Several years ago, Diego purchased a $400,000 whole life insurance policy on his life. He has paid cumulative premiums over the years of $20,000 and has accumulated a cash value of $25,000. This year, he was diagnosed with a rare liver disease, and, as a result, his life expectancy is only six months. Because of his large medical costs, he is considering selling his policy to a viatical settlement company. The company has offered him $250,000 for the policy. He would also like to explore other ways to generate cash from the policy. Which of the following statements regarding Diego's situation are CORRECT?

I. If Diego sells his policy to the viatical settlement company, he will be taxed on any gain from the sale if he dies more than two years later.
II. If the viatical company collects the death benefit as a result of Diego's death, the proceeds will be tax free to the company.
III. If Diego sold the policy to his cousin for $250,000, his cousin would be subject to ordinary income tax on a portion of the life insurance benefit when Diego dies.
IV. If Diego takes a loan from the policy, some or all of the loan will be subject to ordinary income tax if the policy is classified as a modified endowment contract (MEC).

a. I and II
b. III and IV
c. I, II, and IV
d. II and III

Answer:

b. III and IV

Explanation:

Diego has expected life of 6 month due to his liver disease. He wants to sell his life insurance policy to a company. If he sells the policy, when Diego dies the company will receive all the benefit and will be taxed at ordinary income tax rate. The proceeds are not tax free. In case if Diego sells the policy to his cousin, he will also be taxed on proceed. The tax will be ordinary income tax on the benefit from life insurance policy.

Costco is able to keep costs down and offer low prices thanks to a no-frill shopping experience for its 64 million members. They offer around 4000 different products and do take into consideration customer preferences. After realizing the popularity of organic food products, Costco quickly stocked more of these items and created an initiative to help farmers buy land to grow organic crops. How does Costco prioritize efficiency and responsiveness

Speedy Delivery Company purchases a delivery van for $36,000. Speedy estimates that at the end of its four-year service life, the van will be worth $6,400. During the four-year period, the company expects to drive the van 148,000 miles. Actual miles driven each year were 40,000 miles in year 1 and 46,000 miles in year 2. Required: Calculate annual depreciation for the first two years of the van using each of the following methods. (Do not round your intermediate calculations.)

Which is most likely to profit from society's changing wants and needs?
A)
a business with existing capital resources
B)
a producer of goods
C)
an entrepreneur
D)
a business with substantial labor resources.

Zach is employed by Scott Paper Company and is a key account manager on the WalMart team based in Bentonville, AR so he can be near the corporate headquarters of WalMart. Zach was selected to lead the WalMart purchasing team for paper towels, toilet tissue and other paper products. He coordinates vendors, analyzes sales data, assists with plan-a-gram layouts, and is responsible for interacting with other suppliers in addition to the purchasing and logistics teams at WalMart. Zach's role at WalMart is known as a(n):

Which of the following statements is correct?
A. Stockholders' equity can be described as creditorship claim on total assets.
B. The cost of an asset and its fair value are never the same.
C. The historical cost principle requires that when assets are acquired, they should be recorded at market price.
D. Stockholders' equity can be described as ownership claim on total assets.
E. The historical cost principle requires that when assets are acquired, they should be recorded at appraisal value.

(1) ____ are two of the largest financial institutions in the country.
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Galvanized Products is considering purchasing a new computer system for their enterprise data management system. The vendor has quoted a purchase price of $130,000. Galvanized Products is planning to borrow 1/4th of the purchase price from a bank at 12.00 % compounded annually. The loan is to be repaid using equal annual payments over a 3-year period. The computer system is expected to last 5 years and has a salvage value of $5,200 at that time. Over the 5-year period, Galvanized Products expects to pay a technician $20,000 per year to maintain the system but will save $51,000 per year through increased efficiencies. Galvanized Products uses a MARR of 20.00 %/year to evaluate investments.
What is the present worth of this investment?

