I have a real bugger of an assignment, I have a boatload of questions to do and cant find the answers to some of them, I will post them on here and if you can give me the answer to any of them, it would help me out immensely.
1. Land, buildings and equipment are acquired for a lump sum of $875,000. The market values of the three assets are, respectively, $200,000, $500,000 and $300,000. What is the cost assigned to the equipment?
2. The journal to record a major expenditure to upgrade equipment that extends its useful life beyond the original estimate would include a credit and debit to what?
3. Great Farms Company sold some fully depreciated equipment for $4,100 cash. The equipment had been purchased for $49,600, and the company had estimated the useful life at 8 years and a residual value at $5,600. How will this sale affect Retained Earnings? (i couldn’t find anything about retained earnings when i looked it up, is this a trick question?
4. Bonds with an 8% interest rate were issued when the market rate of interest was 9%. The quoted bond price will be: (greater than 100 or less than 100?)
5.A $3,000, 7.5% bond is quoted at 97.5. When the bond is issued, the Bonds Payable account will be increased by:
6.Assume the following: Sales revenue was $3,000,000. Interest expense was $15,000. Net income was $300,000. The times interest earned is:
7.Revision Company has just made the interest payment on its $3,000,000 of outstanding bonds. The unamortized discount is currently $127,400. Revision decided to retire the bonds by purchasing the bonds when the bonds were priced at 97. Which statement regarding the retirement is true?
A. Revision paid $2,910,000 to purchase the bond and recognized a $37,400
Loss.
B. Revision paid $3,000,000 to purchase the bond and recognized a $164,800
loss.
C. Revision paid $2,872,600 to purchase the bond and recognized a $127,400
loss.
D. Revision paid $2,910,000 to purchase the bond and recognized a $164,800
loss.
1. Land, buildings and equipment are acquired for a lump sum of $875,000. The market values of the three assets are, respectively, $200,000, $500,000 and $300,000. What is the cost assigned to the equipment?
Market value :
Land $200,000
Buildings $500,000
Equipment $300,000
Total $1,000,000
Work out the purchase price proportionately (87.5%)
Land $175,000
Buildings $437,500
Equipment $262,500
Total $875,000
2. The journal to record a major expenditure to upgrade equipment that extends its useful life beyond the original estimate would include a credit and debit to what?
Dr Equipment xxx
Cr Cash or AP xxx
3. Great Farms Company sold some fully depreciated equipment for $4,100 cash. The equipment had been purchased for $49,600, and the company had estimated the useful life at 8 years and a residual value at $5,600. How will this sale affect Retained Earnings?
If by fully depreciated you mean that it’s been depreciated down to its residual value, then selling it at $4100 would mean there’s a loss of $1500, so it would go to reduce retained earnings by $1500
4. Bonds with an 8% interest rate were issued when the market rate of interest was 9%. The quoted bond price will be: (greater than 100 or less than 100?)
Less than 100, i.e., at a discount
5.A $3,000, 7.5% bond is quoted at 97.5. When the bond is issued, the Bonds Payable account will be increased by:
$2,925
6.Assume the following: Sales revenue was $3,000,000. Interest expense was $15,000. Net income was $300,000. The times interest earned is:
TIE = Operating profit before interest / Interest
= 315,000/15000 = 21
7.Revision Company has just made the interest payment on its $3,000,000 of outstanding bonds. The unamortized discount is currently $127,400. Revision decided to retire the bonds by purchasing the bonds when the bonds were priced at 97. Which statement regarding the retirement is true?
A. Revision paid $2,910,000 to purchase the bond and recognized a $37,400 Loss.