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 Professor Urquhart showed a picture of a beagle, named Rudy, with a caption that said, “she may be cute, but she eats ______”

A company has a selling price of $1,800 each for its printers. Each printer has a 2 year warranty that covers replacement of defective parts. It is estimated that 2% of all printers sold will be returned under the warranty at an average cost of $150 each. During November, the company sold 30,000 printers, and 400 printers were serviced under the warranty at a total cost of $55,000. The balance in the Estimated Warranty Liability account at November 1 was $29,000. What is the company’s warranty expense for the month of November?

Total asset turnover is used to evaluate:

The factor for the present value of an annuity for 6 years at 10% is 4.3553. This implies that an annuity of six $2,000 payments at 10% is the equivalent of $8,710.60 today.

Revising an estimate of the useful life or salvage value of a plant asset is referred to as a change in accounting estimate and is reflected in the current, and future financial statements.

A company purchased a plant asset for $60,000. The asset has an estimated salvage value of $4,000, and an estimated useful life of 7 years. The annual depreciation expense using the straight-line method is $4,000 per year.

A company’s debt-to-equity ratio was 1.0 at the end of Year 1. By the end of Year 2, it had increased to 1.7. Since the ratio increased from Year 1 to Year 2, the degree of risk in the firm’s financing structure decreased during Year 2.

Payments on an installment note normally include the accrued interest expense plus a portion of the amount borrowed.

Unearned revenues are current liabilities.

Ngu owns equipment that cost $93,500 with accumulated depreciation of $64,000. Ngu asks $35,000 for the equipment but sells the equipment for $33,000. Compute the amount of gain or loss on the sale.