Which of the following would most likely serve as a foundation for individual operational goats?
Correct Answer: D
Question 62
On January 31, Year 3, a company prepaid the US $72,000 rental fee for a parking lot it leases. The rental fee covered a 3-year period beginning February 1, Year 3. What is the effect of this transaction on the December 31 Year 3, financial statements for each of the following?
Correct Answer: B
The US $72,000 rental fee should be recognized as expense evenly over the 36-month duration of the lease. In Year 3, US $22,000 should be deferred to current expenses [(US $72,000 36 months) x 11 months], and US $50,000 should be deferred as prepaid expense. On January 1. a new landscaping firm. Bandit Co. acquired a fleet of vehicles, all the necessary tools and equipment. and a parking and storage facility. It began operations immediately. It is now the end of the first year of operations, and the first set of year-end financial statements are being prepared decisions have to be made regarding the appropriate accounting and reporting practices for this company. Relevant information for several of these items is described in the following list of transactions and events: At year-end the parking and storage facility that was purchased for US $150.000 has a fair value of US $250.000 The physical flow of inventory is first in, first out, and the cost of materials has risen steadily over the year. To promote sales for the coming year, maintenance contracts were sold in December at very reasonable prices, provided that the customers paid cash. On April 1, the company arranged a US $100,000 10% bank loan. Interest payments of US $5,000 are due on October 1 and April 1 of each year during the 5-year term of the loan. During the first year of operations, the company experienced a 5% bad debt rate on credit sales None of the bad debts are expected to be recovered, given that 5% i s the industry average level of bad debts. Total credit sales for the year were U $400,000. The year-end balance of accounts receivable includes uncollected overdue accounts of US $100,000. Half of the uncollected overdue amounts are estimated to be uncollectible.
Question 63
Under a value-added taxing system:
Correct Answer: D
Question 64
What selling price would the company have to charge for its product in Year 2 to maintain the same contribution margin percentage rate as in Year 1?
Correct Answer: B
The CMR equals unit contribution margin UCM) divided by unit selling price. The UCM equals the unit selling price minus unit variable cost. The original unit selling price was US $60 $9,000,000 revenue 150,000 units), and the original unit variable cost was US $27 [ $1,800,000 + $720,000 + $1,080,000 + $450,000) + 150,000 units]. The original CPr1R was therefore US $.55 [ $60 - $27) + $60]. The new unit variable cost was calculated as US $28.80. Accordingly the unit selling price X) is US $64.
Question 65
In which stage of an entity's development is it most likely to seek and obtain external equity financing in the form of venture capital?
Correct Answer: B
At the rapid growth stage, if an entity is reasonably profitable. it will experience financing needs in excess of funds available either internally or from trade credit or bank credit Additional debt financing on results in an unreasonable amount of financial leverage at this stage, and public equity financing ordinarily is not yet available. Hence, a rapidly growing entity is most likely to seek and obtain venture capital financing. RST Corporation's Income Statement for Year 5 and Year 6 RST Corporation's Balance Sheets End of Year 5 and Year 6. The market value of RST's ordinary stock at the end of Sear 6 was US $100.00 per share.
