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Chapter 5: Q19Q. (page 238)
Kathleen Battle says, “Retained earnings should be reported as an asset, since it is earnings which are reinvested in the business.” How would you respond to Battle?
Kathleen Battle is incorrect in saying that retained earnings should be reported as assets.
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Case 3: Deere & Company Presented below is the SEC-mandated disclosure of contractual obligations provided by Deere & Company in a recent annual report. Deere & Company reported current assets of \(50,060 and total current liabilities of \)21,394 at year-end. (All dollars are in millions.)
Aggregate Contractual Obligations
The payment schedule for the company’s contractual obligations at year-end in millions of dollars is as follows:
Total | Less than 1 year | 1-3 Years | 4 and 5 Years | More than 5 Years | |
Debt | |||||
Equipment Operations | \( 5,091 | \) 434 | \( 270 | \)775 | \( 3,612 |
Financial services | 31,692 | 9,962 | 11,477 | 6,578 | 3,675 |
Total | 36,783 | 10,396 | 11,747 | 7,353 | 7,287 |
Interest on debt | 4,777 | 609 | 1,069 | 745 | 2,354 |
Account payable | 2,743 | 2,611 | 90 | 39 | 3 |
Capital lease | 87 | 39 | 42 | 4 | 2 |
Purchase obligations | 3,007 | 2,970 | 37 | 0 | 0 |
Operating leases | 371 | 121 | 134 | 70 | 46 |
Total | \) 47,768 | \( 16,746 | \)13,119 | 8,211 | 9,692 |
Instructions
(a) Compute Deere & Company’s working capital and current ratio (current assets ÷ current liabilities) with and without the off-balance-sheet contractual obligations reported in the schedule.
(b) Briefly discuss how the information provided in the contractual obligation disclosure would be useful in evaluating Deere & Company for loans (1) due in one year and (2) due in five years.
Case 2: Sherwin-Williams Company Sherwin-Williams, based in Cleveland, Ohio, manufactures a wide variety of paint and other coatings, which are marketed through its specialty stores and in other retail outlets. The company also manufactures paint for automobiles. The Automotive Division has had financial difficulty. During a recent year, five branch locations of the Automotive Division were closed, and new management was put in place for the remaining branches.
The following titles were shown on Sherwin-Williams’s balance sheet for that year.
Account payable | Machinery and Equipment |
Accounts receivable, less allowance | Other accruals |
Accrued taxes | Other capital |
Building | Other current assets |
Cash and Cash equivalents | Other long term liabilities |
Common stock | Postretirement obligation other than pension |
Employee compensation payable | Retained earnings |
Finished good inventories | Short-term investment |
Intangible and other assets | Taxes payable |
Land | Work in process and raw material inventories. |
Long-term debt |
Instructions
(a) Organize the accounts in the general order in which they would have been presented in a classified balance sheet.
(b) When several of the branch locations of the Automotive Division were closed, what balance sheet accounts were most likely affected? Did the balance in those accounts decrease or increase?
A recent financial magazine indicated that the airline industry has poor financial flexibility. What is meant by financial flexibility, and why is it important?
According to generally accepted accounting principles, what is the balance sheet valuation of each of the following assets?
(a) Trade accounts receivable.
(b) Land.
(c) Inventories.
(d) Trading securities (common stock of other companies).
(e) Prepaid expenses.
(Classification of Balance Sheet Accounts) Assume that Fielder Enterprises uses the following headings on its balance sheet.
(a) Current assets | (g) Long-term liabilities |
(b) Investments | (h) Capital stock |
(c) Property, plant, and equipment | (i) Equity attribute to non-controlling interest |
(d) Intangible assets | (i) paid-in-capital in excess of par |
(e) Other assets | (k) Retained earnings |
(f) Current liabilities |
Instructions
Indicate by letter how each of the following usually should be classified. If an item should appear in a note to the financial statements, use the letter “N” to indicate this fact. If an item need not be reported at all on the balance sheet, use the letter “X.”
1. Prepaid insurance.
2. Stock owned in affiliated companies.
3. Unearned service revenue.
4. Advances to suppliers.
5. Unearned rent revenue.
6. Preferred stock.
7. Additional paid-in capital on preferred stock.
8. Copyrights.
9. Petty cash fund.
10. Sales taxes payable.
11. Accrued interest on notes receivable.
12. Twenty-year issue of bonds payable that will mature within the next year. (No sinking fund exists, and refunding is not planned.)
13. Machinery retired from use and held for sale.
14. Fully depreciated machine still in use.
15. Accrued interest on bonds payable.
16. Salaries that company budget shows will be paid to employees within the next year.
17. Discount on bonds payable. (Assume related to bonds payable in item 12.)
18. Accumulated depreciation—buildings.
19. Shares held by non-controlling stockholders.
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