Charteris is a division of Capriola Corporation and operates as an investment center. Charteris currently has assets of $15 million, revenues of $12 million, and expenses of $9 million. The president of Charteris has an opportunity to acquire Grampan Corporation, which has revenues of $4 million, and expenses of $2.8 million. Acquisition price (value of assets) would be $7.5 million. Capriola has a target ROI for all divisions of 14%.

a) Compute Charteris' current ROI.

b) If Capriola evaluates divisions based on ROI, will be the president of Charteris be inclined to make the acquisition?Explain. Use the DuPont method to provide insight into your answer.

c) Would your answer change if Capriola also used residual income in evaluating divisions? Explain.

Budgeted Cash Collections, Budgeted Cash Payments

Historically, Ragman Company has had no significant bad debt experience with its customers. Cash sales have accounted for 20 percent of total sales, and payments for credit sales have been received as follows:

40 percent of credit sales in the month of the sale
35 percent of credit sales in the first subsequent month
20 percent of credit sales in the second subsequent month
5 percent of credit sales in the third subsequent month

The forecast for both cash and credit sales is as follows.

Required:

1. What is the forecasted cash inflow for Ragman Company for May?
$

2. Due to deteriorating economic conditions, Ragman Company has now decided that its cash forecast should include a bad debt adjustment of 2 percent of credit sales, beginning with sales for the month of April. Because of this policy change, what will happen to the total expected cash inflow related to sales made in April? (CMA adapted)

Cash will   by $.

Athos and Porthos are divisions of Dumas, Inc., operating as profit centers. Both are profitable. One of the products produced by Athos is A62, which normally sells for $180/unit. Cost is $125/unit (40% variable). Porthos is planning a new product, and is taking bids on one of the subassemblies. A62 would be appropriate for this subassembly with some modification.

a) Discuss the factors Athos should consider when submitting a bid.

b) If Athos does not submit the low bid, might Porthos still benefit from accepting their bid? Discuss briefly.

AudioMart is a retailer of radios, stereos, and televisions. The store carries two portable sound systems that have radios, tape players, and speakers. System A, of slightly higher quality than System B, costs $19 more. With rare exceptions, the store also sells a headset when a system is sold. The headset can be used with either system. Variable-costing income statements for the three products follow:

* This includes common fixed costs totaling $17,900, allocated to each product in proportion to its revenues.

The owner of the store is concerned about the profit performance of System B and is considering dropping it. If the product is dropped, sales of System A will increase by 31%, and sales of headsets will drop by 26%. Round all answers to the nearest whole number.

City Art Museum ("City") is considering hosting a travelling exhibit of paintings by a famous artist, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian charges $300,000 for a one-month exhibit, which covers all costs of insurance and transportation. They will also receive 15% of gross ticket sales from the exhibit. City will incur costs of $75,000 to modify exhibit space for these paintings; the modifications would have no value afterward. Additional staff for ticket sales and security will cost $43,000. City will pay $55,000 to advertise the exhibit. It is expected that 14,000 visitors will purchase the exhibit ticket for $50, which would include access to the entire museum. Of these, it is estimated that 11,000 would otherwise not have attended the museum, while 3,000 would have purchased a regular admission ticket for $30 even without the special exhibit. It is estimated the increase in visitors will result in additional sales of $230,000 for the gift shop, and $80,000 for the coffee shop. Additional staffing for these units will cost $22,000. The gift shop normally has gross margin of 40%, and the coffee shop, 65%.

Determine the incremental profit or loss to City Art Museum of hosting the travelling exhibit.

6. During 2017, Miami Inc. had sales revenue $1,328,000, gross profit $728,000, operating expenses $398,000, cash dividends $90,000, other expenses and losses $40,000. Its corporate tax rate is 30%. What was Miami's income tax expense for the year?

