Venables, Inc. purchases office equipment at the beginning o…

Venables, Inc. purchases office equipment at the beginning of the year at a cost of $15,000. The machine is depreciated using the straight-line method. The machine’s useful life is estimated to be 7 years with a $1,000 salvage value. The journal entry to record the first year’s depreciation is:

Donavan, Inc.’s most recent balance sheet reports total asse…

Donavan, Inc.’s most recent balance sheet reports total assets of $42,000,000, total liabilities of $16,000,000 and stockholders’ equity of $26,000,000. Management is considering using $3,000,000 of excess cash to prepay $3,000,000 of outstanding bonds. What effect, if any, would prepaying the bonds have on the company’s debt-to-equity ratio?