The following trial balance was extracted from the books of Big Bamboo Limited on December 31, 2020               

Additional Information:

1.      Stock at December 31, 2020 $80,000

2.      Payment of $10,100 for insurance relates to the first quarter of 2021.

3.      Wages owing $4,800

4.      Provision for bad debt is to be increased to $1,500

5.      Depreciation on fixed assets:

-          Motor vehicles 10% on cost

-          Buildings 15 % on the reducing balance method

Required:

Prepare for Big Bamboo Limited:

(a)    An income statement for the year ended December 31, 2020                      

(b)   A statement of financial position as at December 31, 2020                          

please a discussion answer WITH 5-6 SENTENCES ( PARAGRAPH)

THE IDEA ABOUT VOTING IN TEXAS

Texas (and the United States) has come a long way in its history when viewing who has access to the voting booth. When Texas joined the United States in 1845, voting was largely limited to white males who owned property. It took over a century for the ballot box to become much more democratic and inclusive thanks to many changes at the state and federal level. Over this time a number of obstacles were put in place (some overcome) limiting who could vote. For example,

1848 The end of the Mexican-American War guaranteed Mexicans in Texas (also Arizona, California, New Mexico, & Nevada) US citizenship and recognition of Mexican land deeds ensuring the right to vote. However, voting was often denied due to language requirements and the failure to protect land deeds issued in Spanish.  

1856 Property requirements were abolished for voting, but due to a number of other restrictions put in place to keep minority males from voting, only white men benefited from this change.

1866 Native Americans were given US citizenship, but not the right to vote until 1957.

1919 Texas ratified the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution allowing women to vote for the first time in Texas.

See your textbook for a number of specific ways voting was limited to individuals and groups to read in depth.

By 1965 with the passage of the national Voting Rights Act, most obstacles to voting will be abolished. With this new law, the federal government now had the power to step in when local and state elections showed evidence of discrimination. Because of continued discrimination, special provisions in the new federal law were extended in 1970, 1975, 1982, 1992 and in 2006.

However in Shelby County v. Holder (2013) the Supreme Court in a controversial 5-4 vote declared 2 key provisions of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. Within hours of the decision Texas officials pledged to enforce a photo ID law to vote that had not been cleared by the Justice department. A handful of other states followed.

The push for photo ID laws for voting actually began in the late 20th century by Republican party members claiming voter fraud. Today 12 states have a form of photo id law on the books. Critics claim these laws are restrictive and prevent free access to the ballot.

In 2016, a federal court put a hold on the Texas photo ID law until future notice as the case over its use makes its way through the court system. (see link below for the current law and a statement how how it is modified due to this ruling)

In this discussion board, you will research the pros and cons of a photo id law in Texas and put forth a detailed and supported position on the issue by addressing the question below. Please note that much of this debate falls along partisan lines. Political language may interfere with your ability to think critically. Bias is not the problem, but failure to recognize it or failure to use factual evidence to support your position is.

To begin this assignment, you will want to read chapter 4 so you understand the process of voting and elections in Texas. From that point begin research the topic of photo ID for voting. You can use all sources related to Texas, other states and the nation as a whole. I've also given you a few sources below to help you get started.

Once you have written your response post (keep in mind you will not be able to read anyone's post on the board until you post yours) post your response post on the discussion board no later than THURSDAY night at 11:59PM. Once you have posted you can begin engaging in the discussion with your classmates through Saturday night when the unit closes. Reread the instructions for how to maximize your points in the syllabus.

Respond to this statement: Photo ID laws for voting serve a similar purpose as other historical roadblocks such as literacy tests and poll taxes to restrict certain groups from voting and are, therefore, unconstitutional.

Don't forget citations, links and other supporting evidence to include in your work on the board.

-https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/02/after-50-years-the-voting-rights-acts-biggest-threat-the-supreme-court/273257/

-https://www.oyez.org/cases/2012/12-96

-https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/voter-fraud

-http://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/heritage-explains/voter-fraud

Cash is a monetary and financial asset. It is the most liquid finance asset; it is also the standard medium of exchange for most business transactions. Cash is usually classified as a current account, however there are circumstances in which cash is classified as a non-current asset. Required: With the aid of a suitable example, explain when can be classified as a non-current asset.

B. Study the following items related to transactions during the year to September 30, 2020 for Thompson’s Tours’ Inc. All transactions are reported on the financial statements in $XCD.

I. A bank overdraft of $200,000 in a chequing account at St Kitts National Bank.

II. A saving account with a balance of $400,000 at Open Campus Bank and chequing account with an overdraft of $100,000 at the same bank repayable on demand.

III. The Operation Manager was given a salary advance of $2,000 on August 24, 2020 and this amount was deducted from his October salary.

