Bramble Corporation is a small wholesaler of gourmet food products. Data regarding the store's operations follow: Sales are budgeted at $320,000 for November, $300,000 for December, and $290,000 for January. Collections are expected to be 55% in the month of sale and 45% in the month following the sale. The cost of goods sold is 70% of sales. The company would like to maintain ending merchandise inventories equal to 70% of the next month's cost of goods sold. Payment for merchandise is made in the month following the purchase. Other monthly expenses to be paid in cash are $23,800. Monthly depreciation is $14,800. Ignore taxes. Balance Sheet October 31 Assets Cash $ 21,400 Accounts receivable 71,400 Merchandise inventory 156,800 Property, plant and equipment, net of $573,400 accumulated depreciation 1,095,400 Total assets $ 1,345,000 Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity Accounts payable $ 255,400 Common stock 821,400 Retained earnings 268,200 Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $ 1,345,000 The difference between cash receipts and cash disbursements for December would be:

Answer:

Bramble Corporation

The difference between cash receipts and cash disbursements for December would be:

=  $71,000

Explanation:

a) Data and Calculations:

Balance Sheet October 31

Assets Cash                            $ 21,400

Accounts receivable                  71,400

Merchandise inventory           156,800

Property, plant and equipment,

net of $573,400 accumulated

depreciation                        1,095,400

Total assets                      $ 1,345,000

Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity

Accounts payable              $ 255,400

Common stock                      821,400

Retained earnings                268,200

Total liabilities and

stockholders' equity      $ 1,345,000

                                     November       December      January

Budgeted sales            $320,000        $300,000   $290,000

Cash Collections:

55% month of sale         176,000            165,000      159,500

45% following month       71,400             144,000      135,000

Total collections          $247,400         $309,000   $294,500

Cost of goods sold     $224,000         $210,000    $203,000

=  (70% of Sales for the month)

Ending Inventory            147,000            142,100

Goods available           $371,000        $352,000

Beginning Inventory      156,800            147,000       142,100

Purchases                    $214,200        $205,000

Cash disbursements:

Payment to suppliers   255,400           214,200      205,000

Other monthly exp.        23,800             23,800

Total disbursements $279,200         $238,000

Comparison of Cash receipts with Cash disbursements:

                                   November       December

Cash receipts             $247,400         $309,000

Cash disbursements $279,200         $238,000

Difference                    ($31,800)           $71,000

An accounting clerk for Chesner Co. prepared the following bank reconciliation:

Chesner Co. Bank Reconciliation July 31, 2016

Cash balance according to company's records $6,570
Add:
Outstanding checks $3,150
Error by Chesner Co. in recording Check No. 1056 as $820 instead of $280 540
Note for $10,300 collected by bank, including interest 10,710 14,400
Deduct:
Deposit in transit on August 31 $6,690
Bank service charges 60 6,750
Cash balance according to bank statement $14,220
$20,970

a. From the data prepared by the accounting clerk, prepare a new bank reconciliation for Chesner Co.
b. If a balance sheet were prepared for Chesner Co. on July 31, 2016, what amount should be reported for cash?

The transactions listed below are typical of those involving Amalgamated Textiles and American Fashions. Amalgamated is a wholesale merchandiser and American Fashions is a retail merchandiser. Assume all sales of merchandise from Amalgamated to American Fashions are made with terms n/60, and the two companies use perpetual inventory systems. Assume the following transactions between the two companies occurred in the order listed during the year ended December 31.
a. Amalgamated sold merchandise to American Fashions at a selling price of $270,000. The merchandise had cost Amalgamated $191,000.
b. Two days later, American Fashions returned goods that had been sold to the company at a price of $27,500 and complained to Amalgamated that some of the remaining merchandise differed from what American Fashions had ordered. Amalgamated agreed to give an allowance of $9,000 to American Fashions. The goods returned by American Fashions had cost Amalgamated $19,270
c. Just three days later, American Fashions paid Amalgamated, which settled all amounts owed
Required:
For each of the events (a) through (c), indicate the amount and direction of the effect on Amalgamated Textiles in terms of the following items. (Enter any decreases to account balances with a minus sign.) Prepare the journal entries that Amalgamated Textiles would record. TIP: When using a perpetual inventory system, the seller always makes two journal entries when goods are sold. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No Journal Entry Required" in the first account field.)

