You are analyzing the cost of debt for a firm. You know that the firm’s 14-year maturity, 6.6 percent coupon bonds are selling at a price of $964.67. The bonds pay interest semiannually. If these bonds are the only debt outstanding for the firm, answer the following questions.   What is the current YTM of the bonds? What is the after-tax cost of debt for this firm if it has a marginal tax rate?

On January 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, Regis Company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. Withholdings from the employees' salaries include FICA Social Security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, FICA Medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,360 of medical insurance deductions, and $960 of union dues. No employee earned more than $7,000 in this first period.

Calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of Regis Company. Regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 5% of the first $7,000 paid each employee. The federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60%. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Prepare the journal entry to record Regis Company's January 8 (employee) payroll expenses and liabilities. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Prepare the journal entry to record Regis’s (employer) payroll taxes resulting from the January 8 payroll. Regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 5% of the first $7,000 paid each employee. The federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60%. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

Jesper Manufacturing is preparing its master budget for the first quarter of the upcoming year. The following data pertain to Jesper Manufacturing's operations:

a. Actual sales in December were $76,000. Selling price per unit is projected to remain stable at $9 per unit throughout the budget period. Sales for the first five months of the upcoming year are budgeted to be as follows:

b. Sales are 30% cash and 70% credit. All credit sales are collected in the month following the sale.

c. Jesper Manufacturing has a policy that states that each month's ending inventory of finished goods should be 10% of the following month's sales (in units).

d. Of each month's direct material purchases, 20% are paid for in the month of purchase, while the remainder is paid for in the month following purchase. Two kilograms of direct material is needed per unit at $1.40/kg. Ending inventory of direct materials should be 20% of next month's production needs.

e. Monthly manufacturing conversion costs are $6,500 for factory rent, $2,900 for other fixed manufacturing expenses, and $1.40 per unit for variable manufacturing overhead. No depreciation is included in these figures. All expenses are paid in the month in which they are incurred.

f. Computer equipment for the administrative offices will be purchased in the upcoming quarter. In January, Jesper Manufacturing will purchase equipment for $5,800 (cash), while February's cash expenditure will be $11,600 and March's cash expenditure will be $15,800.

g. Operating expenses are budgeted to be $1.20 per unit sold plus fixed operating expenses of $1,400 per month. All operating expenses are paid in the month in which they are incurred.

h. Depreciation on the building and equipment for the general and administrative offices is budgeted to be $5,600 for the entire quarter, which includes depreciation on new acquisitions.

i. Jesper Manufacturing has a policy that the ending cash balance in each month must be at least $4,400. It has a line of credit with a local bank. The company can borrow in increments of $1,000 at the beginning of each month, up to a total outstanding loan balance of $130,000. The interest rate on these loans is 1% per month simple interest (not compounded). Jesper Manufacturing pays down on the line of credit balance if it has excess funds at the end of the quarter. The company also pays the accumulated interest at the end of the quarter on the funds borrowed during the quarter.

j. The company's income tax rate is projected to be 30% of operating income less interest expense. The company pays $10,800 cash at the end of February in estimated taxes.

Requirements:

1. Prepare a schedule of cash collections for January, February, and March, and for the quarter in total.

2. Prepare a production budget. (Hint: Unit sales = Sales in dollars / Selling price per unit.)

3. Prepare a direct materials budget.

4. Prepare a cash payments budget for the direct material purchases from Requirement 3.

5. Prepare a cash payments budget for conversion costs. 6. Prepare a cash payments budget for operating expenses.

7. Prepare a combined cash budget.

8. Calculate the budgeted manufacturing cost per unit. (Assume that fixed manufacturing overhead is budgeted to be $0.80 per unit for the year.)

9. Prepare a budgeted income statement for the quarter ending March 31. (Hint: Cost of goods sold = Budgeted cost of manufacturing each unit x Number of units sold.)

10. Prepare a partial budgeted balance sheet for March 31. Include Loans Payable and Income Tax Payable.

NOTE: Only need requirements 1,2,3,8,9,10.

The bond is expected to be a 4-year, $100,000 face value, 4% bond with an effective annual yield of 8%. Interest will be payable semiannually. If all goes well, the bond will be issued on March 1, 2021, and the first interest payment date will be September 1, 2021. The bonds are expected to be callable at 101 at any time on or after March 1, 2023.

Include an amortization schedule using the effective interest method.

A) Determine the AGI this year for the taxpayer(s).

B) Determine the amount of itemized deductions the taxpayer(s) has (have) available this year.

