On July 1, 2021, Clearwater Inc. purchased 9,300 shares of the outstanding common stock of Mountain Corporation at a cost of $213,000. Clearwater will have significant influence over the financial and operating policies of Mountain. Mountain had 31,000 shares of outstanding common stock. Assume the total book value and fair value of identifiable net assets is $660,000. Both companies have a January through December fiscal year. The following data pertains to Mountain Corporation during 2021: Dividends declared and paid, Jan. 1–June 30 $11,700
Dividends declared and paid, Jul. 1–Dec. 31 $11,700
Net Income, January 1–June 30 $13,700
Net Income, July 1–December 31 $17,700

Required:
a. Prepare the entry to record the original investment in Mountain.
b. Compute the goodwill (if any) on the acquisition.
c. Prepare the necessary entries (other than acquisition) for 2021 under the equity method.

The following cost data pertain to the operations of montgomery department stores, inc., for the month of july. corporate legal office salaries $ 75,300apparel department cost of sales"evendale store $ 97,200corporate headquarters building lease $ 50,300store manager's salary"evendale store $ 12,900apparel department sales commission"evendale store $ 11,550store utilities"evendale store $ 12,800apparel department manager's salary"evendale store $ 10,450central warehouse lease cost $ 18,600janitorial costs"evendale store $ 11,800 the evendale store is just one of many stores owned and operated by the company. the apparel department is one of many departments at the evendale store. the central warehouse serves all of the company's stores. required: 1. what is the total amount of the costs listed above that are direct costs of the apparel department? 2. what is the total amount of the costs listed above that are direct costs of the evendale store? 3. what is the total amount of the apparel department's direct costs that are also variable costs with respect to total departmental sales?

Mr. smith recently faced a choice between being (a) an economics profes-sor, which pays $60,000/yr, or (b) a safari leader, which pays $50,000/yr. after careful deliberation, smith took the safari job, but it was a close call. "for a dollar more," he said, "i'd have gone the other way."now smith's brother-in-law approaches him with a business proposition. the terms are as follows: - smith must resign his safari job to work full-time in his brother-in-law's business.- smith must give his brother-in-law an interest-free loan of $100,000, which will be repaid in full if and when smith leaves the business. (smith currently has much more than $100,000 in the the business will pay smith a salary of $70,000/yr. he will receive no other payment from the business.the interest rate is 10 percent per year. apart from salary considerations, smith feels that working in the business would be just as enjoyable as being an economics professor. for simplicity, assume there is no uncertainty regarding either smith's salary in the proposed business or the security of his monetary investment in it. should smith join his brother-in-law and, if so, how small would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it not worthwhile for him to join? if not, how large would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it worthwhile for him to join?

The market yield on spice grills' bonds is 15%, and the firm's marginal tax rate is 33%. what is their shareholders' required return if the equity risk premium is 4%?