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Raintree Cosmetic Company sells its products to customers on a credit basis. An adjusting entry for...

Raintree Cosmetic Company sells its products to customers on a credit basis. An adjusting entry for bad debt expense is recorded only at December 31, the company’s fiscal year-end. The 2020 balance sheet disclosed the following:

Current assets:
Receivables, net of allowance for uncollectible accounts of $34,000 $ 452,000

During 2021, credit sales were $1,770,000, cash collections from customers $1,850,000, and $39,000 in accounts receivable were written off. In addition, $3,400 was collected from a customer whose account was written off in 2020. An aging of accounts receivable at December 31, 2021, reveals the following:

Percentage of Year-End Percent
Age Group Receivables in Group Uncollectible
0−60 days 60 % 3 %
61−90 days 10 5
91−120 days 20 25
Over 120 days 10 45


Required:
1. Prepare summary journal entries to account for the 2021 write-offs and the collection of the receivable previously written off.
2. Prepare the year-end adjusting entry for bad debts according to each of the following situations:

  1. Bad debt expense is estimated to be 2% of credit sales for the year.
  2. Bad debt expense is estimated by adjusting the allowance for uncollectible accounts to the balance that reduces the carrying value of accounts receivable to the amount of cash expected to be collected. The allowance for uncollectible accounts is estimated to be 10% of the year-end balance in accounts receivable.
  3. Bad debt expense is estimated by adjusting the allowance for uncollectible accounts to the balance that reduces the carrying value of accounts receivable to the amount of cash expected to be collected. The allowance for uncollectible accounts is determined by an aging of accounts receivable.

3. For situations (a)−(c) in requirement 2 above, what would be the net amount of accounts receivable reported in the 2021 balance sheet?

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Raintree Cosmetic Company sells its products to customers on a credit basis. An adjusting entry for...

Raintree Cosmetic Company sells its products to customers on a credit basis. An adjusting entry for bad debt expense is recorded only at December 31, the company’s fiscal year-end. The 2020 balance sheet disclosed the following:

Current assets:
Receivables, net of allowance for uncollectible accounts of $45,000 $ 507,000

During 2021, credit sales were $1,825,000, cash collections from customers $1,905,000, and $54,000 in accounts receivable were written off. In addition, $4,500 was collected from a customer whose account was written off in 2020. An aging of accounts receivable at December 31, 2021, reveals the following:

Percentage of Year-End Percent
Age Group Receivables in Group Uncollectible
0−60 days 70 % 5 %
61−90 days 20 15
91−120 days 5 20
Over 120 days 5 40


Required:
1. Prepare summary journal entries to account for the 2021 write-offs and the collection of the receivable previously written off.
2. Prepare the year-end adjusting entry for bad debts according to each of the following situations:

  1. Bad debt expense is estimated to be 4% of credit sales for the year.
  2. Bad debt expense is estimated by adjusting the allowance for uncollectible accounts to the balance that reduces the carrying value of accounts receivable to the amount of cash expected to be collected. The allowance for uncollectible accounts is estimated to be 10% of the year-end balance in accounts receivable.
  3. Bad debt expense is estimated by adjusting the allowance for uncollectible accounts to the balance that reduces the carrying value of accounts receivable to the amount of cash expected to be collected. The allowance for uncollectible accounts is determined by an aging of accounts receivable.

3. For situations (a)−(c) in requirement 2 above, what would be the net amount of accounts receivable reported in the 2021 balance sheet?

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Raintree Cosmetic Company sells its products to customers on a credit basis. An adjusting entry for...

Raintree Cosmetic Company sells its products to customers on a credit basis. An adjusting entry for bad debt expense is recorded only at December 31, the company’s fiscal year-end. The 2017 balance sheet disclosed the following:

Current assets:
Receivables, net of allowance for uncollectible accounts of $30,000 $432,000


During 2018, credit sales were $1,750,000, cash collections from customers $1,830,000, and $35,000 in accounts receivable were written off. In addition, $3,000 was collected from a customer whose account was written off in 2017. An aging of accounts receivable at December 31, 2018, reveals the following:

Percentage of Year-End Percent
Age Group Receivables in Group Uncollectible
0–60 days 65 % 4 %
61–90 days 20 15
91–120 days 10 25
Over 120 days 5 40


Required:
1. Prepare summary journal entries to account for the 2018 write-offs and the collection of the receivable previously written off.
2. Prepare the year-end adjusting entry for bad debts according to each of the following situations:

Bad debt expense is estimated to be 3% of credit sales for the year.

