The university would like to conduct a study to estimate the true proportion of all university students who have student loans. According to the study, in a random sample of 217 university students, 88 have student loans.

(a) Construct a 99% confidence interval for estimating the true proportion of all university students who have student loans

(b) Provide an interpretation of the confidence interval in part (a).

(c) Conduct an appropriate hypothesis test, at the 1% level of significance to test the claim that more than 30% of all university students have student loans.

1. Provide the hypothesis statement

2. Calculate the test statistic value

3. Determine the probability value

Laura Leasing Company signs an agreement on January 1, 2020, to lease equipment to Windsor Company. The following information relates to this agreement. 1. The term of the non-cancelable lease is 3 years with no renewal option. The equipment has an estimated economic life of 5 years. 2. The fair value of the asset at January 1, 2020, is $66,000. 3. The asset will revert to the lessor at the end of the lease term, at which time the asset is expected to have a residual value of $5,000, none of which is guaranteed. 4. The agreement requires equal annual rental payments of $21,328 to the lessor, beginning on January 1, 2020. 5. The lessee’s incremental borrowing rate is 5%. The lessor’s implicit rate is 4% and is unknown to the lessee. 6. Windsor uses the straight-line depreciation method for all equipment.

Prepare an amortization schedule that would be suitable for the lessee for the lease term

Prepare all of the journal entries for the lessee for 2020 and 2021 to record the lease agreement, the lease payments, and all expenses related to this lease. Assume the lessee’s annual accounting period ends on December 31

Consider the following information:

1. On December 1, 2019, a U.S. firm plans to purchase a piece of equipment (with an asking price of 100,000 francs) in Switzerland during January of 2020. The transaction is probable, and the transaction is to be denominated in euros.
2. On December 1, 2019, the company enters into a forward contract to buy 100,000 Swiss francs for $1.01 on January 31, 2020.
3. Spot rates and the forward rates for January 31, 2020, settlement were as follows (dollars per Swiss franc):

   	Spot Rate	Forward Rate for 1/31/20
   December 1, 2019	$0.99	$1.01
   Balance sheet date (12/31/19)	$1.01	$1.02
   January 31 and February 1, 2020	$1.04

4. On February 1, the equipment was purchased for 100,000 Swiss francs.

Required:

1. Prepare all journal entries needed on December 1, December 31, January 31, and February 1 to account for the forecasted transaction, the forward contract, and the transaction to buy the equipment.
2. When should the company reclassify any amounts reported in other accumulated comprehensive income as a result of the cash flow hedge?

Big Construction Company signs a contract on 1 July 2019, agreeing to build a warehouse for Buyer Corporation Ltd at a fixed contract price of $10 million. Buyer Ltd will be in control of the asset throughout the construction process. Big Construction Company estimates that construction costs will be as follows: 2019 2.5 million 2020 $4 million 2021 $1.5 million The contract provides that Buyer Corporation Ltd will make payments on 31 December each year as follows: 2019 $2 million 2020 $5 million 2021 $3 million The contract is completed and accepted on 31 December 2021. Assume that actual costs and cash collections coincide with expectations and that cost (an input measure) is used as the basis for assessing progress on the construction contract. Big Construction Company has a financial year ending 31 December. Required: a) Using the above data, compute the gross profit to be recognised for each of the three years, assuming that the outcome of the contract can be reliably estimated. (1.5 marks) b) Prepare the journal entries for 2019, 2020 and 2021 financial year to recognise revenue on the assumption that the measure of progress on the contract can be reliably estimated. c) Prepare the journal entries for 2019, 2020 and 2021 financial year, assuming that the measure of progress on the contract cannot be reliably assessed. (3.5 marks

1. Alpha Ltd has appointed you as a manager in the budgeting department. The company has provided the following information to prepare a cash flow budget for the six months from the 1 January 2021 to 30 June 2021.

1. Alpha Ltd produces only one type of product and the projected selling price of the product is £2 for January and February and after that will be fixed at £3 for the foreseeable future.    
2. For the first three months of the year, 2,000 units will be sold per month. For the following three months, 2,500 units will be sold per month. Sales income is to be received in the month of sale.
3. Insurance costs are £200 every two months. The company will pay for insurance on 1 December 2020.
4. The company is paying 20% of sales of each month as bonus to the employees in the following month. The total sales during December 2020 will be £5,000.
5. Alpha Ltd will pay overhead costs of £2,000 each month.
6. The opening cash balance at 1 January 2021 will be £1,000.
7. The monthly cost of direct material and direct labour is estimated to be £500 and the company will pay them during each month.
8. Fixed costs of production are £100 per month, payable in the month.

1. Prepare a cash flow budget for the period 1 January 2021 to 30 June 2021 and indicate the closing balance as at 30 June 2021.

Laker Company resported the following January Purchases and sales datat for its only product

Required
The company uses a perpetual inventory system. Determine the cost assigned to ending inventory and to cost of goods sold using (a) specific identification, (b) weighted average, (c) FIFO, and (d) LIFO. (Round per unit costs and inventory amount to cents.) For specific identification, ending inventory consist of 200 units, where 180 are from the January 30 purchase, 5 are from the January 20 purchase, and 15 are from beginning inventory.

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Laker Company reported the following January purchases and sales data for its only product.
  

Required:
The Company uses a periodic inventory system. For specific identification, ending inventory consists of 305 units, where 275 are from the January 30 purchase, 5 are from the January 20 purchase, and 25 are from beginning inventory. Determine the cost assigned to ending inventory and to cost of goods sold using (a) specific identification, (b) weighted average, (c) FIFO, and (d) LIFO.