Adriana Corporation manufactures football equipment. In planning for next year, the managers want to understand the relation between activity and overhead costs. Discussions with the plant supervisor suggest that overhead seems to vary with labor-hours, machine-hours, or both. The following data were collected from last year's operations:

Month Labor-Hours Machine-Hours Overhead Costs
1 730 1,354 $ 102,748
2 710 1,401 103,792
3 690 1,514 109,835
4 735 1,449 108,346
5 775 1,589 116,252
6 745 1,574 114,581
7 740 1,393 106,947
8 730 1,316 102,010
9 705 1,450 106,479
10 800 1,548 113,012
11 680 1,290 101,925
12 705 1,610 115,205
Required:
(a)
Use the high-low method to estimate the fixed and variable portions of overhead costs based on machine-hours. (Round your variable cost answer to 2 decimal places.)

(b)
Managers expect the plant to operate at a monthly average of 1,400 machine-hours next year. What are the estimated monthly overhead costs, assuming no inflation?

Answer:

A. Variable cost per hour=$41.50

Fixed cost =$48,390

B. $106,490

Explanation:

a. Using the high-low method to estimate the fixed and variable portions

Calculation for the variable cost per hour

Variable cost per hour=(115,205-101,925) / (1,610-1,290)

Variable cost per hour=13,280/320

Variable cost per hour=$41.50

Calculation for fixed cost

Fixed cost= 115,205-1,610*$41.50

Fixed cost =$48,390

B. Calculation for the estimated monthly overhead costs

Overhead cost =$48,390+1,400 machine-hours*$41.50

Overhead cost =$106,490

All of the following are forms of cognitive bias except:_____.
A. Confirmation bias: This bias occurs when decision makers seek out evidence that confirms their previously held beliefs, while discounting or diminishing the impact of evidence in support of differing conclusions.
B. Anchoring: This is the overreliance on an initial single piece of information or experience to make subsequent judgments. Once an anchor is set, other judgments are made by adjusting away from that anchor, which can limit one’s ability to accurately interpret new, potentially relevant information.
C. Shifting: This is the bias involved in shifting perspectives too rapidly, thereby forgoing objectivity and sound reasoning.
D. Halo effect: This is an observer’s overall impression of a person, company, brand, or product, and it influences the observer’s feelings and thoughts about that entity’s overall character or properties. It is the perception, for example, that if someone does well in a certain area, then they will automatically perform well at something else regardless of whether those tasks are related.
E. Overconfidence bias: This bias occurs when a person overestimates the reliability of their judgments. This can include the certainty one feels in her own ability, performance, level of control, or chance of success.

Townsend Industries Inc. manufactures recreational vehicles. Townsend uses a job order cost system. The time tickets from November jobs are summarized as follows:

Job 201 $4,280
Job 202 2,140
Job 203 1,690
Job 204 3,140

Factory supervision 1,460 Factory overhead is applied to jobs on the basis of a predetermined overhead rate of $22 per direct labor hour. The direct labor rate is $15 per hour. If required, round final answers to the nearest dollar.

Required:
a. Journalize the entry to record the factory labor costs.
b. Journalize the entry to apply factory overhead to production for November.

Nicole Boyd, an HR manager, receives many complaints that some line managers have rejected some employees request to work from home. Nicole reviews the situation and finds that the employees who made the request have high-quality work performance. Nicole takes up the case with the line managers; they finally reach an agreement that employees with a good track record will be allowed to work from home three days a week. According to the Uhlrich’s model, Nicole’s act of confronting the line managers with an issue faced by some employees represents this role of an HR manager.

a. True
b. False

The accounting for bond premiums is not the mirror image of that for the bond discounts. Pacific Independent School District issued $100 million of general obligation bonds to finance the construction of new schools. The bonds were issued at a premium of $0.6 million.
1. Prepare the capital projects fund journal entries to record the issue of the bonds and the transfer of the premium to an appropriate fund.
2. Suppose, instead, that the bonds were issued at a discount of $0.6 million but that the project will still cost $100 million. Prepare the appropriate entries.
a. Contrast the entries in this part with those in part 1.
b. Indicate the options available to the school district, and state how they would affect the entries required of the district.
c. Suppose that the government chose to finance the balance of the project with general revenues. Prepare the appropriate capital projects fund entry.

