Financial accounting 16th Edition by Jan Williams,Susan Haka,Mark Bettner ,Joseph Carcello

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You are the controller for 21st Century Technologies.our staff has prepared an income statement for the current year and has developed the following additional information by analyzing changes in the company's balance sheet accounts.

Additional Information
1.ccounts receivable increased by $60,000.
2.ccrued interest receivable decreased by $2,000.
3.nventory decreased by $60,000, and accounts payable to suppliers of merchandise decreased by $16,000.
4.hort-term prepayments of operating expenses increased by $6,000, and accrued liabilities for operating expenses decreased by $8,000.
5.he liability for accrued interest payable increased by $4,000 during the year.
6.he liability for accrued income taxes payable decreased by $14,000 during the year.
7.he following schedule summarizes the total debit and credit entries during the year in other balance sheet accounts:

8.he $36,000 in credit entries to the Plant Assets account is net of any debits to Accumulated Depreciation when plant assets were retired.hus, the $36,000 in credit entries represents the book value of all plant assets sold or retired during the year.
9.he $120,000 debit to Retained Earnings represents dividends declared and paid during the year.he $260,000 credit entry represents the net income shown in the income statement.
10.ll investing and financing activities were cash transactions.
11.ash and cash equivalents amounted to $244,000 at the beginning of the year and to $164,000 at year-end.
Instructions
a.repare a statement of cash flows for the current year.se the direct method of reporting cash flows from operating activities.lace brackets around dollar amounts representing cash outflows.how separately your computations of the following amounts:
1.ash received from customers.
2.nterest received.
3.ash paid to suppliers and employees.
4.nterest paid.
5.ncome taxes paid.
6.roceeds from sales of marketable securities.
7.roceeds from sales of plant assets.
8.roceeds from issuing capital stock.
b.xplain the primary reason why:
1.he amount of cash provided by operating activities was substantially greater than the company's net income.
2.here was a net decrease in cash over the year, despite the substantial amount of cash provided by operating activities.
c.s 21st Century's controller, you think that through more efficient cash management, the company could have held the increase in accounts receivable for the year to $10,000, without affecting net income.xplain how holding down the growth in receivables affects cash.ompute the effect that limiting the growth in receivables to $10,000 would have had on the company's net increase or decrease in cash (and cash equivalents) for the year.