When a company records depreciation it debits:_____.
A. Depreciation Expense and credits a contra-asset account.
B. Depreciation Expense and credits Cash.
C. a long-lived tangible asset account and credits Depreciation Expense.
D. a liability account and credits Depreciation Expense.

Answer: A. Depreciation Expense and credits a contra-asset account.

Explanation:

Depreciation is an expense which means that when it is incurred, it will be debited because expenses are debited to show that they have increased.

Depreciation reduces the value of an asset so the asset needs to be credited which is what is done when an asset reduces. The full entry would therefore involved a debit to the Depreciation account and a credit to the asset account that is being depreciated.

Many exchange-traded funds limit their portfolios to:___________
a. high quality securities
b. stocks and bonds of companies in a particular industry
c. stocks included in an aggregate measure of stock prices
d. stocks that respond to changes in consumer prices (the Consumer Price Index or CPI)

Which of the following statements are true regarding technology, gaming, and gambling? #1. Rapid-play poker machines have increased the number of problem and pathological gamblers. #2. Online gambling has resulted in an increased number of problem and pathological gamblers. #3. There is no evidence that technology has led to an increase in the number of people with gambling or gaming addictions. #4. Electronic media is a breeding ground for new addictions, such as Internet, video games, texting, and multiplayer games.

Fore Farms reported a pretax operating loss of $137 million for financial reporting purposes in 2021. Contributing to the loss were (a) a penalty of $5 million assessed by the Environmental Protection Agency for violation of a federal law and paid in 2021 and (b) an estimated loss of $12 million from accruing a loss contingency. The loss will be tax deductible when paid in 2022. The enacted tax rate is 25%. There were no tem

A manager spent 5 hours of his day in meetings. If he said that he spent 70% of his day, how many total hours did he work?

Mordica Company’s standard labor cost per unit of output is $22.00 (2.00 hours x $11.00 per hour). During August, the company incurs 2,340 hours of direct labor at an hourly cost of $9.90 per hour in making 1,300 units of finished product.

Required:
Compute the total, price, and quantity labor variances.

On January 1, 2021, Calloway Company leased a machine to Zone Corporation. The lease qualifies as a sales-type lease. Calloway paid $330,000 for the machine and is leasing it to Zone for $40,000 per year, an amount that will return 10% to Calloway. The present value of the lease payments is $330,000. The lease payments are due each January 1, beginning in 2021. What is the appropriate interest entry on December 31, 2021

Panther Co. had a quality-assurance warranty liability of $340,000 at the beginning of 2021 and $318,000 at the end of 2021. Warranty expense is based on 5% of sales, which were $50 million for the year. What amount of warranty costs were paid during

Bluegill Company sells 14,000 units at $240 per unit. Fixed costs are $168,000, and operating income is $1,176,000. Determine the following:
a. Variable cost per unit.
b. Unit contribution margin.
c. Contribution margin ratio.

Sales variance analysis is used by managers for: Select one: a. Planning purposes only. b. Budgeting purposes only. c. Control purposes only. d. Planning and control purposes. e. Planning and budgeting purposes.

The debt to owners' equity ratio is a common type of liquidity ratio

There is often litter along highways but rarely in people's yards. Which of the following statements help explain this observation?
a. No one cares if there is litter on the highway
b. When a person litters along a highway, others bear the negative externality of having to clean it up.
c. Littering in your own yard imposes costs to you, so you are less likely to do it.

Last year, you purchased a stock at a price of $64.00 a share. Over the course of the year, you received $2.20 per share in dividends and inflation averaged 2.7 percent. Today, you sold your shares for $69.00 a share. What is your approximate real rate of return on this investment

A company has already incurred $7,200 of costs in producing 6,000 units of Product XY. Product XY can be sold as is for $31 per unit. Instead, the company could incur further processing costs of $10 per unit and sell the resulting product for $35 per unit. Should the company sell Product XY as is or process it further

Customers exhibit a Poisson arrival distribution and the barber must provide an exponential service distribution. Market data indicates that customers arrive at a rate of 2 per hour. It will take an average of 20 minutes to give a haircut, and that business would remain unchanged with customers arriving at a rate of two per hour. Find the following information to help Benny decide if a second chair should be added:

a. The average number of customers waiting.
b. The average time a customer waits.
c. The average time a customer is in the shop.

On January 1, a machine with a useful life of 10 years and a residual value of $76000 was purchased for $280000. What is the depreciation expense for year 2 under the double-declining-balance method of depreciation

It is January 2nd and senior management of Baldwin meets to determine their investment plan for the year. They decide to fully fund a plant and equipment purchase by issuing $10,000,000 in bonds. Assume the bonds are issued at face value and leverage changes to 2.7. Which of the following statements are true?

a. Total liabilities will be $132,709,346
b. The total investment for Baldwin will be $12,728,474
c. Working capital will remain the same at $12,936,641
d. Baldwin's long term debt will rise by $10,000,000
e. Total assets will rise to $212,378,526

a face value of $450 million. The bonds pay interest each March 31 and September 30, beginning March 31, 2022. The effective interest rate established by the market was 8%. Assuming that Auerbach issued the bonds for $388,844,955, what interest expense would it recognize in its 2021 income statement

