Chapter 4: Question 1 (page 179)
What kinds of questions about future cash flows do investors and creditors attempt to answer with information in the income statement?
An income statement facilitates the investors and creditors to predict future cash flows by comparing the current outcomes with previous reports.
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Question: As audit partner for Grupo and Rijo, you are in charge of reviewing the classification of unusual items that have occurred during the current year. The following material items have come to your attention.
1. A merchandising company incorrectly overstated its ending inventory 2 years ago. Inventory for all other periods is correctly computed.
2. An automobile dealer sells for \(137,000 an extremely rare 1930 S type Invicta which it purchased for \)21,000 10 years ago. The Invicta is the only such display item the dealer owns.
3. A drilling company during the current year extended the estimated useful life of certain drilling equipment from 9 to 15 years. As a result, depreciation for the current year was materially lowered.
4. A retail outlet changed its computation for bad debt expense from 1% to ½ of 1% of sales because of changes in its customer clientele. Concepts for Analysis 191 192 Chapter 4 Income Statement and Related Information.
5. A mining concern sells a foreign subsidiary engaged in uranium mining, although it (the seller) continues to engage in uranium mining in other countries.
6. A steel company changes from the average-cost method to the FIFO method for inventory costing purposes.
7. A construction company, at great expense, prepared a major proposal for a government loan. The loan is not approved.
8. A water pump manufacturer has had large losses resulting from a strike by its employees early in the year.
9. Depreciation for a prior period was incorrectly understated by $950,000. The error was discovered in the current year.
10. A large sheep rancher suffered a major loss because the state required that all sheep in the state be killed to halt the spread of a rare disease. Such a situation has not occurred in the state for 20 years.
11. A food distributor that sells wholesale to supermarket chains and to fast-food restaurants (two distinguishable classes of customers) decides to discontinue the division that sells to one of the two classes of customers. This represents a strategic shift in the company business.
Instructions
From the foregoing information, indicate in what section of the income statement or retained earnings statement these items should be classified. Provide a brief rationale for your position.
Starr Co. had sales revenue of \(540,000 in 2017. Other items recorded during the year were:
Cost of goods sold \)330,000
Salaries and wages expense 120,000
Income tax expense 25,000
Increase in value of company reputation 15,000
Other operating expenses 10,000
Unrealized gain on value of patents 20,000
Prepare a single-step income statement for Starr for 2017. Starr has 100,000 shares of stock outstanding.
Presented below is information related to Viel Company on December 31, 2017, the end of its first year of operations.
Sales revenue $310,000
Cost of goods sold 140,000
Selling and administrative expenses 50,000
Gain on sale of plant assets 30,000
Unrealized gain on non-trading equity securities 10,000
Interest expense 6,000
Loss on discontinued operations 12,000
Allocation to non-controlling interest 40,000
Dividends declared and paid 5,000
Instructions
Compute the following: (a) income from operations, (b) net income, (c) net income attributable to Viel Company controlling shareholders, (d) comprehensive income, and (e) retained earnings balance on December 31, 2017. (Ignore income taxes.)
In 2017, Hollis Corporation reported net income of \(1,000,000. It declared and paid preferred stock dividends of \)250,000. During 2017, Hollis had a weighted average of 190,000 common shares outstanding. Compute Hollis’s 2017 earnings per share.
Neumann Company computed earnings per share as follows.
Net income
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Common shares outstanding at year-end
Neumann has a simple capital structure. What possible errors might the company have made in the computation? Explain.
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