Answer:
The correct answer is B. Trend analysis.
Explanation:
The trend analysis is the method of analysis that consists in observing the behavior of the different items of the Balance Sheet and the Income Statement, to detect some significant changes that may have their origin in administrative errors.
This method allows us to know the direction and speed of the changes that have occurred in the financial situation of the company over time, so it is considered as a method of horizontal analysis.
It helps us to detect failures; but it is only an exploratory method, so it is always necessary to investigate further to find the causes of the failures. It is necessary to determine the changes suffered in the balances of the financial statement items that we are interested in analyzing. The trend analysis allows us to know the financial development of a company.
Answer: See attachment and explanation.
Explanation:
a. Determine the components of pension expense that the company would recognize in 2017.
Service cost = $52,000
Add: Interest on projected benefit obligation = $380,000 × 10% = $38,000
Less: Actual return on plan asset = ($11000)
Less: Unexpected loss = 200,000 × 10% - 11,000 = ($9000)
Ammortization of prior service cost = $15000
Pension expense = $85,000
b. The journal entry to record the pension expense and the company’s funding of the pension plan in 2017 has been attached.
c. The amount of the 2017 increase/decrease in gains or losses and the amount to be amortized in 2017 and 2018 has been attached.
d. The pension amounts reported in the financial statement as of December 31, 2017 will be $85,000.
Answer:
The total shareholders’ equity at the end of Year 1 is $487,400
Explanation:
The computation of the ending total shareholders’ equity is shown below:
= Common stock value in exchange of cash + net income + net holding gains - dividend paid
= $442,400 + $98,000 + $1,000 - $54,000
= $487,400
While calculating the ending balance of shareholder equity we added the net income, net holding gains and deducted the dividend paid to the common stock value amount
Answer:
The false statement is letter "A": We say a portfolio is long those stocks that have negative portfolio weights.
Explanation:
The portfolio weight is the portion that a particular asset represents of the overall portfolio. There are many methods helpful to calculate the portfolio weight usually by dividing the dollar value of an asset by the total dollar value of the portfolio. Short positions are taken as negative values inside the portfolio that hold negative weights.