On January 1, 2018, Cullumber Inc. granted stock options to officers and key employees for the purchase of 20,000 shares of the company’s $10 par common stock at $27 per share. The options were exercisable within a 5-year period beginning January 1, 2020, by grantees still in the employ of the company, and expiring December 31, 2024. The service period for this award is 2 years. Assume that the fair value option-pricing model determines total compensation expense to be $323,200.

On April 1, 2019, 2,000 options were terminated when the employees resigned from the company. The market price of the common stock was $33 per share on this date.

On March 31, 2020, 12,000 options were exercised when the market price of the common stock was $41 per share.

Prepare journal entries to record issuance of the stock options, termination of the stock options, exercise of the stock options, and charges to compensation expense, for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2019, and 2020. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when 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.)

Assume that you have recently been hired as the special assistant to the chief executive officer (CEO) of your health care organization, Thunder Hospital. Your duty is to head up the new quality improvement department. Over the last year, the hospital has experienced substantial growth but is also facing a number of patient safety concerns, including a steady increase in medical errors and a 25% rise in hospital-acquired infections. Based upon what you have learned in this course, prepare a quality improvement plan to present to the CEO with strategies for addressing these issues.

In a 1,000-1,250-word proposal, include the following:

1. Identify the issues the hospital is currently facing and how they are affecting quality outcomes and endangering patients.
2. Present a detailed plan to improve quality and elaborate on how it aligns with the hospital’s initiatives to improve value-added health care. Discuss the quality improvement tool you suggest using to locate and ameliorate problem areas, as well as the roles and responsibilities of involved stakeholders, financial considerations for the implementation of your proposal, the goals of the plan, and methods for evaluating its success.
3. Examine the effects that the implementation of this proposal will have upon administrators, clinicians, and physicians. Explore possible challenges that could arise with stakeholders reacting negatively to changes presented by this proposed plan. What strategies or preventive measures could be put in place to reduce the friction between various health care providers?
4. How will your plan improve overall quality for Thunder Hospital? How will the improvements your plan suggests implementing now set the hospital up to continue providing quality care in the future?

Suppose that you are part of the Management team at Porsche. Suppose that it is the end of December 2019 and a novel coronavirus that causes a respiratory illness was identified in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. The illness was reported to the World Health Organization and there is heightened uncertainty around the Globe.

You (as part of the management team) are reviewing Porsche’s hedging strategy for the cash flows it expects to obtain from vehicle sales in North America during the calendar year 2020. Assume that Porsche’s management entertains three scenarios:

Scenario 1 (Expected): The expected volume of North American sales in 2020 is 35,000 vehicles.

Scenario 2 (Pandemic): The low-sales scenario is 50% lower than the expected sales volume.

Scenario 3 (High Growth): The high-sales scenario is 20% higher than the expected sales volume.

Assume, in each scenario, that the average sales price per vehicle is $85,000 and that all sales are realised at the end of December 2020. All variable costs incurred by producing an additional vehicle to be sold in North America in 2020 are billed in euros (€) and amount to €55,000 per vehicle. Shipping an additional vehicle to be sold in North America in 2020 are billed in € and amount to €3,000 per vehicle.

The current spot exchange rate is (bid-ask) $1.11/€ - $1.12/€ and forward bid-ask is $1.18/€ - $1.185/€. The option premium is 2.5% of US$ strike price, and option strike price is $1.085/€. Your finance team made the following forecasts about the exchange rates at the end of December 2020:

• bid-ask will be $1.45/€ - $1.465/€ if the investors (and speculators) consider the euro (€) a safe haven currency during the pandemic.
• bid-ask will be $0.88/€-$0.90/€ if the investors (and speculators) consider the U.S. dollar ($) a safe haven currency during the pandemic

3. As the CFO, you decided to hedge using option contracts. Assuming expected final sales volume is 35,000, what are your total benefit/cost and the percentage benefit/cost from hedging

(compared to no hedging)

1. if the exchange rate (bid-ask) remains at $1.11/€ - $1.12/€?
2. if the investors consider the U.S. dollar a safe haven currency during the pandemic?

4. Assume that the Scenario 2 (Pandemic) took place in 2020 and the euro became a safe haven currency during the pandemic. What are your cash flows if you did not hedge, hedged using forward contracts, and hedged using option contracts?   

5. Assume that the Scenario 2 (Pandemic) took place in 2020 and the U.S. dollar became a safe haven currency during the pandemic. What are your cash flows if you did not hedge, hedged using forward contracts, and hedged using option contracts?   

6. Based on the calculations in Part B, do you believe that it is a good policy to hedge Porsche’s currency exposure? Why?

On January 1, 2020, Sarasota Company purchased 10% bonds having a maturity value of $380,000, for $410,343.38. The bonds provide the bondholders with a 8% yield. They are dated January 1, 2020, and mature January 1, 2025, with interest received on January 1 of each year. Sarasota Company uses the effective-interest method to allocate unamortized discount or premium. The bonds are classified in the held-to-maturity category. Prepare the journal entry at the date of the bond purchase.Prepare a bond amortization schedule.Prepare the journal entry to record the interest revenue and the amortization at December 31, 2020.Prepare the journal entry to record the interest revenue and the amortization at December 31, 2021.

On January 1, 2016, a company pays $5,222,591 for a 5-year corporate bond with a face value of $5 million. The bond pays interest at 5 percent on December 31 of each

year, and the principal is due on December 31, 2020. The investment yields a 4 percent compound annual

return to maturity. The company classies the bond as a held-to-maturity investment.

Required

Prepare the journal entries to record the investment on January 1, 2016, receipt of the interest payments

on December 31 of each year 2016 through 2020, and receipt of the bond principal on December 31,

2020, using the effective interest method.

1/1/2020: Opened the business, invested $1,000,000 cash in the business.

1/1/2020: bought a building for the business purpose for $100,000 cash. The building has a useful economic life of 10 years.

1/1/2020: purchased 100 luxury watches for $200,000 with $100,000 cash payment, the remaining amount payable on 2/1/2021. (each watch costs $2,000)

3/1/2020: purchased 50 luxury watches for $250,000 with cash. Each watch costs $5,000.

4/1/2020: purchased 40 luxury watches for $240,000 with cash. Each costs $6,000.

6/1/2020: Sold 130 watched for $1,300,000. Of which $300,000 cash was received at the time of sale. The remaining amount to be received on 5/2/2021.

7/1/2020: paid $1,200 in advance for 12 months’ property insurance (7/1/20 to 7/1/21).

8/1/2020: borrowed $500,000 from a local Chase bank. Interest rate is 12%/year. Interest is paid every 6 months- the first payment date is 2/1/2021. Principal would be paid on 8/1/2021.

9/1/2020: to expand business, you rent a showroom in the next building. Paid $24,000 cash in advance for 12 month’s rent.

12/31/2020: Paid 2020 utilities expense, advertising expense, and miscellaneous expense for $5000, $15,000, and $4,000, respectively.

Salary is paid on the last day of each month. Each month’s salary expense is $20,000.

Notes:

• On 12/31/2020: Physical inventory showed that there were 60 luxury watches on hand at the end of the period. The company used periodic inventory system, and used FIFO costing method.
• Your business used straight-line depreciation method for all fixed assets.
• Ignore tax.

Requirement:

1. Prepare all journal entries, adjusting entries, closing entries needed for the period ending on 12/31/2020 based on above economic events

Question 3 – Statement of Cash Flows

Nick Ltd is the founder and owner of a health club. His club operates in Toronto, Ontario and has been in the same location since 2014. The health club offers a variety of services to its members (group classes, personal training etc.). The club also will put on special “fitness” events. The fitness facility has everything - free weights, squat racks, cardio machines (treadmills, bikes and ellipticals), yoga mats, stability balls, pull-up bars, etc. Since Nick charges a premium for the membership to the club, he is constantly looking at updating and expanding the fitness equipment. This past year he purchased a number of weighted battle ropes, new rowing machines a number of additional kettle bells. You have been presented with the following summarized information from his statement of cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2017:

What was the net change in cash for the period?

Explain each type of cash flow and provide an example of the types of transactions that make up the operating, investing and financing section of Nick’s cash flow statement.

Examine the cash flow pattern for Nick Ltd. What does this pattern say about the situation the company is in?

– Statement of Cash Flows

Nick Ltd is the founder and owner of a health club. His club operates in Toronto, Ontario and has been in the same location since 2014. The health club offers a variety of services to its members (group classes, personal training etc.). The club also will put on special “fitness” events. The fitness facility has everything - free weights, squat racks, cardio machines (treadmills, bikes and ellipticals), yoga mats, stability balls, pull-up bars, etc. Since Nick charges a premium for the membership to the club, he is constantly looking at updating and expanding the fitness equipment. This past year he purchased a number of weighted battle ropes, new rowing machines a number of additional kettle bells. You have been presented with the following summarized information from his statement of cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2017:

What was the net change in cash for the period?

Explain each type of cash flow and provide an example of the types of transactions that make up the operating, investing and financing section of Nick’s cash flow statement.

Examine the cash flow pattern for Nick Ltd. What does this pattern say about the situation the company is in?

Tudor Company acquired $500,000 of Carr Corporation bonds for $487,706.69 on January 1, 2018. The bonds carry an 11% stated interest rate, pay interest semiannually on January 1 and July 1, were issued to yield 12%, and are due January 1, 2021.

Required:

This is the only one I am having trouble with. Its the preparing the investment income and discount amortization schedule using straight-line method.