Select one:

a. $ 60,000

b. $ 87,000

c. $ 99,000

d. $267,000

e. $218,400

8.On January 1, 2018, equity account balances are as follows:

                  Preferred Stock                                                                 $       500,000

                  Common Stock                                                                        1,000,000

                  Paid-In Capital in Excess of Par - Preferred                           200,000

                  Paid-In Capital in Excess of Par - Common                         500,000

                  Paid-In Capital From Treasury Stock                                      20,000

                  Retained Earnings                                                                  1,500,000

                  Treasury Stock (25,000 shares purchased 3/15/17)            762,500

            On January 15, 2018, 10,000 shares of treasury stock are sold at $15 per share. The entry to record this transaction includes a

Select one:

a. debit to Paid-In Capital From Treasury Stock of $135,000

b. debit to Paid-In Capital From Treasury Stock of $155,000

c. debit to Retained Earnings of $155,000

d. debit to Paid-In Capital From Treasury Stock of $150,000

e. debit to Retained Earnings of $135,000

9.Relative to a given bond issue, using either the straight-line method or the effective-interest method of amortization will result in

Select one:

a. the same amount of interest expense being recognized each year.

b. the same amount of interest expense being recognized over the life of the bonds.

c. the same carrying value each year during the life of the bonds.

d. more interest expense being recognized than if premium or discounts were not amortized.

10.Blanco, Inc. has a net income of $300,000 for 2017, and there are 200,000 weighted-average shares of common stock outstanding. Dividends declared and paid during the year amounted to $40,000 on preferred stock and $60,000 on common stock. Earnings per share for 2017 is

Select one:

a. $1.20.

b. $1.50.

c. $1.30.

d. $1.00.

e. $2.00.

Fuzzy Monkey Technologies, Inc., purchased as a long-term investment $230 million of 10% bonds, dated January 1, on January 1, 2021. Management intends to have the investment available for sale when circumstances warrant. For bonds of similar risk and maturity the market yield was 12%. The price paid for the bonds was $210 million. Interest is received semiannually on June 30 and December 31. Due to changing market conditions, the fair value of the bonds at December 31, 2021, was $220 million.

Required:
1. to 3. Prepare the relevant journal entries on the respective dates (record the interest at the effective rate).
4-a. At what amount will Fuzzy Monkey report its investment in the December 31, 2021, balance sheet?
4-b. Prepare the entry necessary to achieve this reporting objective.
5. How would Fuzzy Monkey's 2021 statement of cash flows be affected by this investment? (If more than one approach is possible, indicate the one that is most likely.)

On January 1, 2017, Frostburg Company purchased for $68,500, equipment having a service life of six years and an estimated residual value of $4,000. Frostburg has recorded depreciation of the equipment using the straight-line method. On December 31, 2019, before making any annual adjusting entries, the equipment was exchanged for new machinery having a fair value of $35,000. The transaction has commercial substance. Use this information to prepare all General Journal entries (without explanation) required to record the events for December 31, 2019.

Data relating to the balances of various accounts affected by adjusting or closing entries appear below. (The entries that caused the changes in the balances are not given.) You are asked to supply the missing journal entries that would logically account for the changes in the account balances.

1.   Interest receivable at 1/1/14 was $1,000. During 2014 cash received from debtors for interest on outstanding notes receivable amounted to $5,000. The 2014 income statement showed interest revenue in the amount of $6,400. You are to provide the missing adjusting entry that must have been made, assuming reversing entries are not made.

2.   Unearned rent at 1/1/14 was $5,300 and at 12/31/14 was $8,000. The records indicate cash receipts from rental sources during 2014 amounted to $55,000, all of which was credited to the Unearned Rent Revenue account. You are to prepare the missing adjusting entry.

3.   Accumulated depreciation—equipment at 1/1/14 was $230,000. At 12/31/14 the balance of the account was $280,000. During 2014, one piece of equipment was sold. The equipment had an original cost of $40,000 and was 3/4 depreciated when sold. You are to prepare the missing adjusting entry.

4.   Allowance for doubtful accounts on 1/1/14 was $50,000. The balance in the allowance account on 12/31/14 after making the annual adjusting entry was $65,000 and during 2014 bad debts written off amounted to $30,000. You are to provide the missing adjusting entry.

5.   Prepaid rent at 1/1/14 was $29,000. During 2014 rent payments of $120,000 were made and charged to "rent expense." The 2014 income statement shows as a general expense the item "rent expense" in the amount of $145,000. You are to prepare the missing adjusting entry that must have been made, assuming reversing entries are not made.

