Question 1 Facebook Inc. bought WhatsApp Inc. for a total of S19 billion in cash and shares in October 2014. The Balance day of Facebook Inc. is 31 December. Required Indicate and explain how the acquisition of WhatsApp should be accounted in Facebook's financial statements on the day of purchase and the following balance day periods. Hint: rescarch about the WhatsApp Inc. acquisition by Facebook Inc.
Question 1 Facebook Inc. bought WhatsApp Inc. for a total of S19 billion in cash and shares in October 2014. The Balance day of Facebook Inc. is 31 December. Required Indicate and explain how the acquisition of WhatsApp should be accounted in Facebook's financial statements on the day of purchase and the following balance day periods. Hint: rescarch about the WhatsApp Inc. acquisition by Facebook Inc.
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Facebook Inc. bought WhatsApp Inc. for a total of S19 billion in cash and shares in October
2014. The Balance day of Facebook Inc. is 31 December.
Required
Indicate and explain how the acquisition of WhatsApp should be accounted in Facebook's
financial statements on the day of purchase and the following balance day periods. Hint:
research about the WhatsApp Inc. acquisition by Facebook Inc.
Question 2
Jewellery Limited manufactures and sells different kinds of handmade fine jewellery. The
company warrants its products for one year. The average price per piece of jewellery is
S5,000 and the company sold 800 products in 2018. By the end of 2018, based on historical
information the company estimates 5% of the jewellery sold to develop defective parts within
one year. The estimated average cost of warranty repairs per defective item is $100. During
2019, customers have returned 20 pieces of jewellery sold that year for repairs. By the end of
2019, the company expects 7% of the jewellery sold to develop defective parts within one
year. The estimated average cost of warranty repairs per defective item is $120. The company
sold 900 products in 2019 with the same average price per piece of 5,000. The balance day of
Jewellery Limited is 31 December.
Required
Record the necessary journal entries in 2018 and 2019 regarding the warranty.
Question 3
Kenz Limited employs its staff on a five-day working week. The weekly salaries is $15,000
and employees are paid in arrears on Friday. That is, when the employees are paid, the
salaries paid are for work performed in the preceding week. Kenz Limited retains $5,000 per
week to pay the Inland Revenue Department for pay-as-you-cearn (PAYE) tax on behalf of the
employees and $1,000 per week to pay staff medical benefits. Tax and medical benefits are
paid on the following Monday and Tuesday of each week respectively. The end of the
reporting period falls on a Wednesday.
Required Prepare the accounting entries necessary to record the salary on balance day and its
раyments.

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Telephone Limited signed a contract with Machinery Leasing Company at 1st January 2020
to lease a machine. The agreement consists in 10 equal annual payments of $300,000 at the
beginning of each ycar with an interest rate of 15%. The yearly rental payment includes
S30,000 of executory costs related to insurance on the machine. The executory costs of
S30,000 are paid to the lessor each year. There is an option to purchase the machine at the
end of the lease term for $50,000. The machine has an estimated useful life of 14 years and a
guaranteed residual value of $20,000. Both companies adopt straight-line depreciation
method for all items of PPE. Consider a PVIF (n=10, i=15%) of 0.2472 and PVIFA (n=10,
i=15%) of 5.0188. The balance day for Telephone Limited and Machinery Leasing Company
is 31 of December.
Required (Round all numbers to the nearest dollar)
a) Discuss the nature of this lease to Telephone Limited.
b) Discuss the nature of this lease to Machinery Leasing Company.
c) Calculate the present value of the minimum lease payment.
d) Prepare the journal entries for Telephone Limited in 2020.
k) Prepare the journal entries for Machinery Leasing Company in 2020.
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