Mills Corporation acquired as a long-term investment $270 million of 8% bonds, dated July 1, on July 1, 2018. Mills determined that it should account for the bonds as an available-for-sale investment. The market interest rate (yield) was 6% for bonds of similar risk and maturity. Mills paid $310 million for the bonds. The company will receive interest semiannually on June 30 and December 31. As a result of changing market conditions, the fair value of the bonds at December 31, 2018, was $290 million.

Required:
1. & 2. Prepare the journal entry to record Mills’ investment in the bonds on July 1, 2018 and interest on December 31, 2018, at the effective (market) rate.
3. At what amount will Mills report its investment in the December 31, 2018, balance sheet?
4. Suppose Moody’s bond rating agency upgraded the risk rating of the bonds, and Mills decided to sell the investment on January 2, 2019, for $320 million. Prepare the journal entries to record the sale.

P16-8B (L07) (Computation of Basic and Diluted EPS) The information below pertains to Payson Company for 2018. Net income for the year $8,670,000 6% convertible bonds issued at par ($1,000 per bond); each bond is convertible into 60 shares of common stock 5,000,000 4% convertible, cumulative preferred stock, $100 par value; each share is convertible into 4 shares of common stock 2,500,000 Common stock, $1 par value 9,500,000 Tax rate for 2018 40% Average market price of common stock $18 per share There were no changes during 2018 in the number of common shares, preferred shares, or convertible bonds outstanding. There is no treasury stock. The company also has common stock options (granted in a prior year) to purchase 120,000 shares of common stock at $12 per share.

Instructions

(a) Compute basic earnings per share for 2018.

(b) Compute diluted earnings per share for 2018.

Mills Corporation acquired as a long-term investment $260 million of 5% bonds, dated July 1, on July 1, 2018. Company management is holding the bonds in its trading portfolio. The market interest rate (yield) was 3% for bonds of similar risk and maturity. Mills paid $300 million for the bonds. The company will receive interest semiannually on June 30 and December 31. As a result of changing market conditions, the fair value of the bonds at December 31, 2018, was $280 million.

Required:
1. & 2. Prepare the journal entry to record Mills’ investment in the bonds on July 1, 2018 and interest on December 31, 2018, at the effective (market) rate.
3. At what amount will Mills report its investment in the December 31, 2018, balance sheet?
4. Suppose Moody’s bond rating agency upgraded the risk rating of the bonds, and Mills decided to sell the investment on January 2, 2019, for $315 million. Prepare the journal entries to record the sale.

Fores Construction Company reported a pretax operating loss of $240 million for financial reporting purposes in 2018. Contributing to the loss were (a) a penalty of $15 million assessed by the Environmental Protection Agency for violation of a federal law and paid in 2018 and (b) an estimated loss of $20 million from accruing a loss contingency. The loss will be tax deductible when paid in 2019.

The enacted tax rate is 40%. There were no temporary differences at the beginning of the year and none originating in 2018 other than those described above. Taxable income in Fores’s two previous years of operation was as follows:

Required:
1. Prepare the journal entry to recognize the income tax benefit of the net operating loss in 2018. Fores elects the carryback option.
2. What is the net operating loss reported in 2018 income statement?
3. Prepare the journal entry to record income taxes in 2019 assuming pretax accounting income is $90 million. No additional temporary differences originate in 2019.

McWherter Instruments sold $500 million of 8% bonds, dated January 1, on January 1, 2018. The bonds mature on December 31, 2037 (20 years). For bonds of similar risk and maturity, the market yield was 10%. Interest is paid semiannually on June 30 and December 31. Blanton Technologies, Inc., purchased $500,000 of the bonds as a long-term investment. (FV of $1, PV of $1, FVA of $1, PVA of $1, FVAD of $1 and PVAD of $1) (Use appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided.)

