Ulta Inc. allows each employee to earn 15 paid vacation days each year with full pay. Unused vacation time can be carried over to the next year. If not taken during the next year, unused vacation time is lost. By the end of 2020, all but 3 of the 30 employees had taken their earned vacation time. The three employees carried over to 2021 a total of 20 vacation days, which represented 2020 salary of $7,800. During 2021, all of these three used their 2020 vacation carryover; none of them had received a pay rate change from 2020 until the time they used their carryover. Total cash wages paid: 2020, $910,000; 2021, $962,000. There was no carryover of vacation time earned in 2021. Required:
a. Provide the entry for Ulta Inc. to accrue compensated absences on December 31, 2020, and for the payment of vacation days in 2021.
b. Compute the total amount of salaries expense for 2020 and 2021. How would the vacation time carried over from 2020 affect the December 31, 2020 balance sheet?

The east asiatic company (eac), a danish company with subsidiaries throughout asia, has been funding its bangkok subsidiary primarily with u.s. dollar debt because of the cost and availability of dollar capital as opposed to thai baht-denominated (b) debt. the treasurer of eac-thailand is considering a 1-year bank loan for $247,000.the current spot rate is b32.03 /$, and the dollar-based interest is 6.78% for the 1-year period. 1-year loans are 12.04% in baht.a. assuming expected inflation rates of 4.3 % and 1.24% in thailand and the united states, respectively, for the coming year, according to purchase power parity, what would the effective cost of funds be in thai baht terms? b. if eac's foreign exchange advisers believe strongly that the thai government wants to push the value of the baht down against the dollar by5% over the coming year (to promote its export competitiveness in dollar markets), what might the effective cost of funds end up being in baht terms? c. if eac could borrow thai baht at 13% per annum, would this be cheaper than either part (a) or part (b) above?

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1

The uptowner just paid an annual dividend of $4.12. the company has a policy of increasing the dividend by 2.5 percent annually. you would like to purchase shares of stock in this firm but realize that you will not have the funds to do so for another four years. if you require a rate of return of 16.7 percent, how much will you be willing to pay per share when you can afford to make this investment?