You would like to have enough money saved to receive $80,000 per year in perpetuity after retirement for you and your heirs. How much would you need to have saved in your retirement fund to achieve this goal

A number of factors influence the sample size for a substantive test of details of an account balance. All other factors being equal, which of the following would lead to a larger sample size?
a. Greater reliance on internal control
b. Greater reliance on substantive analytical procedures
c. Smaller expected frequency of errors
d. Smaller measure of tolerable misstatement

Using the following information, what is the amount of gross profit?​
Purchases $37,000
Merchandise inventory, September 1 6,100
Selling expense 1,050
Merchandise inventory, September 30 6,800
Sales 91,000
Interest expense 1,040
Administrative expense 1,010
Rent revenue 1,700

Desks by Daisy sells a student desk for $100 per unit. The variable cost per desk is $40 and Daisy's fixed costs of producing the desks equals $15,000 per month. Daisy needs to sell _______ desks per month in order to break-even.

Senior managers are responsible for making specific plans to implement the strategy. The above statement is true or false. explained

An overhead variance report includes which of the followings: _________

a. Variable and fixed flexible budget costs
b. Variable and fixed actual results
c. Variable and fixed sales results
d. Variable and fixed variances

During its first year of business, XYZ Inc. purchased $1,600 of supplies. By the end of
the year, only $500 of supplies remain in the supply cabinet. Determine the amount to be
reported in the Supplies account in the Adjusted Trial Balance section of the worksheet
prepared on December 31.

Elderly woman purchases a table from a local furniture store for $5,000. She decides she does not want the table because of a defect. The woman successfully cancels the payment on the credit card for payment of the table, and continues to keep the table despite the store requesting to pick the table up from woman. What statement is true:

Prepare the December 31 adjusting entries for the following transactions.

a. Fees accrued but not billed, $6,300.
b. The Supplies account balance on December 31, $4,750.
c. Supplies on hand, $960
d. Wages accrued but not paid, $2,700
e. Depreciation of office equipment, $1,650
f. Rent expired during year, $10,800.

Big Red Motors, Inc., employs 15 personnel to market its line of luxury automobiles. The average car sells for $75,000, and a 6 percent commission is paid to the salesperson. Big Red Motors is considering a change to the commission arrangement where the company would pay each salesperson a salary of $1,600 per mont plus a commission of 2 percent of the sales made by that salesperson. What is the amount of total monthly car sales at whit Big Red Motors would be indifferent as to which plan to select?

Larned Corporation recorded the following transactions for the just completed month.

$79,000 in raw materials were purchased on account.
$77,000 in raw materials were used in production. Of this amount, $65,000 was for direct materials and the remainder was for indirect materials.
Total labor wages of $109,500 were paid in cash. Of this amount, $100,900 was for direct labor and the remainder was for indirect labor.
Depreciation of $195,000 was incurred on factory equipment.

Required:
Record the above transactions in journal entries.

Eclypso Inc. manufactures a product that passes through two processes: mixing and molding. All manufacturing costs are added uniformly in the mixing department.
Information for the mixing department for the month of October is as follows:
Work in process, October 1:
No. of units (45% complete) 7,200
Direct materials $42,000
Direct labor $50,400
Overhead $14,400
During October, 38,400 units were completed and transferred to the molding department. The following costs were incurred by the mixing department during October:
Direct materials $144,000
Direct labor $192,000
Overhead $ 60,000
By October 31, 3,600 units that were 85% complete remained in the mixing department. Eclypso uses the weighted average method. Eclypso's equivalent units of production using the weighted average method would be:_________
a. 24,740.
b. 32,000.
c. 41,460.
d. 35,000.
Alpha Technology produces two products: a high-end laptop under the label Excellent Laptops and an inexpensive desktop under the label Outstanding Computers. The two products use two overhead activities, with the following costs:
Setting up equipment $3,000
Machining $15,000
The controller has collected the expected annual prime costs for each product, the machine hours, the setup hours, and the expected production.
Excellent Laptops Outstanding Computers
Direct Labor $25,000 $10,000
Direct Materials $20,000 $5,000
Expected Production in Units 3,000 3,000
Machine Hours 850 2,000
Setup Hours 80 75
Calculate Outstanding Computer's consumption ratio for setup hours. (Note: Round your answer to two decimal places.)
a.0.75
b.0.90
c.0.25
d.0.45
e.0.48
35. Direct materials used in production, direct labor, and applied overhead are charged to the:
a. indirect labor account.
b. work-in-process account.
c. overhead account.
d. raw materials account.

The Northern Division of Southwest Clothing Inc. forecasts (has budgeted) the following income statement for the upcoming year: Sales $850,000 Variable Costs (520,000) Contribution Margin 330,000 Fixed Costs (480,000) Operating loss ($150,000) Unfortunately, every other division in the company is also expecting an operating loss for the coming year. The company's management is considering shutting down the Northern Division and has determined that $350,000 of the $480,000 Fixed Costs shown would be eliminated if that happens. If the Northern Division is shutdown, what is the change (impact) in Southwest's forecast operating results