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Mills Corporation acquired as a long-term investment $300 million of 7% bonds, dated July 1, on...

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.

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Differentiate among 4 various legal documents used in business transactions. Example: What is the difference between...


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.

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C issued a five percent five year $10,000,000 of bonds on June 1, 2019, interest payable...

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

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For each audit activity, identify the PCAOB assertion that matches with the activity. Each activity has...

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.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Review lease agreements for capital leases.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Select a sample of inventory items from the receiving reports and follow the items to inventory records.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Select a sample of fixed asset additions and ask to see the assets.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Review the client's calculation of the allowance for doubtful accounts.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Compare sales invoice quantities to shipping document quantities to verify the client's assertion that this procedure is done by client personnel.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Select a sample of entries in the payroll journal and match the employee name, date of payment, and amount of pay to the employee personnel file.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Ask production and sales personnel concerning possible obsolete or slow-moving inventory.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Watch that an independent person double-checks the payroll wage rates and calculations before check are printed.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Calculate the percentage of sales for salary and wages expense for this year and the prior year for reasonable presentation.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Send a form to the bank for the balances of the payroll checking accounts.

A.

Existence or Occurance

B.

Completeness

C.

Valuation or Allocation

D.

Rights and obligations

E.

Presentation and Disclosure

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For each audit activity, identify the PCAOB assertion that matches with the activity. Each activity has...

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.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Review lease agreements for capital leases.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Select a sample of inventory items from the receiving reports and follow the items to inventory records.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Select a sample of fixed asset additions and ask to see the assets.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Review the client's calculation of the allowance for doubtful accounts.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Compare sales invoice quantities to shipping document quantities to verify the client's assertion that this procedure is done by client personnel.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Select a sample of entries in the payroll journal and match the employee name, date of payment, and amount of pay to the employee personnel file.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Ask production and sales personnel concerning possible obsolete or slow-moving inventory.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Watch that an independent person double-checks the payroll wage rates and calculations before check are printed.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Calculate the percentage of sales for salary and wages expense for this year and the prior year for reasonable presentation.

      -       A.       B.       C.       D.       E.   

Send a form to the bank for the balances of the payroll checking accounts.

A.

Existence or Occurance

B.

Completeness

C.

Valuation or Allocation

D.

Rights and obligations

E.

Presentation and Disclosure

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Rantzow-Lear Company buys and sells debt securities expecting to earn profits on short-term differences in price,...

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.

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A computer operator at the local data processing center decides to visit work on a Monday...

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.

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1)  Explain the primary benefits of a business education? 2) Why is pursuing an MBA immediately after...

1)  Explain the primary benefits of a business education?

2) Why is pursuing an MBA immediately after finishing an undergraduate degree generally a bad idea?

3) briefly describe the various alternatives to a formal business education.?

4) Explain the difference between “training” and “education”. Then explain the role of each in higher education (and specifically in business school)?

5)  What does a business degree signal to an employer?

6) Briefly describe the various formats for a business degree?

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1. A corporation issues a $900,000, 10%, 25-year mortgage note. The terms provide for annual installment...

1.

A corporation issues a $900,000, 10%, 25-year mortgage note. The terms provide for annual installment payments of $99,151. What is the remaining unpaid principal balance of the mortgage payable account after the second annual payment?

Group of answer choices

$889,689

$890,849

$887,689

$880,782

$889,374

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Suppose the depreciation rate of capital decreased at time t* permanently. How would this affect real...

Suppose the depreciation rate of capital decreased at time t* permanently. How would this affect real wage rate, real rental rate, real interest rate and price level in long run and very-long run in a closed market economy?

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A: The Bustillo Corporation is preparing its Manufacturing Overhead budget for the fourth quarter of the...

A: The Bustillo Corporation is preparing its Manufacturing Overhead budget for the fourth quarter of the year. The budgeted variable manufacturing overhead is $4 per direct labor-hour; the budgeted fixed manufacturing overhead is $84,000 per month, of which $15,900 is factory depreciation. If the budgeted direct labor time for November is 7,900 hours, then the total budgeted manufacturing overhead for November is? $115,600 / $99,700 / $131,500 / $84,000

B: Bustillo Inc. cost formula for its vehicle operating cost is $2,920 per month plus $322 per snow-day. For the month of December, the company planned for activity of 16 snow-days, but the actual level of activity was 14 snow-days. The actual vehicle operating cost for the month was $8,350. The spending variance for vehicle operating cost in December would be closest to? $278 U / $278 F / $922 U / $922 F

C: Bustillo Inc. uses two measures of activity, flights and passengers, in the cost formulas in its budgets and performance reports. The cost formula for plane operating costs is $56,760 per month plus $2,626 per flight plus $9 per passenger. The company expected its activity in February to be 63 flights and 262 passengers, but the actual activity was 62 flights and 263 passengers. The actual cost for plane operating costs in February was $220,700. The plane operating costs in the planning budget for February would be closest to? $224,556 / $223,326 / $221,939 / $220,700

C2: A total of 6,850 kilograms of a raw material was purchased at a total cost of $21,920. The materials price variance was $1,370 favorable. The standard price per kilogram for the raw material must be? $0.20 / $3.00 / $3.20 / $3.40

