Monsanto Company, a large chemical and fibers company, invested $37 million in state-of-the-art systems to improve process control, laboratory automation, and local area network (LAN) communications. The investment was not justified merely on cost savings but was also justified on the basis of qualitative considerations. Monsanto management viewed the investment as a critical element toward achieving its version of the future. What qualitative and quantitative considerations do you believe Monsanto would have considered in its strategic evaluation of these investments

Solution :

The investment which was made by the Monsanto Company had both qualitative as well as quantitative aspects. The quantitative aspect of the investment represents the strategic evaluation which relates to the investment in order to improve the process control and the laboratory automation. While improving the process control helps in controlling the working process of the machines and the human force which reduces the wastage to a large extent, it also increases the efficiency and it reduces the cost per unit.

The laboratory automation increases the efficiency of working and also increases the production. Strengthening the LAN network improves the organizations' communication and also reduces the unnecessary delays in the work saving cost. Improving the local area network provides qualitative improvement and it speeds up the work thus reducing the wastage of time and promotes effective communication.

Stahl Company was incorporated as a new business on January 1, 2019. The company is authorized to issue 600,000 shares of $2 par value common stock and 80,000 shares of 6%, $20 par value, cumulative preferred stock. On January 1, 2019, the company issued 75,000 shares of common stock for $15 per share and 5,000 shares of preferred stock for $25 per share. Net income for the year ended December 31, 2019, was $500,000.

Required:
Prepare the stockholders’ equity section of the balance sheet for Stahl Company.

Waterways has discovered that a small fitting it now manufactures at a cost of $1.00 per unit could be bought elsewhere for $0.83 per unit. Waterways has fixed costs of $0.20 per unit that cannot be eliminated by buying this unit. Waterways needs 474,000 of these units each year. If Waterways decides to buy rather than produce the small fitting, it can devote the machinery and labor to making a timing unit it now buys from another company. Waterways uses approximately 500 of these units each year. The cost of the unit is $13.26. To aid in the production of this unit, Waterways would need to purchase a new machine at a cost of $2,369, and the cost of producing the units would be $10.00 a unit. Without considering the possibility of making the timing unit, evaluate whether Waterways should buy or continue to make the small fitting. The company should (buy/Make) the fitting. Incremental cost / (savings) will be ____________$

Waterway Industries is constructing a building. Construction began on January 1 and was completed on December 31. Expenditures were $6400000 on March 1, $5250000 on June 1, and $8650000 on December 31. Waterway Industries borrowed $3200000 on January 1 on a 5-year, 11% note to help finance construction of the building. In addition, the company had outstanding all year a 9%, 3-year, $6440000 note payable and an 10%, 4-year, $12550000 note payable.

Required:
What are the weighted-average accumulated expenditures?

Presented below is a list of items that could be included in the intangible assets section of the balance sheet. Choose the items that meet the qualifications to be treated as an intangible asset on the balance sheet.
a. Unsuccessful legal defense costs of trademark
b. Legal costs in securing copyright
c. Purchased patent
d. Investment in subsidiary
e. Filing fees for patent
f. Purchase of a franchise
g. Successful legal defense costs for copyright
h. Research costs for new drug
i. Sale of a franchise
j. Internal development costs for patent
k. Purchased copyright
l. Initial training costs for startup of new business

Dixie Chicken is about to close one of its fast food franchises. As part of the closing, the firm will sell a refrigeration unit and its cooking units. The book value of the refrigeration unit is currently $18,203.00, while the book value of the cooking unit is $3,713.00. A buyer has offered $12,454.00 for the refrigerator and $6,116.00 for the cooking unit. The tax rate facing the firm is 35.00%. What is the cash flow from selling these assets

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On December 27, 2020, Roberta purchased four tickets to a charity ball sponsored by the city of San Diego for the benefit of underprivileged children. Each ticket cost $125 and had a fair market value of $25. On the same day as the purchase, Roberta gave the tickets to the minister of her church for personal use by his family. At the time of the gift of the tickets, Roberta pledged $11,050 to the building fund of her church. The pledge was satisfied by a check dated December 31, 2020, but not mailed until January 3, 2021.

a. Presuming Roberta is a cash basis and calendar year taxpayer, she can deduct $_________ for the tickets and $____________ for the pledge as a charitable contribution for 2018.
b. Would the amount of the deduction be any different if Roberta were an accrual basis taxpayer?

