1) Airtex Company budgeted the following credit sales during the current year:
September, $90,000; October, $123,000; November, $105,000; December, $111,000.
Experience has shown that cash from credit sales is received as follows: 10% in the
month of sale, 50% in the first month after sale, 35% in the second month after sale,
and 5% is uncollectible. How much cash should Airtex Company expect to collect in
November from all current and past credit sales?
2) Clarity Corporation had the following transactions involving investments in trading
securities during the year. Prior to these transactions, Clarity had never had any
investments in trading securities. Prepare the required general journal entries to record
these transactions.
3) Identify and describe three common tools of financial statement analysis.
4) Selected information from Michaels Company’s flexible budget is presented below:
Michaels Company applies overhead to production at a rate of $31.25 per unit based on
a normal operating level of 80% of capacity. For the current period, Michaels Company
produced 5,400 units and incurred $62,000 of fixed overhead costs and $96,000 of
variable overhead costs. The company used 11,000 labor hours to produce the 5,400
units. Calculate the variable overhead spending and efficiency variances, and the fixed
overhead spending and volume variances. Indicate whether each variance is favorable
or unfavorable.
Variable overhead