You are the accountant for Speedy Company and are preparing the financial statements for 2019. Near the end of 2019, Speedy loaned its president $100,000 (a material amount) because she was having financial difficulties. The note was properly recorded as a note receivable by Speedy. You are unsure of how to classify this note on the 2019 ending
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From financial reporting and ethical perspectives, what do you think of the president’s suggestion?
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Intermediate Accounting: Reporting and Analysis (Looseleaf)
- Your client is preparing financial statements to show the bank. You know that he has incurred a refrigeration repair expense during the month, but you see no such expense on the books. When you question the client, he tells you that he has not yet paid the 1,255 bill. Your client is on the accrual basis of accounting. He does not want the refrigeration repair expense on the books as of the end of the month because he wants his profits to look good for the bank. Is your client behaving ethically by suggesting that the refrigeration repair expense not be booked until the 1,255 is paid? Are you behaving ethically if you agree to the clients request? What principle is involved here?arrow_forwardBlue Company, an architectural firm, has a bookkeeper who maintains a cash receipts and disbursements journal. At the end of the year (2019), the company hires you to convert the cash receipts and disbursements into accrual basis revenues and expenses. The total cash receipts are summarized as follows. The accounts receivable from customers at the end of the year are 120,000. You note that the accounts receivable at the beginning of the year were 190,000. The cash sales included 30,000 of prepayments for services to be provided over the period January 1, 2019, through December 31, 2021. a. Compute the companys accrual basis gross income for 2019. b. Would you recommend that Blue use the cash method or the accrual method? Why? c. The company does not maintain an allowance for uncollectible accounts. Would you recommend that such an allowance be established for tax purposes? Explain.arrow_forwardBrady is hired in 2021 to be the accountant for Anderson Manufacturing, a private company. At the end of 2021, the balance of Accounts Receivable is $29,000. In the past, Anderson has used only the direct write-off method to account for bad debts. Based on a detailed analysis of amounts owed, Brady believes the best estimate of future bad debts is $9,000. If Anderson continues to use the direct write-off method to account for uncollectible accounts, what adjustment, if any, would Brady record at the end of 2021? What adjustment, if any, would Brady record if Anderson instead uses the allowance method to account for uncollectible accounts?arrow_forward
- Natalie decides that she cannot afford to hire John to do her accounting. One way thatshe can ensure that her cash account does not have any errors and is accurate and upto-date is to prepare a bank reconciliation at the end of each month.Natalie would like you to help her. She asks you to prepare a bank reconciliation forJune 2020 using the following information.arrow_forwardMathys Inc. has recently hired a new independent auditor, Karen Ogleby, who says she wants “to get everything straightened out.” Consequently, she has proposed the following accounting changes in connection with Mathys Inc.'s 2020 financial statements. 1. At December 31, 2019, the client had a receivable of $820,000 from Hendricks Inc. on its balance sheet. Hendricks Inc. has gone bankrupt, and no recovery is expected. The client proposes to write off the receivable as a prior period item. 2. The client proposes the following changes in depreciation policies. a. For office furniture and fixtures, it proposes to change from a 10-year useful life to an 8-year life. If this change had been made in prior years, retained earnings at December 31, 2019, would have been $250,000 less. The effect of the change on 2020 income alone is a reduction of $60,000. b. For its new equipment in the leasing division, the client proposes to adopt the sum-of-the-years'-digits depreciation method. The…arrow_forwardAli Coffee Bean assumes that due to Corona, at the end of September 2020 there will be bad debts of $5,000,000 from accounts receivable belonging to Budi's Coffee Shop amounting to $20,000,000. It turned out that on October 21, 2020, Budi's Coffee Shop stated that they were unable to pay their receivables amounting to $1,000,000, so the CEO of Ali Coffee Bean allowed to write-off the receivables. As Ali Coffee Bean's financial staff, make:a. Journal Entry for write-off of Budi's Coffee Shop.b. What was the cash realizable value of Ali Coffee Shop's receivables prior to the write-off of Budi's Coffee Shop receivables in September?c. What is the cash realized value of Ali Coffee Shop's receivables after the write-off of Budi's Coffee Shop receivables?arrow_forward
