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Uddin Publishing Co. publishes college textbooks that are sold to bookstores on the following terms. Each title has a fixed wholesale price, terms f.o.b. shipping point, and payment is due 60 days after shipment. The retailer may return a maximum of 30% of an order at the retailer’s expense. Sales are made only to retailers who have good credit ratings. Past experience indicates that the normal return rate is 12%, and the average collection period is 72 days. Instructions (a) Identify alternative revenue recognition criteria that Uddin could employ concerning textbook sales. (b) Briefly discuss the reasoning for your answers in (a) above. (c) In late July, Uddin shipped books invoiced at $15,000,000. Prepare the journal entry to record this event that best conforms to GAAP and your answer to part (b). (d) In October, $2 million of the invoiced July sales were returned according to the return policy, and the remaining $13 million was paid. Prepare the entries for the return and payment.

Stacy Corporation had income before income taxes for 2014 of $6,300,000. In addition, it suffered an unusual and infrequent pretax loss of $770,000 from a volcano eruption. The corporation’s tax rate is 30%. Prepare a partial income statement for Stacy beginning with income before income taxes. The corporation had 5,000,000 shares of common stock outstanding during 2014.

Consider how economic conditions affect the credit risk premium. Do you think the credit risk premium will likely increase or decrease during this semester? How do you think the yield curve will change during this semester? Offer some logic to support your answers. (LO1, LO3)

How should discount on bonds payable be reported on the financial statements? Premium on bonds payable?

How does a universal milling machine differ from a conventional knee-and-column machine?

According to the video on forming, what is the primary factor that makes the mechanical performance of forged parts better than cast parts in many situations?

What is the relationship known as Chvorinov's rule in casting?

How should the results of installment sales be reported on the income statement?

Describe why the IRS might be skeptical of permitting requests for changes in accounting method without a good business purpose.

Isabel, a calendar-year taxpayer, uses the cash method of accounting for her sole proprietorship. In late December she received a $20,000 bill from her accountant for consulting services related to her small business. Isabel can pay the $20,000 bill anytime before January 30 of next year without penalty. Assume her marginal tax rate is 37 percent this year and next year, and that she can earn an after-tax rate of return of 12 percent on her investments. When should she pay the $20,000 bill—this year or next?

How are deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities reported on the statement of financial position under IFRS?

In a chemical blanking operation, stock thickness of the aluminum sheet is 0.015 in. The pattern to be cut out of the sheet is a hole pattern, consisting of a matrix of 0.100 in diameter holes. If photochemical machining is used to cut these holes, and contact printing is used to make the resist (maskant) pattern, determine the diameter of the holes that should be used in the pattern.

What are the possible treatments for tax purposes of a net operating loss? What are the circumstances that determine the option to be applied? What is the proper treatment of a net operating loss for financial reporting purposes?

Castle Leasing Company signs a lease agreement on January 1, 2014, to lease electronic equipment to Jan Way Company. The term of the noncancelable lease is 2 years, and payments are required at the end of each year. The following information relates to this agreement: 1. Jan Way has the option to purchase the equipment for $16,000 upon termination of the lease. 2. The equipment has a cost and fair value of $160,000 to Castle Leasing Company. The useful economic life is 2 years, with a salvage value of $16,000. 3. Jan Way Company is required to pay $5,000 each year to the lessor for executory costs. 4. Castle Leasing Company desires to earn a return of 10% on its investment. 5. Collectibility of the payments is reasonably predictable, and there are no important uncertainties surrounding the costs yet to be incurred by the lessor. Instructions (a) Prepare the journal entries on the books of Castle Leasing to reflect the payments received under the lease and to recognize income for the years 2014 and 2015. (b) Assuming that Jan Way Company exercises its option to purchase the equipment on December 31, 2015, prepare the journal entry to reflect the sale on Castle’s books.

Would a corporation with a small amount of current-year taxable income (before the net operating loss deduction) and a large net operating loss carryover have a tax liability for the current year?  Explain.

Suppose the cutting speed in Problems 21.7 and 21.8 is 200 ft/min. From your answers to those problems, find (a) the horsepower consumed in the operation, (b) metal removal rate in in3 /min, (c) unit horsepower (hp-min/in3 ), and (d) the specific energy (in-lb/in3 )

At December 31, 2014, Appaloosa Corporation had a deferred tax liability of $25,000. At December 31, 2015, the deferred tax liability is $42,000. The corporation’s 2015 current tax expense is $48,000. What amount should Appaloosa report as total 2015 income tax expense?

Use the information for Rode Inc. given in IFRS19-7. Assume that it is probable that the entire net operating loss carryforward will not be realized in future years. Prepare the journal entry(ies) necessary at the end of 2014.

What is a cost object?

1.       A management professor once said that for successful management, studying the present was most important, studying the past was next most important, and studying the future should come last. Do you agree? Why?

Threshold Concept 15)  1. How might cumulative causation work at the level of an individual firm that is losing market share? (Threshold Concept 15)  2. Are there any market forces that work against cumulative causation? For instance, how might markets help to arrest the decline of a depressed region in the economy and slow down the expansion of a booming region?

Explain why the price of a good is no reflection of the total value that consumers put on it.

At December 31, 2013, the available-for-sale equity portfolio for Steffi Graf, Inc. is as follows. Security Cost Fair Value Unrealized Gain (Loss) A $17,500 $15,000 ($2,500) B 12,500 14,000 1,500 C 23,000 25,500 2,500 Total $53,000 $54,500 1,500 Previous fair value adjustment balance—Dr. 400 Fair value adjustment—Dr. $1,100 On January 20, 2014, Steffi Graf, Inc. sold security A for $15,100. The sale proceeds are net of brokerage fees. Instructions (a) Prepare the adjusting entry at December 31, 2013, to report the portfolio at fair value. (b) Show the balance sheet presentation of the investment-related accounts at December 31, 2013. (Ignore notes presentation.) (c) Prepare the journal entry for the 2014 sale of security A.

Indicate how unrealized holding gains and losses should be reported for investments classified as trading and held for-collection.

Do the IASB and FASB conceptual frameworks differ in terms of the role of financial reporting? Explain.