Use Annual Cost Analysis to determine whether Alternative A or B should be chosen. The analysis period is 5 years. Assume an interest rate of 6% per year, compounded annually Alternative A Alternative B Initial Cost 2800 6580 Annual Benefit 450 940 Salvage Value 500 1375 Useful Life (yrs) 5 5 Group of answer choices Alternative A should be chosen, because its initial cost is lower than Alternative B's Alternative A should be chosen, because its equivalent annual cost is $252.15 lower than Alternative B's Alternative B should be chosen, because its annual benefit is higher than Alternative A's Alternative B should be chosen, because its equivalent annual cost is $252.15 higher than Alternative A's

Some hoodlums who have been earning money by stealing copper pipes and cable and selling them to recyclers are driving around one evening when they spot an unattended strange-looking building sitting out in the middle of a field, break in, and steal all of the copper wire they can haul in their truck, disabling the VOR air navigation facility.

Required:
In addition to trespassing, breaking and entering, and burglary, have they committed any aviation-specific federal crimes? If so, identify each such crime(s) and describe the penalties.

Your friend currently works as an accountant at a public accounting firm in the small town of LaFontaine, Indiana. He is offered a job in Washington, D.C. for $60,000. Your friend calls you and tells you that he is excited about the new job offer, which gives him a raise from his current salary of $50,000. Based on your knowledge of economics, you think that:______

a. Your friend most likely should not be quite so excited because the extremely high cost of living in New York City means his real salary increase will be less than he imagined.
b. Your friend has every reason to be excited because he will be getting paid.
c. Your friend has reason to be excited because in a bigger city he will häve more.
d. Your friend has no reason to be excited because higher pay implies more job 120% of what he used to be paid. things to do and his higher salary will allow him to spend on those activities.

which one of the following best describes the human need?
a.fries
b.burger
c.pizza
d.food
e.none

Zeibart Company purchases equipment for $225,000 on July 1, 2016, with an estimated useful life of 10 years and expected salvage value of $25,000. Straight-line depreciation is used. On July 1, 2020, economic factors cause the market value of the equipment to decline to $90,000. On this date, Zeibart examines the equipment for impairment and estimates $125,000 in future cash inflows related to use of this equipment.

Required:
a. Is the equipment impaired at July 1, 2020?
b. If the equipment is impaired on July I, 2020, compute the impairment loss and prepare a journal entry to record the loss.

Wildhorse Co. is a full-service manufacturer of surveillance equipment. Customers can purchase any combination of equipment, installation services, and training as part of Wildhorse’s security services. Thus, each of these performance obligations are separate with individual standalone selling prices. Laplante Inc. purchased cameras, installation, and training at a total price of $88,100. Estimated standalone selling prices of the equipment, installation, and training are $81,000, $6,300, and $2,700, respectively. How should the transaction price be allocated to the equipment, installation, and training?

Media outlets often have websites that provide in-depth coverage of news and events. Portions of these websites are restricted to members who pay a monthly subscription to gain access to exclusive news and commentary. These websites typically offer a free trial period to introduce viewers to the website. Assume that during a recent fiscal year, one outlet spent $2,368,800 on a promotional campaign for its website that offered two free months of service for new subscribers. In addition, assume the following information:

Number of months an average new customer stays with the service (including the two free months) 22 months
Revenue per month per customer subscription $21
Variable cost per month per customer subscription $7

Determine the number of new customer accounts needed to break even on the cost of the promotional campaign. In forming your answer:

a. treat the cost of the promotional campaign as a fixed cost
b. treat the revenue less variable cost per account for the subscription period as the unit contribution margin.

Calgary Manufacturing company makes chairs and desks. The following costs were incurred in making its products during its first year of operation. Chairs Desks Total Direct Materials $ 8,500 $ 10,500 $ 19,000 Direct Labor 16,500 12,500 29,000 Also the company incurred $22,910 of employee benefits cost. Since these overhead costs are driven by the use of labor they are allocated to the products based on the direct labor dollars. Based on this information alone the total cost of making chairs is. (Do not round intermediate calculations.)

A stock index currently stands at 280. The risk-free interest rate is 10% per annum (with semiannual compounding) and the dividend yield on the index is 5% per annum (continuously compounded). The futures price for a six-month contract is closest to the which of following value:________

a. $235.07
b. $287.09
c. $277.11
d. $340.21

Assume a small nation has the following statistics: its consumption expenditure is $15 million, investment is $2 million, government expenditure on goods and services is $1 million, exports of goods and services to foreigners is $1 million, and imports of goods and services from foreigners is $1.5 million. Calculate this nation's GDP

Suppose that the Federal Reserve decides to decrease the money supply with a $300 purchases of Treasury bills. Complete the tables that represent the financial position of the Federal Reserve and commercial banks after this open-market operation. Be sure to use a negative sign for reduced values.

