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1.    : Is it ethical and socially responsible for large corporations to lobby against an SEC rule requiring that they report the ratio of their CEOs’ pay compared to that of their average employee, as described in the chapter? Discuss.

How might uncertainty propagate the impact of shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, on the macroeconomy?

On January 1, 2014, Wetzel Company sold property for $250,000. The note will be collected as follows: $120,000 in 2014, $90,000 in 2015, and $40,000 in 2016. The property had cost Wetzel $150,000 when it was purchased in 2012. Instructions (a) Compute the amount of gross profit realized each year, assuming Wetzel uses the cost-recovery method. (b) Compute the amount of gross profit realized each year, assuming Wetzel uses the installment-sales method.

Sandburg Company requires additional cash for its business. Sandburg has decided to use its accounts receivable to raise the additional cash and has asked you to determine the income statement effects of the following contemplated transactions. 1. On July 1, 2014, Sandburg assigned $400,000 of accounts receivable to Keller Finance Company. Sandburg received an advance from Keller of 80% of the assigned accounts receivable less a commission of 3% on the advance. Prior to December 31, 2014, Sandburg collected $220,000 on the assigned accounts receivable, and remitted $232,720 to Keller, $12,720 of which represented interest on the advance from Keller. 2. On December 1, 2014, Sandburg sold $300,000 of net accounts receivable to Wunsch Company for $270,000. The receivables were sold outright on a without recourse basis. 3. On December 31, 2014, an advance of $120,000 was received from First Bank by pledging $160,000 of Sandburg’s accounts receivable. Sandburg’s first payment to First Bank is due on January 30, 2015. Instructions Prepare a schedule showing the income statement effects for the year ended December 31, 2014, as a result of the above facts.

Describe the RP technology called solid ground curing.

Assume that just some of the members of a common market like the EU adopt full economic and monetary union, including a common currency. What are the advantages and disadvantages to those members joining the full EMU and to those not?

Last year, BTA Corporation, a calendar-year taxpayer, reported a net operating loss of $10,000 and a $0 tax liability.  BTA confidently anticipates a current-year tax liability of $240,000. Determine the minimum estimated tax payments BTA should make for the first, second, third, and fourth quarters respectively (ignore the annualized income method) assuming the following:

Buttercup Corporation issued 300 shares of $10 par value common stock for $4,500. Prepare Buttercup’s journal entry

1.       : Describe specific ways that you might incorporate Twitter into an organization’s communication with customers. How about with employees?

Jennifer Brent Corporation owns equipment that cost $80,000 and has a useful life of 8 years with no salvage value. On January 1, 2014, Jennifer Brent leases the equipment to Donna Havaci Inc. for one year with one rental payment of $15,000 on January 1. Prepare Jennifer Brent Corporation’s 2014 journal entries.

Kobayashi Corporation reports in the current liability section of its statement of financial position at December 31, 2014 (its year-end), short-term obligations of $15,000,000, which includes the current portion of 12% long-term debt in the amount of $10,000,000 (matures in March 2015). Management has stated its intention to refinance the 12% debt whereby no portion of it will mature during 2015. The date of issuance of the financial statements is March 25, 2015. Instructions (a) Is management’s intent enough to support long-term classification of the obligation in this situation? (b) Assume that Kobayashi Corporation issues $13,000,000 of 10-year debentures to the public in January 2015 and that management intends to use the proceeds to liquidate the $10,000,000 debt maturing in March 2015. Furthermore, assume that the debt maturing in March 2015 is paid from these proceeds prior to the authorization to issue the financial statements. Will this have any impact on the statement of financial position classification at December 31, 2014? Explain your answer. (c) Assume that Kobayashi Corporation issues ordinary shares to the public in January and that management intends to entirely liquidate the $10,000,000 debt maturing in March 2015 with the proceeds of this equity securities issue. In light of these events, should the $10,000,000 debt maturing in March 2015 be included in current liabilities at December 31, 2014?

A horizontal true centrifugal casting process is used to make brass bushings with the following dimensions: length = 10 cm, outside diameter = 15 cm, and inside diameter = 12 cm. (a) Determine the required rotational speed in order to obtain a G-factor of 70. (b) When operating at this speed, what is the centrifugal force per square meter (Pa) imposed by the molten metal on the inside wall of the mold?

What is the mechanism by which carbon strengthens steel during heat treatment?

1.    : Which do you think would be more effective for shaping long-term ethical behavior in an organization: a written code of ethics combined with ethics training or strong ethical leadership? Which would have more impact on you? Why?

Compute the unit energy for melting for the following metals: (a) copper and (b) titanium.

The financial statements of P&G are presented in Appendix 5B. The company’s complete annual report, including the notes to the financial statements, can be accessed at the book’s companion website, www. wiley.com/college/kieso. Instructions Refer to P&G’s financial statements and the accompanying notes to answer the following questions. (a) How does P&G value its inventories? Which inventory costing method does P&G use as a basis for reporting its inventories? (b) How does P&G report its inventories in the balance sheet? In the notes to its financial statements, what three descriptions are used to classify its inventories? (c) What costs does P&G include in Inventory and Cost of Products Sold? (d) What was P&G’s inventory turnover in 2011? What is its gross profit percentage? Evaluate P&G’s inventory turnover and its gross profit percentage.