IV. CAD$3,045 on hand from tips up to March 31, 2020, its pre-COVID operations when the exchange rate was CAD$1 = $2.01 XCD. On September 30, 2020, the exchange rate was CAD$1 = $1.95 XCD

V. Special Edition Independence postage stamps on hand valued at $200.

VI. Cash holdings of US$100,000, the exchange rate on September 30, 2020 is $2.70.

VII. Petty cash on hand valued at $1,500.

VIII. A cheque in the amount of $5,000 and dated October 23, 2020 was received from a customer on September 27, 2020.

IX. Short term 60 days treasury bill valued at $35,000.

X. Thompson’s Tours’ Inc. invested $1,000,000 in a money market fund with Mona Campus Bank on July 10, 2020 which will mature on October 9, 2020.

Required:

a. List all items from above that would NOT be classified as cash or cash equivalents in the current asset section of Thompson’s Tours’ Inc. Statement of Financial Position as at September 30, 2020? State how each of these items would then be classified in the financials.

b) . Using the information in B above, calculate the cash and cash equivalent value that would appear in Thompson’s Tours’ Inc. Statement of Financial Position on September 30,2020

The accounting profit before tax of Subang Ltd for the year ended 30 June 2020 was $320,000.

It included the following revenue and expense items:

Legal expenses 62 500

Interest expense 10 000

Bad debt expense 15 000

Depreciation expense – Plant & equipment 26 250

Entertainment Expense 2 500 Audit fee 40 000 Interest revenue 15 000 Rent revenue 10 000 Exempt income 37 500 Additional information: 1. Interest receivable at 30 June 2020 is $12,500 (2019: $15,000). Interest payable at 30 June 2020 is $500 (2019: $3,000). Interest is assessable on receipt and deductible when paid. 2. The company raised an accrual liability of $17 500 for audit work performed and not paid by 30 June 2020 (2019: $15,000). Fees for audit work are not deductible unless the audit work has been performed and paid. 3. Rent revenue relates to a contract where the annual rent is received in advance. The unearned revenue liability at 30 June 2020 is $10,000 (2019: $7,500). Rent is assessable when received. 4. Legal expenses include $25,000 related to capital transactions that are not deductible. 5. The bad debts expense relates to an account that has been written off. 6. Plant and equipment is as follows: 30 June 2020 30 June 2019 Plant & Equipment $175 000 $75 000 Accumulated depreciation 48 750 22 500 126 250 52 500 Question 1 is continued on the next page ACCY200 (MT) / Page 4 of 6 Question 1 continued 7. Tax depreciation for 30 June 2020 is $35,000. The tax written down value of plant and equipment at 30 June 2020 is $110,000 (2019: $45,000). 8. The deferred tax balances at 30 June 2019 are; deferred tax liability $6,750 and deferred tax asset $12,300. 9. The company tax rate is 30%. Required: a) Prepare the current tax worksheet and the journal entry to recognise the current tax as at 30 June 2020. b) Prepare the deferred tax worksheet and any necessary journal entries to adjust deferred tax accounts for 30 June 2020.

Presented below are two independent situations related to future taxable and deductible amounts resulting from temporary differences existing at December 31, 2020. 1. Sunland Co. has developed the following schedule of future taxable and deductible amounts. 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Taxable amounts $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 Deductible amount — — — (1,400 ) 2. Coronado Co. has the following schedule of future taxable and deductible amounts. 2021 2022 2023 2024 Taxable amounts $200 $200 $200 $200 Deductible amount — — (2,500 ) — Both Sunland Co. and Coronado Co. have taxable income of $3,800 in 2020 and expect to have taxable income in all future years. The tax rates enacted as of the beginning of 2020 are 30% for 2020–2023 and 35% for years thereafter. All of the underlying temporary differences relate to noncurrent assets and liabilities.

1. Compute the net amount of deferred income taxes to be reported at the end of 2020, and indicate how it should be classified on the balance sheet for situation one.

2. Compute the net amount of deferred income taxes to be reported at the end of 2020, and indicate how it should be classified on the balance sheet for situation two.

You set up your own business in merchandising sector in Scranton, PA - opening a luxury watch shop on 1/1/2020.

The following is related information about the business:

-   Specific sub-sector: Merchandising sector.

-   Location: Scranton, PA

-   Business model: merchandiser - buying and selling luxury watches.

-   Investment by owner: $1,000,000

- You hired a shop manager. In order to handle different aspects of business, you had one employee responsible for the purchasing, receiving, and storing of watches purchased. A second employee is responsible for the maintenance of account receivable records and collection from customers. A third employee has responsibility for personal records, timekeeping, preparation of payrolls, and distribution of payroll checks. As a part of his job, the shop manager would do some internal control functions. In addition, you hired one security officer, and 4 full-time sales assistants.

