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On March 31, 2020, Wolfson Corporation acquired all of the outstanding common stocks of Barney Corporation...

On March 31, 2020, Wolfson Corporation acquired all of the outstanding common stocks of Barney Corporation for $17,000,000 in cash. The book values and fair values of Barney’s assets and liabilities were as follows:

Book Value

Fair Value

Current assets

$ 6,000,000

$ 7,500,000

Property, plant, and equipment

11,000,000

14,000,000

Other assets

1,000,000

1,500,000

Current liabilities

4,000,000

4,000,000

Long-term liabilities

6,000,000

5,500,000

Required:

1. Calculate the amount of goodwill (2 points).

Acquisition price =

Fair value of net assets acquired =

Goodwill =

2. Prepare Wolfson Corporation’s journal entry to record the acquisition (3 points).

           

Debit

Credit

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Lancer, Inc. (a U.S.-based company), establishes a subsidiary in a foreign country on January 1, 2016....

Lancer, Inc. (a U.S.-based company), establishes a subsidiary in a foreign country on January 1, 2016. The following account balances for the year ending December 31, 2017, are stated in kanquo (KQ), the local currency:

Sales KQ 150,000
Inventory (bought on 3/1/17) 75,000
Equipment (bought on 1/1/16) 50,000
Rent expense 10,000
Dividends (declared on 10/1/17) 20,000
Notes receivable (to be collected in 2020) 31,000
Accumulated depreciation—equipment 15,000
Salary payable 4,000
Depreciation expense 5,000

The following U.S.$ per KQ exchange rates are applicable:

January 1, 2016 $0.14
Average for 2016 0.15
January 1, 2017 0.19
March 1, 2017 0.20
October 1, 2017 0.22
December 31, 2017 0.23
Average for 2017 0.21

Lancer is preparing account balances to produce consolidated financial statements.

  1. Assuming that the kanquo is the functional currency, what exchange rate would be used to report each of these accounts in U.S. dollar consolidated financial statements?

  2. Assuming that the U.S. dollar is the functional currency, what exchange rate would be used to report each of these accounts in U.S. dollar consolidated financial statements?

(Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Account Exchange Rate
a. Sales
Inventory
Equipment
Rent expense
Dividends
Notes receivable
Accumulated depreciation-equipment
Salary payable
Depreciation expense
b. Sales
Inventory
Equipment
Rent expense
Dividends
Notes receivable
Accumulated depreciation-equipment
Salary payable
Depreciation expense

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Stephenson Real Estate Company was founded 25 years ago by the current CEO, Robert Stephenson. The...

Stephenson Real Estate Company was founded 25 years ago by the current CEO, Robert Stephenson. The company purchases real estate, including land and buildings, and rents the property to tenants. The company has shown a profit every year for the past 18 years, and the shareholders are satisfied with the company’s management. Prior to founding Stephenson Real Estate, Robert was the founder and CEO of a failed alpaca farming operation. The resulting bankruptcy made him extremely averse to debt financing. As a result, the company is entirely equity financed, with 9 million shares of common stock outstanding. The stock currently trades at $37.80 per share.

Stephenson is evaluating a plan to purchase a huge tract of land in the southeastern United States for $95 million. The land will subsequently be leased to tenant farmers. This purchase is expected to increase Stephenson’s annual pretax earnings by $18.75 million in perpetuity. Jennifer Weyand, the company’s new CFO, has been put in charge of the project. Jennifer has determined that the company’s current cost of capital is 10.2 percent. She feels that the company would be more valuable if it included debt in its capital structure, so she is evaluating whether the company should issue debt to entirely finance the project. Based on some conversations with investment banks, she thinks that the company can issue bonds at par value with a 6 percent coupon rate. From her analysis, she also believes that a capital structure in the range of 70 percent equityy30 percent debt would be optimal. If the company goes beyond 30 percent debt, its bonds would carry a lower rating and a much higher coupon because the possibility of financial distress and the associated costs would rise sharply. Stephenson has a 40 percent corporate tax rate (state and federal).
3.Suppose Stephenson decides to issue equity to finance the purchase.

a. What is the net present value of the project?

b. Construct Stephenson’s market value balance sheet after it announces that the firm will finance the purchase using equity. What would be the new price per share of the firm’s stock? How many shares will Stephenson need to issue to finance the purchase?

c. Construct Stephenson’s market value balance sheet after the equity issue but before the purchase has been made. How many shares of common stock does Stephenson have outstanding? What is the price per share of the firm’s stock?

d. Construct Stephenson’s market value balance sheet after the purchase has been made.

