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Chapter 5: Q2Q (page 237)
Question: What is meant by solvency? What information in the balance sheet can be used to assess a company’s solvency?
Answer
Solvency reflects the ability to repay the borrowed money. It can be determined using the liabilities and the assets classified as current in nature
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(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.
E5-6 (L02,3) (Corrections of a Balance Sheet) The bookkeeper for Geronimo Company has prepared the following balance sheet as of July 31, 2017.
GERONIMO COMPANY | |||
Balance Sheet | |||
As of July 31, 2017 | |||
Cash | \(69,000 | Notes and accounts payable | \)44,000 |
Account receivable (net) | 40,500 | Long-term liabilities | 75,000 |
Inventory | 60,000 | Stockholder’s equity | 155,500 |
Equipment (net) | 84,000 | ||
Patents | 21,000 | ||
\(274,500 | \)274,500 |
The following additional information is provided.
1. Cash includes \(1,200 in a petty cash fund and \)15,000 in a bond sinking fund.
2. The net accounts receivable balance is comprised of the following two items: (a) accounts receivable \(44,000 and (b) allowance for doubtful accounts \)3,500.
3. Inventory costing \(5,300 was shipped out on consignment on July 31, 2017. The ending inventory balance does not include the consigned goods. Receivables in the amount of \)5,300 were recognized on these consigned goods.
4. Equipment had a cost of \(112,000 and an accumulated depreciation balance of \)28,000.
5. Income taxes payable of $6,000 were accrued on July 31. Geronimo Company, however, had set up a cash fund to meet this obligation. This cash fund was not included in the cash balance but was offset against the income taxes payable amount.
Instructions
Prepare a corrected classified balance sheet as of July 31, 2017, from the available information, adjusting the account balances using the additional information.
1. Which of the following statements about IFRS and GAAP accounting and reporting requirements for the balance sheet is not correct?
(a) Both IFRS and GAAP distinguish between current and non-current assets and liabilities.
(b) The presentation formats required by IFRS and GAAP for the balance sheet are similar.
(c) Both IFRS and GAAP require that comparative information be reported.
(d) One difference between the reporting requirements under IFRS and those of the GAAP balance sheet is that an IFRS balance sheet may list long-term assets first.
11. Should available-for-sale securities always be reported as a current asset? Explain.
Case 1: Uniroyal Technology Corporation
Uniroyal Technology Corporation (UTC), with corporate offices in Sarasota, Florida, is organized into three operating segments. The high-performance plastics segment is responsible for research, development, and manufacture of a wide variety of products, including orthopedic braces, graffiti-resistant seats for buses and airplanes, and a static-resistant plastic used in the central processing units of microcomputers. The coated fabrics segment manufactures products such as automobile seating, door and instrument panels, and specialty items such as waterproof seats for personal watercraft and stain-resistant, easy-cleaning upholstery fabrics. The foams and adhesives segment develops and manufactures products used in commercial roofing applications.
The following items relate to operations in a recent year.
1. Serious pressure was placed on profitability by sharply increasing raw material prices. Some raw materials increased in price 50% during the past year. Cost containment programs were instituted and product prices were increased whenever possible, which resulted in profit margins actually improving over the course of the year.
2. The company entered into a revolving credit agreement, under which UTC may borrow the lesser of \(15,000,000 or 80% of eligible accounts receivable. At the end of the year, approximately \)4,000,000 was outstanding under this agreement. The company plans to use this line of credit in the upcoming year to finance operations and expansion.
Instructions
(a) Should investors be informed of raw materials price increase, such as described in item 1? Does the fact that the company successfully met the challenge of higher prices affect the answer? Explain.
(b) How should the information in item 2 be presented in the financial statements of UTC?
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