Braddock Inc. had the following long-term receivable account balances at December 31, 2013. Note receivable from sale of division $1,500,000 Note receivable from offi cer 400,000 Transactions during 2014 and other information relating to Braddock’s long-term receivables were as follows. 1. The $1,500,000 note receivable is dated May 1, 2013, bears interest at 9%, and represents the balance of the consideration received from the sale of Braddock’s electronics division to New York Company. Principal payments of $500,000 plus appropriate interest are due on May 1, 2014, 2015, and 2016. The first principal and interest payment was made on May 1, 2014. Collection of the note installments is reasonably assured. 2. The $400,000 note receivable is dated December 31, 2013, bears interest at 8%, and is due on December 31, 2016. The note is due from Sean May, president of Braddock Inc. and is collateralized by 10,000 shares of Braddock’s common stock. Interest is payable annually on December 31, and all interest payments were paid on their due dates through December 31, 2014. The quoted market price of Braddock’s common stock was $45 per share on December 31, 2014. 3. On April 1, 2014, Braddock sold a patent to Pennsylvania Company in exchange for a $100,000 zerointerest- bearing note due on April 1, 2016. There was no established exchange price for the patent, and the note had no ready market. The prevailing rate of interest for a note of this type at April 1, 2014, was 12%. The present value of $1 for two periods at 12% is 0.797 (use this factor). The patent had a carrying value of $40,000 at January 1, 2014, and the amortization for the year ended December 31, 2014, would have been $8,000. The collection of the note receivable from Pennsylvania is reasonably assured. 4. On July 1, 2014, Braddock sold a parcel of land to Splinter Company for $200,000 under an installment sale contract. Splinter made a $60,000 cash down payment on July 1, 2014, and signed a 4-year 11% note for the $140,000 balance. The equal annual payments of principal and interest on the note will be $45,125 payable on July 1, 2015, through July 1, 2018. The land could have been sold at an established cash price of $200,000. The cost of the land to Braddock was $150,000. Circumstances are such that the collection of the installments on the note is reasonably assured. Instructions (a) Prepare the long-term receivables section of Braddock’s balance sheet at December 31, 2014. (b) Prepare a schedule showing the current portion of the long-term receivables and accrued interest receivable that would appear in Braddock’s balance sheet at December 31, 2014. (c) Prepare a schedule showing interest revenue from the long-term receivables that would appear on Braddock’s income statement for the year ended December 31, 2014.

1.      Vote in support of Hank Schmidt’s decision to hold each individual member accountable for the entire project. The professor clearly stated his policy at the beginning of the semester, and the students should have been more vigilant. The committee should not undercut a professor’s explicit policy.

The top surface of a rectangular workpart is machined using a peripheral milling operation. The workpart is 735 mm long by 50 mm wide by 95 mm thick. The milling cutter, which is 60 mm in diameter and has five teeth, overhangs the width of the part equally on both sides. Cutting speed = 80 m/min, chip load = 0.30 mm/tooth, and depth of cut = 7.5 mm. (a) Determine the time required to make one pass across the surface, given that the setup and machine settings provide an approach distance of 5 mm before actual cutting begins and an overtravel distance of 25 mm after actual cutting has finished. (b) What is the maximum material removal rate during the cut?

In what ways is a monopolistically competitive firm likely to be less efficient than one under perfect competition?

In some instances, accounting principles require a departure from valuing inventories at cost alone. Determine the proper unit inventory price in the following cases. Cases 1 2 3 4 5 Cost $15.90 $16.10 $15.90 $15.90 $15.90 Sales price 14.80 19.20 15.20 10.40 17.80 Estimated cost to complete 1.50 1.90 1.65 .80 1.00 Estimated cost to sell .50 .70 .55 .40 .60

As discussed in the chapter, an important consideration in evaluating current liabilities is a company’s operating cycle. The operating cycle is the average time required to go from cash to cash in generating revenue. To determine the length of the operating cycle, analysts use two measures: the average days to sell inventory (inventory days) and the average days to collect receivables (receivable days). The inventory-days computation measures the average number of days it takes to move an item from raw materials or purchase to final sale (from the day it comes in the company’s door to the point it is converted to cash or an account receivable). The receivable-days computation measures the average number of days it takes to collect an account. Most businesses must then determine how to finance the period of time when the liquid assets are tied up in inventory and accounts receivable. To determine how much to finance, companies first determine accounts payable days—how long it takes to pay creditors. Accounts payable days measures the number of days it takes to pay a supplier invoice. Consider the following operating cycle worksheet for BOP Clothing Co.   These data indicate that BOP has reduced its overall operating cycle (to 261.5 days) as well as the number of days to be financed with sources of funds other than accounts payable (from 78 to 63 days). Most businesses cannot finance the operating cycle with accounts payable financing alone, so working capital financing, usually short-term interest-bearing loans, is needed to cover the shortfall. In this case, BOP would need to borrow less money to finance its operating cycle in 2014 than in 2013. Instructions (a) Use the BOP analysis to briefly discuss how the operating cycle data relate to the amount of working capital and the current and acid-test ratios. (b) Select two other real companies that are in the same industry and complete the operating cycle worksheet, along with the working capital and ratio analysis. Briefly summarize and interpret the results. To simplify the analysis, you may use ending balances to compute turnover ratios. [Adapted from Operating Cycle Worksheet at www.entrepreneur.com]

Linda Berstler Company sponsors a defined benefit pension plan. The corporation’s actuary provides the following information about the plan. January 1, December 31, 2014 2014 Defi ned benefi t obligation $2,500 $3,300 Plan assets (fair value) 1,700 2,620 Discount rate 10% Pension asset/liability 800 ? Service cost for the year 2014 400 Contributions (funding in 2014) 700 Benefi ts paid in 2014 200 Instructions (a) Compute the actual return on the plan assets in 2014. (b) Compute the amount of other comprehensive income (G/L) as of December 31, 2014. (Assume the January 1, 2014, balance was zero.)

Will this type of behaviour tend to lead to profit maximisation?

Use the information from IFRS17-10 but assume the shares were purchased to meet a non-trading regulatory requirement. Prepare Fairbanks’ journal entries to record (a) the purchase of the investment, (b) the dividends received, and (c) the fair value adjustment.