The first half of 2020 has been very challenging for the Australian banking sector with major bush fires, then several severe storms (e.g. Canberra hailstorm) and now the COVID-19 outbreak and shutdown of the Australian economy. We have discussed, how the impact these events—particularly COVID-19—has had on the banks as well as how the banks and regulators have responded to the challenges.

You are the team leader of the Strategy and Operations team at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. The CEO and Board has asked you to write a series of three short memos outlining the impact that COVID-19 has had on the bank and your recommendations for operations in the next 6 to 12 months. Each of the memos will focus on one fundamental risk and should be written independent of the other memos so that each memo is self-contained (e.g. when reading memo 1, you do NOT need to read the memos 2 and 4 to understand memo 1).

Question
Write a memo outlining the impact that COVID-19 has had on liquidity risk for the CBA. Suggest some strategies the bank can use to manage this risk in the next 6-12 months. (Full Deatils)

The first half of 2020 has been very challenging for the Australian banking sector with major bush fires, then several severe storms (e.g. Canberra hailstorm) and now the COVID-19 outbreak and shutdown of the Australian economy. We have discussed, how the impact these events—particularly COVID-19—has had on the banks as well as how the banks and regulators have responded to the challenges.

You are the team leader of the Strategy and Operations team at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. The CEO and Board have asked you to write a series of three short memos outlining the impact that COVID-19 has had on the bank and your recommendations for operations in the next 6 to 12 months. Each of the memos will focus on one fundamental risk and should be written independently of the other memos so that each memo is self-contained (e.g. when reading memo 1, you do NOT need to read the memos 2 and 4 to understand memo 1).

Question
Write a memo outlining the impact that COVID-19 has had on credit risk for the bank. Suggest some strategies the bank can use to manage this risk in the next 6-12 months.

On January 1, 2019, Baznik Company adopted a defined benefit pension plan. At that time, Baznik awarded retroactive benefits to certain employees. These retroactive benefits resulted in a prior service cost of $1,200,000 on that date (which it did not fund). Baznik has six participating employees who are expected to receive the retroactive benefits. Following is a schedule that identifies the participating employees and their expected years of future service as of January 1, 2019:

Baznik decided to amortize the prior service cost to pension expense using the years-of-future-service method. The following are the amounts of the components of Baznik’s pension expense, in addition to the amortization of the prior service cost for 2019 and 2020:

Baznik contributed $772,700 and $875,300 to the pension fund at the end of 2019 and 2020, respectively.

Required:

CHART OF ACCOUNTSBaznik CompanyGeneral Ledger

1a. Prepare a set of schedules for the Baznik Company to determine the amortization fraction for each year.

Additional Instruction

1b. Prepare a set of schedules for the Baznik Company to determine the amortization of the prior service cost. Use the unrounded decimal to determine the amount of the expense.

Additional Instruction

2. Prepare the entries to record the prior service cost on January 1, 2019, and the pension expense and amortization of prior service costs on December 31, 2019 and 2020.

General Journal Instructions

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GENERAL JOURNAL

Tomy is a key customer of Rubber (Pty) Ltd (hereafter Rubber), a well-established South
African shoe sole provider. The two companies share the same year-end.
When Tomy experienced the sudden increase in sales, Rubber extended an interest-free loan
of R2 050 000 on 1 February 2020 in order to enable Tomy to cater for the increase in supply.
Tomy used the loan immediately as follows:
 Purchase of land – R350 000
 Construction of factory building on land purchased (completed 1 July 2020 and brought
into use immediately after completion) – R1 200 000
 Purchase of Machine B (new) – R800 000 (brought into use on 1 July 2020)
 Deductible expenditure – R200 000
 Purchase of Trading Stock – R500 000 ( R50 000 still on hand on 31 December 2020)
Tomy was able to justify the loan and repayments of the loan as the company signed a contract
with a local customer on 15 December 2019 and delivered R1 200 000 of takkies on
1 February 2020. The local customer informed Tomy during August 2020 that they were
liquidated and that Tomy will not receive any further payment from them. Tomy has written off
the outstanding debt as bad debts at the end of the financial year.
In an attempt to raise cash reserves, Tomy issued 100 000 ordinary shares on
18 August 2020, of which Rubber purchased 88 000 shares. Rubber did not own any of Tomy’s
shares before this date. Tomy now has 120 000 ordinary shares in issue.
Tomy approached Rubber as Tomy was not able to repay the amount due on the outstanding
loan. The total amount was still due. Rubber acknowledged that Tomy’s financial situation was
due to unforeseen circumstances and agreed to write off 80% of each of the balances owing
by Tomy, except for the land that Rubber agreed to write off the full amount owing on
30 December 2020.

REQUIRED
Calculate and motivate the income tax consequences of the above transactions and events
for Tomy for the year of assessment ended on 31 December 2020

Acme Materials Company manufactures and sells synthetic coatings that can withstand high temperatures. Its primary customers are aviation manufacturers and maintenance companies. The following table contains financial information pertaining to cost of quality (COQ) in 2019 and 2020 (in thousands of dollars):

QUESTIONS:

1. Classify the cost items in the table into cost-of-quality (COQ) categories. Calculate the ratio of each COQ category to revenues in each of the 2 years.

2. Calculate the percentage change in each COQ category and total COQ and comment on the results:

With NPV and the other Capital Budgeting methods we are discussing this week they all consider quantitative factors or numbers when deciding on an investment/project.  What are some non quantitative factors or qualitative factors that also need to be considered (even if I was a former bean counter I do not believe you can put everything into numbers).

G, age 68, received pension income from the following sources in the current year: Old-age security pension $7,100; Canada Pension Plan $9,000; and Pension income from former employer’s pension plan $34,000. What is the maximum elected split-pension amount that can be reported on the tax return of G’s spouse?

A New Zealand company produces 20,000 ounces of gold per year. It uses 30% of its production for making gold jewelry sold at a fixed price through stores in Australia and New Zealand, and the rest is sold on the market, where the gold price is determined in US dollars. Australia’s profits are repatriated to New Zealand. The company’s CEO wants to use futures contractc to hedge the entire production. He calls you to seeks your opinion. Recommend a seinsble hedge stragtegy that would be in line with the CEO’s wishes (assume x is the quantity used for making gold jewelry in the New Zealand)