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Subject: Accounting Help
Category: Business and Money > Accounting
Asked by: josie3-ga
List Price: $25.00
Posted: 18 Jun 2004 13:06 PDT
Expires: 28 Jun 2004 13:54 PDT
Question ID: 363104
Please help with accounting assignment.  See information below and
questions at the end:

Scenario							
On January 14, 2003, the majority of company records were destroyed. 							
Previous finanical documents are needed for an upcoming meeting.  							
The owner was able to retreive the information below - balance sheet,
income statement and some
	incomplete data and ratios that were computed from current financial
statements.
They also had the following information:							
	2002 revenues				$10,281 		
	Current liabilities, Dec. 31, 2002	$2,285 		
							
Balance Sheet - as of Dec. 31, 2001							
							
Assets							
Current Assets							
	Cash						                 $18 
	Marketable Securities						 $494 
	Accounts Receivables						 $728 
	Inventories						         $972 
	Prepaid expenses						 $214 
		Total Current assets					$2,426 
Investments							         $898 
Real Estate, Plant and Equipment				$4,727 	
	Less: Accumulated depreciation				$2,433 	$2,294 
Special Tools							          $171 
Goodwill							          $594 
Total Assets							        $6,383 
Liab. & Shareholder equity							
Current Liabilities							 $732 
	Accounts Payable						 $266 
	Accrued Liabilities						$1,232 
		Total Current Liabilities				$2,230 
Long Term Debt							          $250 
Other Non-current Liabilities					          $951 
Total Liabilities							$3,431 
Shareholders Equity							
	Preferred Stock						           $25 
	Common Stock						           $54 
	Additional Paid in capital					  $667 
	Retained Earnings						$2,206 
		Total Shareholders Equity				$2,952 
Total Liabilities and Shareholders equity				6,383 
Income Statement							
Total revenue							        $9,779 
Cost of Sales					 $8,165 		
Gross margin					 $1,614 		
Other expenses							
Depreciation					 $278 		
	Amortization of goodwill	       	$343 		
	Selling, admin. Expenses		 $430 		
	Provision for income taxes		$163 				
Total costs and expenses						$9,379 		
Net income							          $400 		
									
Ratios				2002	2001				
Acid-Test ratio			0.671	0.556				
Current ratio			1.172	1.088				
Inventory turnover		10.005	8.400				
Days' receivables		39.66	27.17				
Gross Margin %			15.12	16.50				
Profit Margin %			2.831	4.090				
Invested capital turnover(times)2.091	2.355				
Debt/equity ratio (percentage)	62.15	40.68				
Return on shareholders equity	?	13.55				

Questions:									
									
?Prepare a balance sheet as of December 31, 2002 and the income
statement (2002)
									
?What was the return on shareholders equity for 2002?
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Subject: Re: Accounting Help
From: gspindia-ga on 21 Jun 2004 04:10 PDT
 
Please Clarify the following:
1) Rate of Depreciation & the method of deprecaition followed
2) Method of Amortising Goodwill
3) is the balance sheet required in the same format as above? i.e.
whether all the details specified above have to be included or only
broad heads shhould be specified.
Subject: Re: Accounting Help
From: josie3-ga on 27 Jun 2004 04:39 PDT
 
1) No additional information for depreciation
2) No additional information on amortising goodwill
3) The balance sheet does not have to be in the exact format as the
previous balance sheet.

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