Financial Accounting
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Chapter 2, Problem 2.15E
Analyzing the Effects of Transactions Using T-Accounts and Interpreting the
Higgins Company began operations last year. You are a member of the management team investigating expansion ideas that will require borrowing funds from banks. At the start of the current year. Higgins’s T-account balances were as follows:
Assets:
| Cash | |
| 5,000 |
Liabilities:
| Short-Term Investments |
| 2,500 |
| Property and Equipment |
| 3,000 |
| Short-Term Notes Payable 2,200 |
Stockholders ' Equity:
| Long-Term Notes Payable 1,800 |
| Common Stock | |
| 1 | 500 |
| Additional Paid-in Capital |
| 4,000 |
| 3,000 |
Required:
1. Using the data from these T-accounts, determine the amounts for the following on January 1 of the current year
Assets $ ____ = Liabilities $__+ Stockholders’ Equity $__
2. Enter the following transactions for the current year in the T-accounts:
- (a) Borrowed $4,000 from a local bank, signing a note due in three years.
- (b) Sold $1,500 of the investments for $1,500 cash.
- (c) Sold one-half of the property and equipment for $1,500 in cash.
- (d) Declared and paid $,800 in cash dividends to stockholders.
3. Compute ending balances in the T-accounts to determine amounts for the following on December 31 of the current year
Assets $ _____ = Liabilities $ _____ + Stockholders’ Equity $ _____
4. Calculate the current ratio at December 31 of the current year. If the industry average for the current ratio is 1.50. What does your computation suggest to you about Higgins Company? Would you suggest that Higgins Company increase its short-term liabilities? Why or why not?
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