Problem Five

Please prepare accounting entries or answer the questions asked for the following independent situations:

1. Diamond Company owns 40% of the stock of Silver Company. On January 1, 2019, Silver reports total income of $4,000,000. On June 1, 2019, Silver pays total dividends to its shareholders of $1,000,000. Prepare the necessary accounting entries for Diamond.

2. May Company purchased a bond issued by August Company on September 1, 2019 for $1,000,000. The bond is properly classified as Trading. On December 31, 2019, the market price of the bond is $1,100,000. Prepare the appropriate adjusting entry for May Company.

3. Strong Company has a temporary difference of $5,000,000 that properly gives rise to a deferred tax liability. The tax rate is 30%. Accordingly, Strong records a DTL of $1,500,000 on its books. What would the result be if Congress were to lower the tax rate to 20% assuming the temporary difference still exists.

4. Briefly distinguish a contract asset from a contract liability.