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3 years ago

Approximately ________ percent of the federal budget is in the mandatory spending category

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The answer is 9%. According to the CBO, defense expenditure grew 9% yearly on average from fiscal year 2000-2009. Much of the costs for the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have not been subsidized through regular arrogations bills, but over emergency supplemental appropriations bills.

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Lake Corporation is considering the elimination of one of its segments. The segment incurs the following fixed costs. If the seg

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the amount of avoidable cost associated with the segment is $754,000

Explanation:

The cost associated with the segment to be eliminated including:

- Advertising expense $140,000

- Supervisory salaries $300,000

- Allocation of companywide facility-level costs $130,000

- The loss for unsold building (*): $60,000

- Maintenance costs on equipment $112,000

- Real estate taxes on building $12,000

The total cost is $754,000

(*) The earning from sold building (book value) = Market value of building $160,000 - Book value of building $100,000 = $60,000

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3 years ago

A company has the following liabilities at year end: Mortgage note payable; $16,000 due within 12 months $355,000 Short-term deb

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The amount that the company should include in the current liability section of the balance sheet is $16,000

Explanation:

The short-term debt that the company is refinancing with long-term debt is non-current and deferred tax liability arising from depreciation is also non-current and should be disclosed as such in the Balance sheet after the sub-heading long-term borrowings.

Therefore, The amount that the company should include in the current liability section of the balance sheet is $16,000

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3 years ago

On June 1, 2018, Blue Co. distributed to its common stockholders 180,000 outstanding common shares of its investment in Red, Inc

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Blue Co. Shall report $396,000 as gain before income taxes on disposal of the stock.

Explanation:

Book value per share of Red Inc = $1.20 per share

As the value of share is revised just after the declaration but before distribution there will be gain on sale of investment.

Net gain = Sale price - Book value

= $3.40 - $1.20 per share = $2.2 per share

Total gain for the year end on June 30 will be

= $2.2 per share X 180,000 shares = $396,000 shares

Thus Blue Co. Shall report $396,000 as gain before income taxes on disposal of the stock.

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3 years ago

With respect to how economists study the economy, which of the following statements is most accurate? a) Economists study the pa

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Answer:

Option (c) is correct.

Explanation:

Economists refers to the people who are doing research, analyzing data and measure the qualitative activities in terms of money.

For research perspective, one should have proper knowledge about the research problem that he or she need to address in his or her research. Then he should collect the reliable and accurate data for the analysis. Data is very important for a particular research study.

Once the data is ready to analyze then the economists run the data and interpret the results.

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3 years ago

When a manager develops a cost of capital for a specific project based on the cost of capital for another firm that has a simila

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Answer: Pure play

Explanation:

A pure play method in finance is an approach that is used to estimate and determine the cost of equity capital of a private company which involves looking at the beta coefficient of other single focused and public companies.

Pure-play companies are the companies that are involved in a single line of business.

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