CHAPTER 3 The Accounting Cycle QUESTIONS Q3-1. Much more judgement is required for accrual accounting than for cash accounting because there is greater uncertainty at the time events are recorded in the accounting system. There is no uncertainty around the point in time when the cash is paid or collected. Accrual accounting records economic events‚ not cash flows. When an economic event occurs can be ambiguous. It’s less certain when revenue has been earned than when cash is received. It
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Costing and Cost Accumulation in a Batch Production Environment ANSWERS TO REVIEW QUESTIONS 3-1 (a) Use in financial accounting: In financial accounting‚ product costs are needed to determine the value of inventory on the balance sheet and to compute the cost-of-goods-sold expense on the income statement. b) Use in managerial accounting: In managerial accounting‚ product costs are needed for planning‚ for cost control‚ and for decision making. c) Use in cost management: In order
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BIRCH PAPER COMPANY CASE ANALYSIS Executive Summary Birch Paper Company is a medium sized‚ partly-integrated paper company. It produces white and craft papers and paperboard. It has four producing divisions and a timberland division – The Thompson division converts the paperboard output into corrugated box and prints and colors the outside surface of the box. The Northern division produces the paper box‚ while the Southern division supplies the corrugating medium and inner and outer liners. Timberland
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Company X would like to have a method to be able to quantitatively analyze if there’s a business case for creating production cells in the factory. The company currently operates in a job shop based manufacturing environment in which similar machines are grouped into functional departments. This means that the parts are moved from department to department through the manufacturing process. The company currently does not have any production cells‚ neither have they identified products which together
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Leo Burnett Company Ltd.: Marketing Strategy for “Forever Young” Presented to: Leo Burnett Toronto‚ Canada Presented by: Janet Carmichael July 2001 Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction 3 Background 3 Problem Statement 4 Analysis 4 Internal Analysis 4 External Analysis 5 2 Criteria 5 Alternative Selection and Evaluation 6 Recommendation and Implementation 9 Short Term Implementation 9 Long Term Implementation 10 Risk Mitigation 10 Exhibits 11 Exhibit 1:
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2ACCT 455 CHAPTER 2 Solutions 2. Suppose that P.V. Ltd. paid a dividend of $10 at the end of year 1 (any portion of year 1 net income would do). Then‚ its year 2 opening net assets are $276.36‚ and net income would be: P.V. Ltd. Income Statement For Year 2 Accretion of discount (10% × 276.36) P.V.’s balance sheet at time 2 would be: P.V. Ltd. Balance Sheet As at Time 2 $27.64 Financial Asset Cash: (140 + 14 + 150) $304.00 Shareholders’ Equity Opening Balance: 276.36 (286.36 - 10.00 dividend)
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to bonds payable on balance sheet. Income bonds payableClassify as long-term liability on balance sheet. EXERCISE 14-3 (15-20 minutes) 1.Paul Simon Company(a)1/1/04Cash 200‚000 Bonds Payable 200‚000(b)7/1/04Bond Interest Expense 4‚500 (200‚000 X 9 X 3/12) Cash 4‚500(c)12/31/04Bond Interest Expense 4‚500 Interest Payable 4‚500 2.Graceland Company(a)6/1/04Cash 105‚000 Bonds Payable 100‚000 Bond Interest Expense 5‚000 (100‚000 X 12 X 5/12)(b)7/1/04Bond Interest Expense 6‚000 Cash 6‚000 (100
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Chapter 6 Cost-Volume-Profit Relationships Solutions to Questions 6-1 The contribution margin (CM) ratio is the ratio of the total contribution margin to total sales revenue. It can be used in a variety of ways. For example‚ the change in total contribution margin from a given change in total sales revenue can be estimated by multiplying the change in total sales revenue by the CM ratio. If fixed costs do not change‚ then a dollar increase in contribution margin will result in a dollar
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“Everyone thinks of changing the world‚ but no one thinks of changing himself”. This astonishing author goes by the name of Leo Tolstoy and is acknowledged as being the best author in time. Tolstoy was an amazing writer for realistic fiction and he was best known for two of his books.Helping change the way our world is build is one of the greatest impacts this author made. Leo Tolstoy was one of the best inspirational authors‚ he had an engaging childhood‚ he faced many challenges that inspired him
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E2.5. Classifying Accounting Items a. Current asset b. Net revenue in the income statement: a deduction from revenue c. Net accounts receivable‚ a current asset: a deduction from gross receivables d. An expense in the income statement. But R&D is usually not a loss to shareholders; it is an investment in an asset. e. An expense in the income statement‚ part of operating income (and rarely an extraordinary item). If the restructuring charge is estimated‚ a liability is also
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