The purchasing and supply department needs to forecast the number of tubes of adhesive being ordered. The data for several months is supplied below. Be careful since the data is listed beginning with the most recent. The forecasting method to be used here is exponential smoothing accounting for seasonality with a smoothing constant of 0.35 and a previous forecast (with seasonality) of 635. Please round your forecast to the nearest whole number.

On January 1, 2020, Lawrence Co. began construction of a building to be used as its office headquarters. The building is expected to be completed on December 31, 2020. Expenditures on this project during 2020 were as follows:
                January 1st          $ 160,000
March 1st               420,000
June 1st                  270,000
October 31st           165,000
On Jan. 1, 2020, the company obtained a $600,000 specific construction loan with a 7% interest rate. The loan was outstanding during the entire construction period. The company’s other interest-bearing debts included two long-term notes of $480,000 and $900,000 with interest rates of 10% and 11%, respectively. Both notes were outstanding during the entire construction period.

Instruction:
(a) Determine the amount of interest capitalized for 2020. Please show your work (i.e. the weighted average accumulated expenditure, the actual interest, the weighted average interest rate, and the avoidable interest) to support your final answer. Please round the WA interest rate to four decimal places when necessary.      

    Answer: The amount of interest capitalized for 2020 is                                                            .
(b) Regardless your answer in (a), determine the amount of avoidable interest for 2020 assuming that the weighted average accumulated expenditure is $534,000 (other things being equal).

The Eserine Wood Corporation manufactures desks. Most of the company’s desks are standard models that are sold at catalogue prices. At December 31, 2020, the following finished desks appear in the company’s inventory:

The 2020 catalogue was in effect through November 2020, and the 2021 catalogue is effective as of December 1, 2020. All catalogue prices are net of the usual discounts. Generally, the company tries to obtain a 20% gross margin on the selling price and it has usually been successful in achieving this.

a) Explain the rationale for using the lower of cost and net realizable rule for inventories.

b) Explain the impact if inventory was valued at lower of cost and net realizable value on a total basis.

David Wong, the product manager of KiKi Company, was reviewing the production schedule for the last quarter of 2020. He noted that the company planned to sell 4,000 units during the year and keep a minimum closing inventory level at 100 units on 31 December 2020. As at 30 September 2020, the following data was reported.

Units

Inventory, 1 January 2020 0

Production 3,000

Sales 2,700

Inventory, 30 September 2020 300

At the beginning of the year, the company rented a warehouse that could store its inventory up to 1,250 units. The company had a maximum production capacity of 2,300 units per quarter.

Required:

(a) Assume that KiKi Company adopted marginal costing,
(i) what is the minimum units that the company should produce during the last quarter of 2020?

(ii) will the number of units produced affect the company’s profit or loss for the year? Explain.

(b) Assume that the company adopted absorption costing and David was given an annual bonus based on the company’s reported profit. If David wanted to maximize his bonus in 2020, how many units would he produce? Explain.

(c) Advise the management of the company on the costing method that should be chosen to determine David’s bonus?

The accounting department needs to forecast the profit for a subsidiary. The data for several months is supplied below. Be careful since the data is listed beginning with the most recent. The forecasting method to be used here is exponential smoothing with trend accounting for seasonality given a smoothing constant (alpha) of 0.69, a trend smoothing constant (delta) of 0.3, a previous trend amount, seasonally adjusted, of 65, and a previous seasonal forecast of 582. Please round your forecast to the nearest whole number.

As of December 31, 2020 Big USA Company owns a foreign subsidiary (Taco) based in Mexico. Big is in the process of preparing consolidated financial statements and must translate the trial balance of Taco to U.S. Dollars. Selected financial information of Taco in pesos is presented below.

                                                                                       Pesos

Inventory 12/31/20                                                       300,000

Purchases in 2020                                                         2,600,000

Inventory 12/31/19                                                       420,000

Equipment purchased as follows

            1/1/18                                                             250,000                        

            Purchases during 2018                                      150,000

            Purchases during 2019                                     350,000

            Purchases during 2020                                     620,000

All equipment is depreciated over 8 years on a straight-line basis with a full year taken in year of acquisition.

The inventory turnover rate is 90 days.

Relevant Exchange Rates                                Pesos per dollar

1/1/18                                                                          8.0

Average Rates 2018                                                       8.5

Average Rate   2019                                                      9.3

Average Rate 2020                                                        9.8

Rate 4^th quarter 2019                                                     8.9

Rate 4^th quarter 2020                                                     9.6

Current rate 12/31/18                                                   8.9

Current Rate 12/31/19                                                  9.2

Current Rate 12/31/20                                                 9.9

REQUIRED (In US Dollars)

