Chapter 1 and 2 "The Revolt of Engineers": Layton describes the approaches of the four founder societies of engineering professionals--ASCE, AIME, ASME, and AIEE. In 3-4 sentences, state which of these organizations would be most appealing to you to join based on its membership criteria, stances on professional behavior, and relationship to business, and why. In 1-2 sentences, state which would be least appealing and why?

Glenn Grimes is the founder and president of Heartland Construction, a real estate development venture. The business transactions during February while the company was being organized are listed as follows. Feb. 1 Grimes and several others invested $600,000 cash in the business in exchange for 30,000 shares of capital stock. Feb. 10 The company purchased office facilities for $360,000, of which $120,000 was applicable to the land and $240,000 to the building. A cash payment of $72,000 was made and a note payable was issued for the balance of the purchase price. Feb. 16 Computer equipment was purchased from PCWorld for $14,400 cash. Feb. 18 Office furnishings were purchased from Hi-Way Furnishings at a cost of $10,800. A $1,200 cash payment was made at the time of purchase, and an agreement was made to pay the remaining balance in two equal installments due March 1 and April 1. Hi-Way Furnishings did not require that Heartland sign a promissory note. Feb. 22 Office supplies were purchased from Office World for $360 cash. Feb. 23 Heartland discovered that it paid too much for a computer printer purchased on February 16. The unit should have cost only $359, but Heartland was charged $395. PCWorld promised to refund the difference within seven days. Feb. 27 Mailed Hi-Way Furnishings the first installment due on the account payable for office furnishings purchased on February 18. Feb. 28 Received $36 from PCWorld in full settlement of the account receivable created on February 23. Required: a. Prepare journal entries to record the above transactions. Select the appropriate account titles from the following chart of accounts: Cash Land Accounts Receivable Office Building Office Supplies Notes Payable Office Furnishings Accounts Payable Computer Systems Capital Stock b. Indicate the effects of each transaction on the company's assets, liabilities, and owners' equity for the month of February. The Feb. 1 transaction is provided for you.

The founder of Alchemy Products Inc. discovered a way to turn gold into lead and patented this new technology. He then formed a corporation and invested $1,500,000 in setting up a production plant. He believes that he could sell his patent for $72 million.

a. What is the book value of the firm? (Enter your answer in dollars not in millions.)

b. What is the market value of the firm? (Enter your answer in dollars not in millions.)

c. If there are two million shares of stock in the new corporation, what would be the book value per share? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

d. If there are two million shares of stock in the new corporation, what would be the price per share? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

The table below shows the number of students in each year at a certain university:

Year of study 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

No. of students 300 280 275 175 92 48 30

You would like to select a random sample of 100 students from this university.

i. Explain how you would choose a simple random sample.

ii. Explain how you would choose a sample using systematic (interval) sampling method.

iii. If you use stratified sampling method to choose a sample, explain how this could be done and how many students from each year group are to be chosen for the sample.

Question 10

Sheridan Company provides the following information about its defined benefit pension plan for the year 2020.

1. Prepare a pension worksheet inserting January 1, 2020, balances, showing December 31, 2020. (Enter all amounts as positive.)

2. Prepare the journal entry recording pension expense. (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.)

Metals Corporation reports pretax financial income of $260,000 for 2020. The following items cause taxable income to be different than pretax financial income: 1. Rental income on the income statement is less than rent collected on the tax return by $65,000. 2. Depreciation on the tax return is greater than depreciation on the income statement by $40,000. 3. Interest on an investment in a municipal bond of $6,500 on the income statement. Metal’s tax rate is 30% for all years, and the company expects to report taxable income in all future years. There are no deferred taxes at the beginning of 2020.

Compute taxable income and income taxes payable for 2020. (b) Prepare the journal entry to record income tax expense, deferred income taxes, and income taxes payable for 2020. (c) Prepare the income tax expense section of the income statement for 2020, beginning with the line “Income before income taxes.” (d) Compute the effective income tax rate for 2020.

The following facts relate to Oriole Corporation.

(b)

Prepare the journal entry to record income tax expense, deferred income taxes, and income taxes payable for 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.)

1. ABC Company is planning for 2021 financial performance. 2020 total sales were $6,000,000. Monthly fixed costs for the firm for 2020 averaged $260,000 and are expected to increase by 8% for 2021. The variable cost ratio for 2020 averaged 40% and is expected to increase to 42% for 2021. The firm's average tax rate for 2020 was 30% and is expected to remain the same for 2021. The firm incurs no interest expense.

Required: (show your work below and write your final answer for each question on the line provided)

1. Calculate annual breakeven sales (revenue) for 2020 and 2021

2. Calculate the actual net operating income (NOI) and the after tax income for 2020 and 2021 assuming there is no change in sales for 2021.

3. It is management's goal to have operations produce a NOI / Sales ratio of 12% for 2021. Given the data above what level of 2021 sales are needed to reach the 12% NOI / Sales ratio?

What are the appropriate descriptive statistics to summarize the Company-Z daily sales in Pre- and Post- COVID-19 Y1 & Y2?   Can you visualize both random variables separately using the graphing technique? Explain why you used these descriptive statistics and this graphing technique?               
Given;

Flint Company in its first year of operations provides the following information related to one of its available-for-sale debt securities at December 31, 2020.

Amortized cost $51,500

Fair value 43,000

Expected credit losses 12,800

1) What is the amount of the credit loss that Flint should report on this available-for-sale security at December 31, 2020?

Amount of the credit loss $ _____________

2) Prepare the journal entry to record the credit loss, if any (and any other adjustment needed), at December 31, 2020.

3) Assume that the fair value of the available-for-sale security is $56,000 at December 31, 2020, instead of $43,000. What is the amount of the credit loss that Flint should report at December 31, 2020?

Amount of the credit loss $ ___________

4) Assume the same information as for part (c). Prepare the journal entry to record the credit loss, if necessary (and any other adjustment needed), at December 31, 2020.