Waterway Industries adopted the dollar-value LIFO method of inventory valuation on December 31, 2019. Its inventory at that date was $1080000 and the relevant price index was 100. Information regarding inventory for subsequent years is as follows: Date Inventory at Current Prices Current Price Index December 31, 2020 $1280000 106 December 31, 2021 1453000 124 December 31, 2022 1621000 129 What is the cost of the ending inventory at December 31, 2020 under dollar-value LIFO? (Round intermediate calculations and final answer to 0 decimal places, e.g. 10,000.)

Answer:

$1,373,408

Explanation:

Ending inventory in 2019 = $1,080,000 * 100/100 = $1,080,000

Cost of the ending inventory at December 31, 2020 under dollar-value LIFO is:

= $1,080,000 + [($1280000*106/100) - $1,080,000 ] * 106/100

= $1,080,000 + $293,408

= $1,373,408

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

Uber and Lyft Drivers Go on Strike This activity is important because fairness gives employees observable evidence of trustworthiness of a manager, company or other source. Managers should know the types of justice and how they can exhibit those to gain trust. Trust is a strong predictor of organizational commitment and a moderate predictor of job performance. The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding of justice, by reading a case and answering questions that follow. Read the following case about Uber and Lyft and answer the questions that follow. Uber and Lyft drivers went on strike in several U.S. major cities the week of May 6, 2019, holding rallies and, in some cases, drivers not working for 12 to 24 hours. The drivers were protesting a pay decrease per mile and seeking better benefits. Lyft and Uber drivers are independent contractors, so they do not qualify for the same benefits and protections that govern typical employees. Drivers aren't guaranteed minimum wage or overtime, for example. Currently, Uber offers some benefits for high volume drivers, such as discounts on car repair and maintenance. Lyft and Uber have pushed back, with Lyft saying that most drivers work 10 hours or fewer a week and wouldn't qualify for benefits anyway. The timing of the strikes was no accident because Uber faced its IPO (initial public offering) the same week. Since then, Uber reported its largest quarterly loss in August 2019 of $5.2 billion. Furthermore, Lyft's shares fell 20% since its March 2019 IPO. If drivers were considered employees, they would get the same benefits and labor protection of other employees. Legally, they would be entitled to unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, overtime pay and a guaranteed minimum wage, among other rights. The lawsuit currently progressing through the court system in California is projected to be passed into law by the state senate. Uber and Lyft are not the only companies using "gig" workers. For example, another booming business model is food delivery, like Grubhub and DoorDash. Part of these companies' pushback is saying they will not be able to employ as many people due to the costs of benefits. In California, Uber is estimated to have 140,000 drivers and Lyft to have 80,000 drivers. Barclays, a renowned worldwide financial services company, estimated that benefits, payroll taxes and workers compensation would cost Uber $508 million per year and Lyft $290 million per year, assuming the same number of drivers were employed. In June 2019, Uber's and Lyft's top executives joined together to write an op ed in the San Francisco Chronicle to explain their arguments and promise to address the quality of work and job security. In their op ed, the executives sought to provide information to the public and drivers about their positions regarding providing benefits to drivers, showing the desire to increase justice. By relying on a respected source of information (Barclays), the executives appeared to use the rule of Multiple Choice procedural: truthfulness informational; procedure O Interpersonal: Informational O о informational; truthfulness interpersonal: procedure Drivers sought to advocate not just for full-time drivers, but part-time drivers too, seeking justice according to the rule of Multiple Choice О accuracy. propriety O O representativeness. volce. O truthfulness Drivers stated that they should have benefits that represent the number of hours they work, more for full-time drivers and fewer for part-time drivers, in the same way the company provides for their corporate employees. This suggests the drivers' desire for benefits allocated according to . a type of justice. Multiple Choice equity, procedural O need; procedural O O equality procedural U equity, distributive O O need: distributive Because the Uber and Lyft drivers sought a decision through the standard mechanisms of the court system, they appear to have focused on a desire for what type of justice?
a. procedural
b. interpersonal
c. informational
d. interdependent
e. distributive

