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The current FUTA tax rate is 0.6%, and the SUTA tax rate is 5.4%. Both taxes are applied to the first $7,000 of an employee’s pay. Assume that an employee earned total wages of $2,900 in the current period and had cumulative pay for prior periods of $5,800. What is the amount of unemployment taxes the employer must pay on this employee’s wages for the current period?

A company may retire bonds by all but which of the following means?

Adonis Corporation issued 10-year, 8% bonds with a par value of $200,000. Interest is paid semiannually. The market rate on the issue date was 7.5%. Adonis received $206,948 in cash proceeds. Which of the following statements is true?

Sinking fund bonds:

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.