Southern Atlantic Distributors began operations in January 2021 and purchased a delivery truck for $40,000. Southern Atlantic plans to use straight-line depreciation over a four-year expected useful life for financial reporting purposes. For tax purposes, the deduction is 45% of cost in 2021, 30% in 2022, and 25% in 2023. Pretax accounting income for 2021 was $460,000, which includes interest revenue of $68,000 from municipal governmental bonds. The enacted tax rate is 25%.
Assuming no differences between accounting income and taxable income other than those described above:
Required:
1. Complete the following table given below and prepare the journal entry to record income taxes in 2021.
2. What is Southern Atlantic’s 2021 net income?

Vaughn Manufacturing purchased land as a factory site for $1345000. Vaughn paid $116000 to tear down two buildings on the land. Salvage was sold for $8100. Legal fees of $5500 were paid for title investigation and making the purchase. Architect's fees were $46900. Title insurance cost $3900, and liability insurance during construction cost $4200. Excavation cost $15860. The contractor was paid $4300000. An assessment made by the city for pavement was $9500. Interest costs during construction were $260000.
1. The cost of the land that should be recorded by Wilson Co. is:_____.
a. $989,880.
b. $980,480.
c $996,280.
d. $986,880.
2. The cost of the building should be recorded by Wilson Co. is:_____.
a. 2,804,840.
b. 2,813,200.
c. 2,803,800.
d. 3,014,240.

Flychucker Corporation is evaluating an extra dividend versus a share repurchase. In either case $14,000 would be spent. Current earnings are $2.00 per share, and the stock currently sells for $50 per share. There are 2,000 shares outstanding. Ignore taxes and other imperfections. a. Evaluate the two alternatives in terms of the effect on the price per share of the stock and shareholder wealth per share

You have received a research report done by a consultant for your firm, a life insurance company. The study is a survey of morale in the home office and covers the opinions of about 500 secretaries and clerks plus about 100 executives. You are asked to comment on its quality.
What will you look for?

On January 1, 2021, Maywood Hydraulics leased drilling equipment from Aqua Leasing for a four-year period ending December 31, 2024, at which time possession of the leased asset will revert back to Aqua. The equipment cost Aqua $414,430 and has an expected economic life of five years. Aqua expects the residual value at December 31, 2024, to be $52,000. Negotiations led to Maywood guaranteeing a $73,000 residual value. Equal payments under the lease are $104,000 and are due on December 31 of each year with the first payment being made on December 31, 2021. Maywood is aware that Aqua used a 7 % interest rate when calculating lease payments. (FV of $1, PV of $1, FVA of $1, PVA of $1, FVAD of $1 and PVAD of $1) (Use appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided.) 6 Required: 1. & 2. Prepare the appropriate entries for Maywood on January 1, 2021 and December 31, 2021, related to the lease. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No journal entry required" in the first account field. Round your final answers to the nearest whole dollar.)