Robert G. Flanders Jr., the state-appointed receiver for Central Falls, RI, said his city's declaration of bankruptcy had proved invaluable in helping it cut costs. Before the city declared bankruptcy, he said, he had found it impossible to wring meaningful concessions out of the city's unions and retirees, who were being asked to give up roughly half of the pensions they had earned as the city ran out of cash.
True or False

Starbooks Corporation provides an online bookstore for electronic books. The following is a simplified list of accounts and amounts reported in its accounting records. The accounts have normal debit or credit balances. Assume the year ended on September 30, 2018.
Accounts Payable $ 610
Accounts Receivable 310
Accumulated Depreciation 910
Cash 310
Common Stock 210
Deferred Revenue 210
Depreciation Expense 310
Equipment 3,210
Income Tax Expense 310
Interest Revenue 110
Notes Payable (long-term) 210
Notes Payable (short-term) 510
Prepaid Rent 110
Rent Expense 410
Retained Earnings 1,510
Salaries and Wages Expense 2,210
Service Revenue 6,230
Supplies 510
Supplies Expense 210
Travel Expense 2,610
Required:
a. Prepare and adjusted trial balance on September 30, 2018.
b. Is the Retained Earnings balance of $1,503 the amount that would be reported on the balance sheet as of September 30, 2018?

The following inventory information is available for Ricci Manufacturing Corporation for the year ended December 31, 2017:

Beginning Ending
Inventories: Raw materials $17,000 $19,000
Work in process 9,000 14,000
Finished goods 11,000 8,000
Total $37,000 $41,000

In addition, the following transactions occurred in 2017:

1. Raw materials purchased on account, $75,000.
2. Incurred factory labor, $80,000, all is direct labor. (Credit Factory Wages Payable).
3. Incurred the following overhead costs during the year: Utilities $6,800, Depreciation on manufacturing machinery $8,000, Manufacturing machinery repairs $9,200, Factory insurance $9,000 (Credit Accounts Payable and Accumulated Depreciation).
4. Assigned $80,000 of factory labor to jobs.
5. Applied $36,000 of overhead to jobs. Instructions

Required:
a. Journalize the above transactions.
b. Reproduce the manufacturing cost and inventory accounts.
c. From an analysis of the accounts, compute the following:

1. Raw materials used.
2. Completed jobs transferred to finished goods.
3. Cost of goods sold.
4. Under- or overapplied overhead.

Which of the following best defines a financial intermediary? a claim by a buyer to a future payment by a seller a collection of stocks and bonds issued to investors a financial institution that transforms investor funds into financial assets an asset sold by a company which entitles the buyer to partial ownership

he GDP deflator in year 4 is 120 and the GDP deflator in year 5 is 130. The rate of inflation between years 4 and 5 is

The nation of Textilia does not allow imports of clothing. In its equilibrium without trade, a T-shirt costs $24, and the equilibrium quantity is 4 million T-shirts. One day, after reading Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations while on vacation, the president decides to open the Textilian market to international trade. The market price of a T-shirt falls to the world price of $16. The number of T-shirts consumed in Textilia rises to 8 million, while the number of T-shirts produced declines to 2 million.
a. Illustrate the situation just described in a graph. Your graph should show all the numbers.
b. Calculate the change in consumer surplus, producer surplus, and total surplus that results from opening up trade. (Hint: Recall that the area of a triangle is1/2×base×height

The following model is a simplified version of the multiple regression model used by Biddle and Hamermesh (1990) to study the tradeoff between time spent sleeping and working and to look at other factors affecting sleep:

sleep = β0 + β1totwrk + β2educ + β3age + u,

where sleep and totwrk (total work) are measured in minutes per week and educ and age are measured in years. (See also Computer Exercise.)

(i) If adults trade off sleep for work, what is the sign of β1?

(ii) What signs do you think β2 and β3 will have?

(iii) Using the data in SLEEP75.RAW, the estimated equation is

= 3,638.25 - .148 totwrk - 11.13 educ + 2.20 age n = 706, R2 = .113.

If someone works five more hours per week, by how many minutes is sleep predicted to fall? Is this a large tradeoff?

(iv) Discuss the sign and magnitude of the estimated coefficient on educ.

(v) Would you say totwrk, educ, and age explain much of the variation in sleep? What other factors might affect the time spent sleeping? Are these likely to be correlated with totwrk?

