Company Y began business in February 2019. By the end of the calendar year, it had billed its clients for $3.5 million of services and had incurred $800,000 of operating expenses. As of December 31, it had collected $2.9 million of its billings and had paid $670,000 of its expenses. It expects to collect the remaining outstanding bills and pay the remaining expenses by March 2020. Company Y adopted a calendar year for federal tax purposes. It may use either the cash method or the accrual method of accounting on its first tax return, and it has asked you to quantify the value of using the cash method for the first year. In doing so, assume Company Y uses a 5 percent discount rate to compute
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- How do the all events and economic performance requirements apply to the following transactions by an accrual basis taxpayer? a. The company guarantees its products for six months. At the end of 2019, customers had made valid claims for 600,000 that were not paid until 2020. Also, the company estimates that another 400,000 in claims from 2019 sales will be filed and paid in 2020. b. The accrual basis taxpayer reported 200,000 in corporate taxable income for 2019. The state income tax rate was 6%. The corporation paid 7,000 in estimated state income taxes in 2019 and paid 2,000 on 2018 state income taxes when it filed its 2018 state income tax return in March 2019. The company filed its 2019 state income tax return in March 2020 and paid the remaining 5,000 of its 2019 state income tax liability. c. An employee was involved in an accident while making a sales call. The company paid the injured victim 15,000 in 2019 and agreed to pay the victim 15,000 a year for the next nine years.arrow_forwardAt the beginning of 2020, Buffalo Construction Company changed from the completed-contract method to recognizing revenue over time (percentage-of-completion) for financial reporting purposes. The company will continue to use the completed-contract method for tax purposes. For years prior to 2020, pretax income under the two methods was as follows: percentage-of-completion $100,000, and completed-contract $60,000. The tax rate is 20%.Prepare Buffalo’s 2020 journal entry to record the change in accounting principle. (Credit account titles are automatically indented when amount is entered. Do not indent manually. If no entry is required, select "No Entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.)arrow_forwardWicks Corporation began operations on January 1, 2019. At the end of 2019, Wicks reported pretax financial income of $65,800 and taxable income of $63,430, due to two temporary differences. The income tax rate is 30% for 2019 through 2021, but Congress has enacted a tax rate of 35% for 2022 and beyond. To determine its deferred taxes, Wicks prepared the following schedule of expected future taxable and deductible amounts for the two temporary differences:  2020 2021 2022 2023 Future taxable amounts $5,300 $4,600 $4,800 $3,900 Future deductible amount   (15,700)    Required: 1. Prepare Wicks’s income tax journal entry at the end of 2019. Assume a valuation allowance is not required. 2. Prepare the lower portion of the 2019 income statement for Wicks.arrow_forward
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- J-Matt, Inc., had pretax accounting income of $331,000 and taxable income of $376,000 in 2021. The only difference between accounting and taxable income is estimated product warranty costs of $45,000 for sales in 2021. Warranty payments are expected to be in equal amounts over the next three years (2022–2024) and will be tax deductible at that time. Recent tax legislation will change the tax rate from the current 25% to 20% in 2023. Determine the amounts necessary to record J-Matt’s income taxes for 2021 and prepare the appropriate journal entry.arrow_forwardIn 2022, the enacted tax rate is 25% for all current and future years, and Hynde Corp., in its first year of operations, reports $502,000 of pretax financial income and $469,000 of taxable income. In 2023, an enacted law changes the tax rate for all current and future years to 20%, and Hynde has $520,000 of pretax financial income and $567,500 of taxable income. All book-tax differences are due to one temporary difference for depreciation. What deferred tax asset (enter as a positive number) or deferred tax liability (enter as a negative number) will Hynde report on its December 31, 2023 balance sheet?arrow_forward
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