Bad debt expense is estimated by computing net realizable value of the receivables. The allowance for uncollectible accounts is estimated to be 10% of the year-end balance in accounts receivable.

Bad debt expense is estimated by computing net realizable value of the receivables. The allowance for uncollectible accounts is determined by an aging of accounts receivable.


3. For situations (a)–(c) in requirement 2 above, what would be the net amount of accounts receivable reported in the 2018 balance sheet?

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MNBA is a company that sells chem-lab supplies. In the past, customers had spent an average...

MNBA is a company that sells chem-lab supplies. In the past, customers had spent an average of $6,800 annually, but management believes that the number has decreased in the last year. In order to test this, one manager looks at a sample of 40 customers' spending last year. The results can be found in the file ASpending, Hypothesis Testing. The manager would like to test her hypothesis at an alpha level of 0.1. She also believes that the standard deviation has not changed, so she is using a population standard deviation value of 1450.

data points

5,001
3,769
7,746
4,300
7,338
8,621
6,868
8,117
5,674
8,083
7,489
6,136
5,450
6,185
3,708
8,101
7,628
6,392
9,234
6,907
6,009
8,083
4,662
6,089
4,483
5,637
7,369
6,196
6,358
6,387
6,140
9,358
7,168
5,385
4,939
6,254
5,799
4,642
5,773
5,650

1. What would be appropriate hypotheses?

Ho: μ≥6800

Ha: μ<6800

Ho: x≥6800

Ha: x<6800

Ho: μ≥6378.2

Ha: μ<6378.2

Ho: x≥6378.2

Ha:

2. What type of test is this?

Left (lower) tailed

Right (upper) tailed

3 tailed

2 tailed

3. What is the critical value, z,  the test statistic, and the p-value?

4. Conclusion fill in blanks. Since p is    blank 1 ["less than", "greater than"]  alpha,   blank 2 ["accept", "do not reject", "reject"]   the null hypothesis. There    blank 3 ["is not", "is"]         enough evidence to conclude that the amount customers spend annually blank 4 ["is more than$ 6378.2", "is less than $6800.", "is less than $6378.2", "is more than $6800."]      

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Bird's Eye Treehouses, Inc., a Kentucky company, has determined that a majority of its customers are...

Bird's Eye Treehouses, Inc., a Kentucky company, has determined that a majority of its customers are located in the Pennsylvania area. It therefore is considering using a lockbox system offered by a bank located in Pittsburgh. The bank has estimated that use of the system will reduce collection time by 2 days. Assume 365 days a year.

  
  Average number of payments per day 780
  Average value of payment $ 730
  Variable lockbox fee (per transaction) $ .15
  Annual interest rate on money market securities 4.2 %
a.

What is the NPV of the new lockbox system? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

b. Suppose in addition to the variable charge that there is an annual fixed charge of $5,000 to be paid at the end of each year. What is the NPV now? (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
  Q1   Q2   Q3   Q4
  Sales $ 180 $ 200 $ 220 $ 250

Sales for the first quarter of the following year are projected at $195 million. Accounts receivable at the beginning of the year were $77 million. Wildcat has a 45-day collection period.

Wildcat’s purchases from suppliers in a quarter are equal to 50 percent of the next quarter’s forecast sales, and suppliers are normally paid in 36 days. Wages, taxes, and other expenses run about 25 percent of sales. Interest and dividends are $10 million per quarter.

Wildcat plans a major capital outlay in the second quarter of $85 million. Finally, the company started the year with a $81 million cash balance and wishes to maintain a $40 million minimum balance.

a-1.

Assume that Wildcat can borrow any needed funds on a short-term basis at a rate of 3 percent per quarter and can invest any excess funds in short-term marketable securities at a rate of 2 percent per quarter. Complete the following short-term financial plan for Wildcat. (Enter your answers in millions. Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)


       

a-2.

What is the net cash cost for the year under this target cash balance? (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Enter your answer in millions. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)


       

b-1.

Complete the following short-term financial plan assuming that Wildcat maintains a minimum cash balance of $20 million. (Enter your answers in millions. Negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)


       

b-2.