4. Suppose Stephenson decides to issue debt to finance the purchase.

What will the market value of the Stephenson company be if the purchase is financed with debt?

Construct Stephenson’s market value balance sheet after both the debt issue and the land purchase. What is the price per share of the firm’s stock?

5. Which method of financing maximizes the per-share stock price of Stephenson’s equity?

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Record entries from the transaction and event list provided below in proper journal entry format. Show...

Record entries from the transaction and event list provided below in proper journal entry format. Show your work if the entry requires you to make a calculation (i.e. depreciation, interest expense, etc.).

October

29. Your top sales officer met with a new customer to discuss a potential future contract. She informs you that the customer is considering signing the $200,000 deal, which would become effective February 2020. 6 ACCY1 Accounting Fundamentals Group Project

30. On October 1st, you purchased 11,250 units at the decreased price of $61 per unit. The purchase was made on account.

31. On October 10th you paid your supplier $132,000 cash for inventory purchased on account.

November 32.

November 1st, the CEO, in an effort to adjust ratios, ordered the repurchasing of the company’s own stock. The quantity of stock repurchased was 175,000 shares.

33. Purchased a three-year building insurance policy on November 1st for $442,000 cash. [Adjusting Entry Required]

34. On November 17th a customer pays you $450,000 for work that you will finish in January of 2020.

35. November 19th, your customers bought 8,650 units of your product at $110 per unit. The cost of this product is determined by the method of inventory valuation used by your company. Customers paid you 55% in cash and the remainder was on account.

36. An employment contract is signed with a new regional manager. You have offered him $150,000 per year. He will not begin working for the company until March 2020. December

37. Wages earned from July 1st through December 31st was $480,000. Wages earned between Dec. 15th and Dec 31st amounting to $27,500 was not paid this until Jan 7th.

38. At the end of the year, $42,000 cash was paid to the local bank for the long-term note payable taken out on January 1, 2019. $38,000 of this was applied to the loan principal. The remaining amount was the accumulated interest due for 2019.

39. On December 31st, the marketable (trading) securities you purchased on September 23, 2019 transaction now has a fair market value of $134,000.

40. On December 31st, $480,000 depreciation expense for the year was calculated for equipment purchased before January 1, 2019.

41. On December 31st, you declare dividends of $.32 per share to be paid at a later date.

42. On December 31st, the utility bill was paid for the year. The amount was $66,000 and you paid in cash.

43. On December 31st, you pay in cash recurring interest on the long-term note acquired prior to the year 2017. HINT: See prior year financial statements.

44. On December 31st, your company earned interest on the average 2019 cash balance which will be paid January 5th, 2020. The average interest rate for the year was 4.0%. Note: Compute the average cash using only the beginning and ending balance.

45. By December 31st, 85 of the prepaid service hours from March 20, 2019 were completed.

46. A count of office supplies indicated that $27,000 of office supplies had been used by December 31st.

47. Since the inception of your company, you have been able to collect 84% of your ending accounts receivable balance from customers that bought your product on account. Based on this information, adjust your allowance for bad debt account. NOTE: Use your 2019 ending accounts receivable balance to make this calculation.

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You are the audit senior of Sparrow Ltd (Sparrow) for the year ended 30 June 2020....

