Simmons Company These Data Represent a Summary of Your First-Iteration Forecast Amounts

question 15

Essay

Simmons Company
These data represent a summary of your first-iteration forecast amounts for Year 1.Simmons uses dividends as a flexible financial account. A.See the information for Simmons Company.
Compute the amount of dividends you can assume that Simmons will pay in order to balance your projected balance sheet.Present the projected balance sheet.
B.See the information for Simmons Company.
Now assume that Simmons pays common shareholders a dividend of $25 in Year +1.Also assume that Simmons uses long-term debt as a flexible financial account,increasing borrowing when it needs capital and paying down debt when it generates excess capital.For simplicity,assume that Simmons pays 10.0 percent interest expense on the ending balance in long-term debt for the year and that interest expense is tax deductible at Simmons' average tax rate of 20.0 percent.
Present the projected income statement and balance sheet for Year +1.(Hint: Because of the circularity between interest expense,net income,and debt,several iterations may be needed to balance the projected balance sheet and to have the projected balance sheet articulate with net income.You may find it helpful to program a spreadsheet to work the iterative computations. )

Calculate the total amount of manufacturing overhead applied to production.

Understand how to determine if the manufacturing overhead for the year was overapplied or underapplied.

Apply overhead to jobs based on direct labor-hours.

Calculate the predetermined overhead rate based on estimated machine-hours.

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