Answer:
1. Which amount related to this purchase should be recorded in the accounting records?
According to the historical cost principle, assets must be recorded at their original purchase price, only accumulated depreciation can adjust their value.
2. The resources owned by a business are its _____.
Assets are all the resources a business uses to carry out their normal business activities and operations.
3. The rights and claims of creditors on a company's assets are represented by _____.
Liabilities represent all the debts that a company has.
4. Which element of the accounting equation represents the rights of owners?
Equity refers to the part of a company owned by its stockholders or owners. A company can finance itself through all equity, or it can have a mixed financing structure with equity and debt (liabilities). The investment made by the owners of a company is represented by the equity part of the balance sheet.
Answer:
A. Dividends 11,700 Dividends Payable 11,700
Explanation:
The journal entry to record the dividend declared is shown below:
Dividend A/c Dr $11,700
To Dividend payable $11,700
(Being the dividend is declared)
The computation is shown below:
= (Number of shares issued - treasury stock) × cash dividend per share
= (20,000 shares - 7,000 shares) × $0.90
= 13,000 shares × $0.90
= $11,700
Answer:
c) the condition subsequent has occurred;
Explanation:
Since in the question it is given that the John and his wife Martha get a divorce and according to the divorce settlement contract she agrees to pay the alimony to John for $5,000 per month for his lifetime or until that time when he should remarry
If John remarries after three years, so the alimony benefits is ceased because the subsequent condition has occurred due to which he will not get the amount further in the future
Answer:
c) relatively high variable costs
Explanation:
Operating leverage is a ratio that is used to analyze and understand the cost structure of a business. It gives the relation between the variable and fixed cost to the the total cost of running the business.
A business with a large amount of fixed cost relative to variable is said to have a high operating leverage . For such business, operating income would be more volatile because the operating income would not increase in commensurate proportion as sales revenue.
And a company with low operating leverage has low amount of fixed cost relative to variable cost and therefore a relatively high variable costs
Operating leverage is calculated as
Contribution /Earnings before interest and Tax
Answer:
a.
i. 4.7 times
ii. 77.1 days
b
i. 7 times
ii. 52.1 days
Explanation:
Inventory turnover = cost of goods sold / average inventory
average inventory for 2016 = ( 87,750 + 92,500 ) / 2 = $90,125
Inventory turnover $426,650 / $90,125 = 4.7 times
Days' sales in inventory = 365 / inventory turnover = 77.1 days
for 2017
inventory turnover = cost of goods sold / average inventory
average inventory for 2017 = ( 97,400 + 87,750 ) / 2 = $92,575
Inventory turnover $643,825 / $92,575 = 7.0 times
Days' sales in inventory = 365 / inventory turnover = 52.1 days
