Ginvold Co

question 53

Essay

Ginvold Co. began operating a subsidiary in a foreign country on January 1, 2011 by acquiring all of the common stock for §50,000 Stickles, the local currency. This subsidiary immediately borrowed §120,000 on a five-year note with ten percent interest payable annually beginning on January 1, 2012. A building was then purchased for §170,000 on January 1, 2011. This property had a ten-year anticipated life and no salvage value and was to be depreciated using the straight-line method. The building was immediately rented for three years to a group of local doctors for §6,000 per month. By year-end, payments totaling §60,000 had been received. On October 1, §5,000 were paid for a repair made on that date and it was the only transaction of this kind for the year. A cash dividend of §6,000 was transferred back to Ginvold on December 31, 2011. The functional currency for the subsidiary was the Stickle (§). Currency exchange rates were as follows: Prepare a statement of cash flows for this subsidiary in stickles and then translate the amounts into U.S. dollars.

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Definitions:

Price Of Labor

The compensation that workers receive in exchange for their labor, often reflected in wages or salaries.

Marginal Product

The additional output that results from using one more unit of a particular input.

Average Product

refers to the output per unit of input, calculated by dividing the total product by the quantity of input used to produce this product.

Marginal Product

The surplus production derived from enhancing a specific input by a single unit, keeping all else equal.