Upper Division of Lower Company acquired an asset with a cost of $560,000 and a four-year life. The cash flows from the asset, considering the effects of inflation, were scheduled as follows.

The cost of the asset is expected to increase at a rate of 10 percent per year, compounded each year. Performance measures are based on beginning-of-year gross book values for the investment base. Ignore taxes.

Required:

a. What is the ROI for each year of the asset's life, using a historical cost approach?

b. What is the ROI for each year of the asset's life if both the investment base and depreciation are determined by the current cost of the asset at the start of each year?

Assume that on January 1, 2012, a parent company acquired a 80% interest in a subsidiary’s voting common stock. On the date of acquisition, the fair value of the subsidiary’s net assets equaled their reported book values. On January 1, 2014, the subsidiary purchased a building for $336,000. The building has a useful life of 8 years and is depreciated on a straight-line basis with no salvage value. On January 1, 2016, the subsidiary sold the building to the parent for $294,000. The parent estimated that the building had a six year remaining useful life and no salvage value. The parent also uses the straight-line method of amortization. For the year ending December 31, 2016, the parent’s “stand-alone” income (i.e., net income before recording any adjustments related to pre-consolidation investment accounting) is $350,000. The subsidiary’s recorded net income is $70,000.

1)Based on this information, determine the balance for income from investment in subsidiary (on parent’s pre-consolidations books preceding consolidation):

A $21,000

B $28,000

C $56,000

D $63,000

2)Based on this information, determine the balance for consolidated building (net of accumulated depreciation):

A $210,000

B $245,000

C $294,000

D $336,000

3)Based on this information, determine the balance for consolidated depreciation expense:

A $25,200

B $29,400

C $42,000

D $49,000

4)Based on this information, determine the balance for consolidated net income attributable to the controlling interest:

A $371,000

B $378,000

C $406,000

D $413,000

5)Based on this information, determine the balance for consolidated income attributable to noncontrolling interest:

A $15,400

B $14,000

C $7,000

D $5,600

A manufacturing company wants to verify the output of their newly acquired MRP software by comparing the computer output with their hand-calculated first ROP for each item in their BOM. They are examining output from their daily April 30 MRP.  

Windsor Company acquired a plant asset at the beginning of Year 1. The asset has an estimated service life of 5 years. An employee has prepared depreciation schedules for this asset using three different methods to compare the results of using one method with the results of using other methods. You are to assume that the following schedules have been correctly prepared for this asset using (1) the straight-line method, (2) the sum-of-the-years'-digits method, and (3) the double-declining-balance method.

What is the cost of the asset being depreciated?

What amount, if any, was used in the depreciation calculations for the salvage value for this asset?

Which method will produce the highest charge to income in Year 1?

Which method will produce the highest charge to income in Year 4?

Which method will produce the highest book value for the asset at the end of Year 3?

If the asset is sold at the end of Year 3, which method would yield the highest gain (or lowest loss) on disposal of the asset?

At the beginning of 2018, Blue Dragon, a small private company, acquired a mine for $1,925,000. Of this amount, $190,000 was allocated to the land value and the remaining portion to the minerals in the mine. Surveys conducted by geologists found that approximately 18 million units of ore appear to be in the mine. Blue Dragon had $175,000 of development costs for this mine before any extraction of minerals. It also determined that the fair value of its obligation to prepare the land for an alternative use when all of the minerals have been removed was $70,000. During 2018, 3.0 million units of ore were extracted and 2.10 million of these units were sold.

Calculate the depletion cost per unit for 2018. (Round answer to 3 decimal places, e.g. 52.751.)
Depletion Cost Per Unit: $________

Prepare the required journal entry, if any, for the total amount of depletion for 2018. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when the amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.)

Account Debit Credit

________

________

Prepare the required journal entry, if any, for the total amount that is charged as an expense for 2018 for the cost of minerals sold during 2018. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when the amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts. Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 5,275.)

Account Debit Credit

______

______

Company ABC acquired a machine at the beginning of the year. The machine had a 6-year useful life. He expensed the entire acquisition cost in the current year. His error has what effect on current period net income (NI) and retained earnings at the end of the 4th year (RE4)?

a. NI is understated; RE4 is understated

b. NI is understated; RE4 is correct

c. NI is overstated; RE4 is correct

d. NI is overstated; RE4 is understated

e. None of the above

Please help to explain for my better understanding.

As CEO of Avani International, Hetman headed the growth of a corporate giant. At its peak, Avani was gobbling up 200 companies a year. Under his leadership, the value of Avani increased 70-fold. In 2011, Hetman proclaimed his desire to be remembered as the world greatest business executive. Things turn sour when Hetman and his former chief financial officer were accused of running criminal enterprise within Avani. The two were charged stealing $170 million directly from the company and pocketing an additional $450 million through manipulated sales of stock. Hetman’s action has almost destroyed the company where he worked for 25 years. In 2012 alone the value of the company’s stock dropped $90 billion. Hetman spent his early years in humble circumstances. He grew up in the 1960’s in Jackson, Alabama. He said he was the son of a cop. It was only after he was accused did it come out that his father was never a police officer in Jackson or anywhere else. However, his mother did work for the Jackson Police Department as a school crossing guard. His father, in actuality, was a wheeler-dealer who was a practiced deceiver and an effective persuader. He had a strong personality but for the most part kept his misdeeds to little white lies. Friends remember Hetman as an easygoing kid who did well in school without trying very hard. He was elected “class politician” by high school graduating class. He went on to Samford, paying his way to college by playing guitar in a band. He served in Bangkok held a few accounting job, and eventually joined Avani in 1980s. Over the course of the 1990s, Hetman’s happy-go-lucky character disappeared. As he climbed the ladder at Avani, he became a corporate tough guy, both respected and feared. He eventually became CEO in 2001 and administered the rapid expansion of the company. Meanwhile, Hetman learned to live big. He had a $18 million apartment in Los Angeles, a $35 million mansion in Georgia, and a $20 million yacht. He spent $25 million on art for his luxury homes. He took extravagance to the extreme, for instance, spending $5, 000 on a shower curtain. The more he made, the more he spent, and the more he allegedly stole. Although his total compensation was $160 million in 2008, it wasn’t enough. He manipulated the company’s relocation fund and Employee Loan Program to take hundreds of millions in interest-free funds. In 2010 for instance, he gave his wife $1.5 million to start a restaurant, spent $2 million on birthday party in the Hawaii Island for his wife, and gave away $50 million in corporate funds to make humanitarian contributions in his own name.

1- Which motivation theory do you think best explains Hetman’s behaviour and work performance? Justify your answer.

- Discuss two (2) factors present in the case study that most likely influence Hetman’s perception of achievement

. - Discuss what Avani International should do if symptoms of groupthink exist in the company.

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Explain the reason why, under the former accounting standard, reporting entities’ ‘off balance sheet lease liabilities were up to 66 times greater than the debt reported on their balance sheet

The major difference between monopolistic competition and perfect competition is that firms produce differentiated products in the former and homogeneous products in the latter. How does product differentiation generate the differences between the two models?

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