Answer:
Sam’s Home Store can enforce the contract against Restore Construction Company
Explanation:
In contract law, only the parties involved in a contract can take action to enforce the contract. In this case Sam' Home Store signed the contract with Restore, so they can enforce it. Any third party beneficiaries from the contract, like United Building Supplies, are not entitled to enforce anything.
Answer:
Acceptance
Explanation:
For a contract there are some certain conditions to be fulfilled, to call it valid. This includes the basic two things:
Offer and acceptance.
Offer refers to the option provided by a party in the contract and that there is acceptance from opposite party to accept the offer, and when it is accepted as the offer itself, then the contract is valid.
In the given instance there is an alteration in the acceptance conditions as not same like offer. The offer price is $5,000 and that the acceptance price is $4,500.
Thus, there is no acceptance in this contract. Rather there is counter offer.
Answer:
The required adjusting entry to record estimated bad debts expense is as follows:
Debit Bad Debts Accounts with $39,960
Credit Allowance for Doubtful Accounts with $39,960
Being the adjustment to bring the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts up a new credit balance of $43,625.
Explanation:
The Allowance for Doubtful Accounts had a credit balance of $3,665. Since management had estimated that $43,625 of the Accounts Receivable balance would be uncollectible, this means that the difference $39,960 ($43,625 - $3,665) would be the adjusting amount to bring the balance up-to-date.
Remember that the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts is a contra account to the Accounts Receivable. It is used to reduce the balance of the Accounts Receivable based on collectibility judgement or estimate which management makes out of experience. The balance in this account is, therefore d,educted from the Accounts Receivable in the Balance Sheet in order to obtain the net Accounts Receivable balance.
The account that expenses the increase in this account is the Bad Debts Expense Account, which is taken to the Income Statement to reduce the income.
Answer:
39 months
Explanation:
loan balance $5,000
APR = 17.3% compounded monthly / 12 = 1.44167% monthly interest rate
monthly payment = $170
if we use the present value of annuity formula:
PV = payment x ({1 - [1/(1 + r)ⁿ]} / r)
5,000 = 170 x ({1 - [1/(1 + 0.0144167)ⁿ]} / 0.0144167)
29.4118 = {1 - [1/(1.0144167)ⁿ]} / 0.0144167
0.42402 = 1 - [1/(1.0144167)ⁿ
1/(1.0144167)ⁿ = 0.57598
1.0144167ⁿ = 1 / 0.57598 = 1.73617
n log1.0144167 = log1.73617
n 0.00621639 = 0.2395926
n = 0.2395926 / 0.00621639 = 38.54 ≈ since the payments must be made in full months, we have to round up to 39 months
to check our answer:
PV = payment x ({1 - [1/(1 + r)ⁿ]} / r)
PV = 170 x ({1 - [1/(1 + 0.0144167)³⁹]} / 0.0144167)
PV = $5,044.36
Answer: b. Harold is not required to recognize gross income but must reduce his cost basis in the land to $130,000.
Explanation:
When Harold bought the land for $150,000 he acquired a basis of $150,000 in the land. Due to Jewel's cash problems, he managed to pay $20,000 less for the land.
For tax reporting purposes, he need not recognize gross income but he must reflect that he acquired the land for $20,000 less in his basis for the land thereby reducing the basis to $130,000.