You purchase a life insurance policy which involves making 5 annual premium payments (the first payment starting today). The original premium is $1800 and the premium increases 4% each year. The time line for the payments is drawn for you.
Today 1 2 3 4
$1,800 $1,872 $1,947 $2,025 $2,106
Now assume the insurance company offers you a level payment plan that has the same present value as the payment stream above but where all the premiums are the same. If the insurance company earns 10% compounded annually on its assets, what would the level payments be?
Today 1 2 3 4
$X $X $X $X $X

Your grandparents put $11,200 into an account so that you would have spending money in college. You put the money into an account that will earn an APR of 4.39 percent compounded monthly. If you expect that you will be in college for 4 years, how much can you withdraw each month

Two years ago, Kimberly became a 30 percent partner in the KST Partnership with a contribution of investment land with a $12,750 basis and a $19,850 fair market value. On January 2 of this year, Kimberly has a $18,300 basis in her partnership interest, and none of her pre-contribution gain has been recognized. On January 2 Kimberly receives an operating distribution of a tract of land (not the contributed land) with a $15,575 basis and an $22,675 fair market value.
a. What is the amount and character of Kimberly's recognized gain or loss on the distribution?
b. What is Kimberly’s remaining basis in KST after the distribution?
c. What is KST's basis in the land Kimberly contributed after Kimberly recevies the distribution?

Isaac Inc. began operations in January 2021. For some property sales, Isaac recognizes income in the period of sale for financial reporting purposes. However, for income tax purposes, Isaac recognizes income when it collects cash from the buyer's installment payments. In 2021, Isaac had $621 million in sales of this type. Scheduled collections for these sales are as follows:
2021 $61 million
2022 121 million
2023 131 million
2024 152 million
2025 156 million
$621 million
Assume that Isaac has a 25% income tax rate and that there were no other differences in income for financial statement and tax purposes. Ignoring operating expenses and additional sales in 2022, what deferred tax liability would Isaac report in its year-end 2022 balance sheet?
a. $128 million.
b. $59 million.
c. $104 milion.
d. $8 million.

A sole proprietor in the 37% tax bracket pays her 16-year-old son a reasonable salary of $14,000 for services performed for the proprietorship. Compute the family's income tax savings if the son has no other income and takes a $12,400 standard deduction.

Donna Pierce manages a business that distributes imported woolen fabrics. Donna's business offers a 2.5% cash discount on any amount paid within 10 days of the invoice date. On January 28, a client purchased fabrics priced at $14,500, and on February 1 the client sent in a $10,000 check. Compute the unpaid balance. (This problem involves the partial payment of an invoice within the discount period.)

You have been approached by one of the staff who works testing equipment that passes through your facility. Every day, you receive computers from the university that have been repaired but now need to be tested to ensure that they can work under high stress. This means running them in your test labs. Because the test labs are as stressful on the test equipment as it is on the computers, you have planned for downtime in the past. To get this downtime, you have tried to ensure that effective capacity utilization is about 65 percent. Yet, the staff person has informed you that a backlog of yet-to-be tested equipment is building up. Furthermore, the test equipment is now starting to break at a rate faster than anticipated. To address this issue, you know that the design or maximum capacity is 720 hours and that over the last three weeks, you have spent 600 hours per week testing equipment.
Based on this data, what is our effective capacity utilization?

Nolan Company acquired a tract of land containing a natural resource. Nolan is required by the purchase contract to restore the land after extraction. Geological surveys show that the estimated amount to be extracted will be 5,000,000 tons, and that the land will have a value of $1,000,000 after restoration. Relevant costs:Land $7,000,000Estimated restorationcosts: 1,500,000What should be the charge to depletion expense per ton of extracted material?

Use the following information (in random order) from a merchandising company and from a service company. McNeil Merchandising Company Accumulated depreciation $ 700 Beginning inventory 11,500 Ending inventory 6,900 Expenses 2,100 Net purchases 14,300 Net sales 22,500 Krug Service Company Expenses $ 8,700 Revenues 27,000 Cash 700 Prepaid rent 680 Accounts payable 200 Equipment 2,500 a. Compute the goods available for sale, the cost of goods sold and gross profit for the merchandiser. Hint: Not all information may be necessary. b. Compute net income for each company.

As a consumer, why is it good for us when a store has a surplus of an item we want?

