Acompany from the united kingdom uses british pounds in its normal operations, reports in the european union in euros, and reports in the united states in u. s. dollars. the company is owned by a private equity firm in japan. what is the company's functional currency? (aicpa 2018)
a. the euro.
b. the british pound.
c. the u. s. dollar.
d. the japanese yen.

Management discovers that a supervisor at one of its restaurant locations removes excess cash and resets sales totals throughout the day on the point-of-sale (pos) system. at closing, the supervisor deposits cash equal to the recorded sales on the pos system and keeps the rest.the supervisor forwards the close-of-day pos reports from the pos system along with a copy of the bank deposit slip to the company’s revenue accounting department. the revenue accounting department records the sales and the cash for the location in the general ledger and verifies the deposit slip to the bank statement. any differences between sales and deposits are recorded in an over/short account and, if necessary, followed up with the location supervisor. the customer food order checks are serially numbered, and it is the supervisor’s responsibility to see that they are accounted for at the end of each day. customerchecks and the transaction journal tapes from the pos system are kept by the supervisor for 1 week at the location and then destroyed.what control allowed the fraud to occur?

Steele bicycle manufacturing company currently produces the handlebars used in manufacturing its bicycles, which are high-quality racing bikes with limited sales. steele produces and sells only 10,000 bikes each year. due to the low volume of activity, steele is unable to obtain the economies of scale that larger producers achieve. for example, steele could buy the handlebars for $31 each: they cost $34 each to make. the following is a detailed breakdown of current production costs: after seeing these figures, steele's president remarked that it would be foolish for the company to continue to produce the handlebars at $34 each when it can buy them for $31 each. calculate the total relevant cost. do you agree with the president's conclusion?

Coop inc. owns 40% of chicken inc., both coop and chicken are corporations. chicken pays coop a dividend of $10,000 in the current year. chicken also reports financial accounting earnings of $20,000 for that year. assume coop follows the general rule of accounting for investment in chicken. what is the amount and nature of the book-tax difference to coop associated with the dividend distribution (ignoring the dividends received deduction)?