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Oklahoma Oil Corp. paid interest of $785,000 during 2018, and the discount on bonds payable fell by $100,000.  What was interest expense for the year? 

Actuary and trustee reports indicate the following changes in the PBO and plan assets of Douglas-Roberts Industries during 2020: Prior service cost at Jan 1, 2020, from plan amendment at the                        beginning of 2017 (amortization: $2 million per year) $14 million Net loss-AOCI at Jan. 1, 2020 (previous losses exceeded previous gains) $82 million Average remaining service life of the active employee group 10 years Actuary’s discount rate 7% $ in millions for the following lists. Determine Douglas-Roberts’ pension expense for 2020.

A stock dividend or stock split would affect which of the following shares in computing EPS?

Pfeffer Company reports net income of $360 million for 2020; the company’s tax rate is 40%.  At the beginning of the year, 200 million common shares were outstanding.  On August 1, 2020 the company issued an additional 120 million shares. What will Pfeffer’s basic EPS be?

What is the “long-run interpretation” for Confidence Intervals?

BONUS Suppose you are interested in knowing the average cholesterol level of all women between the ages of 21 and 30 who live in College Station. Everyone in a class (75 students) takes a random sample of 50 females in the College Station area between the ages of 21 and 30. Each person calculates the average cholesterol in their sample. Jenna is one of the students in this class and she makes a histogram of the 50 cholesterol levels in her sample. What kind of distribution would be displayed in Jenna’s histogram?

The factors that directly affect x-ray quality are

Chapter 19, Taxes

The five criteria for distinguishing a finance lease from an operating lease do not include:

In 2019, 15.9% of Broadway actors were acting in their first role on Broadway. Suppose we took a survey of 38 Broadway actors and found that 18.4% of the actors we surveyed were first-timers. What are the mean and standard deviation for the sampling distribution of