You have agreed to help your brother-in-law prepare financial statements for the first six months of his newly created computer repair business. He hands you a shoebox with his bank statements detailing the cash collections and cash payments during the year. You also find in the shoebox some invoices for equipment and supplies purchased during the year along with a record of services provided to customer including dates and amounts billed. Where would you begin to make sense of this mess and what steps would you take to provide him a set of financial statements using accrual accounting

Costco wholesale corporation operates membership warehouses selling food, appliances, consumer electronics, apparel and other household goods at 471 locations across the u.s. as well as in canada, mexico and puerto rico. as of its fiscal year-end 2005, costco had approximately 21.2 million members. selected fiscal-year information from the company's balance sheets follows. ($ millions). selected balance sheet data 2005 2004 merchandise inventories $4,015 $3,644 deferred membership income (liability) 501 454 (a) during fiscal 2005, costco collected $1,120 cash for membership fees. use the financial statement effectstemplate to record the cash collected for membership fees. (b) in 2005, costco recorded $46,347 million in merchandise costs (that is, cost of goods sold). record thistransaction in the financial statement effects template. (c) determine the value of merchandise that costco purchased during fiscal-year 2005. use the financial statementeffects template to record these merchandise purchases. assume all of costco's purchases are on credit.

Downing company issues $5,000,000, 6%, 5-year bonds dated january 1, 2017 on january 1, 2017. the bonds pay interest semiannually on june 30 and december 31. the bonds are issued to yield 5%. what are the proceeds from the bond issue?

7. on an average hourly basis, how much does butcher enterprises spend on wages and benefits, respectively, in dollars?