Answer:
The answer is:
More accounts have been written off than had been estimated
Explanation:
Doubtful debt or bad debt is an expense. According to the rule of accounting, debit increases an expense while debit decreases an expense.
So the debit balance balance in allowance for doubtful accounts tells us that there is an increase in expense which means that more accounts(bad debt) have been written off.
So we can infer from the debit balance that more accounts have been written off than had been estimated
The pieces will be 3 times something and 5 times something.
3x + 5x = 160
Answer:
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Answer:
Dividends are fixed. ⇒ Consistent with Debt
Fixed dividends makes preferred shares consistent with debt because debt repayments are made in equal payments as well.
Usually has no specified maturity date ⇒ Consistent with Equity.
Equity has no set maturity date unlike debt and preferred stock has no maturity date either so is much like equity in this regard.
Cost of preferred stock.
Preferred stock is like a perpetuity. The cost of preferred stock is therefore:
= Constant dividend / Price of stock
= 13 / 130.45
= 9.97%
= 10%
Answer: Option (D) is correct.
Explanation:
The economic efficiency is achieved at a point where demand curve and supply curve intersects each other. This point is known as market equilibrium. The area under the demand curve and above the equilibrium price level is known as consumer surplus.
The area above the supply curve and under the equilibrium price level is known as producer surplus.
Hence, the combine area of consumer surplus and producer surplus have to maximized to have a economic efficiency in an economy.