The information in the table is from the statement of cash flows for a company at four different points in time (M, N, O, and P). Negative values are presented in parentheses.
For each point in time, state whether the company is most likely in the introductory phase, growth phase, maturity phase, or decline phase.
Point in Time
M N O P
Net cash provided by
operating activities $(60,000) $30,000 $120,000 $(10,000)
Cash provided by
investing activities (100,000) 25,000 30,000 (40,000)
Cash provided by
financing activities 70,000 (90,000) (50,000) 120,000
Net income (38,000) 10,000 100,000 (5,000)

It takes courage to kill a project, but sometimes you know it has to be done. Some common symptoms of a failing project are ill-defined initial requirements, constant changes in scope, excessive changes in resources and personnel, and extreme stress/tension over anticipated changes. Yet, a project may have followed the "book" and done everything right, but still need to be terminated. This was the case with a project in the U.K. where the client was highly committed to the project, contributing time, resources, and prompt decisions. The scope was clear, completion criteria agreed upon, the budget and timeframe acceptable to all. Early on, however, an unavoidable scope change had to be made, requiring a 20 percent increase in time and a 10 percent increase in cost, agreed to by the client. As the project approached the end of the fi rst phase, it was clear that the quality and schedule were both deteriorating, as indicated in progress reports to both the client and senior management. A quick review showed that the results were not going to be acceptable. With the agreement of the PM, an outside Expert was called in to review the effort to date and make a recommendation. Then a joint meeting was held with the Expert, the PM, the Program Manager, and the primary contractor where it was decided that the best thing to do was to work together to complete phase one and then terminate the project, with a clean handover to another team to tackle phase two. Although disappointing to everyone, the close and frequent communications of both progress and concerns throughout the project with upper management and the client, offered in timely, digestible amounts, reduced their expectations and protected the client from a surprise at the end. Honest, consistent communication throughout the project life cycle resulted in improved trust, integrity, and confi dence in the vendor and their team.

Required:
a. What are your thoughts about doing everything right and the project still failing?
b. Does the admonition "Never surprise the boss!" now make more sense? Why?
c. Do you think the scope change at the beginning was the problem here, or was there going to be a problem anyway?

Suppose Dina gets a sales bonus at her place of work that gives her an extra $800 of disposable income. She chooses to spend $600 and save the remaining $200. From this, you can tell that Dina's marginal propensity to consume (MPC) is , and her marginal propensity to save (MPS) is . Mathematically, it must always be true that: Disposable Income = Therefore, it must also be true that: 1 =

Sheridan Company has 7500 shares of 5%, $100 par value, cumulative preferred stock and 15000 shares of $1 par value common stock outstanding at December 31, 2020. There were no dividends declared in 2018. The board of directors declares and pays a $71250 dividend in 2019 and in 2020. What is the amount of dividends received by the common stockholders in 2020

Placid Lake Corporation acquired 90 percent of the outstanding voting stock of Scenic, Inc., on January 1, 2020, when Scenic had a net book value of $640,000. Any excess fair value was assigned to intangible assets and amortized at a rate of $7,000 per year.

Placid Lake's 2021 net income before consideration of its relationship with Scenic (and before adjustments for intra-entity sales) was $540,000. Scenic reported net income of $350,000. Placid Lake declared $170,000 in dividends during this period; Scenic paid $64,000. At the end of 2021, selected figures from the two companies' balance sheets were as follows:

Placid Lake Scenic
Inventory $380,000 $114,000
Land 840,000 440,000
Equipment (net) 640,000 540,000

During 2020, intra-entity sales of $195,000 (original cost of $90,000) were made. Only 30 percent of this inventory was still held within the consolidated entity at the end of 2020. In 2021, $330,000 in intra-entity sales were made with an original cost of $83,000. Of this merchandise, 40 percent had not been resold to outside parties by the end of the year.

Required:
a. What is consolidated net income for Placid Lake and its subsidiary?
b. If the intra-entity sales were upstream, how would consolidated net income be allocated to the controlling and interest?
c. If the intra-entity sales were downstream, how would consolidated net income be allocated to the controlling and interest?

g 2. Problems and Applications Q2 Indicate whether each of the following transactions represents an increase in net exports, a decrease in net exports, an increase in net capital outflow, or a decrease in net capital outflow for the United States. Transaction Net Exports Net Capital Outflow Increase Decrease Increase Decrease An American buys a Sony TV. An American buys a share of Sony stock. The Japanese car manufacturer Nissan builds a factory in Ohio. A German citizen buys an Apple computer.

