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On December 31, 2017, University Security Inc. showed the following: University Security Inc. Equity Section of...

On December 31, 2017, University Security Inc. showed the following:

University Security Inc.
Equity Section of Balance Sheet
December 31, 2017
  Contributed capital:  
    Preferred shares, $4, unlimited shares authorized,
       14,000 shares issued and outstanding*
$ 308,000
    Common shares, unlimited shares authorized, 35,000 shares issued and outstanding* 455,000
    Total contributed capital $ 763,000
  Retained earnings 952,000
  Total equity $1,715,000

*All of the shares had been issued early in 2016.

Required:
Part 1:

Calculate book value per common share and preferred share at December 31, 2017, assuming no dividends were declared for the years ended December 31, 2016 or 2017, and that the preferred shares are:

a. Cumulative. (Round the final answers to 2 decimal places.)    
1.common share -

2 preferred shares -

find book valur in context to both


b. Non-cumulative. (Round the final answers to 2 decimal places.)

1.common share -

2 preferred shares -

find book valur in context to both


Part 2:
Calculate book value per common share and preferred share at December 31, 2017, assuming total dividends of $91,000 were declared and paid in each of the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2017, and that the preferred shares are:

c. Cumulative. (Round the final answers to 2 decimal places.)    

1.common share -

2 preferred shares -

find book valur in context to both


d. Non-cumulative. (Round the final answers to 2 decimal places.)   

1.common share -

2 preferred shares -

find book valur in context to both

In: Accounting

The University Secretary wants to determine how University grade point average, GPA (highest being 4.0) of...

  1. The University Secretary wants to determine how University grade point average, GPA (highest being 4.0) of a sample of students from the University depends on a student’s high school GPA (HS), age of a student (A), achievement test score (AS), average number of lectures skipped each week (S), gender of a student (where M=1 if a student is male or 0 otherwise), computer or PC ownership of a student (where PC=1 if a student owns a computer or 0 otherwise), the means of transport to school (drive, bicycle or walk; where D=1 if a student drives to campus or 0 otherwise, B=1 if a student bicycles to campus or 0 otherwise), and finally, the subject major of the student (finance, human resource, marketing and accounting; where F=1 if a student majors in finance or 0 otherwise, HR=1 if a student majors in human resource or 0 otherwise, MR=1 if a student majors in marketing or 0 otherwise). Use the correlation matrix and dummy regression output to answer the questions.

GPA

HS

A

AS

S

M

PC

D

B

F

HR

MR

GPA

1.00

HS

0.41

1.00

A

-0.02

-0.26

1.00

AS

0.21

0.35

-0.08

1.00

S

-0.26

-0.09

-0.08

0.12

1.00

M

-0.08

-0.21

0.04

0.18

0.20

1.00

PC

0.22

0.04

-0.09

0.04

-0.21

-0.07

1.00

D

-0.11

-0.19

0.27

-0.20

0.26

-0.08

0.02

1.00

B

0.08

0.14

-0.05

0.16

-0.13

0.13

-0.10

-0.38

1.00

F

0.08

0.12

-0.22

0.18

0.06

0.04

0.08

-0.08

-0.11

1.00

HR

0.08

0.17

-0.49

0.08

0.06

0.05

-0.04

-0.11

0.07

-0.12

1.00

MR

-0.10

-0.19

0.37

-0.11

-0.05

0.02

0.05

0.08

0.01

-0.15

-0.79

1.00

  1. Which 2 pairs of variables are most correlated with the regress and?
  2. Which 3 pairs of variables are mostly multicollinear?
  3. Identify 3 pairs of variables that are most correlated.

In: Statistics and Probability

ABC Apartments is a 300-unit complex near Fairway University that attracts mostly university students. The manager...

ABC Apartments is a 300-unit complex near Fairway University that attracts mostly university students. The manager has collected the following data and wants to project the number of units leased in Semester 9 using simple linear regression. Here is the information that has been collected:

Semester

University Enrollment

(in thousands)

Average Lease Price ($)

Number of Units Leased

1

7.2

450

291

2

6.3

460

228

3

6.7

450

252

4

7.0

470

265

5

6.9

440

270

6

6.4

430

240

7

7.1

460

288

8

6.7

440

246

In answering these questions, you must identify and use the correct independent and dependent variables.

a) The apartment manager wants to forecast the Number of Units Leased as a function of time. What is the linear regression relationship the manager should use and what is the forecast for the Number of Units Leased for Semester 9?

b) Suppose the manager believes that the Number of Units Leased is a function only of University Enrollment. It is believed that there will be a one semester lag between the enrollment and the units leased. In other words, the number of units leased in a semester is a function of the university enrollment in the prior semester. What is the linear regression relationship the manager should use and what is the forecast for the Number of Units Leased for Semester 9?

c) Suppose the manager believes that the Number of Units Leased is a function only of the Average Lease Price for that semester. What is the linear regression relationship the manager should use and what is the forecast for the Number of Units Leased for Semester 9 if the average lease price for that semester is $450?

d) Considering the strength of each of the relationships that you found in parts a) through c), would you use any of these to forecast the Number of Units Leased for Semester 9? Explain your answer.

