Problem

As of December 31 of the current year. Chernin Corporation has prepared the following info...

As of December 31 of the current year. Chernin Corporation has prepared the following information regarding its liabilities and other obligations:

Notes payable, of which $10,000 will be repaid within the next 12 months

  $ 80,000

Interest expense that will result from existing liabilities over

the next 12 months

 125,000

Lawsuit pending against the company, in which $500,000 is claimed in damages. Legal counsel can make no reasonable estimate of the company’s ultimate liability at this time

500,000

20-year bond issue that matures in two years. The entire amount will be repaid from a bond sinking fund

900,000

Accrued interest on the 20-year bond issue as of the balance sheet date

 36,000

Three-year commitment to John Higgins as chief financial officer at a salary of $250,000 per year

750.000

Note payabie due within 90 days (but that is expected to be extended for an additional 18 months)

75,000

Cash deposits from customers for goods and services to be delivered over the next nine months

300,000

Income taxes, of which $100,000 are currently payable and the remainder.deferred indefinitely

 

185,000

Instructions

a. Prepare a listing of the company’s current and long-term liabilities as they should be presented in the company’s December 31 balance sheet.


b. Briefly explain why you have excluded any of the listed items in your listing of current and long-term liabilities.

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