Which describes the role of automatic stabilizers in the economy? Automatic stabilizers are changes in the money supply that occur automatically when inflation or unemployment occurs. Automatic stabilizers refer to industries that are not subject to the fluctuations of the economy, and therefore moderate the effects of recessions. Food, housing, and the military are examples of these industries, which are usually more stable than the rest of the economy. Automatic stabilizers have a similar impact as discretionary fiscal policy but occur automatically, without action by the government. Automatic stabilizers increase aggregate demand during recessions and reduce aggregate demand during expansions. Automatic stabilizers are discretionary changes to taxes, government spending, and transfers that Congress makes in an attempt to improve the economy.

Quark Inc. just began business and made the following four inventory purchases in June: June 1 150 units $ 825 June 10 200 units 1,120 June 15 200 units 1,140 June 28 150 units 885 $3,970 A physical count of merchandise inventory on June 30 reveals that there are 200 units on hand. Using the FIFO inventory method, the amount allocated to ending inventory for June is

Tulane Tires wrote a contract for a $104,000 sale of tires to the new Garden District Tour Company. Tulane only anticipates a slightly greater than 50 percent chance that Garden will be able to pay the amounts that Tulane is entitled to receive under the contract. Upon delivery of the tires, assuming no payment has yet been made by Garden, how much revenue should Tulane recognize under U.S. IFRS

Cost pools should be charged to responsibility centers by using: Multiple Choice budgeted amounts of allocation bases because the behavior of one responsibility center should influence the allocations to other responsibility centers. actual amounts of allocation bases because the behavior of one responsibility center should influence the allocations to other responsibility centers. actual amounts of allocation bases because the behavior of one responsibility center should not influence the allocations to other responsibility centers. some other approach. budgeted amounts of allocation bases because the behavior of one responsibility center should not influence the allocations to other responsibility centers.

Prepare a contribution format income statement segmented by divisions. 2-a. The Marketing Department has proposed increasing the West Division's monthly advertising by $22,000 based on the belief that it would increase that division's sales by 13%. Assuming these estimates are accurate, how much would the company's net operating income increase (decrease) if the proposal is implemented

Barrington Industries anticipated selling 29,000 units of a major product and paying sales commissions of $6 per unit. Actual sales and sales commissions totaled 31,500 units and $182,700, respectively. If the company used a static budget for performance evaluations, Barrington would report a cost variance of: Multiple Choice $6,300U. $6,300F. $8,700U. $8,700F. None of the answers is correct.

ns Corporation's net income last year was $97,400. Changes in the company's balance sheet accounts for the year appear below: Increases (Decreases) Asset and Contra-Asset Accounts: Cash and cash equivalents $ 18,800 Accounts receivable $ 13,800 Inventory $ (17,600 ) Prepaid expenses $ 4,400 Long-term investments $ 10,900 Property, plant, and equipment $ 75,600 Accumulated depreciation $ 32,900 Liability and Equity Accounts: Accounts payable $ (18,700 ) Accrued liabilities $ 17,100 Income taxes payable $ 4,200 Bonds payable $ (64,200 ) Common stock $ 41,600 Retained earnings $ 93,000 The company did not dispose of any property, plant, and equipment, sell any long-term investments, issue any bonds payable, or repurchase any of its own common stock during the year. The company declared and paid a cash dividend of $4,400. Required: a. Prepare the operating activities section of the company's statement of cash flows for the year. (Use the indirect method.) b. Prepare the investing activities section of the company's statement of cash flows for the year. c. Prepare the financing activities section of the company's statement of cash flows for the year.

