Crane company is starting business and is unsure of whether to sell its product assembled or un assembled…

Machine Corp. has several pending lawsuits against its company. Review each situation: A. A pending lawsuit, claiming $120,000 in damages, is considered likely to favor the plaintiff and can be reasonably estimated. B. Machine Corp. believes there might be other potential lawsuits about this faulty machinery, but this is unlikely to occur. C. A claimant sues Machine Corp. for damages, from a dishonored service contract agreement; the plaintiff will likely win the case but damages cannot be reasonably estimated. D. Machine Corp. believes a customer will win a lawsuit it filed, but the outcome is not likely and is not remote. It is possible the customer will win. 1 and 2. Which of the above situations require recognition in the financial statements and which require note disclosure only? a. A must be recognized and requires note disclosure; C and D require note disclosure only. b. All four cases require note disclosure only. c. A, C, and D must be recognized; B requires note…

Manufacturing Decisions Whenever the units manufactured differ from the units sold, finished goods inventory is affected. In analyzing operating income, such increases and decreases could be misinterpreted as operating efficiencies or inefficiencies. Each decision-making situation should be carefully analyzed in deciding whether absorption or variable costing reporting would be more useful. All costs are controllable in the long run by someone within a business. For a given level of management, costs may be controllable costs or noncontrollable costs. The production manager for Saxon, Inc. is worried because the company is not showing a high enough profit. Looking at the income statements on the Absorption Statement and the Variable Statement, he notices that the operating income is higher on the absorption cost income statement. He is considering manufacturing another 10,000 units, up to the company’s capacity for manufacturing, in the coming year. He reasons that this will boost…

Airco Company is tempted to consider support department costs to be facility-level costs that do not need to be applied to products. Which of the following explains what is misguided about this approach? a.Product costs may be inaccurate because support department services may be used more heavily by some products than others. b.Product costs may be inaccurate because incorrect cost drivers are used. c.Product costs may be inaccurate because straight-line depreciation on factory equipment is treated as a general and administrative expense on the income statement. d.Product costs may be inaccurate because direct labor and direct materials are not correctly accounted for in the product costing system.