What is the net cash cost for the year under this target cash balance? (Enter your answer in millions. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)


       

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A manager for an insurance company believes that customers have the following preferences for life insurance products:

A manager for an insurance company believes that customers have the following preferences for life insurance products: 30% prefer Whole Life, 30% prefer Universal Life, and 40% prefer Life Annuities. The results of a survey of 330 customers were tabulated. Is it possible to refute the sales manager's claimed proportions of customers who prefer each product using the data?

Product Number
Whole 109
Universal 96
Annuities 125

 

Step 1 of 10:

State the null and alternative hypothesis.

Answer

 

H0H0: Preferences for life insurance products are not as per the manager's belief.

HaHa: Preferences for life insurance products are as per the manager's belief.

H0H0: Preferences for life insurance products are as per the manager's belief.

HaHa: Preferences for life insurance products are not as per the manager's belief.

Step 2 of 10:

What does the null hypothesis indicate about the proportions of customers who prefer each insurance product?

Answer

 

The proportions of customers who prefer each insurance product are all thought to be equal.
The proportions of customers who prefer each insurance product are different for each category (and equal to the previously accepted values).

State the null and alternative hypothesis in terms of the expected proportions for each category.

 

H0H0:      pWhole=pWhole=,  pUniversal=pUniversal=,  pAnnuities=pAnnuities=HaHa: There is some difference amongst the proportions.

Step 4 of 10:

Find the expected value for the number of customers who prefer Whole Life. Round your answer to two decimal places.

ind the expected value for the number of customers who prefer Universal Life. Round your answer to two decimal places.

Step 6 of 10:

Find the value of the test statistic. Round your answer to three decimal places

Step 7 of 10:

Find the degrees of freedom associated with the test statistic for this problem.

Find the critical value of the test at the 0.05 level of significance. Round your answer to three decimal places.

Make the decision to reject or fail to reject the null hypothesis at the 0.05 level of significance.

 

Fail to Reject Null Hypothesis Reject Null Hypothesis

Step 10 of 10:

State the conclusion of the hypothesis test at the 0.05 level of significance.

 

There is not enough evidence to refute the manager's claim about the proportions of customers who prefer each product.
There is enough evidence to refute the manager's claim about the proportions of customers who prefer each product.

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Cantel Company produces cleaning compounds for both commercial and household customers. Some of these products are...

Cantel Company produces cleaning compounds for both commercial and household customers. Some of these products are produced as part of a joint manufacturing process. For example, GR37, a coarse cleaning powder meant for commercial sale, costs $2.30 a pound to make and sells for $2.40 per pound. A portion of the annual production of GR37 is retained for further processing in a separate department where it is combined with several other ingredients to form SilPol, which is sold as a silver polish, at $6.00 per unit. The additional processing requires 1/4 pound of GR37 per unit; additional processing costs amount to $4.40 per unit of SilPol produced. Variable selling costs for SilPol average $0.40 per unit. If production of SilPol were discontinued, $4,800 of costs in the processing department would be avoided. Cantel has, at this point, unlimited demand for, but limited capacity to produce, product GR37.

Required

1. Calculate the minimum number of units of SilPol that would have to be sold in order to justify further processing of GR37.

2. Assume that the cost data reported for GR37 are obtained at a level of output equal to 6,900 pounds, which is the maximum that the company can produce at this time. What is the expected operating income (loss) under each of the following scenarios: (a) all available capacity is used to produce GR37, but no SilPol; (b) 6,000 units of SilPol are produced, with the balance of capacity devoted to the production and sale of GR37; (c) 8,000 units of SilPol are produced, with the balance of capacity devoted to the production and sale of GR37; and (d) 10,000 units of SilPol are produced, with the balance of capacity devoted to the production and sale of GR37.

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Raintree Cosmetic Company sells its products to customers on a credit basis. An adjusting entry for...

Raintree Cosmetic Company sells its products to customers on a credit basis. An adjusting entry for bad debt expense is recorded only at December 31, the company’s fiscal year-end. The 2015 balance sheet disclosed the following: Current assets: Receivables, net of allowance for uncollectible accounts of $33,000 $447,000 During 2016, credit sales were $1,765,000, cash collections from customers $1,845,000, and $38,000 in accounts receivable were written off. In addition, $3,300 was collected from a customer whose account was written off in 2015. An aging of accounts receivable at December 31, 2016, reveals the following: Percentage of Year-End Percent Age Group Receivables in Group Uncollectible 0–60 days 70 % 5% 61–90 days 20 15 91–120 days 5 20 Over 120 days 5 40 Required: 1. Prepare summary journal entries to account for the 2016 write-offs and the collection of the receivable previously written off. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field.) 2. Prepare the year-end adjusting entry for bad debts according to each of the following situations: a. Bad debt expense is estimated to be 4% of credit sales for the year. b. Bad debt expense is estimated by computing net realizable value of the receivables. The allowance for uncollectible accounts is estimated to be 10% of the year-end balance in accounts receivable. c. Bad debt expense is estimated by computing net realizable value of the receivables. The allowance for uncollectible accounts is determined by an aging of accounts receivable. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field.) 3. For situations (a)–(c) in requirement 2 above, what would be the net amount of accounts receivable reported in the 2016 balance sheet?