Market Structure and Market Power
The marginal revenue curve of a firm with market power will always lie below its demand curve because of:_____.
a. the discount effect and the substitution effect.
b. the substitution effect and the income effect.
c. the output effect and the discount effect.
d. the output effect and the substitution effect.

Bridgeport Co. both purchases and constructs various equipment it uses in its operations. The following items for two different types of equipment were recorded in random order during the calendar year 2020.
Purchase
Cash paid for equipment, including sales tax of $7,400 $155,400
Freight and insurance cost while in transit 2,960
Cost of moving equipment into place at factory 4,588
Wage cost for technicians to test equipment 5,920
Insurance premium paid during first year of operation on this equipment 2,220
Special plumbing fixtures required for new equipment 11,840
Repair cost incurred in first year of operations related to this equipment 1,924
Construction
Material and purchased parts (gross cost $296,000; failed to take 2% cash discount) $296,000
Imputed interest on funds used during construction (stock financing) 20,720
Labor costs 281,200
Allocated overhead costs (fixed-$29,600; variable-$44,400) 74,000
Profit on self-construction 44,400
Cost of installing equipmen 6,512
Compute the total cost to be capitalized for each of these two pieces of equipment.
Purchase equipment $enter a dollar amount
Construction equipment $enter a dollar amount

CHRO Conversations: SVP of HR Tim Richmond, AbbVie
People will work harder if they know their results are noticed and rewarded appropriately. At AbbVie, the Human Resources area places special emphasis on rewarding employees based on levels of contributions. This activity is important because it will examine how one company utilizes talent philosophies that differentiate rewards based on employee results.
The goal of this activity is to help you recognize how strategic goals of a company can be supported by HR activities that reward and recognize employees who produce at high levels. These rewards go well beyond salary and include opportunities for career growth and development.
At AbbVie, people want to know their ________ and results will be rewarded appropriately.
a) hard work
b) time off
c) verbal communication
d) philosophical ideals
At AbbVie, HR tends to think of "more and better and now" as it relates to career opportunities, human capital capabilities, and raising the bar on a continual basis for:__________
a) career growth.
b) higher salaries.
c) better benefits.
d) higher quantity outputs.
e) higher quality outputs.
The "talent philosophy" at AbbVie includes differentiating levels of:________
a) development and hiring.
b) performance and rewards.
c) rewards and terminations.
d) performance and hiring.
e) development and global travel.
AbbVie has a standard in hiring of "replacing every person who leaves with someone":________
a) younger.
b) with a college degree.
c) who has more experience.
d) better.
e) from another country.
AbbVie does not want to pay its ________ performers the same as it pays its higher performers.
a) older
b) more experienced
c) lower
d) international
e) specialized

Lance Lawn Services reports warranty expense by estimating the amount that eventually will be paid to satisfy warranties on its product sales. For tax purposes, the expense is deducted when the warranty work is completed. At December 31, 2021, Lance has a warranty liability of $2 million and taxable income of $75 million. At December 31, 2020, Lance reported a deferred tax asset of $435,000 related to this difference in reporting warranties, its only temporary difference. The enacted tax rate is 25% each year.
Required:
Prepare the appropriate journal entry to record Lance.

In divisional income statements prepared for Demopolis Company, the Payroll Department costs are charged back to user divisions on the basis of the number of payroll distributions, and the Purchasing Department costs are charged back on the basis of the number of purchase requisitions. The Payroll Department had expenses of $59,160, and the Purchasing Department had expenses of $20,680 for the year. The following annual data for Residential, Commercial, and Government Contract divisions were obtained from corporate records:

Residential Commercial Government Contract
Sales $2,000,000 $3,250,000 $2,900,000

Weekly payroll (52 weeks per year) 400 250 150
Monthly payroll 80 30 10
Number of purchase requisitions per year 7,500 3,000 2,000

Required:
a. Determine the total amount of payroll checks and purchase requisitions processed per year by the company and each division.
b. Residential's service department charge is _______ than the other two divisions because Residential is a user of service department services. Residential has many employees on a weekly payroll, which translates into a ________ number of payroll transactions.

