corporation bonds. The market price of the bond was $5,000 per bond. 2022 Jan. 5 Sold the Grocers' Supply Corporation bonds for $688,750.

Required:
1. Prepare the appropriate journal entry or entries for each transaction.
2. Indicate any amounts that Rantzow-Lear Company would report in its 2021 balance sheet and income statement as a result of this investment.

A computer operator at the local data processing center decides to visit work on a Monday evening. She has a key to the outside door, and since there is no key required for the computer room, she simply walks into the computer room. The operator, who is really one of the nation’s most notorious computer programmer/hackers (having been convicted five time for manipulating various firms’ data files), opens the documentation bookcase, located in the corner of the computer room. In the bookcase she finds the procedural documentation, the systems documentation, user manuals, application documentation, and operator manuals. She examines the documentation to understand the payroll program and to find the location of the payroll files. She accesses the information systems library, which is available to all computer operators at all times, accesses the payroll program, reprograms it, and runs a payroll job that creates one electronic funds transfer (to a new account opened by the operator under an assumed name). On Tuesday, the operator transfers the funds to a Swiss bank account and does not show up for work.

        Required

Prepare a summary that details any internal controls violated in this situation.