You are the audit senior of Sparrow Ltd (Sparrow) for the year ended 30 June 2020. As is
customary in completing your examination, you request that the chief executive officer (CEO)
of Sparrow, Michal Theobald, furnish you with a management representation letter. Michael
reads the representations that you are requesting that he make, and he refuses to furnish the
letter, stating:
You are asking me to tell you all kinds of things that I hired you to figure out. For
example, you are asking me to say that ‘all known assets of the company at balance
date were recorded in the books of account. I paid you to carry out an audit and you
should know whether or not that’s true yourself.
Required:
If the client does not accept your explanation and continues to refuse to furnish the letter, what
will be the impact on your auditor’s report?

In: Accounting

The comparative balance sheets for 2021 and 2020 are given below for Surmise Company. Net income...

The comparative balance sheets for 2021 and 2020 are given below for Surmise Company. Net income for 2021 was $90 million.

SURMISE COMPANY
Comparative Balance Sheets
December 31, 2021 and 2020
($ in millions)
2021 2020
Assets
Cash $ 23 $ 31
Accounts receivable 95 117
Less: Allowance for uncollectible accounts (29 ) (4 )
Prepaid expenses 24 21
Inventory 128 110
Long-term investment 95 50
Land 110 110
Buildings and equipment 441 295
Less: Accumulated depreciation (152 ) (118 )
Patent 30 33
$ 765 $ 645
Liabilities
Accounts payable $ 24 $ 52
Accrued liabilities 2 25
Notes payable 54 0
Lease liability 137 0
Bonds payable 70 148
Shareholders’ Equity
Common stock 74 50
Paid-in capital—excess of par 271 205
Retained earnings 133 165
$ 765 $ 645


Required:
Prepare the statement of cash flows of Surmise Company for the year ended December 31, 2021. Use the indirect method to present cash flows from operating activities because you do not have sufficient information to use the direct method. You will need to make reasonable assumptions concerning the reasons for changes in some account balances. A spreadsheet or T-account analysis will be helpful. (Hint: The right to use a building was acquired with a seven-year lease agreement. Annual lease payments of $9 million are paid at January 1 of each year starting in 2021.) (Enter your answers in millions (i.e., 10,000,000 should be entered as 10). Amounts to be deducted should be indicated with a minus sign.)

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The comparative balance sheets for 2021 and 2020 are given below for Surmise Company. Net income...

The comparative balance sheets for 2021 and 2020 are given below for Surmise Company. Net income for 2021 was $86 million.

SURMISE COMPANY
Comparative Balance Sheets
December 31, 2021 and 2020
($ in millions)
2021 2020
Assets
Cash $ 43 $ 49
Accounts receivable 93 113
Less: Allowance for uncollectible accounts (28 ) (5 )
Prepaid expenses 23 19
Inventory 141 125
Long-term investment 73 30
Land 106 106
Buildings and equipment 423 285
Less: Accumulated depreciation (146 ) (114 )
Patent 28 29
$ 756 $ 637
Liabilities
Accounts payable $ 22 $ 48
Accrued liabilities 3 23
Notes payable 50 0
Lease liability 131 0
Bonds payable 68 142
Shareholders’ Equity
Common stock 72 50
Paid-in capital—excess of par 267 205
Retained earnings 143 169
$ 756 $ 637


Required:
Prepare the statement of cash flows of Surmise Company for the year ended December 31, 2021. Use the indirect method to present cash flows from operating activities because you do not have sufficient information to use the direct method. You will need to make reasonable assumptions concerning the reasons for changes in some account balances. A spreadsheet or T-account analysis will be helpful. (Hint:The right to use a building was acquired with a seven-year lease agreement. Annual lease payments of $7 million are paid at January 1 of each year starting in 2021.)(Enter your answers in millions (i.e., 10,000,000 should be entered as 10). Amounts to be deducted should be indicated with a minus sign.)

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The comparative balance sheets for 2021 and 2020 are given below for Surmise Company. Net income...

The comparative balance sheets for 2021 and 2020 are given below for Surmise Company. Net income for 2021 was $80 million.