Use the data in SLEEP75.RAW from Biddle and Hamermesh (1990) to study whether there is a tradeoff between the time spent sleeping per week and the time spent in paid work. We could use either variable as the dependent variable. For concreteness, estimate the model

sleep =β0+ β1totwrk+u, where sleep is minutes spent sleeping at night per week and totwrk is total minutes worked during the week.

(i) Report your results in equation form along with the number of observations and R2. What does the intercept in this equation mean?

(ii) If totwrk increases by 2 hours, by how much is sleep estimated to fall? Do you find this to be a large effect?

Comparative financial statement data for Bridgeport Corp. and Sarasota Corp., two competitors, appear below. All balance sheet data are as of December 31, 2017.

Bridgeport Corp. Sarasota Corp.
2017 2017
Net sales $2,340,000 $806,000
Cost of goods sold 1,527,500 442,000
Operating expenses 367,900 127,400
Interest expense 11,700 4,940
Income tax expense 110,500 46,800
Current assets 434,600 195,436
Plant assets (net) 691,600 181,646
Current liabilities 86,223 43,831
Long-term liabilities 141,050 52,889
Net cash provided by operating activities 179,400 46,800
Capital expenditures 117,000 26,000
Dividends paid on common stock 46,800 19,500
Weighted-average number of shares outstanding 80,000 50,000

Required:
Compute the net income and earnings per share for each company for 2017.
b. Compute working capital and the current ratios for each company for 2017.
c. Compute the debt to assets ratio and the free cash flow for each company for 2017.

The rate of return on the common stock of Flowers by Flo is expected to be 14 percent in a boom economy, 8 percent in a normal economy, and only 2 percent in a recessionary economy. The probabilities of these economic states are 20 percent for a boom, 70 percent for a normal economy, and 10 percent for a recession. What is the variance of the returns

Agency conflicts between managers and shareholders
Remember, an agency relationship can degenerate into an agency conflict when an agent acts in a manner that is not in the best interest of his or her principal. In large corporations, these conflicts most frequently involve the enrichment of the firm’s executives or managers (in the form of money and perquisites or power and prestige) at the expense of the company’s shareholders. This usurping and reallocation of shareholder wealth is most likely to occur when shareholders do not have sufficient information about the decisions and actions being made by the firm’s management.
Consider the following scenario and determine whether an agency conflict exists:
William and Abigail equally own and manage A New Beginning (ANB), a store that sells preowned clothing and furniture. William is responsible for ANB’s back-office activities, and Abigail staffs the store and makes deliveries to customers. Both have equal decision-making authority and, under the terms of their partnership agreement, both are prohibited from making personal purchases using company funds without prior approval of the other partner. William, without Abigail’s knowledge, used the company’s bank account recently to purchase a new sports car. William has acknowledged that the car will not be used to support the business.
Is this a potential agency conflict between William and Abigail?
No; William and Abigail are both authorized to spend ANB’s money, so no conflict of interest can occur.
No; William and Abigail co-own and co-manage ANB and have a partnership agreement that makes them equal, so an agency conflict cannot exist.
Yes; William is misappropriating some of Abigail’s wealth by unilaterally purchasing a nonbusiness asset using ANB’s funds.
Yes; it should have been Abigail who purchased the car.
Consider the following scenario and determine whether an agency conflict exists:
Five years ago, Caesar created a plant-care business that grew, stocked, and maintained fresh plants in office buildings throughout Raleigh. Over time, The Green Zone Inc. (TGZ) has grown from a proprietorship into a corporation, now reaching far beyond Raleigh. To finance and support this growth, TGZ issued shares that were sold to TGZ employees, Caesar’s family members, and selected outsiders. Caesar is TGZ’s chairman of the board of directors and CEO, but he is no longer the largest shareholder.
At the latest annual meeting, two mutually exclusive proposals were placed on the ballot for discussion and vote. The first was put forth by Caesar and TGZ’s management team, and the second was proposed by a small group of other shareholders. Both groups are adamantly opposed to the other group’s proposal, even though both proposals would likely have the same effect on TGZ’s value and riskiness.
Does an agency conflict exist between TGZ’s management and the small group of opposing shareholders?
No; although an agency relationship exists between TGZ’s management—including Caesar as TGZ’s chairman and CEO and the firm’s shareholders—there is no agency conflict, because no expropriation or wasting of the shareholders’ wealth has occurred.
No; Caesar was the original owner of TGZ, so he would always be sensitive to the concerns of the firm’s current owners (shareholders) and would not engage in an agency conflict.
Yes; any conflict or disagreement between the firm’s managers and its shareholders constitutes an agency conflict.
Yes; an agency relationship exists, and an agency relationship always gives rise to agency conflicts, regardless of the actual behavior of the participants.
Which of the following actions will help ease agency conflicts and better align managers’ objectives with the firm’s shareholder wealth?
Pay the manager a large base salary with a huge stock option package that matures on a single date.
Pay the manager a combination of salary and stock options (phased in over several years) that reward him or her for consistently increasing shareholder wealth.
Great Fortunes Baking Company’s stockholders are mostly individual investors, and there is relatively little institutional ownership. If several pension and mutual funds were to take large positions in Great Fortunes Baking Company’s stock, direct shareholder intervention would be more or less likely to motivate the firm’s management.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Congress passed legislation making it more difficult for outside investors to stage hostile takeovers. This legislation likely reduced or increased conflicts between managers and stockholders.

