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    Calculating Profit Sharing Contributions

    Peteresbourgh Medical Devices makes devices and equipment that it sells to hospitals. The organization has a profit sharing plan that is worded as follows: The company will make available a profit sharing pool that will be the lower of the following two items: 1.) 40% of income before taxes in excess of the target profit level,

    Gains recognized for significant experience

    Beth and Ben are equal partners in the BB partership, formed on June 1 of the current year. Ben contributed land that he inherited form his father 3 years ago. Ben's father purchased the land in 1950 for $6,000. The land was worth $50,000 when Ben's father died. The fair market value of the land was $75,000 at the date it wa

    Ryan Company: Compute net incoem at various transfer prices

    Ryan Company that has two divisions M & N. Product X is manufactured in US and sold domestically and to division N in France as well. A total of 900 units of X is produced and sold at $410 a unit in the U.S. Division N requires 300 units of X. Ryan Company has a total capacity of 1200 units. The company estimates the cost to

    Residual income and EVA

    See attached file. Saba Signs Company has provided the following data: The company requires a residual income of 6%. Required: a) Determine the residual income before and after the additional investment. b) Will the company accept the proposed additional investment if the management is evaluated by residual income?

    Saba Signs Co: Compute ROI scenarios

    See attached file. Saba Signs Company has provided the following data: Required: a) Determine ROI before the additional investment. b) Determine ROI of the additional investment. c) Determine ROI after the additional investment. d) Will the manager accept the additional investment using ROI? Why or why not? e) If Sa

    Atherton Company: Compute the four variances for variable

    See attached file. Atherton Company uses a four-way analysis for overhead. The following information is available for August for overhead: The company closes all variances to cost of goods sold. Required: Compute the four variances for variable and fixed overhead and indicate if they are favorable or unfavorable.

    Buy the plugs and rent the facility, or buy the plugs and not rent

    Regis Company manufactures plugs used in its manufacturing cycle at a cost of $36 per unit that includes $8 of fixed overhead. Regis needs 30,000 of these plugs annually, and Orlan Company has offered to sell these units to Regis at $33 per unit. If Regis decides to purchase the plugs, $60,000 of the annual fixed overhead ap

    The Internal Business Process Perspective

    Identify at least three objectives for improving the organization's internal business processes, and show how they relate to the mission, vision and strategy of the organization

    Net cash paid to shareholders, comprehensive income

    Case 4 Microsoft has undoubtedly the most successful software firm ever. Between 1994 and 2000, the firms revenues increased from 2.8$ billion to 23.0 billion and its earnings from 708$ million to 9.4$ billion. Over the two year 1998 to 2000, its stock price increased from 36$ per share to almost 120$, giving it a trailing

    Liquidation of a Partnership Calculations

    The partnership is not going well, and Tribbs, Bob, and Paul decide to liquidate the partnership. Paul is a little concerned. While Tribbs has plenty of money, Bob is personally insolvent. The partnership sells the apartment building for $165,000, which is a loss from its book value of $189,000. Using the attached balances,

    Winnipeg Chemical Company: Prepare an analysis of all variances

    The Winnipeg Chemical Company uses flexible budgets and a standard cost system. ? Direct-labor costs incurred, 12,000 hours,$150,000 ? Variable-overhead costs incurred, $37,000 ? Fixed-overhead flexible-budget variance,$1,600, favorable ? Finished units produced,1,800 ? Fi

    Prather Inc bought 80% of Sands: Prepare consolidation worksheet

    Prather Inc. bought eighty percent of the outstanding common stock of Sands Corp. on January 1, 2008, for $952,000 cash. Total book value of Sands on that date was only $840,000. However, Sands possessed several accounts that had fair market values that differed from their book values:

    Balance of Swanson Company's Investment in Life Products Inc

    On January 1, 2008, Swanson Company buys 300,000 shares of Life Products Inc.'s common stock for $1,800,000, the book value of the shares. This purchase gave Swanson a 30% ownership interest in Life Products Inc. and the ability to exercise significant influence over decision making. During 2008, Life Products Inc. reported $5

    Encumbrance affect on expenditures

    What is an encumbrance? How does an encumbrance affect expenses and expenditures? What is the impact of encumbrance accounting on a governmental budget?

    Accounting:Activity based costing.

    QUESTION 1 RH Company produces three (3) types of products (X, Y and Z), that consumes a similar direct material, PQR. Presented below is the information with regard to the production of a unit of product: X Y Z ($) ($) ($) Direct material cost 250 500 375 Direct labor cost 90 50 70 Support cost: Variable 75

    Tax treatment: Sue loaned her friend john $15K four years ago...

    Sue loaned her friend john $15K four years ago. John signed a note and made payments on the loan. Last year, when the remaining balance of the loan was $8K. John filed bankruptcy and notified Sue that he would be unable to repay the $8K balance remaining on the loan. Sue treated the $8k as a bad debt. Last year Sue had net l

    Snell Corp. - Composite Life of Assets

    45. At the start of its business, Snell Corp. decided to use the composite method of depreciation and prepared the following schedule of machinery owned. Total Estimated Estimated Life Cost Salvage Value in Years Machine A $275,000 $25,000 20 Machine B 100,000 10,000 15 Machine C 20,000 -- 5 Snell computes de

    The Mayflower Company began its operations in early 2011.

    32. The Mayflower Company began its operations in early 2011. The company carries five different types of inventory which are listed below along with other relevant data. The company values its inventory at the lower of cost or market. At December 31, 2011, Mayflower has exactly one unit of each item in ending inventory.

    In preparing a bank reconciliation, interest paid by the bank on the account is

    4. In preparing a bank reconciliation, interest paid by the bank on the account is a. added to the bank balance. b. subtracted from the bank balance. c. added to the book balance. d. subtracted from the book balance. 5. In preparing a monthly bank reconciliation, which of the following items would be added to the ba

    Tax for a Large Apartment Complex

    1) Sybil gave her son Todd 1,000 shares of XYZ stock on January 16, 2007. The stock's high and low selling prices that day were $55 and $53. Sybil had purchased the stock in 2006 for $70 per share. At the beginning of 2008, Todd sold the shares for $62,000. Provide the details of both income and gift tax effects

    Please see the attached file.

    Please see the attached file. 1- Computation of Net Purchases/Cost of Goods Sold Barkley Company uses a periodic inventory system and has the following account balances: Beginning Inventory $50,000, Ending Inventory $80,000, Freight-in $12,000, Purchases $300,000, Purchase Returns and Allowances $8,000, and Purchase Discounts

    Corporation of Deferred Tax Assets or Liability

    Hello, I have some tax questions that I need help solving. Please be certain to show your work for the problems. Thanks. PLEASE SHOW WORK TO PROBLEMS (1) Parker exchanges an apartment building in Wisconsin for Cassidy's apartment building in Florida. Parker's building has a fair market value of $500,000, is encum

    Leverage Increases Financial Risks

    Show how leverage increases financial risk by calculating the EPS and return on shares for a firm with $1 million in 10% debt. The firm also has 50,000 shares outstanding that sell for $40 each. Three states of the economy are possible: a slump under which the firm would have operating income of $150,000, a normal state under wh

    Taxation: Classification of Chum Corporation Distributions

    Chum Corporation distributed $20,000 cash to George, its sole Class A common stockholder in May of the current year and it made a $20,000 cash distribution to Bennie its sole Class B common stockholder in December of the current year. The corporation has $15,000 in current earnings and profits for the year and $18,000 in accumul