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An employee earned $43,300 working for an employer in the current year. The current rate for FICA Social Security is 6.2% payable on earnings up to $118,500 maximum per year and the rate for FICA Medicare 1.45%. The employer’s total FICA payroll tax for this employee is:

Return on equity increases when the expected rate of return from the acquired assets is higher than the interest rate on the debt issued to finance the acquired assets.

The debt-to-equity ratio:

 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.