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Estimated liabilities commonly arise from all of the following except:

On January 1, a company issues bonds dated January 1 with a par value of $400,000. The bonds mature in 5 years. The contract rate is 7%, and interest is paid semiannually on June 30 and December 31. The market rate is 8% and the bonds are sold for $383,793. The journal entry to record the issuance of the bond is:

A company borrows $10,000 and issues a 5-year, 6% installment note with interest payable annually. The factor for the present value of an annuity at 6% for 5 years is 4.2124. The factor for the present value of a single sum at 6% for 5 years is 0.7473. The amount of the annual payment is $2,373.94.

Saffron Industries 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?

Employers can use a wage bracket withholding table to compute federal income taxes withheld from each employee’s gross pay.

Uncertainties from the development of new competing products are not contingent liabilities.

Once an asset’s book value equals its salvage value, depreciation stops.

Saffron Industries 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?

Bonds owned by investors whose names and addresses are recorded by the issuing company, and for which interest payments are made with checks or cash transfers to the bondholders, are called:

Bering Rock acquires a granite quarry at a cost of $590,000, which is estimated to contain 200,000 tons of granite and is expected to take 6 years to remove. What journal entry would be needed to record the expense for the first year assuming 38,000 tons were removed and sold?