Problem 23-2A (Part Level Submission) Ayala Corporation accumulates the following data relative to jobs started and finished during the month of June 2017. Costs and Production Data Actual Standard Raw materials unit cost $2.30 $2.20 Raw materials units used 11,100 10,400 Direct labor payroll $174,640 $171,360 Direct labor hours worked 14,800 15,300 Manufacturing overhead incurred $214,678 Manufacturing overhead applied $218,178 Machine hours expected to be used at normal capacity 43,500 Budgeted fixed overhead for June $65,250 Variable overhead rate per machine hour $3.10 Fixed overhead rate per machine hour $1.50 Overhead is applied on the basis of standard machine hours. 3.10 hours of machine time are required for each direct labor hour. The jobs were sold for $476,000. Selling and administrative expenses were $40,000. Assume that the amount of raw materials purchased equaled the amount used. (a) Your answer is correct. Compute all of the variances for (1) direct materials and (2) direct labor. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 125.) (1) Total materials variance $ Materials price variance $ Materials quantity variance $ (2) Total labor variance $ Labor price variance $ Labor quantity variance $ Click if you would like to Show Work for this question: Open Show Work Show Solution Show Answer Link to Text Link to Text Link to Text Attempts: 1 of 3 used (b) Your answer is partially correct. Try again. Compute the total overhead variance. Total overhead variance $ Click if you would like to Show Work for this question: Open Show Work Show Solution Show Answer Link to Text Link to Text Link to Text Attempts: 3 of 3 used (c) Prepare an income statement for management. (Ignore income taxes.) (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 125.) AYALA CORPORATION Income Statement $ $ $

Compute trend percents for the above accounts, using 2013 as the base year.

Exercise 9-12 Activity Variances [LO9-2]

Lavage Rapide is a Canadian company that owns and operates a large automatic car wash facility near Montreal. The following table provides data concerning the company’s costs:

For example, electricity costs are $1,000 per month plus $0.10 per car washed. The company expects to wash 8,200 cars in August and to collect an average of $6.90 per car washed. The company actually washed 8,300 cars in August.

Required:

Calculate the company's activity variances for August. (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.)

Required: Make the necessary journal entries from the information given. Some dates do not require a journal entry. On dates that do not require an entry say “no entry required”. Omit the journal descriptions. Use the journal paper on the next page to make your journal entries.

2. Dominic Bueno started a delivery business as a sole proprietorship on 7/1/XX. During the month of July the company had the following transactions:

7/1 The owner invested $100,000 in cash into the business checking account. 7/1 Rented a garage with office space for $5,000 per month and paid the first month’s rent by check.

7/2 A new 2 ton delivery truck was purchased by the company. The total purchase price including taxes, license and fees was $115,000. The company paid $15,000 by check as a down payment and signed a long-term note for five years at an interest rate of 9% per year for the balance that was owed.

7/6 The company purchased a desktop computer and a printer for a total price of $1,150 and paid by check for the computer equipment.

7/8 Picked up and delivered machinery for a client. Billed $350 for the delivery service with terms “due on receipt”.

7/10 Received a bill for legal services in the amount of $1,200. 7/12 Entered into a $125,000 one year contract with a client to provide delivery services.

7/14 Received the amount owed from the 7/8 transaction.

7/15 Picked up and delivered furniture for a client and billed the client $565 with terms of “due on receipt”.

7/15 Wrote a check to Mr. Bueno for personal use in the amount of $2,000.

7/18 Purchased diesel fuel from a bulk fuel distributor on credit. The total amount owed for the fuel was $579 which the company will receive a bill for at the end of the month.

7/21 Delivered machinery under the terms of the contract signed on 7/12. The contract terms required that any amounts owed for delivery services will be billed for at the end of each month with terms of net 30 days.

7/31 Received the bill for the purchase of diesel fuel on 7/18 with terms of net 30 days.

7/31 Received a utility Bill in the amount of $475 and paid the bill immediately by check.

7/31 Billed the client for the delivery service provided on 7/21 in the amount of $2,100.

A longtime client, Paris Clinton, recently entered into a new venture involving his ownership and operation of a small 18-room motel and restaurant located in an area of central Pennsylvania heavily visited by tourists. He needs your advice.

Paris hired a young couple to run the motel and café on a day-to-day basis and plans to pay them a monthly salary. They will live for free in a small apartment behind the motel office and will be in charge of the daily operations of the motel and café. The couple will also be responsible for hiring and supervising the four or five part-time personnel who will help with cleaning the rooms, cooking, and waiting on customers in the café, etc. The couple will also maintain records of rooms rented, meals served, and payments received (which can be in cash, checks, or credit cards). They will make weekly deposits of the business's proceeds at the local bank.

            As the time approaches for the business to open, Paris is concerned that he will have little control over the operations or records relating to the café, given that day-to-day control is fully in the hands of the couple. He lives more than five hours away, in Philadelphia, and will only be able to visit periodically. The distance is beginning to make Bobby a bit nervous. He trusts the couple he has hired, but he has been around long enough to know that placing employees in situations where they might be tempted to do wrong is unwise.

Paris needs your help in identifying possible ways his motel and café could be defrauded. He especially wants your assistance in identifying creative internal controls to help prevent or detect fraud.

REQUIREMENTS

l. What are your two biggest concerns relating to possible fraud on the part of the couple for the motel business? For each concern, generate two or three controls that could effectively reduce risk related to your concerns. Use common sense and be creative!

2. Are your two biggest concerns relating to possible fraud for the café business? For each concern, generate two or three controls that could effectively reduce risk related to your concerns.

3. Describe the impact each proposed control would have on the efficiency of running the business. Are the controls you generated both effective and efficient?

4. Describe the potential impact of your controls on the morale of the couple in charge of the day-to-day operations. How could Bobby deal with your concerns?

Common Stock (130,000 shares, $10 par) Cash dividends were paid at the rate of $1 per share in fiscal year 2014 and $2 per share in fiscal year 2015. Dividends for 2015 and 2014?

Give an example of a sustainable practice that would affect a company’s budget. How might this sustainable practice, if adopted, impact the company’s budget in both the short-term and in the long-term?

4. In exhibit 3-4 the internal audit function is included in the assurance box. In light of this assurance role, discuss the pros and cons of the chief audit executive (CAE)reporting to the board of directors (or one of its committees) versus the chief financial officer Relate your answer to the concepts described in Standard 1100: Independence and Objectivity

6. The General Auditor’s Office (CAO) of ABC jurisdiction issued a report on the XYZ Electric Corporative a large member-owned utility. This report reviewed the work of MNO Consulting MNO found numerous internal control weakness. The GAO concurred with MNO’s conclusion and recommendations regarding the overall lack of effective internal controls. In particular, the GAO went on the recommended that the ABC   jurisdiction’s legislature should require by law that each cooperative;

• Create a board of directors (board) and maintain a separate audit committee.
• Employ an internal auditor who reports to the board. A reporter for the local newspaper has a couple of questions for you.

1. Typically, what is the governing board’s responsibility for internal controls?
2. Why would the GAO want each cooperative board to employ an internal audit?

NashFurniture Company started construction of a combination office and warehouse building for its own use at an estimated cost of $4,500,000 on January 1, 2020. Nash expected to complete the building by December 31, 2020. Nash has the following debt obligations outstanding during the construction period.

(a)

Assume that Nash completed the office and warehouse building on December 31, 2020, as planned at a total cost of $4,680,000, and the weighted-average amount of accumulated expenditures was $3,240,000. Compute the avoidable interest on this project.

*Answer 366,000 is incorrect.

(b)

Compute the depreciation expense for the year ended December 31, 2021. Nash elected to depreciate the building on a straight-line basis and determined that the asset has a useful life of 30 years and a salvage value of $270,000.

Exercises/Short Answer

1. Warranty expense for a company was $350,000 for the year. They began the year with an $1,200,000 balance in their Allowance for warranty costs account, and ended the year with $1,175,000. How much was incurred for actual warranty costs during the year?

2. Please state the two conditions that must be met in order for a company to accrue a loss contingency

3. On November 1, 2018 Daniels Inc. borrowed $200,000 under a 6% promissory note that was due on April 30, 2019.   Record to journal entries to accrue interest on this note as of December 31, 2018, and to pay it off on April 30, 2019.

4. Porter Co. recorded a cash sale of $250 that was subject to state sales tax rate of 10%. Prepare the journal entry to record this sale.

5. On July 31, 2016 Ernst Corporation called (i.e. redeemed) $10,000,000 par value of bonds payable at 103% of par value. At that time the bonds had an unamortized discount of $145,000. Prepare the journal entry to redeem these bonds.

Outback Outfitters sells recreational equipment. One of the company’s products, a small camp stove, sells for $50 per unit. Variable expenses are $32 per stove, and fixed expenses associated with the stove total $108,000 per month.