- In January 2022, Sonja deposited $20,000 in a bank in the Bahamas. She earned $500 interest income. She closed the account in December 2022. Question Content Area a. Is Sonja subject to the FBAR reporting requirement? Sonja is required to file an FBAR form for 2022 because on at least one day during 2022 she had over $fill in the blank 08426906fff3031_1 in a foreign bank account. Question Content Area b. Is the interest income taxable in the United States? , of the interest income earned from this account is taxable in the United States.arrow_forwardf. Assume that on December 31, 2020, the treasurer of Hames decided to pay $15,000 of accounts payable. What impact, If any, this payment will have on the answers you calculated for parts e-d (Increase, decrease, or no effect). g. Assume that instead of paying $15,000 of accounts payable on December 31, 2020. Hames collected $15,000 of accounts recelvable. What Impact, If any, this receipt will have on the answers you calculated for parts a-d (Increase, decrease, or no effect).arrow_forwardThe net income of Sogo & Sons, a department store, decreased sharply during 2019. Mohan Sogo, manager of the store, anticipates the need for a bank loan in 2020. Late in 2019, Mohan Sogo instructs the store’s accountant to record a RM2,000 sale of furniture to the Sogo’s family, even though the goods will not be shipped from the manufacturer until January 2020. Mohan Sogo also tells the accountant not to make the following 31st December 2019, adjusting entry: Salaries owed to employees Prepaid insurance that has expired RM900 400 Requirements: 2(a). Compute the overall effects of these transactions on the store’s reported income for 2019. 2(b). Why is Mohan Sogo taking this action? Is his action ethical? Give your reason, identifying the parties helped and the parties harmed by his action. 2(c). As a personal friend, what advice would you give the accountant?arrow_forward
- Chris Nelson, the new assistant controller for Grand Company, is preparing for the firm’s year-end closing procedures. On December 30, 2019,a memorandum from the controller directed Nelson to make a journal entry debiting Cash and crediting Long-Term Advances to Officers for $1,000,000 . Not finding the $1,000,000 in the cash deposit prepared for the bank that day, Nelson went to the controller for a further explanation. In response, the controller took from her desk drawer a check for $1,000,000 payable to Grand Company from Jason Grand, chief executive officer of the firm. Attached to the check was a note from Jason Grand saying that if this check were not needed to return it to him next week. “This check is paying off a$1,000,000 advance the firm made to Jason Grand six years ago,”stated the controller.“ Mr.Grand has done this every year since the advance; each time we have returned the check to him in January of the following year. We plan to do so again this time. In fact, when…arrow_forwardAl Maha Travel Services Company, Nizwa has shown a loss in their balance sheet for the year ended 31st December 2020 and they availed a business loan of RO 55000 from Al Ahili Bank in January, 2019 but the company did not repay the instalment of loan from June, 2020. When the bank officials approached the company about the non-payment of loan, the manager of Al Maha Travel Services Company replied and declared that the company is Bankrupt. So, the bank has filed a case against the company. In this situation, what is the meaning of the term Bankrupt? a. A person or company is unable to pay bank charges in time b. A person or company is able to pay debts in time c. A person or company is unable to pay debts in time d. A person or company is able to discount bills with a bankarrow_forwardOn June 30, 2021, the bank's records say that your company has $12,956.73 in its chequing account. You are aware of three outstanding cheques for a total of $2,112.19. During June 2021, the bank rejected two deposited cheques from customers totalling $654.19 because of insufficient funds and charged you $12.00 in service fees. You had not yet received notice about the bad cheques, but you were aware of and have recorded the $12.00 of service fees, Prior to adjustment on June 30, 2021, your Cash account should have a balance of: Multiple Choice $14,402.73. $15,711.11. $1,498.73. $10,202.35. < Prev 33 of 50 Next marrow_forward
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