Dispensers of California Case

Dispersers of California, Inc.

Peter Hynes creates a working model of a new and improved commercial paint spray which he had patented. The patent had a legal life of 16 years remaining.

Hynes was eager to exploit his patent commercially, but he had no funds of his own. Several of Haynes friends, who had used prototypes of Hynes 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 prepare a profit plan projecting the company’s revenues and expenses for the company’s initial year to operation along with an end-of-first-year balance sheet.

Hynes agreed to prepare the requested information incorporating the following projected transactions.

1. In return for signing his patent over to the new company, which was to be called Dispersers of the California, Inc., Hynes would receive 60 percent of the company’s capital stock. For their part, 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 disperser to facilitate more efficient assembling, $25,000.

5. Component part purchases, $212,100.

6. Short-term loan 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 component part costs), $62,000.

9. Selling, general, and administration costs, $63,000.

10. Ending component parts inventory cost, $15,100.

11. Sales, $598,500 (all received in cash.)

12. All incorporation and product redesign cost expensed as incurred.

13. Depreciation, $8,500. (Hynes estimated the useful life of the equipment was 10 years with no salvage value.)

14. Patent cost...