(Various Time Value Situations) Using the appropriate interest table, provide the solution to each of the following four questions by computing the unknowns

P6-2 (Various Time Value Situations) Using the appropriate interest table, provide the solution to each of the following four questions by computing the unknowns.

(a) What is the amount of the payments that Ned Winslow must make at the end of each of 8 years to accumulate a fund of $90,000 by the end of the eighth year, if the fund earns 8% interest, compounded annually?

(b) Robert Hitchcock is 40 years old today and he wishes to accumulate $500,000 by his sixty-fifth birthday so he can retire to his summer place on Lake Hopatcong. He wishes to accumulate this amount by making equal deposits on his fortieth through his sixty-fourth birthdays. What annual deposit must Robert make if the fund will earn 12% interest compounded annually?

(c) Diane Ross has $20,000 to invest today at 9% to pay a debt of $47,347. How many years will it take her to accumulate enough to liquidate the debt?

(d) Cindy Houston has a $27,600 debt that she wishes to repay 4 years from today; she has $19,553 that she intends to invest for the 4 years. What rate of interest will she need to earn annually in order to accumulate enough to pay the debt?

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Gorky-Park Corporation provides postretirement health care benefits to employees who provide at least 12 years of service and reach age 62 while in service

Gorky-Park Corporation provides postretirement health care benefits to employees who provide at least 12 years of service and reach age 62 while in service. On January 1, 2011, following plan-related data were available

Accumulated postretirement benefit obligation 130
Fair value of plan assets none
Average remaining service period to retirement 25 years (same in previous 10 yrs)
Average remaining service period to full eligibility 20 years (same in previous 10 yrs)

On January 1, 2011, Gorky-Park amends the plan to provide certain dental benefits in addition to previously provided medical benefits. The actuary determines that the cost of making the amendment retroactive increases service cost for 2011 is $34 million. The interest rate is 8%.

Requirements
1. Calculate the postretirement benefit expense for 2011.
2. Prepare the journal entry to record the expense.


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For each of the following problems, provide an audit procedure that would have identified the problem

Problem 10-28 For each of the following problems, provide an audit procedure that would have identified the problem.
(a) The allowance for doubtful accounts estimated by management is too small.
(b) Cash received in payment of an account receivable is deposited in the bank in the current period but is not posted to the accounts receivable record, trial balance, or general ledger until the subsequent period.
(c) For a month, sales are transacted using an outdated price list with amounts that are too low. The transactions are recorded accurately based on the price list used. Management is not aware the problem occurred.
(d) Cash for the exact amounts of sales are regularly pocketed by employees and not recorded on the sales terminal. Customers do not ask for receipts.
(e) Management records false sales close to year end and posts them as Accounts Receivable.
(f) Sales on account for services that take place in the first two days of the subsequent year are posted in the current year.


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Sometimes compensation packages include bonuses designed to provide performance incentives to employees

P 13-5 Bonus compensation; algebra

Sometimes compensation packages include bonuses designed to provide performance incentives to employees. The difficulty a bonus can cause accountants is not an accounting problem, but a math problem. The complication is that the bonus formula sometimes specifies that the calculation of the bonus is based in part on the bonus itself. This occurs anytime the bonus is a percentage of income because expenses are components of income, and the bonus is an expense.

Regalia Fashions has an incentive compensation plan through which a division manager receives a bonus equal to 10% of the division’s net income. Division income in 2011 before the bonus and income tax was $150,000. The tax rate is 30%.


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