On January 1, 2021, Winn Heat Transfer leased office space under a three-year operating lease agreement. The arrangement specified three annual lease payments of $102,000 each, beginning December 31, 2021, and at each December 31 through 2023. The lessor, HVAC Leasing calculates lease payments based on an annual interest rate of 5%. Winn also paid a $213,000 advance payment at the beginning of the lease. With permission of the owner, Winn made structural modifications to the building before occupying the space at a cost of $315,000. The useful life of the building and the structural modifications were estimated to be 30 years with no residual value. Required:
Prepare the appropriate entries for Winn Heat Transfer from the beginning of the lease through the end of 2023. Winnâs fiscal year is the calendar year

Suppose that kenji, an economist from an am talk radio program, and lucia, an economist from a school of industrial relations, are arguing over health insurance. the following dialogue shows an excerpt from their debate: lucia: a popular topic for debate among politicians as well as economists is the idea of providing government assistance for health benefits. kenji: i think it is oppressive for the government to tax people who take care of themselves in order to pay for health insurance for those who are obese. lucia: i disagree. i think government funding of health insurance is useful to ensure basic fairness. the disagreement between these economists is most likely due to . despite their differences, with which proposition are two economists chosen at random most likely to agree? lawyers make up an excessive percentage of elected officials. minimum wage laws do more to harm low-skilled workers than them. tariffs and import quotas generally reduce economic welfare.

You are chairman of the board of a successful technology firm. there is a nominal federal corporate tax rate of 35 percent, yet the effective tax rate of the typical corporation is about 12.6%. your firm has been clever with use of transfer pricing and keeping money abroad and has barely paid any taxes over the last 5 years; during this same time period, profits were $28 billion. one member of the board feels that it is un-american to use various accounting strategies in order to avoid paying taxes. others feel that these are legal loopholes and corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to minimize taxes. one board member quoted what the ceo of exxon once said: “i’m not a u.s. company and i don’t make decisions based on what’s good for the u.s.” what are the alternatives? what are your recommendations? why do you recommend this course of action?

Moody corporation uses a job-order costing system with a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on machine-hours. at the beginning of the year, the company made the following estimates: machine-hours required to support estimated production 100,000 fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 650,000 variable manufacturing overhead cost per machine-hour $ 3.00 required: 1. compute the plantwide predetermined overhead rate. 2. during the year, job 400 was started and completed. the following information was available with respect to this job: direct materials $ 450 direct labor cost $ 210 machine-hours used 40