On 1 July 2017, Ukulele Ltd acquired 40% of the shares of Bongo Ltd for $99,500. At this date, all the identifiable assets and liabilities of Bongo Ltd were recorded at amounts equal to fair value except for inventory which had a fair value $9,900 greater than the carrying amount. All inventory was sold by 30 June 2018. The tax rate is 30%. Bongo Ltd was classified as an associate of Ukulele Ltd.

The profits and losses recorded by Bongo Ltd from the next 6 years were as follows:

Required
Prepare the journal entries for the consolidation worksheet of Ukulele Ltd for the equity accounting of Bongo Ltd in each of the years from 2017–23. Do we deduct tax rate before sharing of profit and losses?

Ans:

The balances in the accounts of Maybe Ltd at 30 June 2019 and 30 June 2020 are:

Other information:

Share capital is increased by the bonus issue of 24 000 shares for $1.00 each out of retained earnings. Plant is acquired during the period at a cost of $36 000, while plant with a carrying amount of $nil (cost of $24 000, accumulated depreciation of $24 000) is scrapped.

Required:

a)      Reconstruct the allowance for doubtful debts and accounts receivable.

(6.5 marks)

b)      Reconstruct inventory and accounts payable

c)      Reconstruct accrued salaries

d)      Reconstruct property, plant and equipment and a

When Roberto Goizueta became Coke’s CEO in 1981, he took over a poorly performing company that had diversified into unrelated businesses ranging from water purification to shrimp farming. One of his first initiatives was to analyze Coke’s various businesses using economic profit. The analysis concluded that only Coke’s core carbonated beverage business was creating shareholder value. The other businesses, while generating revenue, were actually consuming value. Consequently, they were divested or shut down. Goizueta then focused on Coke’s core beverage business using its substantial competitive advantages: global brand, worldwide distribution system, and sales and marketing expertise. The result was 18 years of success.

Similarly, when Bob Lane took over a poorly performing John Deere in August 2000, he quickly identified Deere’s biggest problem: spending too much money to make money. Factories tended to overproduce, leading to a large number of very expensive, large farming machines simply sitting on dealer floors. Lane began looking at economic profit. He decided managers were treating capital as a free resource. He charged each division manager 1 percent each month of the cost of the assets they used and required that at the end of the year their financial results exceed the charges. Deere has done well in the succeeding years.

What is the appropriate measure of a firm’s performance?

What does a focus on economic profit as opposed to a focus on accounting profit mean for a firm and its investors?”

Every year, Jessica Gomez, CEO of Logan Construction Company, takes a two week vacation to Barbados and signs multiple blank checks to pay for any major bills that come due while she is away. Jessica's vacation occurs towards the end of Logan's fiscal year. Carl Johnson, controller for the company, uses this practice for his gain. He identifies a very large invoice from a vendor, makes out a check to himself for that amount, and records it as a payment to the vendor for acquisition of supplies. He holds the check for several weeks to ensure the auditors will not review the canceled check. Not long after the first of the year, Johnson resubmits the invoice to Gomez for approval and records the check in the cash disbursements journal. Johnson then marks the invoice as paid and files away with other paid invoices. Johnson has been performing this activity many years and believes he has no risk of getting caught.

Required:

There are so many opportunities for improvement in the internal controls in this scenario. With an unlimited amount of funds, many people, and an unlimited time frame, a company could virtually eliminate all control risk. Practically speaking, though, that is not feasible for 95%+ of all companies. Small companies like Logan Construction especially struggle with control risk in the areas of acquisition and financing because they operate with minimal staffing, restrictive budgets, and a remote workforce.

If you were consulting with Logan Construction on internal control improvement opportunities, provide two short term suggestions for controls improvement, and one long term suggestion that the company might need to plan for financially or technologically.

