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QUESTION 20 Ken Can Co. has the following tax information for this year: Pretax

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QUESTION 20

Ken Can Co. has the following tax information for this year:

            Pretax income             $72,000

            Taxes payable             $12,000

            Income tax expense     $19,000

            Income tax paid           $11,000

The reported effective tax rate is:

16.7%

57.9%

15.3%

26.4%

1 points   

QUESTION 21

Given the information from 20 above, what is the income tax paid rate for Ken Can?

57.9%

16.7%

15.3%

26.4%

1 points   

QUESTION 22

Fly by Night Airways purchase or leases its entire aircraft fleet. Since Fly by Night already has too much debt, they would prefer off-balance-sheet financing, which can be achieved using:

Capital leases

Stock options

Using convertible bonds to buy all aircraft rather than leasing

Operating leases

1 points   

QUESTION 23

Arrow Co. has a net income (after tax) of $1.5 million, a holding gain on marketable securities classified as held-to-maturity of $40,000, a foreign currency translation loss of (all-current method) of $90,000, and an income tax expense of $230,000. Arrow will report a comprehensive income of:

$1,410,000

$1,450,000

$1,500,000

$1,220,000

1 points   

QUESTION 24

A major reason Enron used special purpose entities was:

To increase pension plan funding levels

To increase equity dilution

Off-balance-sheet reporting

To increase working capital

1 points   

QUESTION 25

General Motors (Finance) had the following debt marketable securities for 2001 (in $ millions): trading securities=5,195; available-for-sale=5,195; held-to-maturity=371. Which of these are recorded at fair value.

Held-to-maturity & trading securities

Held-to-maturity & available-for-sale

Trading securities

Trading securities & available-for-sale

1 points   

QUESTION 26

Which of the following statements is correct:

Capital leases are off-balance-sheet & recorded as a periodic rental expense

A special purpose entity is used only to record marketable securities

Intraperiod tax allocation is associated with non-recurring items reported net of tax

Leases are never used by airlines & department stores

1 points   

QUESTION 27

GM has the following information on property, plant & equipment for 2001 (in $ millions): ending gross investment=59,748; accumulated depreciation=33,404; depreciation expense=7,051. The average age of GM's fixed assets was:

21.1 years

8.5 years

55.9 years

4.7 years

1 points   

QUESTION 28

Given the information from Question 27, GM had an average depreciable life of:

55.9 years

4.7 years

8.5 years

21.1 years

1 points   

QUESTION 29

GM has the following tax-related information (in $ millions): taxes payable=1,372; income tax expense=768; income before tax=1,518; net income=601. GM's effective tax rate was:

56.0%

50.6%

43.8%

39.6%

1 points   

QUESTION 30

ABC uses the last-in first-out inventory method during a period of rising prices. This suggests that:

Cost of goods sold would be lower & net income higher than using FIFO

Cost of goods sold would be higher & income tax lower than using FIFO

They don't use lower-of-cost-or market

Revenues & net income would be higher than using FIFO

a.

16.7%

b.

57.9%

c.

15.3%

d.

26.4%

Explanation / Answer

20.Answer D

Effective Tax rate= Tax expense/Pre tax income

=19000/72000

=0.2638888

=26.4%