The management of river corporation is considering the purchase of a new machine costing $380,000. the company's desired rate of return is 6%. the present value factor for an annuity of $1 at interest of 6% for 5 years is 4.212. in addition to the foregoing information, use the following data in determining the acceptability in this situation: year income from operations net cash flow 1 $20,000 $95,000 2 20,000 95,000 3 20,000 95,000 4 20,000 95,000 5 20,000 95,000 the cash payback period for this investment is: group of answer choices 4 years
the net present value for this investment isa.$19,875b.$(19,875)c.$20,140d.$( 20,140)

Peninsula products has just applied for a loan at your bank. when reviewing peninsula's books for the year that just ended, you notice that the firm uses the fair value option for its bonds payable. you also see that the firm recorded a $55,000 debit in its bonds payable account and a $55,000 credit in its unrealized holding gain or loss"income account. over that same period, interest rates decreased by about 0.5 percent. how should this information affect the bank's decision as to whether to grant peninsula a loan? a : the bank should strongly consider giving a loan to peninsula because the changes in firm's bonds payable and unrealized holding gain or loss"income accounts suggest that peninsula has seen an increase in its credit rating over the past year. b : the bank should put little emphasis on the changes in peninsula's bonds payable and unrealized holding gain or loss"income accounts because these changes are likely the result of the rise in interest rates. c : the bank should hesitate before giving a loan to peninsula because the changes in firm's bonds payable and unrealized holding gain or loss"income accounts suggest that peninsula has seen a decline in its credit rating over the past year. d : the bank should put little emphasis on the changes in peninsula's bonds payable and unrealized holding gain or loss"income accounts because these changes are likely unrelated to either interest rates or the firm's credit rating.

Agovernment receives a gift of cash and investments with a fair value of $200,000. the donor specified that the earnings from the gift must be used to beautify city-owned parks and the principal must be re-invested. the $200,000 gift should be accounted for in which of the following funds? a) general fund b) private-purpose trust fund c) agency fund d) permanent fund

Amethod of allocating merchandise cost that assumes the first merchandise bought was the first merchandise sold is called the a. last-in, first-out method. b. first-in, first-out method. c. specific identification method. d. average cost method.