FA Exercises 2024
FA Exercises 2024
The perpetual inventory records of Sawyer Co. show 400 units of a particular
product on hand, acquired at the following dates and costs:
Purchase Quantity Unit Cost Total Cost
Date
November 18 100 $20 $2,000
December 2 300 28 8,400
Total on hand 400 $10,400
(a) LIFO.
(b) FIFO.
(c) Average cost.
2. Briefly explain the effects on the financial statements that may arise from
choosing the FIFO method over the LIFO method.
Exercise 2:
Johnson Co. uses the balance sheet approach to estimate uncollectible accounts
expense. At year-end, an aging of the accounts receivable produced the following
five groupings.
a. Not yet due...................................................$800,000
b. 1–30 days past due ........................................ 220,000
c. 31–60 days past due ....................................... 82,000
d. 61–90 days past due ........................................24,000
e. Over 90 days past due .................................... 36,000
Total ...............................................................$1,162,000
On the basis of past experience, the company estimated the percentages probably
uncollect ible for the five age groups to be as follows: Group a, 1 percent; Group b,
3 percent; Group c, 10 percent; Group d, 20 percent; and Group e, 50 percent. The
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts before adjustment at December 31 showed a
credit balance of $39,100.
Instructions:
a. Compute the estimated amount of uncollectible accounts based on the given
classification by age groups.
b. Prepare the adjusting entry needed to bring the Allowance for Doubtful
Accounts to the proper amount.
d. Assume that on January 25 of the following year, Johnson Co. learned that an
account receivable that had originated on October 18 in the amount of $8,200 was
worthless because of the bankruptcy of the client, Hamilton Co. Prepare the journal
entry required on January 25 to write off this account.
Exercise 3:
On May 6, 2014, East River Tug Co. purchased a new tugboat for $300,000. The
estimated life of the boat was 4 years, with an estimated residual value of $10,000.
East River Tug Co. depreciates the boat by the straight-line method, and apply the
half-year convention.
a.Prepare depreciation schedules for this boat
b. Prepare journal entries to record depreciation for the first year
c.Briefly explain the effects on the financial statements that may arise from using
the straight-line method of depreciation compared to the declining-balance
method?
Exercise 4:
Some transactions related the non-current assets of MARS Company that are
described as follows:
Equipment, use for administrative department
Purchase price, $1,230,000
Expenditures required to test the equipment and prepare it for ready to use
$90,000. Expected to be used for 6 years, with a residual value at the end of
that time of $120,000.
MARS depreciates equipment by the straight-line method.
Instructions
a. Prepare depreciation schedules of above equipment.
b. Prepare journal entries to record depreciation for the first year
c. At the beginning of 5th year, equipment was sold for $450,000. Prepare journal
entries to record this disposal of equipment.
Exercise 5:
The Royal Company issued a 6-year note payable of $6,000,000 at 01st November
2021. This note is payable monthly installments of $117,301 which include
principal and interest computed at annual rate of 12%.
a. The amount Spencer must pay on May 1, 2024, when the note matures is
$____________________
b. The interest expense Spencer will recognize on this note in 2024 is $
_________
c. At December 31, 2023, Spencer' liability to the Credit Union amounts to
$__________
d. Give the journal entry made by Spencer on October 1, 2023
e. Give the adjusting entry made by Spencer on December 31, 2023
f. Give the journal entry made by Spencer on May 1, 2024
Exercise 8:
Hessey Co. originally issued 20,000,000 shares of its $5 par value stock for $22
per share in 2017. In June 2021, company purchased 7,000 shares of treasury
stock at $16 per share. In November 2021 it re-issued these 7,000 treasury
shares for $26 per share.
Instructions:
The following income statement and selected balance sheet account data are
available for Treece, Inc., at December 31, 2021.
Additional Information
1. Dividend revenue is recognized on the cash basis. All other income statement
amounts are recognized on the accrual basis.
2. Operating expenses include depreciation expense of $115,000.
Instructions:
a. Prepare a partial statement of cash flows, including only the operating activities
section of the statement and using the direct method.
b. Prepare a partial statement of cash flows for the current year, showing the
computation of net cash flows from operating activities by the indirect method.