Fortune Drilling Company acquires a mineral deposit at a cost of $5,900,000. It incurs additional costs of $600,000 to access the deposit, which is estimated to contain 2,000,000 tons and is expected to take 5 years to extract. What journal entry would be needed to record the expense for the first year assuming 418,000 tons were mined?

An advantage of bond financing is that issuing bonds does not affect owner control.

A machine costing $75,000 is purchased on September 1, Year 1. The machine is estimated to have a salvage value of $10,000 and an estimated useful life of 4 years. Double-declining-balance depreciation is used. If the machine is sold on December 31, Year 3 for $13,000, the journal entry to record the sale will include:

On January 1, $300,000 of par value bonds with a carrying value of $310,000 is converted to 50,000 shares of $5 par value common stock. The entry to record the conversion of the bonds includes all of the following entries except:

Trey Morgan is an employee who is paid monthly. For the month of January of the current year, he earned a total of $4,538. The FICA tax for social security is 6.2% of the first $118,500 earned each calendar year, and the FICA tax rate for Medicare is 1.45% of all earnings for both the employee and the employer. The amount of federal income tax withheld from his earnings was $680.70. His net pay for the month is:

A 10-year bond issue with a $100,000 par value, 8% annual contract rate, with interest payable semiannually means that the issuer must repay $100,000 at the end of 10 years and make 20 semiannual interest payments of $4,000 each.

A company’s has fixed interest expense of $52,000, income taxes expense of $121,000, and net income of $281,000. The company’s times interest earned ratio equals:

A company has advance subscription sales totaling $45,000 for the upcoming year when four quarterly journals will mailed to customers. When the company mails the first quarterly journal to customers, it should record:

Gaston owns equipment that cost $90,500 with accumulated depreciation of $61,000. Gaston asks $30,000 for the equipment but sells the equipment for $26,000. Which of the following would not be part of the journal entry to record the disposal of the equipment?

Marks Consulting purchased equipment costing $45,000 on January 1, Year 1. The equipment is estimated to have a salvage value of $5,000 and an estimated useful life of 8 years. Straight-line depreciation is used. If the equipment is sold on July 1, Year 5 for $20,000, the journal entry to record the sale will include a: