A large conglomerate is deciding on the range of new products and services it can offer to its customers to further expand its operations. This decision determines the firm's
Answer:
An <u>account</u> is maintained for each financial statement item, whereas a(n) <u>general ledger</u> contains all of the accounts of the company.
Explanation:
Financial statements refers to a statement that that provides formal records of all financial activities and standing of a company or any entity in a structured and easily understandable manner.
For each item of financial statement, an account is kept with the aim of giving a an accurate record of all business activities that are germane to that specific financial statement item.
The purpose of a general ledger is to show individual transactions and resulting account balance of each account of a company as a single collection.
Therefore, an <u>account</u> is maintained for each financial statement item, whereas a(n) <u>general ledger</u> contains all of the accounts of the company.
Answer: The value of the bond will decrease
Explanation:
The Interest rate has a negative inverse relationship with the value of a bond
. When the interest rate increases the value of a bond decreases and when interest rate decreases the bond value increases. Bonds with low coupon rates tend to be more sensitive to interest rate changes this is known has coupon effect.
Bonds with long time frame (long term bonds), they also tend to be are more sensitive to changes in the interest rate this is known has the maturity effect. Therefore a change in the interest rate will cause a huge change in the value of a Bond with low coupon rate and long time period.
The Bond is a 20 year Bonds which qualifies it to be a long term bond and the coupon Rate is 7%, with these facts and knowing that long term bonds are more sensitive to interest rate changes we can conclude that the sudden increase of the interest rate to 15% will cause a huge decrease in the value of the bond