What did economic data tell us about the health of the economy on February 1, 2020 before the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Assess the health of the U.S. economy on February 1 by evaluating the key economic indicators that we have looked at in this course. How close was the overall economy to potential GDP and the natural rate of unemployment? Was the economy experiencing an inflationary or recessionary gap? The relevant economics statistics that you should discuss include the growth rate of real GDP, the unemployment rate, and the inflation rate at a minimum. You are encouraged to discuss and evaluate other economic indicators such as stock market indices that could add to a more complete picture of the state of the economy as of the beginning of our course. of February 1, 2020 (before the rapid spread of the Coronavirus) Was the United States economy’s Short Run Aggregate Supply Curve? Explain your answer carefully using As economy operating in the Keynesian, intermediate, or neoclassical portion of the the data and information that you have gathered regarding real GDP, unemployment, the GDP deflator, and inflation in the previous discussions. You should discuss the concepts of potential GDP and the natural rate of unemployment to receive full credit

You are the new accounting manager at the Barry Transport Company. Your CFO has asked you to provide input on the company's income tax position based on the following:

1)Pretax accounting income was $62 million and taxable income was $10 million for the year ended December 31, 2018.

2)The difference was due to three items:

A)Tax depreciation exceeds book depreciation by $50 million in 2018 for the business complex acquired that year. This amount is scheduled to be $80 million in 2019 and to reverse as ($80 million) and ($50 million) in 2020, and 2021, respectively.

B)Insurance of $10 million was paid in 2018 for 2019 coverage.

C)A $8 million loss contingency was accrued in 2018, to be paid in 2020.

3)No temporary differences existed at the beginning of 2018.

4)The tax rate is 40%.

Required:
1. Determine the amounts necessary to record income taxes for 2018 and prepare the appropriate journal entry.
2. Assume the enacted federal income tax law specifies that the tax rate will change from 40% to 35% in 2020. When scheduling the reversal of the depreciation difference, you were uncertain as to how to deal with the fact that the difference will continue to originate in 2019 before reversing the next two years. Upon consulting PricewaterhouseCoopers' Comperio database, you found:

.441 Depreciable and amortizable assets
Only the reversals of the temporary difference at the balance sheet date would be scheduled. Future originations are not considered in determining the reversal pattern of temporary differences for depreciable assets. FAS 109 [FASB ASC 740–Income Taxes] is silent as to how the balance sheet date temporary differences are deemed to reverse, but the FIFO pattern is intended.

You interpret that to mean that, when future taxable amounts are being scheduled, and a portion of a temporary difference has yet to originate, only the reversals of the temporary difference at the balance sheet date can be scheduled and multiplied by the tax rate that will be in effect when the difference reverses. Future originations (like the depreciation difference the second year) are not considered when determining the timing of the reversal. For the existing temporary difference, it is assumed that the difference will reverse the first year the difference begins reversing.

Determine the amounts necessary to record income taxes for 2018 and prepare the appropriate journal entry.

You are the new accounting manager at the Barry Transport Company. Your CFO has asked you to provide input on the company's income tax position based on the following:

Pretax accounting income was $75 million and taxable income was $13 million for the year ended December 31, 2018.

The difference was due to three items:

Tax depreciation exceeds book depreciation by $60 million in 2018 for the business complex acquired that year. This amount is scheduled to be $70 million in 2019 and to reverse as ($70 million) and ($60 million) in 2020, and 2021, respectively.

Insurance of $10 million was paid in 2018 for 2019 coverage.

A $8 million loss contingency was accrued in 2018, to be paid in 2020.

No temporary differences existed at the beginning of 2018.

The tax rate is 40%.

Required:
1. Determine the amounts necessary to record income taxes for 2018 and prepare the appropriate journal entry.
2. Assume the enacted federal income tax law specifies that the tax rate will change from 40% to 35% in 2020. When scheduling the reversal of the depreciation difference, you were uncertain as to how to deal with the fact that the difference will continue to originate in 2019 before reversing the next two years. Upon consulting PricewaterhouseCoopers' Comperio database, you found:

.441 Depreciable and amortizable assets
Only the reversals of the temporary difference at the balance sheet date would be scheduled. Future originations are not considered in determining the reversal pattern of temporary differences for depreciable assets. FAS 109 [FASB ASC 740–Income Taxes] is silent as to how the balance sheet date temporary differences are deemed to reverse, but the FIFO pattern is intended.

You interpret that to mean that, when future taxable amounts are being scheduled, and a portion of a temporary difference has yet to originate, only the reversals of the temporary difference at the balance sheet date can be scheduled and multiplied by the tax rate that will be in effect when the difference reverses. Future originations (like the depreciation difference the second year) are not considered when determining the timing of the reversal. For the existing temporary difference, it is assumed that the difference will reverse the first year the difference begins reversing.

Determine the amounts necessary to record income taxes for 2018 and prepare the appropriate journal entry.