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As part of the year-end accounting process and review of operating policies, Cullen Co. is considering a change in the accounting for its equipment from the straight-line method to an accelerated method. Your supervisor wonders how the company will report this change in principle. He read in a newspaper article that the FASB has issued a standard in this area and has changed GAAP for a “change in estimate that is effected by a change in accounting principle.” (Thus, the accounting may be different from what he learned in intermediate accounting.) Your supervisor wants you to research the authoritative guidance on a change in accounting principle related to depreciation methods. Instructions If your school has a subscription to the FASB Codification, go to http://aaahq.org/ascLogin.cfm to log in and prepare responses to the following. Provide Codification references for your responses. (a) What are the accounting and reporting guidelines for a change in accounting principle related to depreciation methods? (b) What are the conditions that justify a change in depreciation method, as contemplated by Cullen Co.? (c) What guidance does the SEC provide concerning the impact that recently issued accounting standards will have on the financial statements in a future period?

Why are some deductions called “above the line” deductions and others called “below the line” deductions? What is the “line”?

Discuss the basic accounting problem that arises in handling each of the following situations. (a) Assets purchased by issuance of common stock. (b) Acquisition of plant assets by gift or donation. (c) Purchase of a plant asset subject to a cash discount. (d) Assets purchased on a long-term credit basis. (e) A group of assets acquired for a lump sum. (f) An asset traded in or exchanged for another asset.

Lenexa State Bank has followed the practice of capitalizing certain marketing costs and amortizing these costs over their expected life. In the current year, the bank determined that the future benefits from these costs were doubtful.Consequently, the bank adopted the policy of expensing these costs as incurred. How should the bank report this accounting change in the comparative financial statements?

Explain how the interest rate risk of finance companies differs from that of savings institutions. (LO5)

Kiyara (single) is a 50 percent shareholder of Guardian Corporation (an S Corporation). Kiyara does not do any work for Guardian Corp. Guardian Corp. reported $300,000 of business income for the year. Before considering her business income allocation from Guardian Corp. and the self-employment tax deduction (if any), Kiyara’s adjusted gross income was $250,000 (all employee salary). Kiyara has $40,000 in itemized deductions. Answer the following questions for Kiyara. a. What is Kiyara’s self-employment tax liability? b. Assuming the income allocated to Kiyara is qualified business income, what is Kiyara’s deduction for qualified business income? Assume Kiyara’s share of wages paid by Guardian Corp. is $50,000 and her share in the unadjusted basis of qualified property used by Guardian was $200,000.  c. What is Kiyara’s net investment income tax liability (assume no investment expenses)? d. What is Kiyara’s additional Medicare tax liability (include all earned income in computing the tax)?

Why may the newer members of the Union have possibly the most to gain from the single market, but also the most to lose?

What is a TPE?

Explain the strategy of high-frequency trading firms. Describe the typical time horizon of an investment that is relevant to highfrequency traders and explain how it varies from the time horizons of other institutional investors. (LO3)

Select a European country other than the UK and compare its regional and urban policy with that of the UK.

Brad purchased land for $45,000 this year. At year-end Brad sold the land for $51,700 and paid a sales commission of $450. What effect does this transaction have on Brad’s gross income? Explain.

'Transfer pricing is a waste of an entity’s resources; it all gets eliminated          on consolidation'. Discuss

Presented below is information related to Ivan Calderon Corp. for the year 2014. Net sales $1,300,000 Write-off of inventory due to obsolescence $ 80,000 Cost of goods sold 780,000 Depreciation expense omitted by accident in 2013 55,000 Selling expenses 65,000 Casualty loss (extraordinary item) before taxes 50,000 Administrative expenses 48,000 Cash dividends declared 45,000 Dividend revenue 20,000 Retained earnings at December 31, 2013 980,000 Interest revenue 7,000 Effective tax rate of 34% on all items Instructions (a) Prepare a multiple-step income statement for 2014. Assume that 60,000 shares of common stock are outstanding. (b) Prepare a separate retained earnings statement for 2014.

A heat source can transfer 3500 J/sec to a metal part surface. The heated area is circular, and the heat intensity decreases as the radius increases, as follows: 70% of the heat is concentrated in a circular area that is 3.75 mm in diameter. Is the resulting power density enough to melt metal?

For Problem 13.11, assume the material is acrylic. (a) Using Figure 13.2, determine the temperature of the polymer melt. (b) If the temperature is lowered 20°C, estimate the resulting viscosity of the polymer melt. (Hint: the y-axis of Figure 13.2 is a log scale, not linear)

In nine samples of size n = 10, the grand mean of the samples is x = 100 for the characteristic of interest, and the mean of the ranges of the samples is R = 8.5. Determine (a) lower and upper control limits for the x chart and (b) lower and upper control limits for the R chart. (c) Based on the data given, estimate the standard deviation of the process?

Explain how a mortgage company’s degree of exposure to interest rate risk differs from other financial institutions. (LO4)

Illini Corporation reported taxable income of $500,000 from operations for this year. In addition, the company distributed an automobile to its sole shareholder, Yuki. The auto’s fair market value was $30,000 and its tax basis to Illini was $0. The auto’s E&P tax basis was $15,000. Illini had accumulated E&P of $1,500,000 at the beginning of the year.

Simms Company has significant amounts of trade accounts receivable. Simms uses the allowance method to estimate bad debts instead of the direct write-off method. During the year, some specific accounts were written off as uncollectible, and some that were previously written off as uncollectible were collected. Instructions (a) What are the deficiencies of the direct write-off method? (b) What are the two basic allowance methods used to estimate bad debts, and what is the theoretical justification for each? (c) How should Simms account for the collection of the specific accounts previously written off as uncollectible?

1. Assume that the budget remains at £30 and the price of X stays at £2, but that Y rises in price to £3. Draw the new budget line. 2. What will happen to the budget line if the consumer’s income doubles and the price of both X and Y double?

In a book named Treasure, the reader has to figure out where a 2.2 pound, 24 kt gold horse has been buried. If the horse is found, a prize of $25,000 a year for 20 years is provided. The actual cost to the publisher to purchase an annuity to pay for the prize is $245,000. What interest rate (to the nearest percent) was used to determine the amount of the annuity? (Assume end-of-year payments.)

On January 1, 2014, Crocker Company issued 10-year, $2,000,000 face value, 6% bonds, at par. Each $1,000 bond is convertible into 15 shares of Crocker common stock. Crocker’s net income in 2014 was $300,000, and its tax rate was 40%. The company had 100,000 shares of common stock outstanding throughout 2014. None of the bonds were converted in 2014. Instructions (a) Compute diluted earnings per share for 2014. (b) Compute diluted earnings per share for 2014, assuming the same facts as above, except that $1,000,000 of 6% convertible preferred stock was issued instead of the bonds. Each $100 preferred share is convertible into 5 shares of Crocker common stock.

Identify the most common types of coating processes.

1.       : If an experienced executive assistant discovered that she made the same amount of money as a newly hired janitor, how do you think she would react? What inputs and outcomes might she evaluate to make this comparison?

Theory If a downward-sloping yield curve is mainly attributed to segmented markets theory, what does that suggest about the demand for and supply of funds in the short-term and long-term maturity markets? (LO3)