During 2011, Gum Co. introduced a new product carrying a two- year warranty against defects. The estimated warranty costs related to dollar sales are 2% within 12 months following the sale and 4% in the second 12 months of the sale.

The sale and actual warranty expenditures for the years ended December 31, 2011, and 2012 are as follows:

SalesActual warranty expenditures
2011150,0002,250
2012250,0007,500
Total400,0009,750
What amount should Gum report as warranty expense on its 12/31/2012 Income Statement?

Your parents have accumulated a $170,000 nest egg. they have been planning to use this money to pay college costs to be incurred by you and your sister, courtney. however, courtney has decided to forgo college and start a nail salon. your parents are giving courtney $20,000 to her get started, and they have decided to take year-end vacations costing $8,000 per year for the next four years. use 8 percent as the appropriate interest rate throughout this problem. use appendix a and appendix d for an approximate answer, but calculate your final answer using the formula and financial calculator methods. a. how much money will your parents have at the end of four years to you with graduate school, which you will start then?

The following information relates to the pina company. date ending inventory price (end-of-year prices) index december 31, 2013 $73,700 100 december 31, 2014 100,092 114 december 31, 2015 107,856 126 december 31, 2016 123,009 131 december 31, 2017 113,288 136 use the dollar-value lifo method to compute the ending inventory for pina company for 2013 through 2017.

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