6.   Retained earnings at 1/1/14 was $130,000 and at 12/31/14 it was $210,000. During 2014, cash dividends of $50,000 were paid and a stock dividend of $40,000 was issued. Both dividends were properly charged to retained earnings. You are to provide the missing closing entry.

a leading firm in the sports​ industry, produces basketballs for the consumer market. For the year ended December​ 31,

2017​,

Verena

sold

242,100

basketballs at an average selling price of

$41

per unit. The following information also relates to

2017

​(assume constant unit costs and no variances of any​ kind):

Inventory, January 1, 2017:

29,300 basketballs

Inventory, December 31, 2017:

27,200 basketballs

Fixed manufacturing costs:

$1,200,000

Fixed administrative costs:

$3,234,000

Direct materials costs:

$12 per basketball

Direct labor costs:

$9 per basketball

Have you ever wondered whether a licensed CPA could lose his or her license to practice for violating the AICPA code of conduct? Each state board of accountancy regulates and controls licensure of professional CPAs. As a licensed CPA, you will need to be familiar with the legal liabilities that apply to accountants within the framework of the AICPA code of conduct. It would be outside the scope of this course to examine all U.S. state laws that govern licensed CPAs. Please review the repercussions to a CPA for violating the code and post your responses to this thread. Do you think they are too strong or not strong enough?

Topic: creative accounting

a)Existing case

b)What the next action to prevent?

Please refer 2 items as below from Microsoft’s Letter to Shareholders as below. And refer them to Porter’s five forces.

Data and AI

Our customers will increasingly need to build their own AI to extract insights from the ever-increasing amount of data they collect — and we are investing to make Azure the best cloud for their comprehensive data estates. We are democratizing data science and AI with Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Machine Learning and data services such as Azure Cosmos DB — the first globally distributed, multi-model database — to help organizations of all sizes convert their data into insights and experiences for competitive advantage. In less than a year, Azure Cosmos DB has already exceeded $100 million in annualized revenue. Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL makes it even easier to bring open source-powered applications to Azure, expanding our opportunity in this space. And we are seeing rapid customer adoption of Azure Databricks for data preparation, advanced analytics and machine learning scenarios. We are leading in the field of AI research, achieving human parity with object recognition, speech recognition, machine reading and — this year — language translation. But that is not enough. We are committed to translating these breakthroughs into toolsets our customers can use. More than 1 million developers have already used our Cognitive Services to quickly and easily create AI applications. Our Azure Bot Service has nearly 300,000 developers, and we are driving new advances in our underlying cloud infrastructure, building the world’s first AI supercomputer in Azure. Microsoft Translator brings AI-powered translation to developers where their data is, whether in the cloud or on the edge. Our pending acquisition of GitHub recognizes the increasingly vital role developers will play in value creation and growth across every industry, and will enable us to bring our tools and services to new audiences while enabling GitHub to grow and retain its developer-first ethos.

Gaming

We are pursuing an expansive opportunity in gaming — from the way games are created and distributed to how they are played and viewed — surpassing $10 billion in revenue this year for the first time. We are investing aggressively in content, community and cloud services across every endpoint to expand usage and deepen engagement with gamers. Xbox Live now has 57 million monthly active users, and we are investing in new services like Mixer — which blurs the line between watching and playing — and Game Pass, our new unlimited subscription service. The addition of five new gaming studios this year bolsters our first-party content development to support our fast-growing gaming services. And our acquisition of PlayFab accelerates our vision to build a world-class cloud platform for the gaming industry across mobile, PC and console. I’m excited about our opportunity in the fast-growing $100 billion gaming market and what’s to come.

Padre, Inc., buys 80 percent of the outstanding common stock of Sierra Corporation on January 1, 2018, for $778,400 cash. At the acquisition date, Sierra’s total fair value, including the noncontrolling interest, was assessed at $973,000 although Sierra’s book value was only $674,000. Also, several individual items on Sierra’s financial records had fair values that differed from their book values as follows:

For internal reporting purposes, Padre, Inc., employs the equity method to account for this investment. The following account balances are for the year ending December 31, 2018, for both companies.

At year-end, there were no intra-entity receivables or payables.

Using the acquisition method, prepare the worksheet to consolidate these two companies. (For accounts where multiple consolidation entries are required, combine all debit entries into one amount and enter this amount in the debit column of the worksheet. Similarly, combine all credit entries into one amount and enter this amount in the credit column of the worksheet. Amounts in the Debit and Credit columns should be entered as positive. Negative amounts for the Noncontrolling Interest and Consolidated Totals columns should be entered with a minus sign.)

Mr. and Mrs. Sedlock file a joint return and have a taxable income of $370,000 without considering the following information below. Determine the increase in their tax liability for the following independent fact situations.

a. They have a STCG of $20,000 and a LTCL of $12,000.

b. They have a LTCG of $30,000 due to the sale of a collectible and a LTCG of $9,000 due to the sale of General Motors stock.

c. Same as part b except they also have a STCL of $4,400.