Ayres Services acquired an asset for $86 million in 2018. The asset is depreciated for financial reporting purposes over four years on a straight-line basis (no residual value). For tax purposes the asset’s cost is depreciated by MACRS. The enacted tax rate is 40%. Amounts for pretax accounting income, depreciation, and taxable income in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 are as follows:

Required:
Determine (a) the temporary book–tax difference for the depreciable asset and (b) the balance to be reported in the deferred tax liability account. (Leave no cell blank, enter "0" wherever applicable. Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Enter your answers in millions rounded to 1 decimal place (i.e., 5,500,000 should be entered as 5.5).)
  

Translate into dollars the balance sheet ofWyomingWyomingLeather? Goods'GermanGermansubsidiary. WhenWyomingWyoming Leather Goods acquired the foreign? subsidiary, a euro was worth ?$1.06 The current exchange rate is ?$1.340. During the period when retained earnings were? earned, the average exchange rate was ?$1.17 per euro.

1. During the period covered by this? scenario, which currency was? stronger, the dollar or the? euro?

Begin by translating the balance sheet of WyomingWyoming Leather? Goods' GermanGerman subsidiary into U.S. dollars.

Describe how an ethically challenged CEO can affect the liability of a health care organization. Identify ethical responsibilities of a CEO in a health care setting, and state five most important responsibilities you believe will assist a CEO in maintaining a culture of ethical and legal behavior.

VAT Deductible and VAT Received for Company C in a given tax period are as follows.

Required: a) Fill VAT tax return number on the table for each month.

b) Close the VAT Accounts and make the journal entries at the end of April, May, June 2020.

c) If it is necessary make journal entries for VAT payment to the tax offices on 26 May, 26 June, 26 July 2020.

Owen Company forgot to accrue $3,000 of salaries its employees had earned at the end of 2019. It paid and expensed the salaries in 2020. It also, in 2019, recorded $4,000 of sales as an account receivable; however, the sale really did not take place until 2020, and it should have recognized the revenue in 2020. It collected the money from the sale early in 2020.

Provide the impact of the errors on the following:

Assets as of 12/31/19: $_____________ Overstated Understated

Assets as of 12/31/20: $_____________ Overstated Understated

Liabilities as of 12/31/19: $_____________ Overstated Understated

Net income for 2020: $_____________ Overstated Understated

Change in Reporting for Equity Investment

Stream Company buys 10 percent of Topsia Company’s stock for $2 million in cash on January 1, 2020, and reports the investment as having no significant influence. Fair value of the investment on December 31, 2020 is $2.1 million. On January 1, 2021, Stream acquires another 30 percent of Topsia’s stock for $8 million in cash, and changes to the equity method of reporting for this investment. Fair value of the 40 percent interest on December 31, 2021, is $12 million. Topsia reported the following amounts for the years 2020 and 2021:

Topsia reported no other comprehensive income, and any basis difference is attributed to goodwill. Stream and Topsia have no intercompany transactions.

Required

Calculate the balances appearing in the following accounts of Stream Company for 2020 and 2021:

a. Investment in Topsia, reported on Stream’s December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2021 balance sheets.

b. Dividend income reported on Stream’s income statements, 2020 and 2021.

c. Unrealized gain on investment in Topsia, reported on Stream’s 2020 and 2021 income statements.

d. Equity in net income of Topsia, reported on Stream’s 2020 and 2021 income statements.

Your company’s current pay structure was developed using the point-factor method in conjunction with market review data. Following the lead of other companies in the industry, however, your CEO proposes that she would like to overhaul the current pay structure by using market pricing exclusively. Recall from this chapter that market pricing refers to the process of basing a pay structure (almost) entirely off of competitors’ pay practices. The CEO declares that the overhauled pay structure will do a better job at attracting and retaining top talent, as pay will match or exceed that of competitors.

You are the vice president of HR at the company, and the CEO values your opinion on HR-related topics and issues. The CEO has asked you to evaluate her proposal and provide her with feedback.

Should the organization overhaul the current pay structure using market pricing? Evaluate this decision using the following criteria.

Please provide the rationale for your answer to each of the questions below.

Is market pricing legal, ethical, and fair?

Is it evidence based/evidence informed?

Does it foster healthy employee–employer relationships?

Is it time and cost effective?

Does it take a systematic stakeholder perspective?

Considering your analysis above, overall, do you think this would be an effective decision? Why or why not?

What, if anything, do you think should be done differently or considered to help make this decision more effective?

Cyclops Company has its own research department. However, the company purchases patents from time to time. The following is a summary of transactions involving patents now owned by the company.

• During 2014 and 2015, Cyclops spent a total of P459,000 in developing a new process that was patented (Patent A) on April 1, 2016; additional legal and other costs of P50,000 were incurred.

• A patent (Patent B) developed by Nanette Inventor, an inventor, was purchased for P187,500 on December 1, 2017, on which date it had an estimated useful life of 12 ½ years.

• During 2016, 2017 and 2018, research and development activities cost P510,000. No additional patents resulted from these activities.

• A patent infringement suit brought by the company against a competitor because of the manufacture of articles infringing on Patent B was successfully prosecuted at a cost of P42,600. A decision in the case was rendered in June 2018.

• On July 1, 2019, Patent C was purchased for P172,800. This patent had 16 years yet to run.

• During 2020, Cyclops experienced P180,000 on patent development. However, the company is still undecided as to how the patent, if approved by the Bureau of Patents, will generate probable future economic benefits.

Assume that the legal life of each patent is also its useful life.

Required:

1. Prepare the journal entries for the above transactions and related amortization from 2014 to 2020.
2. Determine the following:

1. Patent A’s carrying amount on December 31, 2020
2. Patent B’s carrying amount on December 31, 2020
3. Patent C’s carrying amount on December 31, 2020

Total amortization expense for the year ended December 31, 2020

these are all the information given.

The following facts pertain to a non-cancelable lease agreement between Metlock Leasing Company and Ivanhoe Company, a lessee.

The collectibility of the lease payments by Metlock is probable.

1.Compute the amount of the lease receivable at commencement of the lease.

2.Prepare a lease amortization schedule for Metlock for the 5-year lease term.

3.Prepare the journal entries to reflect the signing of the lease agreement and to record the receipts and income related to this lease for the years 2020 and 2021. The lessor’s accounting period ends on December 31. Reversing entries are not used by Metlock.

4.Suppose the collectibility of the lease payments was not probable for Metlock. Prepare all necessary journal entries for the company in 2020