The following information is from Alberta Ltd financial statements for the year ended Dec 31, 2020: - Net income for the year $ 460,000. - 8% Convertible bonds issued at par $1,000,000 ($1000 per bond), each bond convertible into 20 common shares $1,000,000 - 6% non-cumulative preferred shares $100 par value. $1,000,000 - Common shares 120,000 authorized, 60,000 issued and outstanding $ 600,000 - Stock options (call option granted in a prior year) to purchase 30,000 common shares at $10 per common share. - Average market price per common share during 2020 was $12, and the tax rate for 2020 is 35% - Alberta declare and pay $100,000 dividends during 2020 There were no changes during 2020 in the number of common shares, preferred shares, stock options or convertible bonds. Also for simplicity, ignore the requirement to book the convertible bonds’ equity portion separately. Instruction: A) Calculate the basic EPS for 2020 B) Calculate diluted EPS for 2020 (Show your calculation for each transaction/ affect)

QUESTION 3

A manager at Stalemate, a chess business retailing chess boards and providing chess lessons, requires help with interpreting some of the accounting transactions that took place during the month of September 2020. The manager has provided you with a list of those transactions below.

Required:

Underneath each transaction in the space provided, write a brief narration describing the economic event that corresponds to that transaction.

Demand and supply. Show in a diagram the effect on the demand curve, the supply

curve, the equilibrium price and quantity of each of the following pairs of events.

a. The market for hand-sanitizers in New York at the beginning of April 2020.

i. The number of Covid-19 cases increases exponentially starting from 1st March 2020;

ii. On March 9, 2020 New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo allowed for state

production of hand-sanitizers.

b. The market for touristic services in Spain in Summer 2020.

i. The European Union imposes travel restrictions to free movement of people (for

leisure) due to the healthcare crisis following the Covid-19 pandemic.

ii. New cleaning protocols require higher standard of sanitization in hotels and public

places to prevent the coronavirus from spreading.

c. The market for real estate in Italy in Spring 2020.

i. Due to the severe restrictions imposed by the lockdown starting from 5th March 2020,

a growing number of families searched for homes with a garden;

ii. The lockdown period produced a GDP fall by 12.4% in second quarter 2020

For your fictitious healthcare service, you will create a balance sheet and income statement based upon the following financial transactions occurring during your start-up year:

6. May 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020: You use $30,000 in supplies to provide healthcare services to your patients each month. You record the use of supplies on the last day of each month.

7. June 1, 2020: You pay your suppliers $80,000 for supplies purchased on credit.

8. July 1, 2020: You receive payments from health insurance companies totaling $250,000.

9. August 1, 2020:

a. You purchase $160,000 of supplies on credit for use in caring for your patients.

b. You receive payments from health insurance companies totaling $320,000

10. September 1, 2020: You receive payments from health insurance companies totaling $225,000.

11. October 1, 2020: You receive payments from health insurance companies totaling $310,000.

Three different companies each purchased trucks on January 1, 2018, for $76,000. Each truck was expected to last four years or 250,000 miles. Salvage value was estimated to be $6,000. All three trucks were driven 81,000 miles in 2018, 55,000 miles in 2019, 46,000 miles in 2020, and 71,000 miles in 2021. Each of the three companies earned $65,000 of cash revenue during each of the four years. Company A uses straight-line depreciation, company B uses double-declining-balance depreciation, and company C uses units-of-production depreciation. Answer each of the following questions. Ignore the effects of income taxes. d-1. Calculate the retained earnings on the December 31, 2021, balance sheet?

Three different companies each purchased trucks on January 1, 2018, for $74,000. Each truck was expected to last four years or 250,000 miles. Salvage value was estimated to be $5,000. All three trucks were driven 80,000 miles in 2018, 60,000 miles in 2019, 45,000 miles in 2020, and 70,000 miles in 2021. Each of the three companies earned $63,000 of cash revenue during each of the four years. Company A uses straight-line depreciation, company B uses double-declining-balance depreciation, and company C uses units-of-production depreciation. Answer each of the following questions. Ignore the effects of income taxes. d-1. Calculate the retained earnings on the December 31, 2021, balance sheet?

3. Former Presidential Candidate John Kerry suggested increasing the minimum wage to $7.00/hour. Economists have estimated the demand and supply curves for low-skilled labor as:

LD =100−4w LS =16w,

where L is the number of low-skilled workers and w is the wage rate.

3a) What is the equilibrium wage and level of employment in the market? Provide a detailed diagram to support your answer.

3b) Calculate the producer surplus workers receive and the consumer surplus that employers receive. Label these in the diagram you created in part A.

3c) How many low-skilled workers will be hired if the minimum wage is set at $7.00?

Illustrate the effect of the minimum wage on your diagram.
3d) What is the change in consumer and producer surplus associated with the minimum

wage?

Case 1–2: True Religion Jeans: Flash in the Pants or Enduring Brand?

Founded in 2002 by Jeff Lubell, True Religion had become one of the largest premium denim brands in the United States by 2012. Although True Religion made its debut in upscale department stores and trendy boutiques a decade earlier, the company owned 86 full price retail stores and 36 outlet stores in the United States as well as 30 stores in international markets by the end of 2012. The company’s domestic retail store business accounted for about 60% of revenues and 64% of operating profit before unallocated corporate expenses in 2012. Just five years earlier, the U.S. retail store segment generated only 17% of sales and 25% of operating profit before unallocated corporate expenses.

Jeff Lubell’s vision of the company had come true—at least partly. The company had transformed itself from a jeans designer into an apparel retailer with it own brand à la Buckle and Diesel. At the same time, True Religion had managed to shift its product mix so that sportswear accounted for almost 35% of sales in its company-owned stores. Lubell felt these two ingredients were critical to establishing True Religion as a “lifestyle brand.” The ultimate in product differentiation, many companies attempt to create so-called “lifestyle” brands that transcend product category and inspire deep consumer loyalty. Lubell felt becoming a lifestyle brand was the key to insulating True Religion from the inevitable fluctuations in fashion trends.

Moreover, True Religion’s sales had grown at an average annual rate of almost 22% from 2007-2012. The company’s return on invested capital was an impressive 27% and its return on average assets was 12% in 2012. Despite these factors, press articles and analyst reports on True Religion described the company as, “the struggling maker of premium denim.”1 A New York Post article entitled “Escape From Hell for True Religion” described private equity firm, TowerBrook, as the company’s “savior,”2 when the company announced it had been acquired by TowerBrook in 2013. Other denim brands, such as Jeff Rudes’ J Brand, appeared to be usurping True Religion’s position as the “must have” denim brand for young consumers.

What had gone wrong at True Religion? Was the change in ownership the answer to the company’s problems? Was premium denim destined to go the way of Flash Dance legwarmers and Crocs as fast fashion from the likes of H&M became more mainstream? Private equity investors had snapped up stakes in both established and up-and-coming premium denim brands in the past five years—leaving just one publicly traded premium jeans maker, Joe’s Jeans. Should investors stay away from the industry?