Carter Corporation's partial income statement after its first year of operations is as follows: Income before income taxes $3,750,000 Income tax expense Current $1,035,000 Deferred 90,000 1,125,000 Net income $2,625,000 Carter uses the straight-line method of depreciation for financial reporting purposes and accelerated depreciation for tax purposes. The amount charged to depreciation expense on its books this year was $2,400,000. No other differences existed between book income and taxable income except for the amount of depreciation. Assuming a 20% tax rate, what amount was deducted for depreciation on the corporation's tax return for the current year

If a company has goodwill on its​ books, the​ goodwill:

Prepare a flexible budget for Cedar Jeans Company using production levels of 16,000, 18,000, and 20,000 units produced. The following is additional information necessary to complete the budget: Variable costs: Direct labor ($6.00 per unit) Direct materials ($8.00 per unit) Variable manufacturing costs ($2.50 per unit) Fixed costs: Supervisor's salaries $80,000 Rent 12,000 Depreciation on equipment 24,000

Approach Company, which applies overhead to production on the basis of machine hours, reported the following data for the period just ended: Actual units produced: 14,800 Actual fixed overhead incurred: $791,000 Standard fixed overhead rate: $13 per hour Budgeted fixed overhead: $780,000 Planned level of machine-hour activity: 60,000 If Approach estimates four hours to manufacture a completed unit, the company's fixed-overhead volume variance would be: Multiple Choice $10,400 negative. $10,400 positive. $11,000 negative. $11,000 positive. None of the answers is correct.

What is the solution to this problem?

Flintstone Company is owned equally by Fred Stone and his sister Wilma, each of whom hold 2,400 shares in the company. Wilma wants to reduce her ownership in the company, and it was decided that the company will redeem 480 of her shares for $30,700 per share on December 31 of this year. Wilmaâs income tax basis in each share is $7,900. Flintstone has current E&P of $10,930,000 and accumulated E&P of $50,210,000.
a. What is the amount and character (capital gain or dividend) recognized by Wilma as a result of the stock redemption, assuming only the "substantially disproportionate with respect to the shareholder" test is applied?
b. What is Wilmaâs income tax basis in the remaining 1,920 shares she owns in the company?
c. Assuming the company did not make any dividend distributions this year, by what amount does Flintstone reduce its E&P as a result of the redemption?

Jaffa Company prepared its annual financial statements dated December 31 of the current year. The company applies the FIFO inventory costing method; however, the company neglected to apply lower of cost or net realizable value to the ending inventory. The preliminary current year income statement follows:

Sales revenue $294,000
Cost of goods sold
Beginning inventory $34,400
Purchases 198,000
Goods available for sale 232,400
Ending inventory (FIFO cost) 63,364
Cost of goods sold 169,036
Gross profit 124,964
Operating expenses 63,400
Pretax income 61,564
Income tax expense (40%) 24,626
Net income $36,938

Required:
Prepare the income statement to reflect lower of cost or net realizable value valuation of the current year ending inventory.

Convertible securities are bonds or preferred stock that, under specified terms and conditions, can be exchanged for common stock at the option of the holder. Conversion of these securities does not provide new capital; debt (or preferred stock) is simply replaced on the balance sheet by common stock. However, reducing the debt or preferred stock will improve the firm’s financial position and make it easier to raise additional capital, but raising additional capital requires a separate action.

The conversion ratio ( ) is the number of shares of common stock that are obtained by converting a convertible bond or share of convertible preferred stock. The conversion price ( ) is the effective price paid for common stock obtained by converting a convertible security. From the standpoint of the issuer, which of the following statements is a disadvantage of convertibles?

a. Because convertibles have low coupon rates, they require the firm to sell common stock at discount prices relative to prices that are currently prevailing.
b. Convertibles typically have a low coupon interest rate, and the advantage of this low-cost debt will be lost when conversion occurs.
c. If the company truly wants to raise equity capital and if the stock price does not rise sufficiently after the bond is issued, then the company will be stuck with debt rather than the desired equity. ___________ is/are correct.

