Fred &
Ethel Mertz
Fred &
Ethel, long time residents of San Antonio, have asked you to prepare a
personal
financial statement for them, for use in getting loans to pay for the
college
expenses of their children. You your staff prepare the following summary
of their
grocery bag of fiancial materials:
Totals
1. Life insurance Policy 1 Policy 2 Policy 3 Policy 4
Insured Fred Ethel Fred, Jr. Susie
Owner Fred Etel Fred, Jr. Ethel
Beneficiary Ethel Fred Ethel Ethel
Death benefit 350,000 150,000 25,000 17,500
Cash value 38,300 14,200 12,950 11,825
2. Cash and near cash items
First National bank household
checking
1,751
ABC Bank of Commerce, passbook
savings account
26,500
Fred, Jr.’s college fund account
under the Texas
Uniform Gift to Minors 68,600
Business checking account at First
National
11,255
3. Balnces owed on credit cards
VISA 12,655
Master Card at Chase 2,151
Master Card at Citi 763
American Express 125
Target Card 2,300
Sam’s Discover Card 210
4. Car loans Cost Fair value Loan balance
ABC Bank of Commerce (2011 Jeep
Wrangler)
26,150 21,500 18,755
Ft. Sam Houston CU (2010 Ford Image) 41,000 32,000 35,700
5. Mortgage loan balance on residence 187,000
Mortgage loan balance on beach
property/cabin
18,726
6. Diamond ring, cost $8,500 in 1990.
Appraised at
8,500 17,700
Diamond & ruby ring, inherited
from great grandmother
in 1995 9,000 12,000
7.
Furniture, equipment, household appliances, guess at cost
20,000
8. House, 3,250 square feet under roof,
1/3 acre lot in Shaveno
Park Estates, purchased 1992 for
$271,000
271,000 410,500
9. Beach property/cabin purchased for
$17,500 in 1989
27,500 120,000
10. 401-K at Fred’s firm 85,000 318,900
Common stocks, bonds, etc. Cost 191,500 223,981
CD at Shelby Credit Union 100,000 100,000