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Raintree Cosmetic Company sells its products to customers on a credit basis. An adjusting entry for...

Raintree Cosmetic Company sells its products to customers on a credit basis. An adjusting entry for bad debt expense is recorded only at December 31, the company’s fiscal year-end. The 2020 balance sheet disclosed the following:

Current assets:
Receivables, net of allowance for uncollectible accounts of $43,000 $ 497,000

During 2021, credit sales were $1,815,000, cash collections from customers $1,895,000, and $52,000 in accounts receivable were written off. In addition, $4,300 was collected from a customer whose account was written off in 2020. An aging of accounts receivable at December 31, 2021, reveals the following:

Percentage of Year-End Percent
Age Group Receivables in Group Uncollectible
0−60 days 60 % 3 %
61−90 days 10 5
91−120 days 20 25
Over 120 days 10 45


Required:
1. Prepare summary journal entries to account for the 2021 write-offs and the collection of the receivable previously written off.

  • 1

    Record accounts receivable written off during the year 2021.

  • 2

    Record entry to reinstate an account receivable previously written off.

  • 3

    Record collection of an account receivable previously written off.

2. Prepare the year-end adjusting entry for bad debts according to each of the following situations:

  1. Bad debt expense is estimated to be 2% of credit sales for the year.
  2. Bad debt expense is estimated by adjusting the allowance for uncollectible accounts to the balance that reduces the carrying value of accounts receivable to the amount of cash expected to be collected. The allowance for uncollectible accounts is estimated to be 10% of the year-end balance in accounts receivable.
  3. Bad debt expense is estimated by adjusting the allowance for uncollectible accounts to the balance that reduces the carrying value of accounts receivable to the amount of cash expected to be collected. The allowance for uncollectible accounts is determined by an aging of accounts receivable.
  • 1

    Bad debt expense is estimated to be 2% of credit sales for the year.

  • 2

    Bad debt expense is estimated by computing net realizable value of the receivables. The allowance for uncollectible accounts is estimated to be 10% of the year-end balance in accounts receivable.

  • 3

    Bad debt expense is estimated by computing net realizable value of the receivables. The allowance for uncollectible accounts is determined by an aging of accounts receivable.

3. For situations (a)−(c) in requirement 2 above, what would be the net amount of accounts receivable reported in the 2021 balance sheet?

Net account receivable reported

A.

B.

C.

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The Best of Italy Pizza Restaurant make pizza for in-house and on-line customers. The company has...

The Best of Italy Pizza Restaurant make pizza for in-house and on-line customers. The company has two direct-cost categories: direct materials and direct manufacturing labor. Variable manufacturing overhead is allocated to products on the basis of standard direct manufacturing labor-hours. Following is some budget data for the Best of Italy Pizza: Direct manufacturing labor use 0.42 hours per pizza Variable manufacturing overhead $4.00 per direct manufacturing labor-hour The Best of Italy Pizza Company provides the following additional data for the year ended December 31, 2019: Planned (budgeted) output 54,000 pizza Actual production 43,200 pizza Direct manufacturing labor 14,429 hours Actual variable manufacturing overhead $86,000 The Best of Italy Company also allocates fixed manufacturing overhead to products on the basis of standard direct manufacturing labor-hours. For 2019, fixed manufacturing overhead was budgeted at $3.00 per direct manufacturing labor-hour. Actual fixed manufacturing overhead incurred during the year was $73,000. Required: 1. Prepare a variance analysis of variable manufacturing overhead. 2. Discuss the variances you have calculated and give possible explanations for them. 3. Prepare a variance analysis of fixed manufacturing overhead cost. 4. Is fixed overhead under-allocated or over-allocated? By what amount? 5. Comment on your results. Discuss the variances and explain what may be driving them.

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