To be effective issuing and investing in bonds, knowledge of their terminology, characteristics, and features is essential. For example: • A bond’s is generally $1,000 and represents the amount borrowed from the bond’s first purchaser. • A bond issuer is said to be in if it does not pay the interest or the principal in accordance with the terms of the indenture agreement or if it violates one or more of the issue’s restrictive covenants. • A bond contract feature that requires the issuer to retire a specified portion of the bond issue each year is called a . • A bond’s gives the issuer the right to call, or redeem, a bond at specific times and under specific conditions. Suppose you read an article about the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District bonds. It includes the following information:esvoe37f387cf9b3627f11119053e024693f8affde5624e3d681c11860b391bb47ca1eovse What is the coupon interest rate of this bond

Difference between free market and capitalism.​

Organizations face myriad barriers and obstacles to effectively increasing and embracing diversity in their workplaces. Some of these barriers stem from people in the organization who are resistant to changing the organization to make it more diverse. This activity is important because resistance to this type of change is an attitude that managers will come up against frequently, and managers should be able to recognize when this occurs so that they can manage the organization and its employees through this challenging but very important type of change.
The goal of this exercise is to challenge your knowledge of the barriers to diversity.
Stereotypes and Prejudices
Fear of Discrimination Against Majority Group Members
Resistance to Diversity Program Priorities
A Negative Diversity Climate
Lack of Support for Family Demands
A Hostile Work Environment for Diverse Employees
First, hover over the terms to read examples of barriers to diversity in action. Then, click and drag each term to indicate the specific barrier to diversity its example best depicts.

Questions answer them

What is the eventual effect on real GDP if the government increases its purchases of goods and services by $50,000? Assume the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) is 0.75. $ What is the eventual effect on real GDP if the government, instead of changing its spending, increases transfers by $50,000? Assume the MPC has not changed. $ An increase in government transfers or taxes, as opposed to an increase in government purchases of goods and services, will result in

Two alternatives, code-named X and Y, are under consideration at Guyer Corporation. Costs associated with the alternatives are listed below. Alternative X Alternative Y Materials costs $ 41,000 $ 59,000 Processing costs $ 45,000 $ 45,000 Equipment rental $ 17,000 $ 17,000 Occupancy costs $ 16,000 $ 24,000 Are the materials costs and processing costs relevant in the choice between alternatives X and Y

Bingham Company manufactures and sells Product J. Results for last year's manufacture and sale of Product J are as follows:
Sales: 10,000 units at $160 each $1,600,000
Less costs:
Variable production costs 960,000
Sales commissions: 15% of sales 240,000
Salaries of line supervisors 195,000
Traceable fixed advertising expense 180,000
Fixed general factory overhead (allocated to
products on the basis of square feet occupied170,000
Total costs 1,745,000
Net loss ($145,000)
Bingham Company anticipates no change in the operating results for Product J in the foreseeable future if the product is produced. Bingham is re-examining all of its products and is trying to decide whether to discontinue the manufacture and sale of Product J. The company's total fixed factory overhead cost would not be affected by this decision.
Assume that discontinuing Product J would result in a $100,000 increase in the contribution margin of other product lines. How many units of Product J would have to be sold next year for the company to be as well off as if it just dropped Product J and enjoyed the increase in contribution margin from other products?
a. 15,500 units.
b. 11,875 units.
c. 16,125 units.
d. 2,500 units.

The Sanding Department of Quik Furniture Company has the following production and manufacturing cost data for March 2017, the first month of operation. Production: 9,510 units started which is comprised of 6,510 units finished and transferred out and 3,000 units started that are 100% complete as to materials and 20% complete as to conversion costs. Manufacturing costs: Materials $35,948; labor $21,400; overhead $34,840.
Prepare a production cost report. (Round unit costs to 2 decimal places, e.g. 2.25.)
QUIK FURNITURE COMPANY
Sanding Department
Production Cost Report
For the Month Ended March 31, 2017
Equivalent Units Physical Units Conversion Costs Quantities Units to be accounted for Materials Work in process, March 1 Started into production Total units Units accounted for Transferred out Work in process, March 31 Total units
Conversion Costs Total Costs Unit costs Materials Total Costs Equivalent units Unit costs Costs to be accounted for Work in process, March 1 Started into production Total costs Cost Reconciliation Schedule Costs accounted for Transferred out Work in process, March 31 Materials Conversion costs Total costs

