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Assignment

Questions- Rosewell Company has had 5,000 shares of 9%, $100 par-value preferred stock and 10,000 shares of $10 par-value common stock outstanding for the last two years. During the most recent year, dividends paid totaled $65,000; in the prior year, dividends paid totaled $40,000.

Compute the amount of dividends that must have been paid to preferred stockholders and common stockholders in each year, given the following independent assumptions:

a. Preferred stock is fully participating and cumulative
b. Preferred stock is nonparticipating and noncumulative
c. Preferred stock participates up to 10% of its par value and is cumulative
d. Preferred stock is nonparticipating and cumulative

Question- You have just started as a staff auditor for a small CPA firm. During the course of the audit, you discover the following items related to a single client firm:

a. During the year, the firm declared and paid $10,000 in dividends

b. Your client has been named defendant in a legal suit involving a material amount. You have received from the client's counsel a statement indicating little likelihood of loss.

c. Because of cost control actions and general employee dissatisfaction, it is likely that the client will suffer a costly strike in the near future.

d. Twenty days after closing, the client suffered a major fire in one of its plants.

e. The cash account includes a substantial amount set aside for payment for pension obligation

f. Marketable securities include a large quantity of shares of stock purchased for control purposes.

g. Land is listed on the balance sheet as its market value $1,000,000. It cost $670,000 to purchase 12 years ago

h. During the year, the Government of Uganda expropriated a plant located in that country. The was substantial loss.

Required: How would each of these items be reflected in the year-end balance sheet, including notes?