Overview: For Milestone One, which is due in Module Three, you will create adjusting entries for various situations, prepare annual financial reports, calculate ratios, and develop a brief report for management explaining accounting ratios and the effects of interest rates on the future value of money. You will build on this milestone in subsequent modules leading up to the final project. Prompt: First, review the Final Project Scenario document and the accompanying workbook. Using your review of the scenario, develop a management analysis brief that addresses the critical elements indicated below. Use information from your accounting workbook to support your claims in the management analysis brief. Note: Milestone One is a draft of some critical elements of the final project. Note that the management analysis brief corresponds to the management analysis memo in the final project. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: I. Accounting Workbook: Your accounting workbook must include appropriate calculations, ratios, and notes: A. Create adjusting entries for financial statement preparation. B. Create an adjusted trial balance for financial statement preparation. C. Prepare financial statements for determining the company’s financial position. D. Calculate ratios for determining the company’s financial health. II. Management Analysis Brief: Your management analysis brief should explain financial information to management. Provide evidence from your accounting workbook to support your ideas when applicable. A. Assess the company’s financial health based on ratio analyses presented in the accounting workbook. B. Compare ratio analysis to trends in financial ratios over time for illustrating their impact, providing examples to support your claims. C. Summarize the effects of different compounding periods and interest rates on future value of money
ACC 308 Final Project Scenario
Overview: You just began a position as a financial accountant at Peyton Approved. In this role, your first task is to prepare the company’s financials for the year-end audit. Additionally, the company is interested in expanding its business within the next year. They would like your support in assessing their ability to meet their goals.
Refer to the data below and use the Final Project Workbook that includes the income statement, balance sheet, retained earnings statement and cash flow statement to complete the final project and associated milestones.
Peyton Approved Financial Data: Preliminary Financial Statements have already been prepared (2017 statements in the Final Project Workbook). Final adjusting entries have not yet been made. See table for possible adjustments that indicate what will be recorded at 12/31/17 (fiscal year end). Use the following to complete year-to-year documentation and notes for managing depreciation, inventory, and long-term debt.
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The company is planning to open another location in 2018. Using the Preliminary Statements as a base, prepare pro forma (budgeted) financials for 2018 for the new location using the following information:
Cost of leasing commercial space: $1,500 per month. |
Cost of new equipment: $15,000, purchased with a long-term note. Use straight line depreciation assuming a seven-year life, no residual value. Use full year’s depreciation for the first year. Equipment purchase was financed with a long-term note. |
Cost of hiring and training new employees: three at $25,000 each for the first year. |
Except as noted in 1, 2, 3, and 5, assets, current liabilities, sales, costs, and expenses are expected to be 80% of the existing store (from preliminary statements) except no stock. Retained earnings = net income. |
Cash: $7,000. Accounts receivable amount to 4.0 turns (accounts receivable turnover will be 4.0); inventory amount to show 3.0 turns (inventory turnover will be 3.0). No stock will be issued. Retained earnings are to equal net income. Additional financing of $5,000 will be long-term. Add remaining amount needed to balance into accounts payable. |
For notes to the financial statements and Management Analysis Memo, consider the following:
Peyton Approved uses the following accounting practices:
Business Financing Information: Use this information to calculate interest rates and insurance information, and to assess their impact on the company’s financial obligations:
Overview: For Milestone One, which is due in Module Three, you will create adjusting entries for...
Southern New Hampshire University ACC 308 - Intermediate Accounting II INSTRUCTIONS FOR MILESTONE 1 (Due Module 3) IMPORTANT NOTE: Make sure to completely review the Rubric for Milestone 1 Use the data from this Milestone and begin working on your final presentation due in Final Project (Module ITEMS TO COMPLETE FOR THIS MILESTONE (Blue Tabs): GENERAL You just began a position as a financial accountant at Peyton Approved. In this role, your first task is to prepare 1 for the...
You just began a position as a financial accountant at Peyton Approved. In this role, your first task is to prepare the company’s financials for the year-end audit. Additionally, the company is interested in expanding its business within the next year. They would like your support in assessing their ability to meet their goals. ITEMS TO COMPLETE FOR THIS MILESTONE (Blue Tabs): GENERAL You just began a position as a financial accountant at Peyton Approved. In this role, your first...
Final adjusting entries have not yet been made. Using the terms and asset accounts, such as "Merchandise inventory" and "Consignment inventory", can anybody help me determine how to interpret the above word problem in order to make a correct adjusting journal entry below in the general journal? What should be the proper explanation to describe what is being highlighted in the word problem below? 1. At 12/31/17, Peyton has $200 worth of merchandise on consignment at Bruno’s House of Bacon....
QUESTION: I need help with the adjusting entries for Milestone 2. Can anyone help me with the calculations and adjusting entries? CRT Selection Pane - D. 0 Before Opt : After: 8pt Paragraph : Arrange GENERAL In preparation of the annual audit, make calculations and prepare appropriate adjusting entries and post to the trial balance workbook CAPITAL LEASES Calculate capital lease obligations Prepare appropriate adjusting entries PENSION PAYOUTS Calculate pension liability Calculate health insurance liability ADJUSTING ENTRIES Prepare adjusting entries...
I have already made the adjusting journal entries and have updated all the other revised financial statements using the quantitative information from the original financial statements. Now, I need help updating the Revised Statement of Cash flows for Year ended December 31, 2017 that is located at the very bottom using all the quantitative information from all the revised financial statements prior to the Revised Statement of Cash Flows for Year ended December 31, 2017. A B C D E...
Overview: You just began a position as a financial accountant at Peyton Approved. In this role, your first task is to prepare the company’s financials for the year-end audit. Additionally, the company is interested in expanding its business within the next year. They would like your support in assessing their ability to meet their goals. Refer to the data below and use the Final Project Workbook that includes the income statement, balance sheet, retained earnings statement and cash flow statement...
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Overview: You just began a position as a financial accountant at Peyton Approved. In this role, your first task is to prepare the company’s financials for the year-end audit. Additionally, the company is interested in expanding its business within the next year. They would like your support in assessing their ability to meet their goals. Refer to the data below and use the Final Project Workbook that includes the income statement, balance sheet, retained earnings statement and cash flow statement...
Overview: You just began a position as a financial accountant at Peyton Approved. In this role, your first task is to prepare the company’s financials for the year-end audit. Additionally, the company is interested in expanding its business within the next year. They would like your support in assessing their ability to meet their goals. Refer to the data below and use the Final Project Workbook that includes the income statement, balance sheet, retained earnings statement and cash flow statement...
The company is planning to open another location in 2018. Using the Preliminary Statements as a base, prepare pro forma (budgeted) financials for 2018 for the new location using the following information: Cost of leasing commercial space: $1,500 per month.Cost of new equipment: $15,000, purchased with a long-term note. Use straight line depreciation assuming a seven-year life, no residual value. Use full year’s depreciation for the first year. Equipment purchase was financed with a long-term note.Cost of...