1. Assuming the U.S. Dollar is functional currency determine following

            Cost Goods Sold for 2020

            Balance in Equipment 12/31/20

            Balance in Accumulated Depreciation 12/31/20

            Depreciation Expense – 2020

2. Assuming the Peso is functional currency determine following

            Cost Goods Sold for 2020

            Balance in Equipment 12/31/20

            Balance in Accumulated Depreciation 12/31/20

            Depreciation Expense – 2020

Aykroyd Inc. has sponsored a noncontributory, defined benefit pension plan for its employees since 1997. Prior to 2020, cumulative net pension expense recognized equaled cumulative contributions to the plan.Other relevant information about the pension plan on January 1, 2020, is as follows:1.The company has 200 employees. All these employees are expected to receive benefits under the plan. The average remaining service life per employee is 12 years.2.The projected benefit obligation amounted to $5,000,000 and the fair value of pension plan assets was $3,000,000. The market-related asset value was also $3,000,000. Unrecognized prior service cost was $2,000,000. On December 31, 2020, the projected benefit obligation and the accumulated benefit obligation were $4,850,000 and $4,025,000, respectively. The fair value of the pension plan assets amounted to $4,100,000 at the end of the year. A 10% settlement rate and a 10% expected asset return rate were used in the actuarial present value computations in the pension plan. The present value of benefits attributed by the pension benefit formula to employee service in 2020 amounted to $200,000. The employer's contribution to the plan assets amounted to $775,000 in 2020. This problem assumes no payment of pension benefits. Instructions (Round all amounts to the nearest dollar.)

ABC Ltd., has been facing cash shortage problem for many years. You have just joined the company and made the proposal to prepare cash budget for controlling of cash shortage problem. Management has given you the green signal to prepare the cash budget and made the projection for requirement of cash through commercial bank channel in the coming period. The following information were gathered for preparing the cash budget.

1. Sales budgets

November, 2019…………………………. Rs.200,000

December, 2019……………………………    300,000

January, 2020……………………………..     400,000

            February, 2020……………………………     500,000

            March, 2020………………………………..    600,000

All sales are made on credit basis and customers follow the following patter to pay;

1. 40 % pay in the month of sales.
2. 50 % in the following month of sales.
3. 10 % pay in the second month of sales.

1. Purchase budgets

1. Purchases are made equal to 60 % of the respective month sales at beginning of the month. 50% of purchase amount is paid in the month of purchases and 50% in the following month of purchases
2. Cash operating expenses per month is estimated Rs.80,000.
3. Dividend is expected to be paid Rs.100,000 in the month of January, 2020.
4. Tax is to be paid Rs.50,000 in the month of march, 2020.
5. A new plant costing Rs. 250,000 to be purchased in the month of Feb.,2020.
6. Cash on hand on 1^st January, 2020 is Rs.100,000.
7. A minimum cash balance of Rs.150,000 to be maintained from 31^st January,2020 on ward, company has made arrangement with the local bank a line of credit to meet its cash requirement and if excess cash available it would be paid to bank to pay the loan.

Required: Prepare a cash budget for the month of January, February, March, 2020.

Use the data in the following table for the next seven questions. Note that "%∆" is shorthand for "percentage change." If the answer is a percentage, please just enter the number. Thus, say an answer of yours is 3.5%, then below you would enter "3.5" (without the quotes) in the box below. Be careful not to include the percent symbol. Also, please use just one decimal place.

Q1: Is the rate of inflation for consumers from 2019 to 2020 correct? Yes or NO

What was the rate of economic growth from 2019 to 2020? (As in the directions above, just enter the percent number, such as 3.5 for 3.5%).

What was the inflation rate for the entire economy from 2019 to 2020?

Q2: What was the real interest rate for a consumer purchasing a house in 2020? They'll be taking out a home loan, often called a mortgage.

Please convert the nominal price for an apple from 1990 to the prices of 2020. Assume that a consumer purchases it.

What was the percentage change in the real price of apples from 2019 to 2020 for consumers?

Deflate the nominal price of apples from 2020 for consumers (that is, convert the 2020 nominal price to the base year of the CPI). Please use two decimal place for this answer.

Required: Prepare journal entries for each of the following transactions under the Perpetual Inventory method—include recording date and all required revenue, expense and balance sheet accounts. The Widget Company sells only one product (widgets) and uses FIFO. December 31, 2019 inventory is as follows:

1. January 2, 2020: Received 1,000 widgets with a unit cost of $6.00. The units were shipped from the supplier on December 29, 2019 FOB shipping point. The widgets were not included in the December 31, 2019 inventory. Payment terms are 2/10, net 30. The company uses the Net Method for recording payment discounts.
2. January 5, 2020: Sold 3,000 widgets for $11.00 each and shipped FOB shipping point. Payment terms are 1/10, net 30. The company uses the Gross Method for recording sales discounts.
3. January 6, 2020: Paid in full for the 1,000 widgets received on January 2, 2020.
4. January 10, 2020: Customer returned 200 of the widgets sold and shipped on January 5, 2020. All items were in excellent condition and returned to inventory.
5. January 15, 2020: Received 2,500 widgets with unit cost of $90. Payment terms are net 30—no payment discount offered. Atlas Freight Company billed Widgets $250.00 for delivering the widgets and Widgets paid Atlas immediately.
6. Calculate the following for January 2020:
   1. Inventory quantity on hand and account balance at the end of the month
   2. Net Sales, Cost of Goods Sold and Gross Profit for January 2020