Blossom Corporation has provided the following data concerning its most recent month of operations. Show your work for full credits. Selling price $ 121 Units in beginning inventory 0 Units produced 7,000 Units sold 6,500 Units in ending inventory 400 Variable costs per unit: Direct materials $ 38 Direct labor $ 53 Variable manufacturing overhead $ 3 Variable selling and administrative expense $ 11 Fixed costs: Fixed manufacturing overhead $ 70,000 Fixed selling and administrative expense $ 28,000 a. What is the unit product cost for the month under variable costing

A company incurs factory overhead costs of $1,200 and applied $1,500. If the difference is considered immaterial, then the:_______
a) adjusting entry will require a debit to Cost of Goods Sold.
b) adjusting entry will require a credit to Cost of Goods Sold.
c) Factory Overhead account has a credit balance of $300 before adjusting.
d) Factory Overhead account has a debit balance of $300 before adjusting.

Jasper Company has a payback goal of three years on acquisitions of new equipment. A new piece of equipment that costs $450,000 and that has a five-year life is being considered. Straight-line (SL) depreciation will be used, with zero salvage value. Jasper is subject to a 40% combined income tax rate, t. To meet the company's payback goal, the equipment must generate reductions in annual cash operating costs of at least:

You own a coal mining company and are considering opening a new mine. The mine will cost $120 million to open. If this money is spent immediately, the mine will generate $20 million for the next 10 years. After that, the coal will run out and the site must be cleaned and maintained at environmental standards. The cleaning and maintenance are expected to cost $2 million per year in perpetuity. What does the IRR rule say about whether you should accept this opportunity

ABC Christmas shop signs a three-month note payable to help finance increases in inventory for the Christmas shopping season. The note is signed on October 1 in the amount of $20,000 with annual interest of 6%. What is the adjusting entry to be made on December 31 for the interest expense accrued to that date, if no entries have been made previously for the interest

During 2012, Charles Inc. recorded credit sales of $2,000,000. Based on prior experience, it estimates a 1 percent bad debt rate on credit sales. At the beginning of the year, the balance in net accounts receivable was $150,000. At the end of the year, but before the bad debt expense adjustment was recorded and before any bad debts had been written off, the balance in net accounts receivable was $125,000. Assume that on December 31, 2012, the appropriate bad debt expense adjustment was recorded for the year 2012 and accounts receivable totaling $10,000 were written off for the year, what was the receivables turnover ratio for the year? Please round to one decimal place

The owner of Genuine Subs, Inc., hopes to expand the present operation by adding one new outlet. She has studied three locations. Each would have the same labor and materials costs (food, serving containers, napkins, etc.) of $1.70 per sandwich. Sandwiches sell for $2.50 each in all locations. Rent and equipment costs would be $5,300 per month for location A, $5,650 per month for location B, and $5,900 per month for location C.
A. Determine the volume necessary at each location to realize a monthly profit of $9,500.
B. If expected sales at A, B, and C are 20,500 per month, 22,500 per month, and 23,500 per month, respectively, calculate the profit of the each locations.

The following data were taken from the accounting records of the Mixing Department of Kappa Corporation which uses the weighted-average method in its process costing system:
Beginning work in process inventory:
Cost $ 19,000
Units 30,000 units
Percent completion with respect to materials 100 %
Percent completion with respect to conversion 60 %
Units completed and transferred out 82,000 units
Cost per equivalent unit:
Material $ 1.50
Material $ 0.75
The cost of units transferred out was:________.
a. $184,500
b. $149,500
c. $167,500
d. $145,000

A bank currently has $150 million in "hot money" deposits against which it wants to hold an 80 percent reserve and $90 million in vulnerable deposits against which it wants to hold a 30 percent reserve. It also has $45 million in stable deposits against which it wants to hold a 5 percent reserve. Legal reserves for the bank are 5 percent of all deposits. What is the bank's liability liquidity reserve?

Assume that the fair values of the investee's net assets approximated the recorded book values of the investee's net assets, except the fair value of the investee's identifiable noncurrent assets is $30,000 higher than book value. In addition, the investee's pre-transaction tax bases in its individual net assets approximate their reported book values. This difference relates entirely to tax-deductible items. Assume the marginal tax rate is 40% for the investor and investee. What amount of goodwill should be reported in the investor's consolidated balance sheet prepared immediately after this business combination

Purchases of merchandise on account were $300,000. b. The cost of freight to receive the inventory was $10,000. This was paid in cash. c. Debra returned $5,000 of the merchandise due to an ordering error. Debra received a full credit for the return. d. Debra paid the remaining balance for the merchandise. Calculate the dollar amount that Debra will have in inventory at the end of the month. Assume Debra uses the perpetual inventory system and there were no sales.

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