Charleston Corporation operates a branch operation in a foreign country. Although this branch operates in euros, the U. S. dollar is its functional currency. Thus, a remeasurement is necessary to produce financial information for external reporting purposes. The branch began the year with 528,000 euros in cash and no other assets or liabilities. However, the branch immediately used 300,000 euros to acquire a warehouse. On May 1, it purchased inventory costing 100,000 euros for cash that it sold on July 1 for 160,000 euros cash. The branch transferred 10,000 euros to the parent on October 1 and recorded depreciation on the warehouse of 10,000 euros for the year. Currency exchange rates for 1 euro follow: January 1 . . . . . . . . . . $1.14 = 1 euro
May 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.18 = 1
July 1 . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 1.20 = 1
October 1 . . . . . . . . . . 1.18 = 1
December 31 . . . . . . . 1.08 = 1
Average for the year. . 1.16 = 1

What is the remeasurement gain or loss to be recognized in the consolidated income statement? Choose the correct.
a. $100 gain.
b. $200 gain.
c. $100 loss.
d. $200 loss.

On july 1, 2016, killearn company acquired 103,000 of the outstanding shares of shaun company for $21 per share. this acquisition gave killearn a 40 percent ownership of shaun and allowed killearn to significantly influence the investee's decisions. as of july 1, 2016, the investee had assets with a book value of $6 million and liabilities of $1,468,500. at the time, shaun held equipment appraised at $140,000 above book value; it was considered to have a seven-year remaining life with no salvage value. shaun also held a copyright with a five-year remaining life on its books that was undervalued by $562,500. any remaining excess cost was attributable to goodwill. depreciation and amortization are computed using the straight-line method. killearn applies the equity method for its investment in shaun. shaun's policy is to declare and pay a $1 per share cash dividend every april 1 and october 1. shaun's income, earned evenly throughout each year, was $580,000 in 2016, $606,600 in 2017, and $649,200 in 2018. in addition, killearn sold inventory costing $93,000 to shaun for $155,000 during 2017. shaun resold $97,500 of this inventory during 2017 and the remaining $57,500 during 2018.a. determine the equity income to be recognized by killearn during each of these years. 2016 2017 2018b. compute killearn’s investment in shaun company’s balance as of december 31, 2018.

Awidower devised his fee simple interest in his residence as follows: “to my daughter for life, then to my oldest grandchild who survives her.” at the time of the widower’s death, he was survived by his only two children, a son and a daughter, and by one grandchild, his daughter’s son. a short time later, the daughter together with her son entered into a contract to sell the residence in fee simple to a buyer. the applicable jurisdiction continues to follow the common law rule against perpetuities, but has abrogated the rule in shelley’s case. at the closing, the buyer refused to purchase the residence. can the sellers compel the buyer to do so?

Harwood company uses a job-order costing system that applies overhead cost to jobs on the basis of machine-hours. the company's predetermined overhead rate of $2.50 per machine-hour was based on a cost formula that estimates $240,000 of total manufacturing overhead for an estimated activity level of 96,000 machine-hours. required: 1. assume that during the year the company works only 91,000 machine-hours and incurs the following costs in the manufacturing overhead and work in process accounts: compute the amount of overhead cost that would be applied to work in process for the year and make the entry in your t-accounts. 2a. compute the amount of underapplied or overapplied overhead for the year and show the balance in your manufacturing overhead t-account. 2b. prepare a journal entry to close the company's underapplied or overapplied overhead to cost of goods sold.