Supposed that you represent the shareholder board of Apple Inc. and decide to elicit high CEO effort to help the company: What will be your incentive contract plan (e.g. bonus, stock option…etc.)?

2) Given your answer in a, if Apple does not perform as expected (say iphone X is not popular), what criticism of the incentive contract plan can you see?

Use the adjusting journal entry information to prepare the formal adjusting journal entries as of December 31, 2020. Remember to skip a line between each adjusting journal entry and use AJ1, AJ2, AJ3, etc, instead of the actual date.

Information for Year End Adjusting Journal Entries December 31, 2020

1) The building(cost of $180,000)was purchased on January 1, 2019 and it is expected to have a useful life of 30 years with no salvage value. Depreciation expense has been recorded through November 30, 2020.

2) Office equipment(cost of $130,000)as of November 30, 2020 was purchased on January 1, 2015. The office equipment is expected to have a useful life of 10 years with $10,000 salvage value. Depreciation expense has been recorded through November 30, 2020.

3) Insurance in the amount of $4,800 was paid on April 1, 2020 covering the period of April 1, 2020 through March 31, 2021. The insurance expense and prepaid insurance accounts have been properly adjusted through November 30, 2020.

4) A December 31, 2020 count of supplies showed $3,300 of supplies remaining on hand.

5) Salaries earned but unpaid as of December 31, 2020 amount to $31,500.

6) The company has earned one of the three months rent previously received on December 1 from Bullwinkle Inc.

7) Interest at an annual rate of 3¼% is owed for the month of December 2020 on the Mortgage Note Payable due in 5 years (round interest to nearest whole dollar).

8) The savings account was opened on December 31, 2019. It earns interest at an annual rate of 1.5%, compounded monthly. Interest has been received and recorded through November 30, 2019. The bank notified the company that interest for the month of December was deposited in the savings account on December 31, 2020(round interest to the nearest dollar).

9) Uncollectible accounts are expected to be $11,500 based on net sales.

10) Income taxes owed for the year amounted to $15,000.

The March 31, 2019 balance sheet of Kalakaua Corporation had Accounts Receivable of $525,000 and a credit balance in Allowance for Doubtful Accounts of $33,000. During the year ended March 31, 2020, the following transactions occurred: sales on account $1,550,000; sales returns & allowances, $120,000; collections from customers, $1,350,000; accounts written off $41,000; previously written off accounts of $5,000 were collected.

REQUIRED:

1.Using the above information, what is the balance of Accounts Receivable at March 31, 2020?

2.Suppose that it is the company policy to use the percentage of sales basis to estimate bad debts expense and anticipates 3% of net sales to be uncollectible, what is the adjusting entry at March 31, 2020? (Show calculations.)

3.Ignore the entry made in b) above.

Assume that it is company policy to use the aging of receivables basis to estimate bad debt expense. It determines that uncollectible accounts are expected to be $38,400. What is the adjusting entry at March 31, 2020? Assume the March 31, 2020 balance of Accounts Receivable is $575,000 and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has an existing balance of $3,000 (cr). (Show calculations)

Pronghorn Inc. and Culver Corporation are Canadian fertilizer companies. The following information has been taken from their financial statements for the fiscal years ended December 31. All figures are in millions of dollars.

1) Calculate both companies’ gross profit margin and profit margin for the years 2019 through 2021. (Round answers to 1 decimal place, e.g.52.7%.)

2)

Determine which company had the best performance for profitability in each year.

3) Using horizontal analysis, calculate the percentage change between the following years: 2019 and 2020; 2020 and 2021 for both companies. (Round answers to 1 decimal place, e.g.52.7%.)

4) Using the information in the horizontal analysis, identify the company that had the most improvement in net sales, gross profit margin and profit margin in 2020 and 2021.

Exercise 21-12 (Part Level Submission)

On January 1, 2020, Pharoah Company leased equipment to Flynn Corporation. The following information pertains to this lease.

1.The term of the non-cancelable lease is 6 years. At the end of the lease term, Flynn has the option to purchase the equipment for $1,000, while the expected residual value at the end of the lease is $9,000.

2.Equal rental payments are due on January 1 of each year, beginning in 2020.

3.The fair value of the equipment on January 1, 2020, is $120,000, and its cost is $110,000.

4.The equipment has an economic life of 8 years. Flynn depreciates all of its equipment on a straight-line basis.

5.Pharoah set the annual rental to ensure a 6% rate of return. Flynn's incremental borrowing rate is 8%, and the implicit rate of the lessor is unknown.

6.Collectibility of lease payments by the lessor is probable.

Both the lessor and the lessee's accounting periods end on December 31.

a. What is the amount of the annual Rental Payment?

d.   Suppose the collectibility of the lease payments was not probable for Pharoah. What are the necessary journal entries for the company in 2020.

c.   What are the journal entries for Flynn for 2020.

In this assignment, assume that the Sec. 179 and bonus depreciation tax apply to the 2020 tax year where applicable.

1. For a-d, determine the total depreciation amount for 2020 assuming the taxpayer opted out of Sec. 179 and bonus if they were available in the year of purchase. In addition, assume all taxpayers use a calendar year tax period and that the property mentioned was the only property purchased in the year of acquisition.
   
   

Grouper Company began operations on January 2, 2019. It employs 9 individuals who work 8-hour days and are paid hourly. Each employee earns 10 paid vacation days and 6 paid sick days annually. Vacation days may be taken after January 15 of the year following the year in which they are earned. Sick days may be taken as soon as they are earned; unused sick days accumulate. Additional information is as follows.

Grouper Company has chosen to accrue the cost of compensated absences at rates of pay in effect during the period when earned and to accrue sick pay when earned.

Compute the amounts of any liability for compensated absences that should be reported on the balance sheet at December 31, 2019 and 2020.

On January 31, 2020, the manufacturing facility of a medium-sized company was severely damaged by an accidental fire. As a result, the company's direct materials, work in process, and finished goods inventories were destroyed. The company did have access to certain incomplete accounting records, which revealed the following:1.Beginning inventories, January 1, 2020:

2.Key ratios for the month of January 2020:

Gross profit = 20% of sales

Prime costs = 70% of manufacturing costs

Factory overhead = 40% of conversion costs

Ending work in process is always 10% of the monthly manufacturing costs.

3.All costs are incurred evenly in the manufacturing process.

4.Actual operations data for the month of January 2020:

Instructions

a.  From the above data, reconstruct a cost of goods manufactured schedule.

CGM $788,000

b.  Calculate the total cost of inventory lost, and identify each category where possible (direct materials, work in process, and finished goods), at January 31, 2020.

Total $330,000

On November 14, Thorogood Enterprises announced that the public and acrimonious battle with its current CEO had been resolved. Under the terms of the deal, the CEO would step down from his position immediately. In exchange, he was given a generous severance package. Given the information below, calculate the cumulative abnormal return (CAR) around this announcement. Assume the company has an expected return equal to the market return. (A negative value should be indicated by a minus sign. Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 1 decimal place.)