C) Using the 2017 standard deduction amounts (assuming no additional amounts for age or blindness) from Appendix D in of your book, state whether the taxpayer(s) itemize or take the standard deduction. I am not asking for you to state the amount of either the standard deduction or the itemized deductions chosen.

D) Use the individual tax formula and a flat 20% tax rate on all types of taxable income to determine the amount of taxes due or refund amount. Remember to clearly marking the answer as either the amount of tax due or a refund due (e.g. refunds are negative amounts as represented with parentheses or a negative sign, alternatively you can just write “refund” next to it). Assume AMT does not apply, and there are no tax credits available.

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2. Shela is single and works for a law firm. In the 2017 tax year, she made $110,000 this year in salary and $10,000 of gross interest income from a corporate bond. Her law firm withheld $16,000 of tax from her salary this year. In addition to the above, the following occurred this year:

- She paid $7,000 in interest on her mortgage for her primary residence.

- She had a rental loss (had greater expenses as a landlord than revenue) by $2,000.

- She sold stock she had held for 9 months at $4,000 less than her tax basis at the time of the sale.

- Shela owned a 20% interest in a partnership during the year. The partnership had a $20,000 loss from operations during the year and made no distributions.

- Shela volunteers for the Red Cross using her legal skills to do administrative work for the charity. She estimates her time volunteering is worth $5,000.

Wrangler Company is a U.S. firm conducting a financial plan for the next year. It has no foreign subsidiaries, but more than half of its sales are from exports. Its foreign cash inflows to be received from exporting and cash outflows to be paid for imported supplies over the next year are shown in the following table:

The spot rates as of today are:

(a) Based on the information provided, determine the net transaction exposure of each foreign currency in dollars.

(b) Assume that the Canadian dollar net inflows may range from C$20,000,000 to C$60,000,000 over the next year. Explain the risk of hedging C$50,000,000 in net inflows. How can Wrangler Company avoid such a risk? Is there any tradeoff resulting from your strategy to avoid that risk?

Suppose Samantha dies this year with a gross estate of $15 million and no adjusted prior gifts. Calculate the amount of estate tax due (if any) under the following scenarios:

1. Samantha’s husband, Mark, is the sole beneficiary.
2. Mark receives $10 million from the estate and the remainder is donated to the American Red Cross.
3. Mark receives $10 million from the estate and their son, Luke, receives $5 million.
4. Mark receives $10 million and $5 million is placed in a trust. The trustee is required to pay income to Mark for her life and the remainder to their son, Luke.

Part B Submission Requirements:

• Submit with all calculations shown.

Western Industrial Products is considering a project with a five-year life and an initial cost of $110,000. The discount rate for the project is 13 percent. The firm expects to sell 2,400 units a year. The cash flow per unit is $25. The firm will have the option to abandon this project at the end of year three (after year three's sales) at which time the project's assets could be sold for an estimated $55,000. The firm should abandon the project at the end of year three if the expected level of annual sales, starting with year 4, falls to _____ units or less. Ignore taxes.

1,443 units

2,230 units

928 units

375 units

1,319 units

Aquamarine plans to manufacture two lines of chairs in the coming year – lounge and patio. The company is considering introducing an activity-based costing system. Given below are each activity, its cost and its related activity driver.

The level of activity for the year is:

Required

1. Under an activity-based costing system, what is the activity cost per unit of activity driver for assembly?

DataSpan, Inc., automated its plant at the start of the current year and installed a flexible manufacturing system. The company is also evaluating its suppliers and moving toward Lean Production. Many adjustment problems have been encountered, including problems relating to performance measurement. After much study, the company has decided to use the performance measures below, and it has gathered data relating to these measures for the first four months of operations.

Management has asked for your help in computing throughput time, delivery cycle time, and MCE. The following average times have been logged over the last four months:

Required:

1-a. Compute the throughput time for each month.

1-b. Compute the delivery cycle time for each month.

1-c. Compute the manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE) for each month.

2. Evaluate the company’s performance over the last four months.

3-a. Refer to the move time, process time, and so forth, given for month 4. Assume that in month 5 the move time, process time, and so forth, are the same as in month 4, except that through the use of Lean Production the company is able to completely eliminate the queue time during production. Compute the new throughput time and MCE.

3-b. Refer to the move time, process time, and so forth, given for month 4. Assume in month 6 that the move time, process time, and so forth, are again the same as in month 4, except that the company is able to completely eliminate both the queue time during production and the inspection time. Compute the new throughput time and MCE.