The Town of Willingdon adopted the following General Fund budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1: Estimated revenues: Taxes $ 15,000,000 Intergovernmental revenues 1,000,000 Licenses and permits 400,000 Fines and forfeits 150,000 Miscellaneous revenues 100,000 Total estimated revenues $ 16,650,000 Appropriations: General government $ 8,000,000 Public safety 6,000,000 Public works 1,550,000 Health and welfare 950,000 Miscellaneous 100,000 Total appropriations $ 16,600,000 Required a-1. Prepare the general journal entries to record the adopted budget at the beginning of the fiscal year. (If no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "No Journal Entry Required" in the first account field.)

An office manager is concerned with declining productivity. despite the fact that she regularly monitors her clerical staff four times each day—at 9: 00 am, 11: 00 am, 1: 00 pm, and again at 3: 00 pm—office productivity has declined 30 percent since she assumed the helm one year ago. would you recommend that the office manager invest more time monitoring the productivity of her clerical staff? explain.

Jordan, inc. sells fireworks. the company’s marketing director developed the following cost of goods sold budget for april, may, june, and july. april may june july budgeted cost of goods sold $62,000 $72,000 $82,000 $88,000 jordan had a beginning inventory balance of $3,000 on april 1 and a beginning balance in accounts payable of $14,600. the company desires to maintain an ending inventory balance equal to 15 percent of the next period’s cost of goods sold. jordan makes all purchases on account. the company pays 65 percent of accounts payable in the month of purchase and the remaining 35 percent in the month following purchase. required prepare an inventory purchases budget for april, may, and june. determine the amount of ending inventory jordan will report on the end-of-quarter pro forma balance sheet. prepare a schedule of cash payments for inventory for april, may, and june. determine the balance in accounts payable jordan will report on the end-of-quarter pro forma balance sheet.

Alpha industries is considering a project with an initial cost of $8 million. the project will produce cash inflows of $1.49 million per year for 8 years. the project has the same risk as the firm. the firm has a pretax cost of debt of 5.61 percent and a cost of equity of 11.27 percent. the debt–equity ratio is .60 and the tax rate is 35 percent. what is the net present value of the project?