This year, John, Meg, and Karen form Frost Corporation. John contributes land purchased as an investment four years ago for $15,000 that has a $30,000 FMV in exchange for 30 shares of Frost stock. Meg contributes machinery (Sec. 1231 property) purchased four years ago and used in her business having a $35,000 adjusted basis and a $30,000 FMV in exchange for 30 shares of Frost stock. Meg had purchased the machinery 4 years ago; $10,000 of depreciation has been claimed by Meg prior to the exchange. Karen contributes services worth $20,000 in exchange for 20 shares of Frost stock. A) What is the amount of John's recognized gain or loss? B) What is John's basis in his Frost shares? When does his holding period begin?
C) What is the amount of Meg's recognized gain or loss?
D) What is Meg's basis in her Frost shares? When does her holding period begin?
E) How much income, if any, must Karen recognize?
F) What is Karen's basis in her Frost shares? When does her holding period begin?
G) What is Frost Corporation's basis in the land and the machinery? When does its holding period begin? How does Frost Corporation treat the amount paid to Karen for her services?

The following accounts are denominated in pesos as of december 31, 2015. for reporting purposes, these amounts need to be stated in u.s. dollars. for each balance, indicate the exchange rate that would be used if a translation is made under the current rate method. then, again for each account, provide the exchange rate that would be necessary if a remeasurement is being made using the temporal method. the company was started in 2000. the buildings were acquired in 2002 and the patents in 2003. (round your answers to 2 decimal places.) exchange rates for 1 peso are as follows: 2000 1 peso = $ 0.28 2002 1 = 0.26 2003 1 = 0.25 january 1, 2015 1 = 0.24 april 1, 2015 1 = 0.23 july 1, 2015 1 = 0.22 october 1, 2015 1 = 0.20 december 31, 2015 1 = 0.16 average for 2015 1 = 0.19

Shrieves casting company is considering adding a new line to its product mix, and the capital budgeting analysis is being conducted by sidney johnson, a recently graduated mba. the production line would be set up in unused space in the main plant. the machinery’s invoice price would be approximately $200,000, another $10,000 in shipping charges would be required, and it would cost an additional $30,000 to install the equipment. the machinery has an economic life of 4 years, and shrieves has obtained a special tax ruling that places the equipment in the macrs 3-year class. the machinery is expected to have a salvage value of $25,000 after 4 years of use. the new line would generate incremental sales of 1,250 units per year for 4 years at an incremental cost of $100 per unit in the first year, excluding depreciation. each unit can be sold for $200 in the first year. the sales price and cost are both expected to increase by 3% per year due to inflation. further, to handle the new line, the firm’s net working capital would have to increase by an amount equal to 12% of sales revenues. the firm’s tax rate is 40%, and its overall weighted average cost of capital, which is the risk-adjusted cost of capital for an average project (r), is 10%. define “incremental cash flow.” (1) should you subtract interest expense or dividends when calculating project cash flow?

At cooly cola, we are testing the appeal of our new diet one cola. in a taste test of 250 randomly chosen cola drinkers, 200 consumers preferred diet one cola to the leading brand. assuming that the sample were large enough, the large-sample 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of cola drinkers that prefer diet one cola would be: