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1. Trident Corporation acquires Uvell Company’s assets and liabilities for $40,000,000 in cash. At the date...

1. Trident Corporation acquires Uvell Company’s assets and liabilities for $40,000,000 in cash. At the date of acquisition, Uvell’s balance sheet reported assets of $90,000,000 and liabilities of $82,000,000. Investigation reveals that Uvell’s buildings are overvalued by $6,000,000 and it has unreported liabilities valued at $5,000,000.  

What journal entry will Trident Corp record as a result of this acquisition?

2. An acquiring company pays $45 million in cash, and issues new no-par stock with a fair value of $75 million, to the acquired company’s former owners, for the assets and liabilities of the acquired company. Registration fees associated with the new stock issuance are $300,000, paid in cash. Consulting fees for the acquisition are $1 million, paid in cash. The fair value of the acquired company’s identifiable net assets is $65 million.

What entry does the acquiring company make to record the acquisition?

3. A company invests $300,000 in equity securities on November 30, 2019, and classifies them as investments with no significant influence. At December 31, 2019, the company’s year-end, the securities have a fair value of $310,000. On February 1, 2020, the company sells the securities for $295,000.

What is reported on the Balance Sheet and Income Statement regarding the securities for 2019 and 2020?

4. Precision Company acquires all of Springfield Company’s voting stock for $5,000,000 in cash. Information on Springfield's assets and liabilities at the date of acquisition is as follows:

Book Values

Current assets $ 500,000

Land, buildings and equipment (net) $2,000,000

Liabilities ($600,000)

Capital stock ($500,000)

Retained earnings ($1,400,000)

Fair Values

Current assets $700,000

Land, buildings and equipment (net) $3,500,000

Liabilities ($550,000)

Capital stock

Retained earnings

In addition, Springfield Company has unrecorded identifiable intangible assets, in the form of brand names and lease agreements, with a total estimated fair value of $400,000.

Prepare the eliminating entries

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Problem 14-08 On December 31, 2020, Teal Company acquired a computer from Plato Corporation by issuing...

Problem 14-08

On December 31, 2020, Teal Company acquired a computer from Plato Corporation by issuing a $591,000 zero-interest-bearing note, payable in full on December 31, 2024. Teal Company’s credit rating permits it to borrow funds from its several lines of credit at 12%. The computer is expected to have a 5-year life and a $63,000 salvage value.

Prepare the journal entry for the purchase on December 31, 2020. (Round present value factor calculations to 5 decimal places, e.g. 1.25124 and the final answers to 0 decimal places e.g. 58,971. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts. Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)

Date

Account Titles and Explanation

Debit

Credit

December 31, 2020

Prepare any necessary adjusting entries relative to depreciation (use straight-line) and amortization (use effective-interest method) on December 31, 2021. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 38,548. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts. Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)

Date

Account Titles and Explanation

Debit

Credit

December 31, 2021

(To record the depreciation.)

December 31, 2021

(To amortize the discount.)

Schedule of Note Discount Amortization


Date

Debit, Interest Expense Credit,
Discount on Notes Payable

Carrying Amount
of Note

12/31/20 $ $
12/31/21
12/31/22
12/31/23
12/31/24
Prepare any necessary adjusting entries relative to depreciation and amortization on December 31, 2022. (Round answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 38,548. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts. Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually.)

Date

Account Titles and Explanation

Debit

Credit

December 31, 2022

(To record the depreciation.)

December 31, 2022

(To amortize the discount.)

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After finishing your risk management course, you are asked by your portfolio manager to calculate the...

After finishing your risk management course, you are asked by your portfolio manager to calculate the VaR of the portfolio that is consisting of two asset classes: long-term government bonds issued in the United States and long-term government bonds
issued in the United Kingdom. The expected monthly return on US bonds is 0.85%
and the standard deviation is 3.20%, while the expected monthly return on UK bonds (in US
dollars) is 0.95% and the standard deviation is 5.26%. The correlation between the US
dollar returns of UK and US bonds is 35%. The portfolio market value is $100 million
and is equally weighted between the two asset classes. Using the analytical method, compute the following:

(A) 5% monthly VaR
(B) 1% monthly VaR
(C) 5% weekly VaR
(D) 1% weekly VaR

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Bueno is a company in Mexico that produces T-shirts for domestic and international customers. Bueno wants...

Bueno is a company in Mexico that produces T-shirts for domestic and international customers. Bueno wants to use the well-known design of a popular Disney character, Mickey Mouse, on its products. What advice would you give Bueno?

a.

Form a joint venture with Disney Inc.

b.

Import T-shirts made in the United States.

c.

Use a foreign direct investment strategy.

d.

Secure a licensing agreement from Disney Inc.

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In your opinion, should the United States acquire the Philippines as territory in 1898? What are the arguments to defend your position?

In your opinion, should the United States acquire the Philippines as territory in 1898? What are the arguments to defend your position?


2. Critique Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth philosophy (pp. 523-24). In your opinion, is Carnegie an American hero?


3. How is the government of the Progressive Era different from that of the Gilded Era?


4. In your opinion, why did U.S. join World War I in 1917 after years of promising neutrality?

In: Economics

An epidemiologist presented information regarding the annual prevalence (number of cases per 1,000) of adolescent pregnancy...

  1. An epidemiologist presented information regarding the annual prevalence (number of cases per 1,000) of adolescent pregnancy to a local health planning board. The epidemiologist compared data for the local county with data for the United States as a whole. One of the members of the planning board objected that this comparison was not valid because the county is much smaller than the entire country. From an epidemiologic perspective, was the objection a valid one? Why or why not? (2 points) SHOW ALL WORK.

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Sales forecast based on external data.  Raspberry Phones uses external data to forecast the coming​ year's...

Sales forecast based on external data.  Raspberry Phones uses external data to forecast the coming​ year's sales. The company has 7.5 % of all​ new-phone sales in the United States and 5.6 % of all​ replacement-phone sales. Industry forecasts predict 18.9 million​ new-phone buyers and 31.8 million​ replacement-phone buyers in 2014. If the average Raspberry phone costs ​$84.05​, what sales revenues is the company forecasting for​ 2014?

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Fossilized remains were discovered in a remote Cretaceous formation from Wyoming-Montana area of the United States....

Fossilized remains were discovered in a remote Cretaceous formation from Wyoming-Montana area of the United States. After carefully examining the bones, you see that the jaws are toothed and that the anterior limbs are modified for flight. You assume it is a tetrapod's fossils.  Determine whether this tetrapod is related phylogenetically to the subclass Archaeornithes, the Neornithes of the Aves or to the subclass Eutheria of the Mammalia. Describe the features of the fossils that allows you to make your determination while eliminating other possibilities.

In: Biology

1-A travel agent wants to estimate the proportion of vacationers who plan to travel outside the...

1-A travel agent wants to estimate the proportion of vacationers who plan to travel outside the United States in the next 12 months. A random sample of 150 vacationers revealed that 45 had plans for foreign travel in that time frame. a)Suppose (at the 95% confidence level) you need to have a margin of error no more than 4 percentage points, but you have no estimate of ^p. How many vacationers would you have to sample?

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A newspaper article summarized data from a survey of 1,260 pet owners. The article indicated that...

A newspaper article summarized data from a survey of 1,260 pet owners. The article indicated that 72% of the pet owners celebrated their pet's birthday during the previous year. Assume that the sample is representative of the population of pet owners in the United States.

(a)

Use the given information to estimate the proportion of pet owners who have celebrated their pet's birthday in the past year using a 90% confidence interval. (Round your answers to three decimal places.)

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