Units-of-activity Depreciation A truck acquired at a cost of $160,000 has an estimated residual value of $10,350, has an estimated useful life of 41,000 miles, and was driven 3,300 miles during the year. Determine the following. If required, round your answer for the depreciation rate to two decimal places. (a) The depreciable cost $fill in the blank 1 (b) The depreciation rate $fill in the blank 2 per mile (c) The units-of-activity depreciation for the year $fill in the blank 3

A company prints proceedings books for a trade show that are sold to attendees for $10 per book. The books cost the company $2 per book to make. Any books left over at the end of the trade show can be sold to a local paper mill for $0.50 each, but it costs the printing company $0.25 per book to haul them to the paper mill. What are the underage and overage costs for the books

Coronado Industries had 293000 shares of common stock issued and outstanding at December 31, 2020. No common stock was issued during 2021. On January 1, 2021, Coronado issued 200000 shares of nonconvertible preferred stock. During 2021, Coronado declared and paid $110000 cash dividends on the common stock and $79000 on the preferred stock. Net income for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $618000. What should be Coronado's 2021 earnings per common share

Required information: Analyzing income effects from eliminating departments.
Suresh Co. expects its five departments to yield the following income for next year.
Dept. M Dept. N Dept. O Dept. P Dept. T Total
Sales $66,000 $38,000 $59,000 $45,000 $31,000 $239,000
Expenses
Avoidable 11,300 38,200 23,300 15,500 40,500 128,800
Unavoidable 53,000 14,400 4,500 31,200 11,900 115,000
Total expenses 64,300 52,600 27,800 46,700 52,400 243,800
Net income (loss) $1,700 $(14,600) $31,200 $(1,700) $(21,400) $(4,800)
Re-compute and prepare the departmental income statements (including a combined total column) for the company under each of the following separate scenarios.
1) Management eliminates departments with sales dollars that are less than avoidable expenses.
2) Management eliminates departments with expected net losses.

Businesses rarely consider profits when supplying goods and services.
True of False

The Brite Beverage Company bottles soft drinks into aluminum cans. The manufacturing process consists of three activities:

Mixing: water, sugar, and beverage concentrate are mixed.
Filling: mixed beverage is filled into 12-oz. cans.
Packaging: properly filled cans are boxed into cardboard "fridge packs."
The activity costs associated with these activities for the period are as follows:

Mixing $286,000
Filling 253,500
Packaging 110,500
Total $650,000

The activity costs do not include materials costs, which are ignored for this analysis. Each can is expected to contain 12 ounces of beverage. Thus, after being filled, each can is automatically weighed. If a can is too light, it is rejected, or "kicked," from the filling line prior to being packaged. The primary cause of kicks is heat expansion. With heat expansion, the beverage overflows during filling, resulting in underweight cans. This process begins by mixing and filling 6,760,000 cans during the period, of which only 6,500,000 cans are actually packaged. 260,000 cans are rejected due to underweight kicks. A process improvement team has determined that cooling the cans prior to filling them will reduce the amount of overflows due to expansion. After this improvement, the number of kicks is expected to decline from 260,000 cans to 65,000 cans, thus increasing the number of filled cans to 6,695,000 [6,500,000 (260,000 - 65,000)].

Required:
a. Determine the total activity cost per packaged can under present operations.
b. Determine the amount of increased packaging activity costs from the expected improvements.
c. Determine the expected total activity cost per packaged can after improvements.

he information systems department prides itself on being on the edge of high-tech course offerings. They were the first department to create online classes and the first to battle all of the issues associated with these offerings. When Wally interviewed for the new assistant professor position, he knew that his subcutaneous chip was only a hiring decision away. Corporate culture in this department is probably most affected by: The environment.