They are very important because there are so much intern and extern information that you can not handle them without any structured concept. That is the job of information systems.
Decrease assets, decrease liabilities. Accounts payable are what the business owes (liabilities). By paying off accounts payable, the liabilities are decreasing (they owe less) and the assets are also decreasing (because they use assets/cash to pay off the liabilities, so they have less now).
32.35% ( the probability that in any given year, the return on long-term corporate bonds will be greater than 10 percent )
Explanation:
Given data for long-term corporate bonds
Standard deviation : 8.3%
mean = 6.2%
To calculate the probability that in any given year, the return on long-term corporate bonds will be greater than 10 percent ( USING THE NORM-DIST FUNCTION )