You are on the audit team of Apollo Shoes, Inc. for the year ending December 31, 2015 and your manager has asked you to prepare a draft of the engagement letter
Some things to note:

All pre-engagement activities have been completed

They are a public entity

Mr. Larry Lancaster is the president and chairman of Apollo Shoes Board of directors

Instructions: Prepare the draft engagement letter

Lewis Securities Inc. has decided to acquire a new market data and quotation system for its Richmond home office. The system receives current market prices and other information from several online data services and then either displays the information on a screen or stores it for later retrieval by the firm’s brokers. The system also permits customers to call up current quotes on terminals in the lobby.

The equipment costs $1,000,000 and, if it were purchased, Lewis could obtain a term loan for the full purchase price at a 10% interest rate. Although the equipment has a 6-year useful life, it is classified as a special-purpose computer and therefore falls into the MACRS 3-year class. If the system were purchased, a 4-year maintenance contract could be obtained at a cost of $20,000 per year, payable at the beginning of each year. The equipment would be sold after 4 years, and the best estimate of its residual value is $200,000. However, because real-time display system technology is changing rapidly, the actual residual value is uncertain.

As an alternative to the borrow-and-buy plan, the equipment manufacturer informed Lewis that Consolidated Leasing would be willing to write a 4-year guideline lease on the equipment, including maintenance, for payments of $260,000 at the beginning of each year. Lewis’s marginal federal-plus-state tax rate is 40%. You have been asked to analyze the lease-versus-purchase decision and, in the process, to answer the following questions:

1. What is the net advantage to leasing (NAL)? Does your analysis indicate that Lewis should buy or lease the equipment? Explain.

2. Now assume that the equipment’s residual value could be as low as $0 or as high as $400,000, but $200,000 is the expected value. Because the residual value is riskier than the other relevant cash flows, this differential risk should be incorporated into the analysis. Describe how this could be accomplished. (No calculations are necessary, but explain how you would modify the analysis if calculations were required.) What effect would the residual value’s increased uncertainty have on Lewis’ lease-versus-purchase decision?

3. The lessee compares the present value of owning the equipment with the present value of leasing it. Now put yourself in the lessor’s shoes. In a few sentences, how should you analyze the decision to write or not to write the lease?

Periodic Inventory by Three Methods

The units of an item available for sale during the year were as follows:

There are 1,220 units of the item in the physical inventory at December 31. The periodic inventory system is used.

a. Determine the inventory cost by the first-in, first-out method.
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b. Determine the inventory cost by the last-in, first-out method.
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c. Determine the inventory cost by the weighted average cost method. Do not round intermediate calculation and round final answer to the nearest whole dollar.
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Mary and Kay, Inc., a distributor of cosmetics throughout Florida, is in the process of assembling a cash budget for the first quarter of 20x1. The following information has been extracted from the company’s accounting records: All sales are on account. Sixty percent of customer accounts are collected in the month of sale; 30 percent are collected in the following month. Uncollectibles amounting to 10 percent of sales are anticipated, and management believes that only 20 percent of the accounts outstanding on December 31, 20x0, will be recovered and that the recovery will be in January 20x1. Sixty percent of the merchandise purchases are paid for in the month of purchase; the remaining 40 percent are paid for in the month after acquisition. The December 31, 20x0, balance sheet disclosed the following selected figures: cash, $90,000; accounts receivable, $210,000; and accounts payable, $75,000. Mary and Kay, Inc. maintains a $90,000 minimum cash balance at all times. Financing is available (and retired) in $1,000 multiples at an 10 percent interest rate, with borrowings taking place at the beginning of the month and repayments occurring at the end of the month. Interest is paid at the time of repaying principal and computed on the portion of principal repaid at that time. Additional data: January February March Sales revenue $ 540,000 $ 630,000 $ 645,000 Merchandise purchases 360,000 390,000 510,000 Cash operating costs 102,000 81,000 144,000 Proceeds from sale of equipment — — 24,000 Required: Prepare a schedule that discloses the firm’s total cash collections for January through March. Prepare a schedule that discloses the firm’s total cash disbursements for January through March. Prepare a schedule that summarizes the firm’s financing cash flows for January through March.

The following information is available for the preparation of the government-wide financial statements for the City of Southern Springs as of April 30, 2020:

From the preceding information, prepare a Statement of Net Position for the City of Southern Springs as of April 30, 2020. Assume that outstanding bonds were issued to acquire capital assets and restricted assets total $716,000 for governmental activities and $255,000 for business-type activities. (Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign)

On January 1, 2017, Boston Enterprises issues bonds that have a $1,600,000 par value, mature in 20 years, and pay 8% interest semiannually on June 30 and December 31. The bonds are sold at par.

1. How much interest will Boston pay (in cash) to the bondholders every six months?

2. Prepare journal entries to record (a) the issuance of bonds on January 1, 2017; (b) the first interest payment on June 30, 2017; and (c) the second interest payment on December 31, 2017.

3. Prepare the journal entry for issuance assuming the bonds are issued at (a) 98 and (b) 102.

Lone Star Sales & Service acquired a new machine that cost $84,000 in early 2016. The machine is expected to have a five-year useful life and is estimated to have a salvage value of $14,000 at the end of its life. (Round your final answers to the nearest dollar.)