Requirements:

1. Based on information given above, identify at least 3 internal control weaknesses that the company has – be specific and explain why those are weaknesses. (review chapter 6) (10 points).

2. Set up an effective Internal Control System for your business using 5 different internal control elements. Be very specific with each element. At least 2 pages long- double spaced. (review pages 164- 168 – chapter 6 textbook). (50 points).

Note: answer to questions 1 and 2 using APA writing style.

3. Draw a document flowchart to depict that the luxury watches are shipped back to the supplier if they are found to be damaged upon arrival at the receiving warehouse of your company (review pages 368-371 – Chapter 12 textbook) (10 points)

4. You are given the following economic events of the business in 2020 (30 points):

1/1/2020: Opened the business, invested $1,000,000 cash in the business.

1/1/2020: bought a building for the business purpose for $100,000 cash. The building has a useful economic life of 10 years.

1/1/2020: purchased 100 luxury watches for $200,000 with $100,000 cash payment, the remaining amount payable on 2/1/2021. (each watch costs $2,000)

3/1/2020: purchased 50 luxury watches for $250,000 with cash. Each watch costs $5,000.

4/1/2020: purchased 40 luxury watches for $240,000 with cash. Each costs $6,000.

6/1/2020: Sold 130 watched for $1,300,000. Of which $300,000 cash was received at the time of sale. The remaining amount to be received on 5/2/2021.

7/1/2020: paid $1,200 in advance for 12 months’ property insurance (7/1/20 to 7/1/21).

8/1/2020: borrowed $500,000 from a local Chase bank. Interest rate is 12%/year. Interest is paid every 6 months- the first payment date is 2/1/2021. Principal would be paid on 8/1/2021.

9/1/2020: to expand business, you rent a showroom in the next building. Paid $24,000 cash in advance for 12 month’s rent.

12/31/2020: Paid 2020 utilities expense, advertising expense, and miscellaneous expense for $5000, $15,000, and $4,000, respectively.

Salary is paid on the last day of each month. Each month’s salary expense is $20,000.

Notes:

• On 12/31/2020: Physical inventory showed that there were 60 luxury watches on hand at the end of the period. The company used periodic inventory system, and used FIFO costing method.
• Your business used straight-line depreciation method for all fixed assets.
• Ignore tax.

Requirement: Prepare an excel file that includes

1. Tab 1 titled “accounting entries”: prepare all journal entries, adjusting entries, closing entries needed for the period ending on 12/31/2020 based on above economic events (12 points.)

2. Tab 2 titled “income statement”: prepare a multiple-step income statement for year ended 12/31/2020. (5 points)

3. Tab 3 titled “Statement of retained earning”: Prepare Statement of retained earnings for year ended 12/31/2020 (5 points)

4. Tab 4 titled “Balance sheet”: prepare a balance sheet as of 12/31/2020 (8 points)

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Screw the passengers.

That appears all too often to be the governing philosophy of the airline business.

Take the case of a United Airlines flight from Chicago to London last weekend. A technical problem forced the plane to abort its trans-Atlantic route and divert to Goose Bay in Canada. The 176 passengers were marooned there for more than 20 hours, sleeping in unheated military barracks at near-freezing temperatures.

“There was nobody from United Airlines to be seen anywhere,” one passenger told NBC News. “No United representative ever reached out to anybody, no phone calls, no human beings, no nothing. Nobody had any idea what was going on.”

It so happened that this came at the end of a week in which the world’s airline chiefs, junketing in Miami, celebrated their most lucrative year ever. They are projecting profits totaling $29.3 billion in 2015—almost double what they made in 2014.

And you must have noticed if you’re flying anywhere in the U.S. this summer that seat prices are not falling. Indeed, if the owners of those seats are suddenly feeling fat and happy, they are in no mood to pass on their swell feelings to you. It’s hard to imagine any other service industry being run like the airline business—but then there is no other business like the airline business.

So now we have a novel opportunity to see how airlines behave when, suddenly and much to their surprise, they find themselves with a business model that is working. If making a profit is a new experience for them, what effect will that have on their behavior?

First, let us consider why the numbers have been transformed.

There has been a steep change in the efficiency of jets. Beginning with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the combination of lighter but stronger composite materials in structures and a quantum leap in engine efficiency, using far less fuel, has slashed operating costs per airplane by as much as 30 percent.

In the last year, this windfall has been boosted by the large decline in oil prices.

However, these dual benefits are not being evenly spread either among airlines or continents. Airlines stuck with fleets of older airplanes are not getting these benefits. Fleet age has become far more decisive in deciding an airline’s profitability, particularly true in the U.S.

