List the steps required to dissolve a partnership.
> What is a collateral trust bond?
> Several years ago a corporation made an appropriation of retained earnings because of a building project. The building project was completed in the current year. What accounting entry will probably be made with respect to the appropriation?
> What effect does an appropriation have on total retained earnings?
> What effect does a stock split have on retained earnings? Explain.
> How is the Common Stock Dividend Distributable account classified in the financial statements?
> When a stock dividend is declared, what journal entry is made? How is the amount of the dividend determined or measured?
> Compare the effects on stockholders’ equity of a cash dividend and a stock dividend.
> Explain the three dates related to declaration and payment of a cash dividend. On which of these dates must journal entries be made?
> What causes “deferred income taxes” to arise? How are balances in “deferred income taxes” accounts disposed of?
> Joseph Colgan has operated a successful motorcycle repair business for the past several years. Colgan thinks his business is almost too successful because he has very little time for himself. Colgan and Brianna Jenkins, who is also a motorcycle enthusias
> What is the purpose of the statement of stockholders’ equity?
> What information is shown on the statement of retained earnings?
> At what amount is treasury stock shown on the balance sheet? How is it classified on the balance sheet?
> As an inducement for Paul Company to locate in Townville, the local chamber of commerce gave the corporation a tract of land with an appraised value of $250,000. How should the gift be accounted for by Paul?
> How is income tax expense classified in the corporation’s income statement?
> Describe the flow of authority and responsibility in a corporate entity.
> Who makes the day-to-day decisions necessary for a corporation to operate?
> What does the term “restricted agency” mean?
> What is meant by the “par value of stock”?
> What is the role of the transfer agent?
> Lawrence’s Company operates a real estate abstract, title, and insurance company. Below are selected transactions and events that occurred during the years 20X1 to 20X4. Using those transactions and events, follow the instructions given. INSTRUCTIONS 1.
> What is the purpose of the minute book?
> How are the members of a corporation’s board of directors selected?
> How does par value differ from stated value?
> What are some benefits of a subchapter S corporation?
> If there is only one class of stock, what is it called?
> What are the corporation’s bylaws?
> Where is the usual place for organizers of a new corporation to acquire a corporate charter?
> Selling stock on a subscription basis involves considerable recordkeeping. Why does a corporation sell its shares in this way?
> What is the difference between the Common Stock Subscribed account and the Subscriptions Receivable—Common Stock account?
> What is convertible preferred stock?
> In a review of the annual reports of Pierce Wholesale Company and International Distributors, you note that Pierce Wholesale uses straight-line depreciation and International Distributors uses the declining-balance method. 1. Are these companies violatin
> When common stock without a par value or a stated value is issued, what amount is credited to the capital stock account when the stock is issued?
> What is cumulative preferred stock?
> What is participating preferred stock?
> What is the control account for the individual shareholder accounts in the common stockholders’ ledger?
> How are organization costs accounted for?
> What role does the registrar of a corporation serve?
> What are organization costs?
> What is the difference between a dissolution and liquidation?
> What is a stock subscription?
> Why would a new corporation issue no-par stock with a stated value, rather than par-value Stock?
> What are the major disadvantages of the partnership form of business entity?
> One of Wells Company’s retail outlets was destroyed by fire on March 18. All merchandise was burned. The company has fire insurance on its merchandise inventory. It will therefore file a claim for recovery of the cost of the lost invent
> List the major advantages of the partnership form of business over a corporation.
> What information appears on a statement of partners’ equities?
> The two partners in a business often pay personal bills by writing checks on the business bank account. Is this a good business practice? Explain. How should such payments be recorded?
> Explain how the partnership accounts for the sale by a partner of a portion of his partnership interest to another individual.
> What are typical considerations that affect the way income is allocated among partners?
> Why should the assets and liabilities of an existing partnership be revalued when a new partner is to be admitted by the investment of cash in the organization?
> Explain what the term “mutual agency” means in regard to a partnership.
> Explain how the net income of a partnership is allocated if it is less than the salary and interest allowances.
> Sadler Computer Supply Company has just been destroyed by fire. Fortunately, however, the computerized accounting records had been “backed up” and were in a remote computer location so that the records were not destroyed. The company does not use the ret
> Are partners’ salaries considered to be expenses of the partnership? Explain.
