A company acquired a truck for $79,000 at the beginning of the fiscal year. It has a useful life of 5 years and a residual value of $9,000. The company uses the straight-line method of depreciation. After owning the truck for 2 years, the company sold it for $34,000. (a) Determine depreciation expense for each of the first 2 years, and (b) determine the gain or loss resulting from the sale.

Which of the following statements about foreign direct investment (FDI) are correct? Check all that apply.

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The acquisition of a U.S. corporation by a German company is an example of European direct investment in the United States.

Direct investment between the United States and Japan to produce the same automobile is classified as conglomerate diversification.

FDI occurs when earnings of the parent company’s foreign subsidiary are reinvested in plant expansion.

FDI flows include purchases of U.S. government bonds by the Chinese government.

U.S. FDI includes purchases of foreign government bonds by U.S. investors.

Ivanhoe Company, a machinery dealer, leased a machine to Dexter Corporation on January 1, 2020. The lease is for an 8-year period and requires equal annual payments of $30,992 at the beginning of each year. The first payment is received on January 1, 2020. Ivanhoe had purchased the machine during 2016 for $142,000. Collectibility of lease payments by Ivanhoe is probable. Ivanhoe set the annual rental to ensure a 6% rate of return. The machine has an economic life of 10 years with no residual value and reverts to Ivanhoe at the termination of the lease.

Compute the amount of the lease receivable.

Prepare all necessary journal entries for Ivanhoe for 2020

Suppose the collectibility of the lease payments was not probable for Ivanhoe. Prepare the necessary journal entry for the company in 2020

Easy Company bought a piece of equipment four years ago. At December 31, 2020, the company revalued the equipment to its fair value. The following information relates to the equipment

Original cost: $1,200; Residual value: $ 200; Estimated useful life from purchase date: 10 years; Years used to December 31, 2020: 4 years; Fair value at December 31, 2020: $966; Depreciation method is straight-line.

Required:

1. Determine the depreciation expense for 2020.
2. Record the journal entry adjustment for the revaluation, using the ‘asset adjustment’method.
3. Determine the depreciation expense for 2021.
4. Assume that the fair value at the end of 2022 is $468. Record the journal entry for depreciation first for 2022, and then the entry related to this new fair value for 2022.

Ashley Company began operations in 2020. Ashley’s pretax financial income for 2020 was $450,000. The tax law in 2020 says that the tax rate in 2020 is 25%, but it will be 20% in 2021 and in future years. Ashley’s pretax financial income for 2020 contained the following items that are treated differently for financial purposes than they are for tax purposes: Differences Amount included in Pretax Financial Income Amount included in Taxable Income Difference1 1. Interest earned on State of Ohio Bonds. (Note: Interest on these bonds is exempt from Federal Income Tax.) $ 9,000 $ 0 $ 9,000 2. Gross profit on installment sales. 300,000 200,000 100,000 3. Warranty expense. 19,600 13,600 6,000 4. Depreciation on machinery. 20,000 200,000 180,000

1 Note: Each difference shown above is shown as an absolute value. Therefore, that number contains no information about whether that difference should be added or subtracted in preparing the reconciliation of pretax financial income to taxable income. You are responsible for deciding how each difference should be treated.

Instructions:

A. Prepare a reconciliation of pretax financial income to taxable income for Ashley Company for 2020.

B. Compute Ashley’s Income Tax Payable as of the end of 2020.

C Compute the year-end balances in any deferred income tax asset and/or deferred income tax liability accounts that exist as of the end of 2020.

D. Compute Ashley’s Income Tax Expense for 2020.

Stephenson Real Estate Company was founded 25 years ago by the current CEO, Robert Stephenson. The company purchases real estate, including land and buildings, and rents the property to tenants. The company has shown a profit every year for the past 18 years, and the shareholders are satisfied with the company’s management. Prior to founding Stephenson Real Estate, Robert was the founder and CEO of a failed alpaca farming operation. The resulting bankruptcy made him extremely averse to debt financing. As a result, the company is entirely equity financed, with 9 million shares of common stock outstanding. The stock currently trades at $37.80 per share. Stephenson is evaluating a plan to purchase a huge tract of land in the southeastern United States for $95 million. The land will subsequently be leased to tenant farmers. This purchase is expected to increase Stephenson’s annual pretax earnings by $18.75 million in perpetuity. Jennifer Weyand, the company’s new CFO, has been put in charge of the project. Jennifer has determined that the company’s current cost of capital is 10.2 percent. She feels that the company would be more valuable if it included debt in its capital structure, so she is evaluating whether the company should issue debt to entirely finance the project. Based on some conversations with investment banks, she thinks that the company can issue bonds at par value with a 6 percent coupon rate. From her analysis, she also believes that a capital structure in the range of 70 percent equityy30 percent debt would be optimal. If the company goes beyond 30 percent debt, its bonds would carry a lower rating and a much higher coupon because the possibility of financial distress and the associated costs would rise sharply. Stephenson has a 40 percent corporate tax rate (state and federal). Please answer the questions below with separate papers.

1. If Stephenson wishes to maximize its total market value, would you recommend that it issue debt or equity to finance the land purchase? Explain. 2. Construct Stephenson’s market value balance sheet before it announces the purchase. Market value balance sheet Assets    Equity      Total assets    Debt and equity  

3. Suppose Stephenson decides to issue equity to finance the purchase.

a. What is the net present value of the project?

b. Construct Stephenson’s market value balance sheet after it announces that the firm will finance the purchase using equity. What would be the new price per share of the firm’s stock? How many shares will Stephenson need to issue to finance the purchase? Market value balance sheet Old assets       NPV of project   Equity      Total assets Debt and equity  

c. Construct Stephenson’s market value balance sheet after the equity issue but before the purchase has been made. How many shares of common stock does Stephenson have outstanding? What is the price per share of the firm’s stock? Market Value Balance Sheet Cash       Old assets          NPV of project   Equity      Total assets Debt and equity   d. Construct Stephenson’s market value balance sheet after the purchase has been made. Market Value Balance Sheet Old assets       PV of project      Equity      Total assets    Debt and equity  

4. Suppose Stephenson decides to issue debt to finance the purchase. a. What will the market value of the Stephenson company be if the purchase is financed with debt? b. Construct Stephenson’s market value balance sheet after both the debt issue and the land purchase. What is the price per share of the firm’s stock? Market Value Balance Sheet Value unlevered    Debt    Tax shield      Equity      Total assets    Debt and equity  

5. Which method of financing maximizes the per-share stock price of Stephenson’s equity?

It is the end of the financial year and your client is XYZ company. From the following file note summary prepare an evaluation report.

File note summary XYZ company. Financial potential $33,000 annually for the previous three years. Accumulated surplus $100,000. Statutory requirements: prepare and lodge BAS and IT. Compilation assurance. Reports provided by XYZ’s CEO. Preference to invest in government bonds. No contingency cash expected.

Imagine you work for a large computer software company and you have been offered an opportunity to propose a leadership training model to your company’s CEO and executive staff. What would it look like and how would you present this model? What steps would you use to determine the leadership needs of the company? Which employees would be candidates for this leadership training opportunity and how would they be selected?