The Utah Mining Corporation is set to open a gold mine near Provo, Utah. According to the treasurer, Monty Goldstein, “This is a golden opportunity.” The mine will cost $2,600,000 to open and will have an economic life of 11 years. It will generate a cash inflow of $365,000 at the end of the first year, and the cash inflows are projected to grow at 8 percent per year for the next 10 years. After 11 years, the mine will be abandoned. Abandonment costs will be $420,000 at the end of Year 11.

You are assessing the viability of operating an amusement park. The nominal revenues from ticket sales at the end of Year 1 will be $554176. They will increase by 4% per year in real terms. The only annual cost will be to lease the whole operation for $118845 per year. The leasing costs are nominal and will start at the end of Year 1. They will stay fixed in nominal terms.

Assume the inflation rate is 5% and the real discount rate is 10%. All cash flows occur at year-end. The company will not pay any taxes. The business will continue into perpetuity.

What is the NPV of the project?

Select one:

a. $6921840

b. $8029703

c. $9139137

d. $8940472

e. $8267772

Evans:

Evans Enterprises has bought a prime parcel of beachfront property and plans to build a luxury hotel. After meeting with the architectural team, the Evans family has drawn up some information to make preliminary plans for construction. Excluding the suites, which are not part of this decision, the hotel will have four kinds of rooms: beachfront non-smoking, beachfront smoking, lagoon view non-smoking, and lagoon view smoking. To decide how many of each of the four kinds of rooms to plan for, the Evans family will consider the following information.

After adjusting for expected occupancy, the average nightly revenue for a beachfront non-smoking room is $175. The average nightly revenue for a lagoon view non-smoking room is $130. Smokers will be charged an extra $15.

Construction costs vary. The cost estimate for a lagoon view room is $12,000 and for a beachfront room is $15,000. Air purifying systems and additional smoke detectors and sprinklers ad $3000 to the cost of any smoking room. Evans Enterprises has raised $6.3 million in construction guarantees for this portion of the building.

There will be at least 120 but no more than 180 beachfront rooms.

Design considerations require that the number of lagoon view rooms be at least 1.5 times the number of beachfront rooms, and no more than 2.5 times that number.

Industry trends recommend that the number of smoking rooms be no more than 50% of the number of non-smoking rooms.

There should be at least 45 rooms of each kind.

What is the optimal solution?

What is the optimal value of the objective function?

For what values of the objective coefficient will the above solution be valid? Include ranges for all decision variables.

If the budget increases to 7 million what is the change in the objective function? What is the shadow price for budget?

Kabul Star Hotel adjusts its accounts on a monthly basis. Most guests pay at the time they check out, and the amount collected is credited to Rental Revenue. A few guests pay in advance for rooms and these amounts are credited to Unearned Rental Revenue at the time of receipt.

a: Salaries earned by employees but not paid amount to $20,000.

b: As of Dec 31, Kabul Star Hotel has earned $11,000 rental revenue but has not received any amount yet.

c: On Dec 1, a room was rented to a corporation for six months at a monthly rental of $5,000. The entire six month rental of $30,000 was collected in advance and credited to Unearned Rental Revenue.

d: A Corolla Car to carry guests to and from the airport had been rented on Dec 15, at a daily rate of $250. No rental payment has yet been made.

e: Depreciation on the Hotel’s building is based on an estimated useful life of 15 years. The original cost of the building was $500,000 and a residual value of $50,000.

f: A one-year fire insurance policy had been purchased on Dec. 1, The premium of $24,000 for the entire life of the policy had been paid on Dec. 1 and recorded as Unexpired Insurance.

Instructions:

1. Prepare adjusting entries of the above transactions.

2. Prepare adjusted Trial Balance.

3. Prepare Financial Statements (Balance Sheet & Income Statement).

4. Prepare closing entries and prepare after closing trial balance.

The City of Little River had the following transactions related to the construction of a new courthouse:

1. January 2, 2017: 20-year, 6%, general-obligation serial bonds with a face value of $2,000,000 are issued at 101. Interest payments are made on January 1 and July 1 of each year. The premium was transferred into the debt-service fund. The general fund will fully fund each payment as it becomes due.
2. March 1, 2017: Land is purchased for a new park at a cost of $200,000.
3. March 1, 2017: A contract is signed for landscaping and construction of various structures in the park in the amount of $1,800,000.
4. June 15, 2017: $110,000 is transferred from the general fund for the July 1 payment due on the courthouse-fund serial bonds.
5. July 1, 2017: Interest ($60,000) and principal ($50,000) are paid on the courthouse-fund serial bonds.
6. December 1, 2017: The city receives an invoice for progress completed to date on the courthouse construction project in the amount of $385,000.
7. December 27, 2017: $58,500 is transferred from the general fund for the January 1, 2018 interest payment due on the courthouse-fund serial bonds.
8. Interest is accrued as of December 31, 2017, following the exception permitted by the GASB.

Prepare the journal entries required in both the capital-projects fund and the debt-service fund using the template provided in this module.

Can someone explain the calculations for cost basis and how to compute it?

Herberger Oil & Gas Company paid $10 million for the drilling rights to a 1,000 acre tract of land near Midland, Texas. On the basis of several exploratory wells that had cost an aggregate of $400,000 to drill, petroleum engineers estimated that the tract of land might contain as much as 500,000 barrels of oil. 4 additional development wells were drilled at a cost of approximately $200,000 each. Calculate the depletion expense for the first year assuming that 100,000 barrels are extracted. Calculate the depletion expense for the second year assuming that 150,000 barrels are extracted. Round answers to the nearest whole number Year 1 - $? Year 2 - $? What is the cost basis of the remaining reserves at the end of the second year? $?