> What is the advantage of a limited partnership?
> How does the balance sheet of a partnership differ from that of a sole proprietorship?
> Is Allowance for Doubtful Accounts brought forward from the general ledger of a sole proprietorship when the firm’s assets and liabilities are being transferred to the partnership? Why?
> Why are assets of an existing sole proprietorship revalued when they are transferred to a partnership?
> Does a partnership pay federal income tax? Explain.
> Does a partnership continue to exist after the death of a partner? Explain.
> Explain the use of a drawing account in a partnership.
> Which of these, if any, is not “real property”? a. land b. a building c. a motor home being used as an office d. pavement for a parking lot
> Name three or more events, developments, or situations that indicate impairment of property, plant, and equipment may exist.
> 1. The vice president of the manufacturing company for which you are the accountant has suggested to the president that all prices should be established on the basis of direct costing. Respond to this suggestion. 2. Assume that the company where you are
> 1. In discussing a firm’s latest financial statements, a manager says that it is the “results on the bottom line” that really count. What does the manager mean? 2. If a firm’s expenses equal or exceed its revenue, what actions might management take? 3. H
> What information related to the company’s property, plant, and equipment must be presented in the financial statements and in the notes to the financial statements?
> Under what circumstances is the units-of-production method of depreciation especially desirable?
> What is the basic test for determining whether impairment does, in fact, exist?
> Which method will give you a higher amount of depreciation expense in the later years of an asset’s life, straight-line or declining-balance? Explain.
> Is MACRS used for federal income tax rules acceptable under GAAP?
> How is the amount of impairment to be recorded determined?
> What are the rules for determining the amount of cost in each category of intangibles in Question 22 to be removed from the asset account during each accounting period?
> What are the two categories of intangible assets for the purposes of disposing of their capitalized costs?
> What accounting treatment is given to most research costs?
> Are gains and losses on trade-in transactions recognized and recorded under GAAP?
> 1. How would the distinction between fixed and variable costs help management in forecasting cash needs for the business? 2. Explain how a flexible budget can be used by management to help control costs. 3. Briefly explain to management the reasons why v
> Explain how the sum-of-the-years’-digits method would be applied to an asset with a life of six years.
> What are the requirements for recording an intangible asset such as goodwill?
> Explain how to measure the gain or loss when an old asset is traded in on a new one.
> What is the name of the process by which costs of a natural resource deposit are removed from the asset account as the resources are produced?
> Explain how double-declining-balance depreciation is computed on an asset with a life of six years.
> Which, if any, of the depreciation methods discussed in this chapter ignore(s) salvage value?
> Name two accelerated depreciation methods.
> What is meant by the term “personal property”?
> Explain how straight-line depreciation is computed.
> A company purchased some land on which an old building is located. The building has to be torn down to enable construction of a new building. Which, if any, of the following costs related to the old building should be capitalized as part of the land cost
> 1. The directors of the firm where you work have asked you to explain whether the job order cost accounting system or the process cost accounting system provides the more accurate costs for each unit of product. What will you tell them? 2. What are the b
> What is meant by “capitalized costs”?
> What account is debited and what account is credited to record depreciation on trucks?
> What is meant by the first-in, first-out assumption?
> What is meant by the term net realizable value as it is used in the lower of cost or net realizable value rule?
> Explain how the lower of cost or net realizable value method is applied on a group basis.
> Is the value of inventory likely to be lower if the cost or net realizable value rule is applied on an item-by-item basis, on a group basis, or to the inventory as a whole?
> In a period of rising prices, is the LIFO method or the FIFO method likely to yield the larger inventory cost?
> A company uses the LIFO inventory method to determine cost. One of the managers complains that this is improper. He states: “We always sell our oldest products first. So we should be using first-in, first-out inventory costing.” What would you say in res
> Explain the retail method of inventory estimation.
> Suggest two situations where it may be necessary or desirable to estimate the inventory without a physical count.
> 1. Assume that you are an accountant for a manufacturing firm. At the end of one year, there is a large overapplied overhead amount. How would you explain to management why this balance might exist? 2. The president of a fairly large manufacturing compan
> What accounting principle or constraint underlies the lower of cost or net realizable value rule for inventory valuation.
> What impact does the ending inventory have on net income for the period covered by the financial statements?
