Chapter 5: Q2Q (page 237)
Question: What is meant by solvency? What information in the balance sheet can be used to assess a company’s solvency?
Answer
Solvency reflects the ability to repay the borrowed money. It can be determined using the liabilities and the assets classified as current in nature
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(Classification of Balance Sheet Accounts) Assume that Fielder Enterprises uses the following headings on its balance sheet.
(a) Current assets | (g) Long-term liabilities |
(b) Investments | (h) Capital stock |
(c) Property, plant, and equipment | (i) Equity attribute to non-controlling interest |
(d) Intangible assets | (i) paid-in-capital in excess of par |
(e) Other assets | (k) Retained earnings |
(f) Current liabilities |
Instructions
Indicate by letter how each of the following usually should be classified. If an item should appear in a note to the financial statements, use the letter “N” to indicate this fact. If an item need not be reported at all on the balance sheet, use the letter “X.”
1. Prepaid insurance.
2. Stock owned in affiliated companies.
3. Unearned service revenue.
4. Advances to suppliers.
5. Unearned rent revenue.
6. Preferred stock.
7. Additional paid-in capital on preferred stock.
8. Copyrights.
9. Petty cash fund.
10. Sales taxes payable.
11. Accrued interest on notes receivable.
12. Twenty-year issue of bonds payable that will mature within the next year. (No sinking fund exists, and refunding is not planned.)
13. Machinery retired from use and held for sale.
14. Fully depreciated machine still in use.
15. Accrued interest on bonds payable.
16. Salaries that company budget shows will be paid to employees within the next year.
17. Discount on bonds payable. (Assume related to bonds payable in item 12.)
18. Accumulated depreciation—buildings.
19. Shares held by non-controlling stockholders.
Net income for the year for Tanizaki, Inc. was \(750,000, but the statement of cash flows reports that net cash provided by operating activities was \)860,000. Tanizaki also reported capital expenditures of \(75,000 and paid dividends in the amount of \)30,000. Compute Tanizaki’s free cash flow
Lowell Company’s December 31, 2017, trial balance includes the following accounts: Inventory \(120,000, Buildings \)207,000, Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment \(19,000, Equipment \)190,000, Land (held for investment) \(46,000, Accumulated Depreciation—Buildings \)45,000, Land \(71,000, and Timberland \)70,000. Prepare the property, plant, and equipment section of the balance sheet
A recent financial magazine indicated that the airline industry has poor financial flexibility. What is meant by financial flexibility, and why is it important?
Refer to the definition of assets on page 204. Discuss how a leased building might qualify as an asset of the lessee (tenant) under this definition.
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