The three major U.S. legacy carriers—American, United, and Delta—failed to get in early to order the new generation of airplanes—the 787, the Airbus A350, revamped versions of the Boeing 777, the Airbus A320, and the Boeing 737—and allowed European, Middle Eastern, and Asian competitors to become first adopters and, thereby, reap the benefits of lower fuel costs.

The average age of the jets in the American fleet is 12.3 years; for United 13 years; and for Delta 17.2 years. It won’t be until at least 2020 that they can finally dump the oldest of their airplanes. (American has actually been delaying the delivery of some new jets that it ordered.)

Age doesn’t mean that an airplane is unsafe. Properly maintained 20-year-old jets are not in danger of falling apart. The frequency of flights determines retirement age more than years and the smaller single-aisle jets used on domestic routes age the fastest because they are making up to seven flights a day.

Age may not be dangerous but it sure registers with passengers when it contrasts with the comforts they encounter in the new generation of jets with their better cabin climate and quieter engines. So it’s not surprising that when airlines show up with all-new fleets as well as gracious cabin crews people start wondering, Why can’t it always be like this?

It’s also not surprising that the major American carriers are now trying to stop those airlines from coming to an airport near you.

When it comes to price and the domestic U.S. routes, not only are prices not coming down but there is persuasive evidence of price-fixing. The veteran investigative reporter James B. Stewart described this market as a classic oligopoly in a penetrating piece in The New York Times .

However, this is far from being a new phenomenon. These tactics began long before the final round of consolidation mergers when US Airways was swallowed by American Airlines in 2013. They have merely been continually refined to the point now when the airlines, suddenly enjoying profits, have responded not by lowering fares but by tightening control over the number of seats available and cutting back on flight frequency and destinations.

The reality is that the airlines don’t need to expose themselves to charges of collusion on fares and the operation of a hidden cartel that mutually governs capacity. That’s so 20th century.

These days their key tool is “yield management”—being able to precisely calculate how many seats should be available on any given route at any time of the day or night and adjusting the price hour-by-hour according to demand. This algorithm has become so refined and the market so controlled that each of the major airlines ends up looking at the same numbers on their computer screen. No human intervention is needed. In all but name it is a cartel—but one run entirely by unaccountable robots.

So?

We live in the world’s most vigorously capitalist marketplace. What’s wrong with airlines trying to make a decent profit, for once? And what is the point of them flying empty seats around the skies?

But I come back to my earlier point: How do these airline executives behave when, joy of joys, they find their balance sheets deeply in the black? Like a lot of other corporate minders they think a lot more about their shareholders than their customers. Short-termism rules. Wall Street responds to quarterly earnings, not patient long-term strategy.

A good example is Jet Blue. This airline was a rare example of a successful startup based on a maverick idea: super-chummy cabin staff and generously spaced seating. A new CEO (previously schooled by the stingy bean-counters at British Airways) is undermining that spirit by jamming more seats into the cabin and raising baggage charges, all at the behest of shareholders.

The problem is that the people running airlines in the U.S. have one part of their brain missing, the part that provides the service ethic. As well as fare-gouging they’re space gouging in the cabins. Even with the newest jets like the Dreamliner they are packing more seats into coach than the airplane designers (or nature) intended.

Q1. Read the above article and answer the questions that follow.

a. Why did the investigative reporter James B. Stewart describe US airlines as a classic Oligopoly?

b. What is the meaning of yield management as described in the above article?

c. Why did the writer accuse people running airlines of missing service ethics?

In 2005, North Inc. acquired an 80% interest in South Co. On the date of acquisition, the book values of South’s asset and liability accounts at that time were considered to be equal to their fair values. No allocations or goodwill resulted from the combination because North’s acquisition value corresponded to the underlying book value of South The following selected account balances were from the individual financial records of these two companies as of December 31, 2019: . North South Sales $ 896,000.00 $ 504,000.00 Cost of Goods Sold 406,000 276,000 Operating Expenses 210,000 147,000 Retained Earnings, 1/1/19 1,036,000 252,000 Inventory 484,000 154,000 Buildings, net 501,000 220,000 Investment income not provided North routinely transfers inventory to South. Of the inventory transferred to South, 30% remained in inventory at the end of 2018 and was sold in the following year. 33.33% of the 2019 intra entity sales remained on hand at the end of 2019 and were sold at the beginning of 2020. More date regarding the intra entity transfers for 2018-2019 are shown below: 2018 2019 North Sales Price to South 130000 165000 North's Cost of Goods Sold to South 104000 132000 Unsold Inventory at end of year 30% 33.33% For the consolidated financial statements for 2018, determine the balances that would appear for the following accounts: a) Cost of Goods Sold; b) Inventory; and c) Net income attributable to the noncontrolling interest.