Federal Reserves Assest Liabilities


Commercial Reserves Assets Liabilities

For the Federal Reserve, what are assets? What are liabilities?

a. Monetary base; Reserves
b. Monetary base; Treasury bills
c. Treasury bills; Reserves
d. Reserves; Treasury bill
e. Treasury bills; Monetary base

Diamond Company has three product lines, A, B, and C. The following financial information is available:

Item Product Line A Product Line B Product Line C
Sales $70,000 $145,000 $32,000
Variable costs $42,000 $77,000 $20,000
Contribution margin $28,000 $68,000 $12,000
Fixed costs:
Avoidable $6,300 $19,000 $8,950
Unavoidable $5,000 $14,500 $4,000
Pre-tax operating
income $16,700 $34,500 $(-950 )

Assuming that Product Line C is discontinued and the manufacturing space formerly devoted to this line is rented for $6,000 per year, operating income for the company will likely:

a. Increase by $7,200.
b. Increase by $3,300.
c. Increase by some other amount.

A data mining routine has been applied to a transaction dataset and has classified 88 records as fraudulent (30 correctly so) and 952 as non-fraudulent (920 correctly so). Construct the classification matrix and calculate the error rate, sensitivity, and specificity.

On June 30, the end of the first month of operations, Tudor Manufacturing Co. prepared the following income statement, based on the variable costing concept:

Sales (420,000 units) $7,450,000
Variable cost of goods sold:
Variable cost of goods manufactured (500,000 units x $14 per unit) $7,000,000
Less ending inventory (80,000 units x $14 per unit) 1,120,000
Variable cost of goods sold 5,880,000
Manufacturing margin $1570000
Variable selling and administrative expenses 80,000
Contribution margin $1490,000
Fixed costs:
Fixed manufacturing costs $160,000
Fixed selling and administrative expenses 75,000 235,000
Income from operations $1255,000

Required:
a. Prepare an absorption costing income statement.
b. Reconcile the variable costing income from operations of $1,255,000 with the absorption costing income from operations determined in (a).

4. Between January 2012 and January 2019, U.S. employment
increased by 17.3 million workers, but the number of
unemployed workers declined by only 6.3 million. How are
these numbers consistent with each other? Why might one
expect a reduction in the number of people counted as
unemployed to be smaller than the increase in the number of
people employed?

The __________ reflects the ups and downs of the nation’s real GDP.
A.
business cycle
B.
inflation rate
C.
consumer price index
D.
unemployment rate


Please select the best answer from the choices provided

A
B
C
D

Forten Company's current year income statement, comparative balance sheets, and additional information follow. For the year, (1) all sales are credit sales, (2) all credits to Accounts Receivable reflect cash receipts from customers, (3) all purchases of inventory are on credit, (4) all debits to Accounts Payable reflect cash payments for inventory, and (5) Other Expenses are paid in advance and are initially debited to Prepaid Expenses.
FORTEN COMPANY
Comparative Balance Sheets
December 31
Current Year Prior Year
Assets
Cash $ 66,400 $ 84,500
Accounts receivable 82,380 61,625
Inventory 292,156 262,800
Prepaid expenses 1,320 2,115
Total current assets 442,256 411,040
Equipment 146,500 119,000
Accum. depreciation—Equipment (42,125) (51,500)
Total assets $ 546,631 $ 478,540
Liabilities and Equity
Accounts payable $ 64,141 $ 131,175
Short-term notes payable 13,300 8,200
Total current liabilities 77,441 139,375
Long-term notes payable 59,500 59,750
Total liabilities 136,941 199,125
Equity
Common stock, $5 par value 179,250 161,250
Paid-in capital in excess of par, common stock 54,000 0
Retained earnings 176,440 118,165
Total liabilities and equity $ 546,631 $ 478,540
FORTEN COMPANY
Income Statement
For Current Year Ended December 31
Sales $ 637,500
Cost of goods sold 296,000
Gross profit 341,500
Operating expenses
Depreciation expense $ 31,750
Other expenses 143,400 175,150
Other gains (losses)
Loss on sale of equipment (16,125)
Income before taxes 150,225
Income taxes expense 39,650
Net income $ 110,575
Additional Information on Current Year Transactions
The loss on the cash sale of equipment was $16,125 (details in b).
Sold equipment costing $79,875, with accumulated depreciation of $41,125, for $22,625 cash.
Purchased equipment costing $107,375 by paying $52,000 cash and signing a long-term note payable for the balance.
Borrowed $5,100 cash by signing a short-term note payable.
Paid $55,625 cash to reduce the long-term notes payable.
Issued 3,600 shares of common stock for $20 cash per share.
Declared and paid cash dividends of $52,300.
Required:
Prepare a complete statement of cash flows using a spreadsheet using the indirect method. (Enter all amounts as positive values.)