John received a promotion at work and felt new clothes would be necessary in the new position. John went to a local store and charged three ties on his charge account at a cost of $60 each. Bill, a friend of John's, saw a sidewalk vendor selling ties at a cost of three for $10 and bought three at that price. The friends compared purchases that night and found that they had purchased identical ties. John became enraged and said that he would not pay the charge-account bill because the ties were clearly not worth $60 each. Bill indicated that he would testify on John's behalf if litigation ensued. What would be the probable outcome of the lawsuit

The Mighty Music Company produces and sells a desktop speaker for $100. The company has the capacity to produce 50,000 speakers each period. At capacity, the costs assigned to each unit are as follows: Unit level costs $ 45 Product level costs $ 15 Facility level costs $ 5 The company has received a special order for 500 speakers. If this order is accepted, the company will have to spend $15,000 on additional costs. Assuming that no sales to regular customers will be lost if the order is accepted, at what selling price will the company be indifferent between accepting and rejecting the special order

The sensitivity of a system for disciplining and possibly terminating employees is important, and it is critical that the system be seen as fair. Employees form conclusions about the system's fairness based on the system's outcomes and procedures and the way managers treat employees when carrying out those procedures. Three principles of justice are outcome fairness, procedural justice, and interactional justice.
Outcome fairness involves the ends of a discipline process or action, while procedural and interactional justice focus on the means to those ends. Not only is behavior ethical that is in accord with these principles, but research has also linked the last two categories of justice with employee satisfaction and productivity
Place each of the following labels in one of the columns.
Listen closely
College buddies
Project work
Family friendly
Explanations
Family relations
Accommodations
Gender benefits
Team raises
Promotion
Respect
Qualifications
Outcome fairness Procedural justice International justice

Med Max buys surgical supplies from a variety of manufacturers and then resells and delivers these supplies to dozens of hospitals. In the face of declining profits, Med Max decided to implement an activity-based costing system to improve its understanding of the costs incurred to serve each hospital. The company broke its selling and administrative expenses into four activities as shown below:

Activity Cost Pool (Activity Measure) Total Cost Total Activity
Customer deliveries (Number of deliveries) $630,000 7,000 deliveries
Manual order processing (Number of manual orders) 444,000 6,000 orders
Electronic order processing (Number of electronic orders) 231,000 11,000 orders
Line item picking (Number of line items picked) 955,500 490,000 line items
Other organization-sustaining costs (None) 610,000
Total selling and administrative expenses $2,870,500

Med Max gathered the data below for two of the many hospitals that it serves—City General and County General:


Activity
Activity Measure General City County General
Number of deliveries 10 20
Number of manual orders 0 40
Number of electronic orders 10 0
Number of line items picked 120 280

Required:
a. Compute the activity rate for each activity cost pool.
b. Compute the total activity costs that would be assigned to City General and County General.

Ronnie operates a lawn-care service. On each day, the cost of mowing the first lawn is $15, the cost of mowing the second lawn is $25, and the cost of mowing the third lawn is $40. His producer surplus on the first three lawns of the day is $100. If Ronnie charges all customers the same price for lawn mowing, that price is a. $20. b. $60. c. $80. d. $180.

Otto and Monica are married taxpayers who file a joint tax return. For the current tax year, they have AGI of $99,600. They have excess depreciation on real estate of $59,760, which must be added back to AGI to arrive at AMTI. The amount of their mortgage interest expense for the year was $19,920, and they made charitable contributions of $9,960. They have no other itemized deductions. If Otto and Monica's taxable income for the current year is $69,720, determine the amount of their AMTI.