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Required Informetlon The following Information applies to the questions displayed below Arndt, Inc., reported the following for 2016 and 2017 (S In millions): Revenues Expenses 2016 2017 $995 $1,055 38 38 Pretax accounting Income (Income $957 $1,017 statement) Taxable Income (tax return) $945 $1,055 Tax rate: 40% a. Expenses each year Include $40 million from a two-year casualty Insurance policy purchased In 2016 for $80 milion. The cost Is tax deductible In 2016 Expenses Include $3 millon Insurance premlums each year for life Insurance on key executives. b. C. Arndt sells one-year subscriptions to a weekly journal. Subscription sales collected and taxable In 2016 and 2017 were $38 milon and $67 millon, respectively Subscriptions Included In 2016 and 2017 financial reporting revenues were $35 millon ($13 million collected In 2015 but not earned until 2016) and $43 million, respectively. Hint: View this as two temporary differences-one reversing In 2016, one originating In 2016. d. 2016 expenses Included a $29 milllon unrealized loss from reducing Investments (classified as trading securities) to falr value. The Investments were sold In 2017 e. During 2015, accounting Income Included an estimated loss of $7 million from having accrued a loss contingency. The loss was pald In 2016 at which time t is tax deductible At January 1, 2016, Arndt had a deferred tax asset of $8 million and no deferred ta:x lablity.

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Deferred Tax Asset = $5.2

Deferred Tax Liability = $16

$ in millions current year 2017 future taxable amount future deductable amount Pretax accounting income 957 12 Permanent difference: Life Insurance Premium 3 Temporary difference Casualty insurance (reversing) -40 40 subscriptions - 2016 -13 Subscriptions - 2017 (38-(35-13)) 16 -16 unrealised losss (reversing) 29 -29 Contingency loss -7 Taxable Income (income tax return) 945 40 -33 Enacted tax rate (%) 40% 40% 40% Tax Payable Currently 378 Deferred Tax Liability 16 Deferred Tax Asset -13.2 Deferred Tax Liability Deferred Tax Asset Ending Balances (balance currently needed) 16 13.2 Less: beginning balances: 0 -8 Changes needed to achieve desired balances 16 5.2

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