Straight-Line and Units-of-Production Methods

Assume that Sample Company purchased factory equipment on January 1, 2017, for $70,000. The equipment has an estimated life of five years and an estimated residual value of $7,000. Sample's accountant is considering whether to use the straight-line or the units-of-production method to depreciate the asset. Because the company is beginning a new production process, the equipment will be used to produce 10,000 units in 2017, but production subsequent to 2017 will increase by 10,000 units each year.

Required:

1. Calculate the depreciation expense, accumulated depreciation, and book value of the equipment under both methods for each of the five years of its life. Enter all amounts as positive values.

Straight-line method:

Units-of-production method:

2. In this exercise, The units of production method results in a depreciation pattern opposite to which depreciation method?

On Jan 1, 2018, Rising Star purchased a crane for $ 1,200,000 and paid $200,000 as a downpyament while the balance will be paid over the next five years in installments of $100,000 every six months , starting July 1, 2018. The market rate on Jan 1, 2018 was 9%.

Requirements:
a.   For the how much the company should recognize the crane on Jan 1, 2018? Show your calculation along with your accounting entry to recognize the purchase of the crane.
b.   On Jan 1, 2020, the company will pay installment payment of $100,000. How much of this payment represents a payment of the principal and how much of it represents a payment of the interest? Show your calculation (fill in the following table Jan 1 2018 – Jan 2020).

c.   What is the total interest expense for the year ended on Dec 31, 2018?
d.   What will be the carrying value of the notes on Dec 31, 2019?

Michael’s Corporation Data for 2020

1. Depreciation reported on the tax return exceeded depreciation reported on the income statement by $75,000. This

difference will reverse in equal amounts of $25,000 over the years 201–202 .

2. Interest received on municipal bonds was $24,000.

3. Rent collected in advance on January 1, 2020, totaled $45,000 for a 3- year period. Of this amount, $30,000 was reported as unearned at December 31, 2020, for book purposes.

4. The tax rates are 30% for 2020 and 20% for 2021 and subsequent years.

5. Income taxes of $270,000 are due per the tax return for 2020.

6. No deferred taxes existed at the beginning of 2020.

Required

(a) Compute taxable income for 2020.

(b) Compute pretax financial income for 2020.

(c) Prepare the journal entries to record income tax expense, deferred income taxes, and income taxes payable for 2020 and

2021. Assume taxable income was $760,000 in 2021.

(d) Prepare the income tax expense section of the income statement for 20 , beginning with “Income

before income taxes.”

Describe a complete diagnostic evaluation session. Include all measures that are administered from beginning to end giving details and examples. Explain why we perform each step of the evaluation and what information it gives us towards a diagnosis. How do the findings from the evaluation translate into a diagnostic report?

Looking around do you believe Code of Ethics even matters? We see individuals violating their own Code for small things. For example I am a thief. I still from University. When I teach on ground classes I have gone home with Dry Erase markers and have used them at home and not brought them back. During work time I check my personal emails. What about these actions?

A university is trying to determine what PRICE to charge for football tickets. At a price of $6 per ticket, it averages 70,000 people per game.
For every increase of $1, it loses 10,000 people from the average number . Every person at the game spends an average of$1.50 on concessions.

a) What price per ticket should be charged to MAXIMIZE REVENUE? ( Please explain the steps )

b) How many people will attend at that price? Please show your work.

A class survey in a large class for first-year college students asked, "About how many hours do you study in a typical week?". The mean response of the 427 students was x¯¯¯ = 12 hours. Suppose that we know that the study time follows a Normal distribution with standard deviation 7 hours in the population of all first-year students at this university. What is the 99% confidence interval (±0.001) for the population mean?

Confidence interval is from ____to_____ hours.

In your work as an accountant you advise a client, Avon Pty. Ltd. (Avon), on various matters. Avon entered into a $500,000 one year contract in June 2016 with Central Queensland University (a registered Research Service Provider) to undertake research and development for Avon. The contract was to run from July 2016 to June 2017. Avon wants your advice about tax offsets and how this expense could be treated by the ATO in the 2016-17 tax year.

Describe how the following transactions would affect U.S. exports, imports, and net exports:

1. Students in Prague flock to see the latest movie from Hollywood.
2. Mrs. Jones in Philadelphia buys a new Volvo.
3. The student bookstore at Oxford University in England sells a copy of a U.S. printed/authored textbook
4. A Canadian citizen shops at a store in northern Vermont to avoid Canadian sales taxes.
5. An American art professor spends the summer touring museums in Europe.