Required:
1. Determine the price of the bonds issued on January 1, 2018.
2. Prepare the journal entries to record (a) their issuance by McWherter and (b) Blanton's investment on January 1, 2018.
3. Prepare the journal entries by (a) McWherter and (b) Blanton to record interest on June 30, 2018 (at the effective rate).
4. Prepare the journal entries by (a) McWherter and (b) Blanton to record interest on December 31, 2018 (at the effective rate).
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I have a question which involves the use of stata

what regression would I have to run to answer this question?

I have

• WEEKPAY – Gross weekly pay in the respondent’s main job
• GENDER – The respondent’s reported gender
• MON – The month the respondent started her current job
• YEAR– The year the respondent started her current job

What is the average size of the gender pay gap after the implementation (2018) of the regulation? Run a regression to estimate this. Think carefully about how the variables in your dataset might need to be transformed in order to interpret the estimated coefficients in a reasonable way. Justify your choice of model.

Fores Construction Company reported a pretax operating loss of $250 million for financial reporting purposes in 2018. Contributing to the loss were (a) a penalty of $15 million assessed by the Environmental Protection Agency for violation of a federal law and paid in 2018 and (b) an estimated loss of $10 million from accruing a loss contingency. The loss will be tax deductible when paid in 2019. The enacted tax rate is 40%. There were no temporary differences at the beginning of the year and none originating in 2018 other than those described above. Taxable income in Fores’s two previous years of operation was as follows: 2016 $ 130 million 2017 75 million Required: 1. Prepare the journal entry to recognize the income tax benefit of the net operating loss in 2018. Fores elects the carryback option. 2. What is the net operating loss reported in 2018 income statement? 3. Prepare the journal entry to record income taxes in 2019 assuming pretax accounting income is $115 million. No additional temporary differences originate in 2019.

Prat Corp. started the 2018 accounting period with $35,000 of assets (all cash), $14,500 of liabilities, and $20,000 of common stock. During the year, the Retained Earnings account increased by $18,550. The bookkeeper reported that Prat paid cash expenses of $33,500 and paid a $3,500 cash dividend to the stockholders, but she could not find a record of the amount of cash that Prat received for performing services. Prat also paid $9,500 cash to reduce the liability owed to the bank, and the business acquired $8,000 of additional cash from the issue of common stock.

(Hint: Determine the amount of beginning retained earnings before considering the effects of the current period events. It also might help to record all events under an accounting equation before preparing the statements.)

a-1. Prepare an income statement for the 2018 accounting period.

a-2. Prepare a statement of changes in stockholders’ equity for the 2018 accounting period.

a-3. Prepare a period-end balance sheet for the 2018 accounting period.

a-4. Prepare a statement of cash flows for the 2018 accounting period.

On December 31, 2017, Berclair Inc. had 460 million shares of common stock and 4 million shares of 9%, $100 par value cumulative preferred stock issued and outstanding. On March 1, 2018, Berclair purchased 128 million shares of its common stock as treasury stock. Berclair issued a 5% common stock dividend on July 1, 2018. Four million treasury shares were sold on October 1. Net income for the year ended December 31, 2018, was $800 million. Also outstanding at December 31 were 30 million incentive stock options granted to key executives on September 13, 2013. The options were exercisable as of September 13, 2017, for 30 million common shares at an exercise price of $56 per share. During 2018, the market price of the common shares averaged $70 per share.

Compute diluted earnings per share for the year ended December 31, 2018.

Fores Construction Company reported a pretax operating loss of $260 million for financial reporting purposes in 2018. Contributing to the loss were (a) a penalty of $15 million assessed by the Environmental Protection Agency for violation of a federal law and paid in 2018 and (b) an estimated loss of $20 million from accruing a loss contingency. The loss will be tax deductible when paid in 2019.

The enacted tax rate is 40%. There were no temporary differences at the beginning of the year and none originating in 2018 other than those described above. Taxable income in Fores’s two previous years of operation was as follows:

Required:
1. Prepare the journal entry to recognize the income tax benefit of the net operating loss in 2018. Fores elects the carryback option.
2. What is the net operating loss reported in 2018 income statement?
3. Prepare the journal entry to record income taxes in 2019 assuming pretax accounting income is $120 million. No additional temporary differences originate in 2019.