Which government tax incentive retirement account allows a person to contribute after-tax earnings?
a. Contribution matching
b. Roth IRA
c. Traditional IRA
d. 529 plan

Susie buys a share of Alphabet stock through her broker, Mr. Diaz, who works for Acme Investing and purchases the stock at the New York Stock Exchange. In this transaction, __________ is a financial instrument, __________ is a financial institution, and __________ represents a financial market.

Three workers each take home two packs of Post-It notes at a cost of $.67 per pack.

A market has four individuals, each considering buying a grill. Assume that grills come in only one size and model. Martina considers herself a grill-master, and finds a grill a necessity, so she is willing to pay $400 for a grill. Javier is a meat-lover, honing his grilling skills, and is willing to pay $350 for a grill. Kamal wants to impress his friends with his vegetable grilling skills and is willing to pay $320 for a grill. Lina loves grilled shrimp and thinks it might be cheaper in the long run if she grills her own shrimp instead of eating out at a restaurant, so she is willing to pay $200 for a grill. If the market price ofgrills increases from $300 to $320, given the scenario described:

a. Collin is the only consumer who would be affected in terms of surplus.
b. Daniel drops out of the market.
c. Collin drops out of the market.
d. Collin loses any surplus he had.

Some of the ledger accounts for the Sanderson Hardware Company are listed below. For each of the October 2021 transactions numbered 1 through 10 below, indicate by account name which accounts should be debited and which should be credited when preparing journal entries. The company uses the perpetual inventory system. Assume that appropriate adjusting entries were recorded at the end of September.


Accounts payable Equipment Inventory
Accounts receivable Cash Supplies
Supplies expense Prepaid rent Sales revenue
Retained earnings Notes payable Common stock
Deferred sales revenue Rent expense Salaries payable
Cost of goods sold Salaries expense Interest expense

Accound debited Accound credited
1. Paid a cash dividend.
2. Paid rent for the next three months.
3. Sold goods to customers on account.
4. Purchased inventory on account.
5. Purchased supplies for cash.
6. Paid employees wages for September.
7. Issued common stock in exchange for cash.
8. Collected cash from customers for goods sold in 3.
9. Borrowed cash from a bank and signed a note.
10. At the end of October, recorded the amount of supplies that had been used during the month.
11. Received cash for advance payment from customer.
12. Accrued employee wages for October.

Nell and Kirby are in the process of negotiating their divorce agreement. What should be the tax consequences to Nell and Kirby if the following, considered individually, became part of the agreement?
a. In consideration for her one-half interest in their personal residence, Kirby will transfer to Nell stock with a value of $200,000 and $50,000 of cash. Kirby's cost of the stock was $150,000, and the value of the personal residence is $500,000. They purchased the residence three years ago for $300,000.
Nell's basis for the stock is _______$ X
Kirby's basis in the house is ______$ X
b. Nell will receive $1,000 per month for 120 months. If she dies before receiving all 120 payments, the remaining payments will be made to her estate.
The payments (qualify, do not qualify) as alimony and are (included in, excluded from) Nell's gross income as they are received.
c. Nell is to have custody of their 12-year-old son, Bobby. She is to receive $1,200 per month until Bobby (1) dies or (2) attains age 21 (whichever occurs first). After either of these events occurs, Nell will receive only $300 per month for the remainder of her life.
$ X per month is alimony that is (included in, excluded from) Nell's gross income, and the remaining $ X per month is considered​(child support, property settlement) and is (nontaxable, taxable) to Nell.

