Oriole Company Reported Pretax Net Income from Continuing Operations of $1,000,000

question 28

Essay

Oriole Company reported pretax net income from continuing operations of $1,000,000 and taxable income of $1,200,000. The unfavorable book–tax difference of $200,000 was due to a $200,000 favorable temporary difference relating to depreciation, an unfavorable temporary difference of $300,000 due to an increase in the reserve for bad debts, and a $100,000 unfavorable permanent difference from the disallowance of compensation expense related to the exercise of incentive stock options.

a. Compute Oriole's current income tax expense.
b. Compute Oriole's deferred income tax expense or benefit.
c. Compute Oriole's effective tax rate.
d. Provide a reconciliation of Oriole's effective tax rate with its hypothetical tax rate of 21 percent.

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Definitions:

Equal Variances

A condition in statistical analysis where the variances across different groups are assumed to be the same.

Degrees Of Freedom

A statistical concept representing the number of independent values or quantities that can vary in the calculation of a statistic, critical in estimating population parameters.

Pooled Variance

A method used in statistics to estimate the variance of two or more populations when the assumption of equal variances is reasonable.

Sample Variances

The measure of variance calculated from a sample of a population, used to estimate the population variance.