Will Wealth Made Three Charitable Donations in 2014

question 18

Essay

Will Wealth made three charitable donations in 2014.Each was for $500,000,however they were made to three different organizations as follows:
1.Will donated to a local voluntary health and welfare organization (VHWO),and indicated that the funds could be used as the VHO wanted.
2.Will donated to a local private,not-for-profit university,designating the funds to be used for scholarships and student aid.
3.Will donated to the local not-for-profit,nongovernmental hospital,designating the funds to be used for purchase of diagnostic equipment.
Required:
For each of the above three situations:
A.Prepare the journal entry that each organization would prepare at the time of the contribution.
B.Prepare the journal entry that each organization would prepare at the time of the subsequent spending of the funds.Assume that the spending is in accordance with any restrictions that Will placed on the donation.

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Definitions:

Overhead Costs

Expenses related to the operation of a business that cannot be directly tied to a specific product or service.

Plantwide Overhead Rate

Plantwide overhead rate is a single rate used to allocate all of a plant’s manufacturing overhead costs to its production activities, regardless of the department in which they occur.

Direct Labor Hour

A measure of the labor directly involved in manufacturing a product or delivering a service, often used in costing and budgeting.

Activity-based Costing

A costing method that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each.