The City of Charlevoix is preparing its government-wide financial statements from its fund financial statements. The City maintains a landfill for solid waste disposal and estimates that its total capacity is 10 million tons. At the end of the prior year, the City estimated that it had used 3 million tons and reported a liability for closure and post-closure costs of $3 million. During the year, the City estimates that it used an additional 500,000 tons of capacity. Closure and post-closure costs are expected to be $10 million when the Landfill reaches capacity. a. What reconciliation entries must the City include in its government-wide financial statements relating to the Landfill Liability at the beginning of the year and as of the end of the year

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.

Nnette henri is paid an hourly wage of $8.90 for a 32-hour workweek of 4 days, 8 hours daily. for any work on the fifth day and on saturdays, she is paid one and one-half times her regular hourly rate. during a certain week, in addition to her regular 32 hours, henri worked 6 hours on the fifth day and 5 hours on saturday. for this workweek, henri’s total earnings are:

George retired from a local law firm and then volunteered to oversee a nonprofit's legal records. george is performing the duties of a: