On January 1, 2018, Nguyen Electronics leased equipment from Nevels Leasing for a four-year period ending December 31, 2021, at which time possession of the leased asset will revert back to Nevels. The equipment cost Nevels $824,368 and has an expected economic life of five years. Nevels expects the residual value at December 31, 2018, will be $100,000. Negotiations led to the lessee guaranteeing a $140,000 residual value.

Equal payments under the lease are $200,000 and are due on December 31 of each year with the first payment being made on December 31, 2018. Nguyen is aware that Nevels used a 5% interest rate when calculating lease payments. (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. Prepare the appropriate entries for both Nguyen and Nevels on January 1, 2018, to record the lease.
2. Prepare all appropriate entries for both Nguyen and Nevels on December 31, 2018, related to the lease.

Tanner-UNF Corporation acquired as a long-term investment $290 million of 6.0% bonds, dated July 1, on July 1, 2018. Company management has the positive intent and ability to hold the bonds until maturity. The market interest rate (yield) was 7% for bonds of similar risk and maturity. Tanner-UNF paid $260.0 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 $270.0 million. Required: 1. & 2. Prepare the journal entry to record Tanner-UNF’s investment in the bonds on July 1, 2018 and interest on December 31, 2018, at the effective (market) rate. 3. At what amount will Tanner-UNF report its investment in the December 31, 2018, balance sheet? 4. Suppose Moody’s bond rating agency downgraded the risk rating of the bonds motivating Tanner-UNF to sell the investment on January 2, 2019, for $250.0 million. Prepare the journal entry to record the sale.

1) The Inouyes filed jointly in 2018. Their AGI is $78,000. They reported $2,000 of qualified business income and $22,000 of itemized deductions. They have two children, one of whom qualifies as their dependent as a qualifying child. The 2018 standard deduction amount for MFJ taxpayers is $24,000. What is the total amount of from AGI deductions they are allowed to claim on their 2018 tax return?

2) Jane and Ed Rochester are married with a two-year-old child who lives with them and whom they support financially. In 2018, Ed and Jane realized the following items of income and expense: Item Amount Ed's Salary $ 35,000 Jane's Salary 70,000 Municipal bond interest income 400 Qualified business income 1,000 Alimony paid (for AGI deduction) (7,000 ) Real property tax (from AGI deduction) (10,000 ) Charitable contributions (from AGI) (15,000 ) They also qualified for a $2,000 child tax credit. Their employers withheld $5,800 in federal income taxes from their paychecks (in the aggregate). Finally, the 2018 standard deduction amount for MFJ taxpayers is $24,000. What is the couple's taxable income?

Several years ago Polar Inc. acquired an 80% interest in Icecap Co. The book values of Icecap's asset and liability accounts at that time were considered to be equal to their fair values. Polar’s acquisition value corresponded to the underlying book value of Icecap so that no allocations or goodwill resulted from the transfer. The following selected account balances were from the individual financial records of these two companies as of December 31, 2018: Assume that Icecap sold inventory to Polar at a markup equal to 25% of cost. Intra-entity transfers were $70,000 in 2017 and $112,000 in 2018. Of this inventory, $29,000 of the 2017 transfers were retained and then sold by Polar in 2018, whereas $49,000 of the 2018 transfers was held until 2019. Required: For the consolidated financial statements for 2018, determine the balances that would appear for the following accounts: (i) Cost of Goods Sold; (ii) Inventory; and (iii) Net income attributable to the noncontrolling interest.

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1-Maple Company purchases new equipment (7-year MACRS property) on January 10, 2018, at a cost of $430,000. Maple also purchases new machines (5-year MACRS property) on July 19, 2018 at a cost of $290,000. Maple wants to maximize its MACRS deductions; assume no taxable income limitations apply. What is Maple's total MACRS deduction for 2018?

a. $119,447.

b. $560,000.

c. $617,148.

d. $720,000.

2-Ellie (a single taxpayer) is the owner of ABC, LLC. The LLC (a sole proprietorship) reports QBI of $900,000 and is not a "specified services" business. ABC paid total W-2 wages of $300,000, and the total unadjusted basis of property held by ABC is $30,000. Ellie's taxable income before the QBI deduction is $740,000 (this is also her modified taxable income). What is Ellie's QBI deduction for 2018?

a. $75,750.

b. $148,000.

c. $150,000.

d. $180,000.

