Dispensers of California, Inc. Pater Bynes created a working model ofa new and Improved comimercial paint spray, which he had ~ patented. The patent bad a legal life of 16 years. remaining. paint spray, offered to invest in a new corporation with a capitalization of $200,000 par value capital stock to further develop, manufacture, and market the spray and its related equipment. Before making their investment, the investors asked Hynes to pre- pare a profit plan projecting the company’s rev- ‘ennes and expenses for the company's initial year of operation along with an end-of-first-year balance sheet. Tiynes agreed to prepare the requested informa- tion incorporating the following projected transac- tions: 1. In retum for signing his patent over to the new company, which was to be called Dispensers of California, Inc., Hynes would receive 60 per~ cent of the company’s capital stock. For their the investors would contribute $80,000 cash for a 40 percent interest in the company. 2, Incorporation costs, $2,500. 3. Equipment to be used in assembling the paint spray dispensers, $85,000. 4, Out-of-pocket labor and development costs to redesign the paint spray dispenser to facilitate more efficient assembling, $25,000. 5. Component part purchases, $212,100. 6. Short-term Joan from local bank, $30,000. (Loan to be repaid before the end of the year with $500 interest.) 7. Manufacturing payroll, $145,000. 8. Other manufacturing costs (excluding compo- pent part costs), $62,000. 9. Selling, general, and administration costs, $63,000. 10. Ending component parts inventory cost, $15,100. J1, Sales, $598,500 (all received in cash.) 12. All incorporation and product redesign, costs expensed as incurred. Hynes was eager {o exploit his patent commer- cially, but he had. no funds. of his own. Several of Hynes? friends, who had used prototypes of Hynes’ 13, 14. 15, 16. V7. 18. . Depreciation, $8,500. (Hynes estimated the useful life of the equipment was 10 years, with ng salvage value.) atent cost charged to incomie over a six-year period (Hynes anticipated technology develop- ments incorporating digital flow controls would significantly reduce the current products sales in about six years” time.) No inventory of unsold of partially completed dispensers al year end. Cash dividends, $5,000. Income tax expense, $22,500 (due to be paid during the next year). ‘All amoimnts due to employees, suppliers, and ‘others, except for income taxes, paid in cash. (Hynes made this assumption bécause he wanted to present a “conservative” ‘balance shect to the investors.) Questions Questions 1 2. How might Hynes and the investors use the profit-plan in managing the business? How might the projected transactions impact the company's balance sheet? (Think about each transaction in terms of its impact on both the basic accounting equation and specific ac- counts.) . Prepare a profit plan in the form of an income statement for the first year of operations Prepare a balance sheet as of the end of the first year of operations. . Hynes made a number of accounting decisions. Do you agree'with these decisions?