You can sell it later. if you lease, you are paying money for someone else's car. say you can buy a car for 20thousand or lease for 1000 per month. after 20months, you would have paid the exact same amount, except if you bought the car, you now have an asset tht can be sold.
Answer: 1. 18 times
2. Park is in better position
Explanation:
1. Times interest earned is a financial ratio that measures interest coverage. It's essentially to check if a company can pay it's debt payments and is calculated by either EBIT or EBITDA divided by the total interest expense. The higher the better and anything above 2.5 times is usually considered.
Calculating would therefore be,
= $6,120,000 /$340,000
= 18 times.
2. As mentioned in the first answer, for the Times interest earned, the higher it is, the more favourable it is. So Park Company will be considered safer and are most definitely in a better or worse position than its competitor to make interest payments if the economy turns bad. The fact that theirs is 18 means that they can pay off their interest expense 5 times more than their competitor who can only repay 12 times.
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Answer: The new confidence index is 0.7143
Explanation: Consumer confidence index which is known as the confidence index is an index used for estimating the economy of the U.S, it is published by the conference board which shows the decree of excitement in peoples's activities on their savings and spendings.
To calculate the new confidence index;
STEP1: Add the bond increase to the current bond;
6% + 1% = 7%
4% + 1% = 5%
STEP 2: FIND THE NEW CONFIDENCE INDEX
5% ÷ 7% = 0.7143
The old confidence index can also be calculated as
4% ÷ 6% = 0.6667
Answer:
there is an increase in taxes of $52,192
Explanation:
The computation of the net payment or saving is shown below:
Given that
Book value = $450,000
Sale value = $636,400
since the sales value is more than the book value so here the capital profit is there
Therefore capital profit would be
= $636,400 - $450,000
= $186,400
Now tax would be
= $186,400 × 28%
= $52,192
So there is an increase in taxes of $52,192
