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33. You have been engaged to examine the financial statements of Tupac Corporation for the year 2023. The bookkeeper who maintains the financial records has prepared all of the unadjusted financial statements for the Corporation since its organization on January 2, 2021. You discover numerous errors that have been made in these statements. The client has asked you to compute the correct income for the three years 2021 through 2023 and to prepare a corrected balance sheet as of December 31, 2023. In the course of your examination, you discover the following:     The Corporation includes sales taxes collected form customers in the Sales account. When sales tax collections for a month are remitted to the taxing authority on the 15thof the following month, the Sales Tax Expense account is charged. All sales are subjected to a 3% sales tax. Total sales plus sales taxes for 2021 through 2023 were P495,430, P762,200 and P875,500, respectively. The totals of the Sales Tax Expense account for…
You have just finished presenting a summary of this year's financial results to the board of directors.  Included in your presentation was an income statement including both basic and diluted EPS figures.  One of the board members comments that they understand basic EPS but has no clue what diluted EPS is.  The board member actually wondered aloud whether this diluted EPS computation was part of some "full-employment for accountants" project.  How would you further explain the concept of dilution and what diluted EPS is trying to measure to the uncertain board member?
Assume you are employed as the chief financial officer of a corporation and are responsible for preparation of the financial statements, including the adjusting process and preparation of the adjusted trial balance. The company is facing a slow year, and after your adjusting entries, the financial statements are accurately reflecting that fact. However, as you are discussing the matter with your boss, the chief executive officer (CEO), he suggests that you have the power to make further adjustments to the statements, and that you should use that power to “adjust” the profits and equity into a stronger position, so that investor confidence in the company’s prospects will be restored. Write a short memo to the CEO, stating your intentions about what you can and/or will do to make the financial statements more appealing. Be specific about any planned adjustments that could be made, assuming that normal period-end adjustments have already been reflected accurately in the financial…
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