[3] http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=146335,00.html It is important to determine if the taxpayer martially participates because this classifies the income as active or passive. Passive activity losses are non-deductable from active and portfolio income. This is why it is important to determine if the taxpayer martially participates in the business activity. PROBLEMS: 7-46) The $30,000 loss is considered a passive loss and can only be deducted against passive income, it is therefore suspended and carried forward to future years to offset potential passive income in those years. Mary has no martially participation in the rental activity, therefore the loss is considered
The most recent financial statements for Williamson, Inc., are shown here (assuming no income taxes): Income Statement Balance Sheet Sales $ 6,700 Assets $22,050 Debt $ 8,050 Costs 3,850 Equity 14,000 Net income $ 2,850 Total $22,050 Total $22,050 Assets and costs are proportional to sales. Debt and equity are not. No dividends are paid. Next year’s sales are projected to be $7,906. What is the external financing needed?
Good Citizen, Inc. incurred their first loss during this fiscal year on both their financial statements and tax returns. Suppose there are no differences between the calculation of book income and taxable income. The net loss this year was $1,000,000, prior year's income was $12,000,000 and the applicable tax rate was 40%. What would the entry be if the government(s) allowed the Company to carry a tax loss back to prior tax years for a full refund of prior taxes paid? a. DR Deferred tax asset $400K, CR Tax benefit (provision) $400K b. DR Current tax receivable $400K, CR Tax benefit (provision) $400K c. DR Tax expense (provision) $400K, CR Current taxes payable $400K d. DR Tax expense (provision) $400K, CR Deferred tax liability $400K e. DR Current tax expense $400K, CR Deferred tax expense $400K 4.
What was PacifiCorp Worth before its acquisition by Berkshire? Are we overpaying? We are not overpaying for PacifiCorp. We purchased PacifiCorp, from Scottish Power plc, for $5.1 billion in cash and $4.3 billion in liabilities and preferred stock, for a total of $9.4 billion. Since PacifiCorp is not a publicly traded company, we must use valuation multiples from comparable firms to determine the value of the firm.
Week 2 Chapter 3 Homework 1. Which of the following statements is CORRECT? Answer: e. An increase in a firm’s debt ratio, with no changes in sales or operating cost, could be expected to lower the profit margin. 2. Companies HD and LD have the same tax rate, sales, total assets, and basic earning power.
We assume that the amount of debt has been constant over 2007. A better option to calculate cost of debt would be to use a synthesized rating based on the interest coverage ratio and use the corresponding default spread, but unfortunately we do not have data of these spreads for 2007. We use the market value of equity to estimate the weight of equity. The market capitalization of the firm was 128,2 million on 31-12-2007 (we assume that this is the date of the balance sheet, since this isn’t mentioned in the case). From this we can calculate the following ratio’s: debt/equity = 0,31 debt/(debt+equity) = 0,24 equity/(debt+equity) = 0,76 In calculating these ratio’s we use gross debt instead of net debt, because in our opinion the debt and cash of the firm
2) Friendly’s total liabilities could not exceed three times the book value of the company’s net worth. a. Based on sales projections for 1989 FCI’s liabilities to equity ratio exceeds this threshold by $2,626,000 (Tab1 – FCI Financials, Exhibit 2). An additional restriction was self-imposed by Ms. Beaumont for her planning scenarios that hold’s Friendly’s interest bearing debt to equity ratio to a maximum of 2:1, which is $2 dollars of debt for every $1 dollar of equity. Again, based on sales projects for 1989/1990 FCI’s this ratio exceeds the established threshold (Tab 1 - FCI financials, Exhibit 3).
The Company’s overall weighted average interest rate on its debt and capital lease obligations was 5.8% for YTD 2013 compared to 6.1% for YTD 2012. As of September 29, 2013, $40.0 million of the Company’s debt and capital lease obligations of $479.6 million were subject to changes in short-term interest rates. The Company’s public debt is not subject to financial covenants but does limit the incurrence of certain liens and encumbrances as well as the incurrence of indebtedness by the Company’s subsidiaries in excess of certain amounts. All of the outstanding long-term debt has been issued by the Company with none being issued by any of the Company’s subsidiaries. There are no guarantees of the Company’s
Diageo was formed from the merger of Grand Metropolitan plc and Guinness plc. Before the merge, both companies used little debt (based on the book D/E ratio and net debt to total capital in the table below) to finance themselves which helped them gain and maintain high credit rating (A and AA respectively). After the merge, Diageo wanted to take the same path by maintaining the interest coverage between 5 and 8 (through actions such as new debt issuance, share repurchase programs shown in figure 1) and having EBITDA/Total Debt between 30 and 35 % to avoid potential downgrade. Its market gearing is 25%. Furthermore, its debt's pay-back period (Debt/EBITDA) shows its ability to pay off its incurred debt in a relatively short period of time.
The fact that Southwest was not required to disclose actual figures on their allowance for doubtful accounts and bad debt expense because of their immateriality indicates that the company does very well with collecting their receivables. b. Other Analysis: Southwest other minor source of receivables come from fuel contracts. As of year end 2013, the company had $57 million in the receivable from third parties for fuel contracts as a current receivable. The company uses netting policy for cash collaterals held against them.