Pronghorn Corporation began operations on January 1, 2014.
Recently the corporation has had several unusual accounting
problems related to the presentation of its income statement for
financial reporting purposes. The company follows ASPE.
You are the CPA for Pronghorn and have been asked to examine the
following data:
PRONGHORN CORPORATION Income Statement For the Year Ended December 31, 2017 |
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Sales | $9,600,000 | |||
Cost of goods sold | 5,960,000 | |||
Gross profit | 3,640,000 | |||
Selling and administrative expense | 1,314,000 | |||
Income before income tax | 2,326,000 | |||
Income tax expense (40%) | 930,400 | |||
Net income | $1,395,600 |
This additional information was also provided:
1. | The controller mentioned that the corporation has had difficulty collecting certain receivables. For this reason, the bad debt accrual was increased from 1% to 2% of sales revenue. The controller estimates that, if this rate had been used in past periods, an additional $84,900 worth of expense would have been charged. The bad debt expense for the current period was calculated using the new rate and is part of selling and administrative expense. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2. | There were 400,000 common shares outstanding at the end of 2017. No additional shares were purchased or sold in 2017. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3. | The following items were not included in the income
statement:
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4. | Retained earnings as at January 1, 2017, were $2.8 million. Cash dividends of $800,000 were paid in 2017. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5. | In January 2017, Pronghorn changed its method of accounting for
plant assets from the straight-line method to the
diminishing-balance method. The controller has prepared a schedule
that shows what the depreciation expense would have been in
previous periods if the diminishing-balance method had been
used.
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6. |
In 2017, Pronghorn discovered that in 2016 it had failed to record $30,000 as an expense for sales commissions. The sales commissions for 2016 were included in the 2017 expenses. |
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