Veldre Company provides the following information about its defined benefit pension plan for the year 2020.

Service cost $ 90,000
Contribution to the plan 105,000
Prior service cost amortization 10,000
Actual and expected return on plan assets 64,000
Benefits paid 40,000
Plan assets at January 1, 2020 640,000
Projected benefit obligation at January 1, 2020 700,000
Accumulated OCI (PSC) at January 1, 2020 150,000
Interest/discount (settlement) rate 10 %

Compute the pension expense for the year 2020.Prepare a pension worsheet inserting January 1 2020, balances, and journal entry recording pension expense.

Frolic corporation has budgeted sales and production over the next quarter as follows. the company has 4100 units of product on hand at july 1. 10% of the next months sales in units should be on hand at the end of each month. october sales are expected to be 72000 units. budgeted sales for september would be: july august september sales in units 41,500 53,500 ? production in units 45,700 53,800 58,150

Stock a has a beta of 1.2 and a standard deviation of 20%. stock b has a beta of 0.8 and a standard deviation of 25%. portfolio p has $200,000 consisting of $100,000 invested in stock a and $100,000 in stock b. which of the following statements is correct? (assume that the stocks are in equilibrium.) (a) stock b has a higher required rate of return than stock a. (b) portfolio p has a standard deviation of 22.5%. (c) portfolio p has a beta equal to 1.0. (d) more information is needed to determine the portfolio's beta. (e) stock a's returns are less highly correlated with the returns on most other stocks than are b's returns.

Which statement or statements are implied by equilibrium conditions of the loanable funds market? a firm borrowing in the loanable funds market invests those funds with a higher expected return than any firm that is not borrowing. investment projects which use borrowed funds are guaranteed to be profitable even after paying interest expenses. the quantity of savings is maximized, thus the quantity of investment is maximized. a loan is made at the minimum interest rate of all current borrowing.