Required:

1. What is the break-even point in unit sales and in dollar sales?

2. If the variable expenses per stove increase as a percentage of the selling price, will it result in a higher or a lower break-even point? (Assume that the fixed expenses remain unchanged.)

3. At present, the company is selling 8,000 stoves per month. The sales manager is convinced that a 10% reduction in the selling price would result in a 25% increase in monthly sales of stoves. Prepare two contribution format income statements, one under present operating conditions, and one as operations would appear after the proposed changes.

4. Refer to the data in (3) above. How many stoves would have to be sold at the new selling price to attain a target profit of $35,000 per month?

Question #1: Compare and contrast a job order costing system and a process costing system - include an example of when each might be used

Question #2: Explain in detail what the term "equivalent units" means. How is it used in Accounting and/or what is its purpose

What special restrictions apply to the deduction of a loss realized on the sale of property between a corporation and a shareholder who owns​ 60% of the​ corporation's stock? What restrictions apply to the deduction of expenses accrued by a corporation at​ year-end and owed to a cash method shareholder who owns​ 60% of the​ corporation's stock?

What special restrictions apply to the deduction of a loss realized on the sale of property between a corporation and a shareholder who owns​ 60% of the​ corporation's stock?

A.

The deduction of the loss may only offset net active income for losses realized on the sale or exchange of property between a corporation and a shareholder who owns more than​ 50% of the​ corporation's stock. Any remaining loss can be carried forward and used at a later date to reduce his or her recognized gain on a subsequent sale or exchange of the property.

B.

The deduction of the loss may only offset net active income for losses realized on the sale or exchange of property between a corporation and a shareholder who owns more than​ 50% of the​ corporation's stock. Any remaining loss can be carried forward and used at a later date to reduce his or her recognized gain on a subsequent sale or exchange of property of the same asset class.

C.

The deduction of the loss is denied for losses realized on the sale or exchange of property between a corporation and a shareholder who owns more than​ 50% of the​ corporation's stock. The purchasing party can use the loss at a later date to reduce his or her recognized gain on a subsequent sale or exchange of property of the same asset class.

D.

The deduction of the loss is denied for losses realized on the sale or exchange of property between a corporation and a shareholder who owns more than​ 50% of the​ corporation's stock. The purchasing party can use the loss at a later date to reduce his or her recognized gain on a subsequent sale or exchange of the property.

What restrictions apply to the deduction of expenses accrued by a corporation at​ year-end and owed to a cash method shareholder who owns​ 60% of the​ corporation's stock?

A.

The deduction is denied for accrued expenses involving a corporation and a controlling shareholder that use different accounting methods when the payee will include the item in gross income at a date that is later than when it is accrued by the payor. The payor deducts the expense at the time the payee includes it in gross income.

B.

The deduction is limited for accrued expenses involving a corporation and a controlling shareholder that use different accounting methods when the payee will include the item in gross income at a date that is later than when it is accrued by the payor. The payor must deduct at least half of the expenses at the time the payee includes it in gross income.

C.

The deduction is denied for accrued expenses involving a corporation and a controlling shareholder that use different accounting methods when the payor will accrue an item at a date that is later than when the payee will include the item in gross income. The payor deducts the expense at the time the payee includes it in gross income.

D.

The deduction is limited for accrued expenses involving a corporation and a controlling shareholder that use different accounting methods when the payor will accrue an item at a date that is later than when the payee will include the item in gross income. The payor must deduct at least half of the expenses at the same time the payee includes the item in gross income.

Melissa Chong, the Director of Finance of your Northern Expeditions company, has advised that the company will be opening an office in Nunavut this year. The office will offer guided northern trips to hunters and adventurers. It expects to mainly employ local guides (40 days over the summer period) but the company will also be periodically bringing in guides from its offices in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Québec. Some of the guides from outside Nunavut may work 10 days, others could work 15 days over the summer depending on the number of bookings; they normally work in their home province for 60 days every year. The average daily rate paid to these guides is $400.

Melissa is asking for information on the Nunavut Payroll Tax. Who pays the tax and how is it calculated? Are there any special considerations or challenges for the calculation of the payroll tax for the guides brought in from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Québec? What are the reporting and remitting requirements during the year? What are the reporting requirements at year-end? Provide examples based on the information provided in the assignment to clarify.

The total variable manufacturing overhead variance was?

What amount should be credited to the Allocated Manufacturing Overhead Control account for the month of December?

Under the 2-variance method, the flexible-budget variance for December was?

Under the 3-variance method, the spending variance for December was?