How does risk influence the rate of interest?

Parent Co. purchased the entire business of Subsidiary Co. including all its assets and liabilities for $600,000. Below is information related to the two companies: Parent Subsidiary Fair value of assets $1,050,000 $800,000 Fair value of liabilities 575,000 300,000 Reported assets 800,000 650,000 Reported liabilities 500,000 250,000 Net Income for the year 60,000 50,000 How much goodwill did Parent pay for acquiring Subsidiary

Income Statement; Net Loss The following revenue and expense account balances were taken from the ledger of Guardian Health Services Co. after the accounts had been adjusted on February 28, 20Y0, the end of the fiscal year: Depreciation Expense $15,600 Insurance Expense 7,640 Miscellaneous Expense 6,080 Rent Expense 63,000 Service Revenue 299,500 Supplies Expense 3,740 Utilities Expense 24,020 Wages Expense 235,600 Prepare an income statement. Use a minus sign to indicate a net loss.

The same question stem will be used in the next 5 questions. Question stem: Assume that banks hold 7 percent excess reserves, the currency to deposit ratio is 15 percent, and the required reserve ratio is 10 percent. Suppose that the Federal Reserve purchases 250 million dollars worth of bonds from the public. First question for this stem: What is the value of the deposit multiplier

QUESTION 10

Branch Corp.'s total assets at the end of last year were $315,000 and its net income after taxes was $22,750. What was its return on total assets?
a.
7.22%
b.
8.78%
c.
7.96%
d.
8.36%
e.
7.58%

small accounting firm is considering the purchase of a computer software package that would greatly reduce the amount of time needed to prepare tax forms. The software costs $2150 and this expense will be incurred immediately. The firm estimates that it will save $650 of cash flow at the end of each year beginning in one year for 5 consecutive years, and also save $1788 in year 6. What is the payback on the computer package

Chuck Wagon Grills, Inc., makes a single productâa handmade specialty barbecue grill that it sells for $210. Data for last yearâs operations follow:

Units in beginning inventory 0
Units produced 20,000
Units sold 19,000
Units in ending inventory 1,000
Variable costs per unit:
Direct materials $ 50
Direct labor 80
Variable manufacturing overhead 20
Variable selling and administrative 10
Total variable cost per unit $ 160
Fixed costs:
Fixed manufacturing overhead $ 700,000
Fixed selling and administrative 285,000
Total fixed costs $ 985,000
Required:
1. Assume that the company uses absorption costing. Compute the unit product cost for one barbecue grill.
2. Assume that the company uses absorption costing. Prepare an income statement.

You just decided to begin saving for retirement. You will make deposits of $1,000 per month into a retirement account that earns 8.00% p.a. The first deposit is made today and the last deposit will be made when you retire exactly 30 years from today. (Note: you make 361 total monthly deposits into your retirement account.) You will begin to make withdrawals from the account the first month after you retire. If you plan to live an additional 25 years and leave $900,000 to your heirs, you will be able to withdraw $_____ each month. (Note: you make 300 total monthly withdrawals from your retirement account.)

Correctly match the following with: export goods, import goods, export services, import services, investment income inflows, investment income outflows, transfer inflows, transfer outflows, capital inflows, and capital outflows.

Which of the following refers to duties imposed by a government on imported goods?
A subsidies
B rounds
C tariffs
D quotas

Which of the following statements are true regarding owners' equity and ownership rights held in noncorporate entities?

a. Owners' equity for proprietorships and partnerships is usually referred to as capital.
b. No distinction is made between invested capital and retained earnings for a proprietorship or a partnership.
c. Neither proprietorships or partnerships issue stock.