Operations and Harry Dim, Staff Accountant, Craig’s Crocodiles Inc. FROM: Team 1: Tri Duong, Andrew Gamble, Belona Gvargezzobalan, Khanh Nguyen, Craig Stevens, Dean Scott, Grace Shirvani, RE: Evaluation of the accounting and legal issues for Craig’s Crocodiles Inc. We have evaluated the accounting and legal issues arising from the expansion of your business. Feel free to contact us for any other questions or information. Executive Committee: Head of Contacts: Dean Scott: 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge
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CHAPTER 21 Accounting for Leases ASSIGNMENT CLASSIFICATION TABLE (BY TOPIC) | | |Brief Exercises | | | Concepts for | |Topics |Questions | |Exercises |Problems |Analysis | |*1. Rationale for leasing. |1, 2, 4 | |
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included in the lessee’s minimum lease payments.”2 The external legal counsel fee of $500,000 that Thurber paid to Stipe, Berry, Mills and Buck LLP in connection with negotiating the lease agreement are executory cost because they are all third parties that guarantee for the lease agreement. They are not involved in the lease term. Thurber will have to recognize these costs as expenses. However, the $1 million of legal fees paid to Goliath will be included in the minimum lease payment. Under ASC 840-10-25-6
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is a way to finance and gain capital when the company cash flow is minimal. To name a few types of long term debt: bonds payable, notes payable, mortgages payable, pension liabilities, and lease liabilities. This assignment will define basic terms such as long-term debt, bonds, mortgage, and capital leases. In addition answer questions in reference to the ABC Company journal entries, postretirement and note disclosure. A bond arises from a contract known as a bond indenture. A bond is a form
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earnings persistence and stock prices: Evidence from operating leases* Weili Ge University of Washington Business School University of Washington Mackenzie Hall, Box 353200 Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 221-4835 geweili@u.washington.edu November 22, 2006 Abstract This paper examines the implications of the off-balance-sheet treatment of operating leases for future earnings and stock returns. The property rights granted by an operating lease contract generate both future benefits (off-balance-sheet capital
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Jury Trial Demanded | The Securities and Exchange Commission ("the Commission") alleges for its First Amended Complaint as follows:1. Defendants KPMG LLP ("KPMG") and certain KPMG partners permitted Xerox Corporation ("Xerox") to manipulate its accounting practices and fill a $3 billion "gap" between actual operating results and results reported to the investing public from 1997 through 2000. The fraudulent scheme allowed Xerox to claim it met performance expectations of Wall Street analysts, to
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1.0 Objective The objective of this report is to analyze the profitability potential of “Bobby Bully” and evaluate several decisions made by the Controller of the Company. 2.0 Profitability analysis of “Bobby Bully” 2.1 Sales unit projections to U.S. purchasers Schedule of expected sales provided by the marketing department assumes 70% of sales to domestic purchasers and 30% to U.S. purchasers. BML has fairly recently escalated its sales in the U.S. to the extent that almost 30% of its
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RECOGNITION OF ASSETS Accountants define assets as resources that a firm owns or controls as a result of past business transactions, and which are expected to produce future economic benefits that can be measured with a reasonable degree of certainty. Distortions in asset values generally arise because there is ambiguity about whether: * The firm owns or controls the economic resources in question: * Are the ventures controlled? * Are the leased assets owned by the lessee
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Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code; one of the largest corporate bankruptcy filings at that time. When the investigations commenced and the tangled Enron web was unraveled, it was discovered that Enron had perpetrated a very sophisticated form of accounting fraud through its repeated use of what are referred to as Special Purpose Entities (“SPEs”). In their most basic forms, SPEs are business entities formed for the purpose of conducting a well specified activity such as construction of a gas pipeline
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January 1, 2007 for three years. On expiration the equipment reverts to Lessor Ltd. Annual expenses include a lease payment of $100,000 and other expenses of $2,000 with no expenses incurred by Lessor Ltd. The remaining useful life of the equipment is 4 years. At the time, the equipment had a Fair Market Value (FMV) of $265,000. Lessee Ltd guaranteed a residual value of $20,000 by the end of the lease term. The salvage value of the equipment was estimated as $2000 at the end of the economic life. The lessor’s
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