D: Bustillo Corporation makes a product with the following standard costs:

Standard Quantity or Hours Standard Price or
Rate
Direct materials 4.5 pounds $ 4.00 per pound
Direct labor 0.8 hours $ 21.00 per hour
Variable overhead 0.8 hours $ 9.50 per hour

In January the company produced 3,320 units using 13,280 pounds of the direct material and 2,776 direct labor-hours. During the month, the company purchased 16,900 pounds of the direct material at a cost of $14,040. The actual direct labor cost was $57,895 and the actual variable overhead cost was $25,260. The company applies variable overhead on the basis of direct labor-hours. The direct materials purchases variance is computed when the materials are purchased. The labor rate variance for January is? $401 F / $401 U / $2,119 U / $2,119 F

E: Last year, Bustillo's division had total sales of $13,420,000, net operating income of $1,261,480, and average operating assets of $2,684,000. The company's minimum required rate of return is 15%. The division's margin is closest to? 9.4% / 47.0% / 62.7% / 20.0%

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Part 1 Department Direct Expenses Square Feet Sales Advertising $ 20,000 1,680 Administrative 30,000 1,260 Shoes...

Part 1

Department Direct Expenses Square Feet Sales Advertising $ 20,000 1,680 Administrative 30,000 1,260 Shoes 128,000 10,290 $ 179,800 Clothing 19,000 7,770 130,200 The advertising department developed and distributed 130 advertisements during the year. Of these, 26 promoted shoes and 104 promoted clothing. Utilities expense of $75,000 is an indirect expense to all departments. Complete a departmental expense allocation spreadsheet for Coconut Shop. The spreadsheet should assign (1) direct expenses to each of the four departments, (2) the $75,000 of utilities expense to the four departments on the basis of floor space occupied, (3) the advertising department’s expenses to the two operating departments on the basis of the number of ads placed that promoted a department’s products, and (4) the administrative department’s expenses to the two operating departments based on the amount of sales.

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Explain the important elements of the decision when deciding to make or buy. What costs should...

Explain the important elements of the decision when deciding to make or buy. What costs should be considered? What costs should be ignored?

 

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PA4-2 Assigning Costs Using Traditional System, Assigning Costs Using Activity Proportions [LO 4-1, 4-3, 4-5, 4-6]...

PA4-2 Assigning Costs Using Traditional System, Assigning Costs Using Activity Proportions [LO 4-1, 4-3, 4-5, 4-6]

Carlise Corp., which manufactures ceiling fans, currently has two product lines, the Indoor and the Outdoor. Carlise has total overhead of $133,810.

Carlise has identified the following information about its overhead activity cost pools and the two product lines:

Activity Cost Pools Cost Driver Cost Assigned
to Pool
Quantity/Amount Consumed by Indoor Line Quantity/Amount Consumed by Outdoor Line
Materials handling Number of moves $ 17,010 630 moves 270 moves
Quality control Number of inspections $ 85,120 5,600 inspections 5,600 inspections
Machine maintenance Number of machine hours $ 31,680 20,000 machine hours 24,000 machine hours

Required:
1.
Suppose Carlise used a traditional costing system with machine hours as the cost driver. Determine the amount of overhead assigned to each product line. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)



2. Calculate the activity proportions for each cost pool in Carlise's ABC system. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

  

3. Calculate the amount of overhead that Carlise will assign to the Indoor line if it uses an ABC system. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)



4. Determine the amount of overhead Carlise will assign to the Outdoor line if it uses an ABC system. (Round your intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places and round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

  

5. Compare the results for a traditional system with an ABC system. Which do you think is more accurate?

Traditional System
ABC System

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Rocky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking boots—Xactive and Pathbreaker. Data concerning these two product...

Rocky Mountain Corporation makes two types of hiking boots—Xactive and Pathbreaker. Data concerning these two product lines appear below:

Xactive Pathbreaker
Direct materials per unit $ 65.20 $ 51.40
Direct labor cost per unit $ 18.60 $ 13.40
Direct labor-hours per unit 1.4 DLHs 1 DLHs
Estimated annual production and sales 29,000 units 79,000 units

The company has a conventional costing system in which manufacturing overhead is applied to units based on direct labor-hours. Data concerning manufacturing overhead and direct labor-hours for the upcoming year appear below:


Estimated total manufacturing overhead $2,439,840
Estimated total direct labor-hours 119,600 DLHs

Required:

1-a. Compute the predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours.

1-b. Using the predetermined overhead rate and other data from the problem, determine the unit product cost of each product.

2. The company is considering replacing its conventional costing system with an activity-based costing system that would assign its manufacturing overhead to the following four activity cost pools:

Estimated Overhead Cost Expected Activity
Activity Cost Pools and Activity Measures Xactive Pathbreaker Total
Supporting direct labor (direct labor-hours) $ 891,020 40,600 79,000 119,600
Batch setups (setups) 836,000 270 170 440
Product sustaining (number of products) 632,360 1 1 2
General factory (machine-hours) 80,460 2,900 7,900 10,800
Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 2,439,840

Determine the activity rate for each of the four activity cost pools.

3. Using the activity rates and other data from the problem, determine the unit product cost of each product.

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