3-The § 179 deduction can exceed $1,000,000 in 2018 if the taxpayer had a § 179 amount which exceeded the taxable income limitation in the prior year.

True or false

Assume that Timberline Corporation has 2018 taxable income of $242,000 for purposes of computing the §179 expense. It acquired the following assets in 2018: (Use MACRS Table 1, Table 2, Table 3, Table 4 and Table 5.)

Required:

a-1. What is the maximum amount of §179 expense Timberline may deduct for 2018?

a-2. What is Timberline’s §179 carryforward to 2019, if any?

b. What would Timberline’s maximum depreciation deduction be for 2018 assuming no bonus depreciation? (Round your intermediate calculations to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

c. What would Timberline’s maximum depreciation deduction be for 2018 if the machinery cost $3,020,000 instead of $482,000 and assuming no bonus depreciation? (Round your intermediate calculations to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

Q1. Company ABC has the following income: 2014 $10,000 2015 $15,000 2016 $(1,000) 2017 $(30,000) 2018 $5,000 Please JEs to record loss carryback and forward for 2016, 2017 and 2018 Q2. Company ABC bought an equipment for $20,000 in 2015, with useful life of 5 years $5,000 residual value amortized using straight-line method. Prepare a table to illustrate the differences accounting income vs taxable income caused by this equipment. Assume, this equipment was sold at the end of2017 for $11,000. Please prepare JEs for 2015, 2016 and 2017 Q3. Company ABC has accounting income $500 for year 2016, 2017 and 2018, with following balance 2015 2016 2017 2018 Accounts Payable 100 110 120 90 Unearned Revenue 100 50 30 0 Prepaid Expense 100 80 40 0 Accounts Receivable 100 110 80 100 What are the taxable income for 2016, 2017 and 2018? Prepare all related JEs for these three years.

On January 1, 2018, Maywood Hydraulics leased drilling equipment from Aqua Leasing for a four-year period ending December 31, 2021, at which time possession of the leased asset will revert back to Aqua. The equipment cost Aqua $434,644 and has an expected economic life of five years. Aqua expects the residual value at December 31, 2018, to be $70,000. Negotiations led to Maywood guaranteeing a $100,000 residual value.

Equal payments under the lease are $140,000 and are due on December 31 of each year with the first payment being made on December 31, 2018. Maywood is aware that Aqua used a 5% interest rate when calculating lease payments. (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. & 2. Prepare the appropriate entries for Maywood on January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2018, related to the lease. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field.)

On June 30, 2018, Georgia-Atlantic, Inc., leased warehouse equipment from Builders, Inc. The lease agreement calls for Georgia-Atlantic to make semiannual lease payments of $478,767 over a 4-year lease term, payable each June 30 and December 31, with the first payment at June 30, 2018. Georgia-Atlantic's incremental borrowing rate is 9.0%, the same rate Builders used to calculate lease payment amounts. Builders manufactured the equipment at a cost of $2.8 million. (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 at which Builders is “selling” the equipment (present value of the lease payments) at June 30, 2018.
2. What amounts related to the lease would Builders report in its balance sheet at December 31, 2018 (ignore taxes)?
3. What amounts related to the lease would Builders report in its income statement for the year ended December 31, 2018 (ignore taxes)?

Southwest Corporation issued bonds with the following details: Face value: $500,000 Interest: 8 percent per year payable each December 31 Terms: Bonds dated January 1, 2018, due five years from that date The annual accounting period ends December 31. The bonds were issued at 105 on January 1, 2018, when the market interest rate was 7 percent. Assume the company uses straight-line amortization and adjusts for any rounding errors when recording interest expense in the final year. Required: 1. Compute the cash received from the bond issuance in dollars. TIP: The issue price typically is quoted at a percentage of face value. 2. & 3. Prepare the journal entry to record the issuance of the bonds and the payment of interest on December 31, 2018 and 2019. 4-a. How much interest expense would be reported on the income statements for 2018 and 2019? 4-b. Compute the bond value which should be reported on the balance sheets at December 31, 2018 and 2019