Air conditioning for a college dormitory will cost $2.1 million to install and $170,000 per year to operate at current prices. The system should last 19 years. The real cost of capital is 9%, and the college pays no taxes. What is the equivalent annual cost

Janice’s Dress Delivery operates a mail-order business that sells clothes designed for frequent travelers. It had sales of $560,000 in December. Because Janice’s Dress Delivery is in the mail-order business, all sales are made on account. The company expects a 30 percent drop in sales for January. The balance in the Accounts Receivable account on December 31 was $96,400 and is budgeted to be $73,600 as of January 31. Janice’s Dress Delivery normally collects accounts receivable in the month following the month of sale. Required: Determine the amount of cash Janice’s Dress Delivery expects to collect from accounts receivable during January.

Henry Ford's concept of
meant parts did not have to be custom built to match a particular car.

The following information relates to Sheridan Company for the year 2022.

Retained earnings, January 1, 2022 $40,320
Advertising expense $1,510
Dividends during 2022 4,200
Rent expense 8,740
Service revenue 52,500
Utilities expense 2,600
Salaries and wages expense 23,520
Other comprehensive income (net of tax) 340

Required:
a. After analyzing the data, compute net income.
b. Prepare a comprehensive income statement for the year ending December 31, 2022.

The following are selected account balances from Penske Company and Stanza Corporation as of December 31, 2021:

Penske Stanza
Revenues $(842,000 ) $(568,000 )
Cost of goods sold 299,700 142,000
Depreciation expense 207,000 304,000
Investment income Not given 0
Dividends declared 80,000 60,000
Retained earnings, 1/1/21 (668,000 ) (222,000 )
Current assets 572,000 566,000
Copyrights 1,076,000 449,500
Royalty agreements 604,000 1,180,000
Investment in Stanza Not given 0
Liabilities (546,000 ) (1,631,500 )
Common stock (600,000 )($20 par) (200,000 ) ($10 par)
Additional paid-in capital 150,000 80,000


On January 1, 2013, Penske acquired all of Stanza's outstanding stock for $680,000 fair value in cash and common stock. Penske also paid $10,000 in stock issuance costs. At the date of acquisition copyrights (with a six-year remaining life) have a $440,000 book value but a fair value of $560,000.

a. As of December 31,2013, what is the consolidated copyrights balance?
b. For the year ending December 31,2013, what is consolidated net income?
c. As of December 31,2013, what is the consolidated retained earnings balance?
d. As of December 31,2013, what is the consolidated balance to be reported for goodwill?

Cramer Corporation formats operating cash flows using the indirect method. E:How do accounts receivable affect Cramer's cash flows from operating activities for 2018?
A. They increase cash provided by operating activities,
B. They don't because accounts receivable result from investing activities
C. They don't because accounts receivable result from financing activities.
D. They decrease cash provided by operating activities
Cramer's Income Statement for 2018
Sales revenue 170,000
Gain on sale of equipment 10,000 180.000
Cost of goods sold 110000
Depreciation 7500
Other operating expenses 27000 144500
Nel income 35500
The book value of equipment sold during 2018 was $22.000. 110,000 7.500 27.000 Done kerating activities for 2018? 1 Data Table Cash Accounts receivable
Cramer's Comparative Balance Sheets
December 31, 2018 and 2017
2018 2017
Cash 3,500 $ 2,000
Accounts payable 6,000 11,000
Accrued liabilities 8,000 7,000
Common stock 89,000 71,000
Retained earnings $ 106,500 $ 91,000
2018 2017
Accounts payable 7,000 $ 8,000
Accounts liabilities 9,000 1,000
Common stock 20,000 10000
Retained earnings 70500 72000
106,500 91,000

As far as GOODS (compared to services) are concerned, there is ___ opportunity to correct problems due to ___ customer contact. A. less, low B. more, low C. less, high D. more, high

Kim Co. purchased goods with a list price of $175,000, subject to trade discounts of 20% and 10%, with no cash discounts allowable. How much should Kim Co. record as the cost of these goods

Jeremy wants to avoid conflict with his new coworkers. He should
Spread gossip with them
Treat them all with respect
Talk to the most popular people
d Buy them expensive gifts

Rodeo, Inc. has a contribution margin ratio of 30%. This month, profit was $12,300 and fixed costs were $15,600. How much was Laredo's sales revenue