Higgins Company has been operating for one year (2014). You are a member of the management team investigating expansion ideas that will require borrowing funds from banks. At the start of 2015, Higgins’s T-account balances were as follows:    Assets: Cash   Short-Term Investments   Property and Equipment 4,400          2,600          3,200           Liabilities: Short-Term Notes Payable   Long-Term Notes Payable            1,500              390                  Stockholders’ Equity: Common Stock   Additional Paid-in Capital   Retained Earnings      660              2,640              5,010         The following transactions occured in 2015: (a)  Borrowed $3,100 from a local bank, signing a note due in three years. (b)  Sold $1,400 of the investments for $1,400 cash. (c)  Sold one-half of the property and equipment for $1,600 in cash. (d)  Declared and paid $360 in cash dividends to stockholders.   Required: 1. Using the data from these T-accounts, determine the amounts for the following on January 1, 2015:

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Higgins Company has been operating for one year (2014). You are a member of the management team investigating expansion ideas that will require borrowing funds from banks. At the start of 2015, Higgins’s T-account balances were as follows:

  
Assets:
Cash   Short-Term Investments   Property and Equipment

4,400  

 

  

 

2,600  

 

  

 

3,200  

 

  

  
Liabilities:
Short-Term Notes Payable   Long-Term Notes Payable    

  

 

  1,500      

 

  

 

390      

 

 

 

 

  
Stockholders’ Equity:
Common Stock   Additional Paid-in Capital   Retained Earnings

  

 

660      

 

  

 

2,640      

 

  

 

5,010        


The following transactions occured in 2015:
(a)  Borrowed $3,100 from a local bank, signing a note due in three years.
(b)  Sold $1,400 of the investments for $1,400 cash.
(c)  Sold one-half of the property and equipment for $1,600 in cash.
(d)  Declared and paid $360 in cash dividends to stockholders.

 

Required:
1.

Using the data from these T-accounts, determine the amounts for the following on January 1, 2015:


 
 
 
 
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