(a.) Using the straight-line depreciation method, calculate the depreciation expense to be recognized in the second year of the machine's life and calculate the accumulated depreciation after the third year of the machine's life.
(b.) Using the double-declining-balance depreciation method, calculate the depreciation expense for the third year of the machine's life and the net book value of the machine at this point in time.  

The management team of U. Dunnit Limited have four projects for consideration. In the past, they have evaluated projects

against simple payback. The following information is available:

   Project A Project B Project C Project D £

REQUIRED

Evaluate the projects using each of the following methods:

(a) Payback.

(b) Accounting rate of return using full capital outlay (investment).

(c) Net present value and profitability index. Assuming a cost of capital of 6%.

Warnerwoods Company uses a periodic inventory system. It entered into the following purchases and sales transactions for March.  

For specific identification, the March 9 sale consisted of 60 units from beginning inventory and 455 units from the March 5 purchase; the March 29 sale consisted of 135 units from the March 18 purchase and 215 units from the March 25 purchase.

3. Compute the cost assigned to ending inventory using (a) FIFO, (b) LIFO, (c) weighted average, and (d) specific identification. (Round your average cost per unit to 2 decimal places

Bargain Rental Car offers rental cars in an off-airport location near a major tourist destination in California. Management would like to better understand the variable and fixed portions of its car washing costs. The company operates its own car wash facility in which each rental car that is returned is thoroughly cleaned before being released for rental to another customer. Management believes that the variable portion of its car washing costs relates to the number of rental returns. Accordingly, the following data have been compiled:

Using least-squares regression, estimate the variable cost per rental return and the monthly fixed cost incurred to wash cars. (Round Fixed cost to the nearest whole dollar amount and the Variable cost per unit to 2 decimal places.)

Warnerwoods Company uses a periodic inventory system. It entered into the following purchases and sales transactions for March.  

For specific identification, the March 9 sale consisted of 60 units from beginning inventory and 455 units from the March 5 purchase; the March 29 sale consisted of 135 units from the March 18 purchase and 215 units from the March 25 purchase.

4. Compute gross profit earned by the company for each of the four costing methods. (Round your average cost per unit to 2 decimal places and final answers to nearest whole dollar.)

Fiber Technology, Inc., manufactures glass fibers used in the communications industry. The company's materials and parts manager is currently revising the inventory policy for XL-20, one of the chemicals used in the production process. The chemical is purchased in 10-pound canisters for $107 each. The firm uses 6,000 canisters per year. The controller estimates that it costs $162 to place and receive a typical order of XL-20. The annual cost of storing XL-20 is $5.20 per canister.

Required:

2. Use the EOQ formula to determine the optimal order quantity.

3. What is the total annual cost of ordering and storing XL-20 at the economic order quantity?

4. How many orders will be placed per year?

5. Fiber Technology’s controller, Jay Turnbull, recently attended a seminar on JIT purchasing. Afterward he analyzed the cost of storing XL-20, including the costs of wasted space and inefficiency. He was shocked when he concluded that the real annual holding cost was $31.20 per canister. Turnbull then met with Doug Kaplan, Fiber Technology’s purchasing manager. Together they contacted Reno Industries, the supplier of XL-20, about a JIT purchasing arrangement. After some discussion and negotiation, Kaplan concluded that the cost of placing an order for XL-20 could be reduced to just $32. Using these new cost estimates, Turnbull computed the new EOQ for XL-20 a. Use the equation approach to compute the new EOQ.b. How many orders will be placed per year?

1.Use the EOQ formula to determine the optimal order quantity. (Round your answer to nearest whole number.)

2.What is the total annual cost of ordering and storing XL-20 at the economic order quantity? (Round intermediate calculations and final answer to nearest whole number.)

3.How many orders will be placed per year? (Round intermediate calculations and final answer to nearest whole number.)

4. Fiber Technology’s controller, Jay Turnbull, recently attended a seminar on JIT purchasing. Afterward he analyzed the cost of storing XL-20, including the costs of wasted space and inefficiency. He was shocked when he concluded that the real annual holding cost was $31.20 per canister. Turnbull then met with Doug Kaplan, Fiber Technology’s purchasing manager. Together they contacted Reno Industries, the supplier of XL-20, about a JIT purchasing arrangement. After some discussion and negotiation, Kaplan concluded that the cost of placing an order for XL-20 could be reduced to just $32.00. Using these new cost estimates, Turnbull computed the new EOQ for XL-20.

a. Use the equation approach to compute the new EOQ. (Round your answer to nearest whole number.)
b. How many orders will be placed per year? (Round your answer to nearest whole number.)

Warnerwoods Company uses a perpetual inventory system. It entered into the following purchases and sales transactions for March.

4. Compute gross profit earned by the company for each of the four costing methods. For specific identification, the March 9 sale consisted of 115 units from beginning inventory and 245 units from the March 5 purchase; the March 29 sale consisted of 95 units from the March 18 purchase and 135 units from the March 25 purchase. (Round weighted average cost per unit to two decimals and final answers to nearest whole dollar.)