Universal Foods issued 12% bonds, dated January 1, with a face amount of $175 million on January 1, 2018. The bonds mature on December 31, 2032 (15 years). The market rate of interest for similar issues was 14%. Interest is paid semiannually on June 30 and December 31. Universal uses the straight-line method. Required:
a. Determine the price of the bonds at January 1, 2018.
b. Prepare the journal entry to record their issuance by Universal Foods on January 1, 2018, interest on June 30, 2018 and interest on December 31, 2025.

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Nichols inc. manufactures remote controls. currently the company uses a plantminuswide rate for allocating manufacturing overhead. the plant manager is considering switchingminusover to abc costing system and has asked the accounting department to identify the primary production activities and their cost drivers which are as follows: activities cost driver allocation rate material handling number of parts $5 per part assembly labor hours $20 per hour inspection time at inspection station $10 per minute the current traditional cost method allocates overhead based on direct manufacturing labor hours using a rate of $20 per labor hour. what are the indirect manufacturing costs per remote control assuming an method is used and a batch of 10 remote controls are produced? the batch requires 100 parts, 5 direct manufacturing labor hours, and 3 minutes of inspection time.

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