Kingbird Corporation sells DVD players. The corporation also offers its customers a 4-year warranty contract. During 2020, Kingbird sold 20,000 warranty contracts at $114 each. The corporation spent $188,000 servicing warranties during 2020, and it estimates that an additional $940,000 will be spent in the future to service the warranties.
Required:
a. Prepare Kingbird’s journal entries for the sale of contracts. Assume the service costs are inventory costs. b. Prepare Kingbird’s journal entries for the cost of servicing the warranties. Assume the service costs are inventory costs. c. Prepare Kingbird’s journal entries for the recognition of warranty revenue. Assume the service costs are inventory costs.

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Afactory owner wants his workers to produce as many widgets as they can so he pays his workers based on how many widgets they produce. however, in order to make sure that the workers do not rush and produce a large number of poorly made widgets, he checks the widgets at random at various stages of their manufacture. if a defect is found in a widget, the pay of the entire section of the factory responsible for that defect is docked. how is this factory owner seeking to solve the agency conflict problem in this case?

Assume today is december 31, 2013. barrington industries expects that its 2014 after-tax operating income [ebit(1 – t)] will be $400 million and its 2014 depreciation expense will be $70 million. barrington's 2014 gross capital expenditures are expected to be $120 million and the change in its net operating working capital for 2014 will be $25 million. the firm's free cash flow is expected to grow at a constant rate of 4.5% annually. assume that its free cash flow occurs at the end of each year. the firm's weighted average cost of capital is 8.6%; the market value of the company's debt is $2.15 billion; and the company has 180 million shares of common stock outstanding. the firm has no preferred stock on its balance sheet and has no plans to use it for future capital budgeting projects. using the corporate valuation model, what should be the company's stock price today (december 31, 2013)? round your answer to the nearest cent. do not round intermediate calculations.