SURMISE COMPANY
Comparative Balance Sheets
December 31, 2021 and 2020
($ in millions)
2021 2020
Assets
Cash $ 55 $ 58
Accounts receivable 89 106
Less: Allowance for uncollectible accounts (24 ) (4 )
Prepaid expenses 19 16
Inventory 132 110
Long-term investment 89 50
Land 98 98
Buildings and equipment 400 270
Less: Accumulated depreciation (137 ) (108 )
Patent 25 26
$ 746 $ 622
Liabilities
Accounts payable $ 19 $ 42
Accrued liabilities 4 20
Notes payable 48 0
Lease liability 122 0
Bonds payable 64 132
Shareholders’ Equity
Common stock 69 50
Paid-in capital—excess of par 261 205
Retained earnings 159 173
$ 746 $ 622


Required:
Prepare the statement of cash flows of Surmise Company for the year ended December 31, 2021. Use the indirect method to present cash flows from operating activities because you do not have sufficient information to use the direct method. You will need to make reasonable assumptions concerning the reasons for changes in some account balances. A spreadsheet or T-account analysis will be helpful. (Hint: The right to use a building was acquired with a seven-year lease agreement. Annual lease payments of $8 million are paid at January 1 of each year starting in 2021.) (Enter your answers in millions (i.e., 10,000,000 should be entered as 10). Amounts to be deducted should be indicated with a minus sign.)

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STRATEGY EXECUTION——“Strategic Risk Management” 1. Assume you are presenting (as a consultant) the concept of Strategic...

STRATEGY EXECUTION——“Strategic Risk Management”

1. Assume you are presenting (as a consultant) the concept of Strategic Risk Management to the executive team at a company that is considering implementing it for strategy execution. The pre-reads for the session included Strategic Risk Assessment Frameworks: A Guidebook for Management Teams Mark L. Frigo and Ricard J. Anderson 2017 and Creating and Protecting Value: Understanding and Implementing ERM Anderson and Frigo (COSO 2020), The CEO asks the following question: What are the primary benefits of Strategic Risk Management and Strategic Risk Assessment? In one short paragraph, please describe how you would reply to this question.

2. Situation: Assume you are presenting (as a consultant) the concept of Strategic Risk Management to the executive team at a company that is considering implementing it for strategy execution. One of the pre-reads for the session is Strategic Risk Management Excerpt from Strategic Analysis IMA SMA 2020 Frigo and Krumwiede, the CFO asks the following question: What are the strengths and limitations of Strategic Risk Management? In one short paragraph, please describe how you would reply to this question.

3. Situation: Assume you are presenting (as a consultant) the concept of Strategic Risk Management to the executive team at a company that is considering implementing it for strategy execution. One of the pre-reads for the session is Strategic Risk Management Excerpt from Strategic Analysis IMA SMA 2020 Frigo and Krumwiede, the CFO asks the following question: What role can CFOs play in Strategic Risk Management? In one short paragraph, please describe how you would reply to this question.

4. For one of the following companies (UPS, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Harley-Davidson, Southwest Airlines, Abbott, Marriott International), applying the DuPont ROI model, please describe in one short paragraph the top strategic risks of the company using the Strategic Risk Management framework described in Strategic Risk Assessment Frameworks: A Guidebook for Management Teams Mark L. Frigo and Ricard J. Anderson 2017 and Creating and Protecting Value: Understanding and Implementing ERM Anderson and Frigo (COSO 2020).

5. For one of the following companies (UPS, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Harley-Davidson, Southwest Airlines, Abbott, Marriott International), applying the DuPont ROI model, please describe in one short paragraph what Genuine Assets are at risk of the company using the Strategic Risk Management framework described in Strategic Risk Assessment Frameworks: A Guidebook for Management Teams Mark L. Frigo and Ricard J. Anderson 2017 and Creating and Protecting Value: Understanding and Implementing ERM Anderson and Frigo (COSO 2020).

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As the CEO of a company, discuss how you can apply the FOUR (4) types of...

As the CEO of a company, discuss how you can apply the FOUR (4) types of growth strategies.

In: Operations Management