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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?

A bond with a par value of $1,000 trading at 97 ½ sells for a premium.

The effective interest amortization method:

An employee earned $128,500 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% of all earnings. The employer’s total FICA payroll tax for this employee is:

Plant assets are reported on a balance sheet at their undepreciated costs (book value), not at fair (market) values.

A discount reduces the interest expense of a bond over its life.

Employees earn vacation pay at the rate of one day per month. During the month of July, 25 employees qualify for one vacation day each. Their average daily wage is $100 per day. What is the amount of vacation benefit expense to be recorded for the month of July?