The accounting staff of Best Company has assembled the following information for the year ended December 31,
Question:
The accounting staff of Best Company has assembled the following information for the year ended December 31, 2011:
Cash sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 230,000
Credit sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,450,000
Collections on accounts receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,810,000
Cash transferred from the money market fund to the general bank
account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200,000
Interest and dividends received . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,000
Purchases (all on account) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,822,000
Payments on accounts payable to merchandise suppliers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,220,000
Cash payments for operating expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 930,000
Interest paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130,000
Income taxes paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,000
Loans made to borrowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690,000
Collections on loans (excluding receipts of interest) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300,000
Cash paid to acquire plant assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,700,000
Book value of plant assets sold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520,000
Loss on sales of plant assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,000
Proceeds from issuing bonds payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000,000
Dividends paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250,000
Cash and cash equivalents, Jan. 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,000
Instructions
Prepare a statement of cash flows in the format illustrated in Exhibit 13–1. Place brackets around amounts representing cash outflows. Use the direct method of reporting cash flows from operating activities.
Some of the items above will be listed in your statement without change. However, you will have to combine certain given information to compute the amounts of (1) collections from customers, (2) cash paid to suppliers and employees, and (3) proceeds from sales of plant assets.
Accounts PayableAccounts payable (AP) are bills to be paid as part of the normal course of business.This is a standard accounting term, one of the most common liabilities, which normally appears in the balance sheet listing of liabilities. Businesses receive... Accounts Receivable
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Financial and Managerial Accounting the basis for business decisions
ISBN: 978-0078111044
16th edition
Authors: Jan Williams, Susan Haka, Mark Bettner, Joseph Carcello