In: Statistics and Probability

On January 1, 2018, M Company granted 95,000 stock options to certain executives. The options are...

On January 1, 2018, M Company granted 95,000 stock options to certain executives. The options are exercisable no sooner than December 31, 2020, and expire on January 1, 2024. Each option can be exercised to acquire one share of $1 par common stock for $10. An option-pricing model estimates the fair value of the options to be $4 on the date of grant.

If unexpected turnover in 2019 caused the company to estimate that 15% of the options would be forfeited, what amount should M recognize as compensation expense for 2019?

In: Accounting

On July 2020, Sotoma Pty Ltd noticed that a number of its employees have been with...

On July 2020, Sotoma Pty Ltd noticed that a number of its employees have been with the company for a number of years including some who have actually been working for more than 10 years. The company has always provided annual leave and sick leave to its employees. However, our accounting team is not sure whether these employees are entitled to any other employee benefits. It would be much appreciated if you could give the accounting team some clarification on this matter and how to deal with this in our accounts.

In: Accounting

A company issues term bonds totaling $300,000 on January 1, 2014. The bonds have a coupon...

A company issues term bonds totaling $300,000 on January 1, 2014. The bonds have a coupon rate of 5%, pay interest semi-annually on Jan 1st and July 1st of each year, and mature in 10 years. The bonds are issued at an effective market rate of 4%, which corresponds to a price of 108.176 ($324,527). The company incurred bond issue costs totaling $35,000. Given this information calculate the following for January 1, 2020:

Bonds Payable-Face Value:

Premium on Bonds Payable:

Unamortized Bond Issue Costs:

In: Accounting

Robert is 34 years old and is engaged to be married. He is looking to start...

Robert is 34 years old and is engaged to be married. He is looking to start saving towards buying a house. He and his fiancée Alisha however have not made any plans towards any of their life goals.

Robert

Robert graduated high school in Romania, and got into engineering school at University of Toronto right after. Having graduated among the top students in his country, he was able to obtain a full scholarship and graduated university with no student debt. He started working for a firm DigitalDesign LLC where he worked as a software engineer for 3 years where he started out with a salary of 60,000 CAD annually. Even though he was set up for success, he did take time away from his job, sponsored his brother education at Carleton University, worked for a non-profit in Africa, and travelled for a year. These left him with a bit lower savings than estimated. He currently has around 200,000 CAD saved in financial assets and earns around 130,000 CAD annually. The company he works for has no pension plan.


Alisha

Alisha finished her undergraduate degree in architecture and worked in Romania for a few years. She moved to University of Toronto for her master’s degree and currently works for an architecture firm that designs factories. She has around 85000 CAD in financial assets and earns 80,000 CAD a year. She also has no pension plan. Like Robert, she likes to travel but also takes a trip once a year back to Romania to visit her family.

The Wedding

They are planning to have two ceremonies, a very small one with close friends in Toronto, which would cost (8,000 CAD). A big wedding in Romania with around 400 guests, which would cost 40,000 CAD. Their parents would foot half the wedding bill in Romania.

Lifestyle and Life Goals

Both Robert and Alisha live in a spacious 2-bedroom condominium in midtown-Toronto and they do not plan to move out of it anytime soon. None of them drives a car and they take public transit or Taxi/Uber. They plan to have only 1 kid 2 years from now and plan to remain in the apartment and put a down payment (50%) on the condo. They do like eating out once a week and Robert likes to go out for drinks with his pals on the weekend. They plan to take two trips a year. One trip to Romania during Christmas and once during the summer. When the child enters university (20 years from now), they want to be able to fund all the tuition and living expenses (totaling 100,000$). When Robert turns 50, they plan to buy a cottage in Romania near the coast for 300,000 CAD.

For Retirement, Robert and Alisha want to have 5,000,000 dollars together. All prices are based on today’s CAD. Robert and Alisha expect their real income to grow by 1% a year. Assume retirement age = 65.

