Accrual income versus cash flow for a period. Thomas Book Sales, Inc., supplies textbooks to college and university bookstores. The books are shipped with a proviso that they must be paid for within 30 days but can be returned for days. In 2018, Thomas shipped and billed book titles totaling $830,000. Collections, net of return credits, during the year totaled $758,315. The company spent $315,712 acquiring the books that it shipped. . Using accrual accounting and the preceding values, show the firm's net profit for the past year. . Using cash accounting and the preceding values, show the firm's net cash flow for the past year. . Which of these statements is more useful to the financial manager? Why? . Using accrual accounting and the preceding values, show the firm's net profit for the past year in the following table. (Round to the nearest dollar.) Accounting View (accrual basis) Thomas Book Sales, Inc. Income Statement for the Year Ended 12/21

Robinson's, an electrical supply company, sold $7,600 of equipment to Jim Coates Wiring, Incorporated Coates signed a promissory note May 12 with 4.8% interest. The due date was August 10. Short of funds, Robinson's contacted Capital One Bank on July 20; the bank agreed to take over the note at a 6.5% discount. (Use Days in a year table.) What proceeds will Robinson's receive? Note: Use 360 days a year. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to the nearest cent. Proceeds received

Flint Taco Palace sells 280 gift cards at $50 per gift card and 140 of the gift cards are redeemed by year-end. Flint estimates that it wi have 10% breakage on its gift cards. Prepare the entry for the gift card redemption and the expected breakage for the gift cards in the current year. (Ignore Cost of Goods Sold.) (If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter O for the amounts. Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually. List all debit entries before credit entries. Round intermediate calculations to 4 decimal places, eg. 0.2456 and final answers to 0 decimal places, e.g. 5,125.) Account Titles and Explanation Cash Unearned Gift Card Revenue Subscriptions Revenue. Debit 14000 Credit 7000 7000

.    With regard to accounts payable: Explain the rationale of taking a cash discount, such as 4/8, n/30. Assume a purchase of $1,000,000. include computations Additionally, determine the approximate balance of accounts payable, if a company stretches its payables to 40 days and on average, they make purchases of $1,000,000 per day from their vendors.