On August 1, 2019, ABC Co. borrowed $10,000 on a one-year Note Payable with an interest rate of 12% per year.

a) What is the adjusting journal entry on November 30, 2019 to record the relevant expense for the month of November?

b) When the December 31, 2019 adjusting journal entry is made, a balance sheet account is impacted. Select the name of this account. Also, on January 1, 2020, after making the December 31 adjusting journal entry, what is the balance of this account?

c) As of August 1, 2020, after paying off the loan with interest, what is the total amount of interest expense the company will have recorded for 2020 and the total cash paid for interest in 2020? Do not include the $10,000 principal repayment.

d) If the company incorrectly recognized interest expense for August 2019 through July 2020 at the time cash was paid rather than when the expense was incurred, what would be the impact on the 2019 and 2020 income statements?

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Question 2415 pts

Note: There are 5 parts to this question (3 points each).

Capital expenditures are added to the balance sheet as assets and (usually) are expensed over time. Revenue expenditures are expensed in the period in which the cost is incurred. Select the appropriate accounting treatment under GAAP for each equipment-related expenditure below by classifying it as a capital expenditure or a revenue expenditure.

A company purchased equipment on January 1, 2017 for $102,000. The equipment has an estimated residual value of $6,000 and an estimated useful life of 8 years. The company uses the straight-line method to depreciate the equipment and makes the relevant adjusting entry at the end of each month.

a) What is the annual depreciation for the equipment?

b) In general, what is the journal entry to record depreciation? (Ignore the amount.)

c) What is the value of the Accumulated Depreciation--Equipment account on January 1, 2019?

d) What is the book value of the equipment on January 1, 2019?

e) On January 1, 2019, the company sells the equipment for $85,000 cash. What is the gain or loss on the sale of the equipment?

On January 1, 2020, Agent Z Company entered into a lease with Overlord Company for a new equipment.
The lease stipulates that annual payments of P1,000,000 will be made for five years starting December
31, 2020.
Agent Z Company guaranteed a residual value of P474,060 at the end of the 5-year period. The
equipment will revert to the lessor at the lease expiration. The implicit rate for the lease is 16% after
considering the guaranteed residual value. The economic life of the equipment is 10 years.
Questions:
1. How much is right-of-use asset account on January 1, 2020?
2. The carrying amount of lease liability on December 31, 2021 is
3. What is the carrying amount of right-of-use asset on December 31, 2022?
4. How much is the gain or loss on finance lease to be recognized at the end of the lease term?

Recording Asset Retirement Obligation

BPP Company maintains underground storage tanks for its operations. A new storage tank was installed and made ready for use at a cost of $400,000 on January 1, 2020. The useful life is estimated at 15 years, at which time the company is legally required to remove the tank and restore the area at an estimated cost of $40,000. The appropriate discount rate for the company is 12%.

Answer the following questions, rounding your answers to the nearest whole number.

a. Record the storage tank asset and the related asset retirement obligation on January 1, 2020.

b. Record any required adjusting entries on December 31 2020.

c. Assume that on December 31, 2035, the tank is safely removed at a cost of $46,000. Record the required journal entry.

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You are an investment banking consultant advising a mining company. The CEO of the company tells you that she believes that capital structure does not have an impact on firm value. On what basis might they make this comment? State whether you agree or not with this position and explain why. Does the nature of this firm’s business risk change your answer? Fully explain your reasoning.

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enario 1:       (Total = 3 x 5 = 15 Marks)
Western Sydney Steaks (WSS), a national fast-food chain, has experienced a number of problems in the past few years, and management is considering the adoption of a balanced scorecard as part of a turnaround effort. You are one of the renowned Management Accountants in the city. WSS’s CEO has requested you to submit a report highlighting the potential benefits of using balanced scorecard over traditional management accounting tools. You need address the following specific requirements:
Required:

1. Briefly explain the concept of a balanced scorecard. Discuss the general factors that are included in a typical balanced scorecard.




2. Independent of your answer in requirement 1, assume that WSS is very concerned about customer satisfaction. List four different (and specific) customer satisfaction measures that may be appropriate for the firm (and for other fast-food providers).



3. Independent of requirement 1, assume that WSS wants to return to former levels of profitability. List several financial measures that would allow management to assess success or failure with respect to the following goals: (1) pay creditors on a timely basis, (2) keep shareholders happy, and (3) improve profitability over time at stores that have been open at least one year.




 

A few years ago, Blockbuster was the dominant competitor in video rentals, but today the company has gone through bankruptcy and is a fraction of its former size. Imagine that Blockbuster had initiated a business intelligence database project 10 years ago to help executives foresee and deal with coming challenges. How might Blockbuster have carried out such a project, and how could it have helped the company?

To begin, consider the first step in the database life cycle, the database initial study. How would you have done a database initial study for a business intelligence database at Blockbuster 10 years ago? What was the company’s situation, and what problems and constraints did the company face? How would you have defined the objectives, scope, and boundaries for a business intelligence database at Blockbuster?

You are the accountant for the Best Outdoor Living company which manufactures various outdoor furniture. The furniture is sold by specialty stores and through internet outlets. You are responsible for reviewing costs and creating standards costs based on the information you have reviewed.

One of your former colleagues has recently started a company to collect and sell data on industry benchmarks. You are offered the chance to receive benchmarks from other outdoor furniture companies for free if you will provide the standard and actual costs for the last three years of your company. As creation of the standards is a tedious process, you feel this data would be helpful in your job.

What are the relevant factors in this situation and how you should handle this, and what you would recommend to the Controller

Staub Company began operations when it acquired $135,000 cash from the issue of common stock on January 1, 2013.

The cash acquired was immediately used to purchase equipment for $135,000

that had a $27,000 salvage value and an expected useful life of four years. The equipment was
used to produce the following revenue stream (assume all revenue transactions are for cash). At the

beginning of the fifth year, the equipment was sold for $13,500 cash.
Staub Company uses straight-line depreciation. Asssume depreciation is the only expense to record.

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Revenue $ 25,200 $ 27,600 $ 28,800 $ 23,400 0

REQUIRED

Prepare income statements, balance sheets, and statements of cash flows for each of the five years.

Bank Reconciliation Statement.

The cash account for Corey’s Construction Company at August 31, 2020, indicated a book balance of $19,885. The bank statement received by the company indicated a balance of $39,473.63 as at August 31, 2020. A comparison of the bank statement and the accompanying cancelled cheques and memos with the records revealed the following:

1. A deposit of $6,794.62 was received by the bank on August 31 after the bank statement was prepared.

2. Cheques #251 for $1,200 and #260 for $1,333.25 were not presented to the bank for encashment as at August 31, 2020.
3. The bank erroneously debited a cheque drawn Corey’s Construction as $16,000 instead of $1,600.

4. The company’s accountant recorded a $3,500.00 cheque for payment of accounts payables as $35,000

5. The bank credited a deposit of $200 as $2,000 to Corey’s Construction account.
6. A cheque for $13,500 from a customer Ali Woods was returned for insufficient funds. The bank charged $50 for Wood’s NSF cheque. The company’s policy states that the bank charges associated with NSF cheques are to be recovered from the customer.
7. A note was collected by the bank of $21,000 on August 31 which included interest of $1,500
8. A debit memo from the bank showed service charge amounting to $2,500 as at August 31, 2020.

1. Prepare Corey’s Construction Company adjusted cash book for August 31^st. 2020.