Income Statement

Income

Robert

Alisha

Combined

Salary

130,000

80,000

Less Tax

35,000

21,000

Less CPP

2,500

1,700

Less: EI

950

775

Income after Tax

91,550

56,525

Food

9000

Student Debt

0

Utilities + Phone/internet

2500

Leisure/ Eating Out/ Entertainment

12000

Rent

30000

Car

0

Travel

10000

Misc

8000

Total Expenses

71500


Assume an average tax rate of 40%.

A) Create an detailed Investment policy statement for Robert and Alisha

B) Are their goals reasonable? How much money do they need to save in their first year for each of their goals and the total amount? ( Assume expenses to go up by 10,000$ a year once the kid is born)

C) If they plan to spend 50,000 each year in retirement and plan to leave 500, 000 CAD as inheritance, (to be withdrawn at the beginning of each year) are their retirement goals sufficient?

In: Accounting

Brenda Chan is the new accountant for a small private company called Ace Construction Limited. She...

Brenda Chan is the new accountant for a small private company called Ace Construction Limited. She has recently prepared the year-end financial statements for the company. Brenda's boss, Virginia Schwirtz, who is the chief executive officer (CEO), has asked her to make three changes to the financial statements as follows:

1. Remove an expense and its related liability that Brenda recorded for damages expected to be paid from a lawsuit due to a poorly done construction job a few months ago. Virginia believes that, although it is highly likely that Ace will have to pay for these damages, because a final agreement about the exact amount of these damages will not be agreed to until next month, nothing relating to this issue should be recorded in the financial statements or disclosed in the notes to the financial statements.

2. Just prior to the end of the year, Ace signed a contract to build a new arena for the city for a fixed fee of $80 million. As long as the company can build the facility for less than this amount, the company will make a profit. Since the value of the contract is fixed and because the city has always paid its bills on time, Virginia wants the revenue for this contract to be recorded in the current year because that was when the contract was signed.

3. The company has a chequing account that is allowed to go into an overdraft (negative) position. When the balance falls into an overdraft, the bank begins to charge interest on that amount as if it were a bank loan, which in essence it is. Since there is no due date on such a balance, Virginia would like the loan to be reported as a non-current liability.

a) What is the objective of financial reporting? Are Brenda's or Virginia's actions consistent with these objectives? Explain.

b) For each of the items covered above, determine if the proposed changes enhance or diminish the qualitative characteristics of the company's financial statements and whether the company is dealing with these items in a manner that is consistent with the definitions for elements of financial statements.

In: Accounting

On January 1 2000 The Patriot Company purchased all of the stock of the Chief Company...

On January 1 2000 The Patriot Company purchased all of the stock of the Chief Company at book value
Patriot accounts for its investment in Chief using the initial value method and Chief does not pay dividends
On January 1, 2014 Patriot Company issued (sold) $500,000 8% semi-annual bonds for $530,000
These 20 year bonds pay interest on July 1 and January 1 of each year. Patriot uses straight-line amortization
On January 1, 2019 Chief Company purchased the Patriot bonds for $485000. Chief also uses straight-line
amortization
REQUIRED:
a) make Patriot's journal entry when they sell the bonds
b) make the entry Patriot makes when it makes its first interest payment on July 1, 2014
c) make the entry Chief makes when it purchases the bonds on January 1, 2019
d) make the entry Chief makes when it receives its first interst payment on July 1 2019
e) make the necessary worksheet entries needed in 2019
f) In 2019, Patriot reported income of $300,000 (unconsolidated) and Chief reported income
of $25,000. What is consolidated income?
g) make the necessary worksheet entries needed in 2020
h) in 2020, Patriot reported income of $300,000 (unconsolidated) and Chief reported income
of $25,000. What is consolidated income?

In: Accounting

On January 1, 2016, Halstead, Inc., purchased 81,000 shares of Sedgwick Company common stock for $1,533,000,...

On January 1, 2016, Halstead, Inc., purchased 81,000 shares of Sedgwick Company common stock for $1,533,000, giving Halstead 25 percent ownership and the ability to apply significant influence over Sedgwick. Any excess of cost over book value acquired was attributed solely to goodwill.

Sedgwick reports net income and dividends as follows. These amounts are assumed to have occurred evenly throughout these years. Dividends are declared and paid in the same period.

Net Income Annual Cash Dividends (paid quarterly)
2016 $378,000 $108,000
2017 573,000 129,000
2018 602,000 143,000

On July 1, 2018, Halstead sells 10,000 shares of this investment for $24 per share, thus reducing its interest from 25 to 21 percent, but maintaining its significant influence.

Determine the amounts that would appear on Halstead's 2018 income statement relating to its ownership and partial sale of its investment in Sedgwick's common stock.

In: Accounting