On January 1, 2021, Sandhill Corporation signed a 5-year noncancelable lease for equipment. The terms of the lease called for Sandhill to make annual payments of $208000 at the beginning of each year for 5 years beginning on January 1, 2021 with the title passing to Sandhill at the end of this period. The equipment has an estimated useful life of 7 years and no salvage value. Sandhill uses the straight-line method of depreciation for all of its fixed assets. Sandhill accordingly accounts for this lease transaction as a finance lease. The lease payments were determined to have a present value of $867332 at an effective interest rate of 10%. In 2021, Sandhill should record interest expense of: a. $86733.
b. $65933.
c. $142067.
d. $121267.

Accublade castings inc. casts blades for turbine engines. within the casting department, alloy is first melted in a crucible, then poured into molds to produce the castings. on may 1, there were 230 pounds of alloy in process, which were 60% complete as to conversion. the work in process balance for these 230 pounds was $32,844, determined as follows: exercises during may, the casting department was charged $350,000 for 2,500 pounds of alloy and $19,840 for direct labor. factory overhead is applied to the department at a rate of 150% of direct labor. the department transferred out 2,530 pounds of finished castings to the machining department. the may 31 inventory in process was 44% complete as to conversion. prepare the following may journal entries for the casting department: the materials charged to production the conversion costs charged to production the completed production transferred to the machining department determine the work in process"casting department may 31 balance.

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The treasurer for pittsburgh iron works wishes to use financial futures to hedge her interest rate exposure. she will sell five treasury futures contracts at $139,000 per contract. it is july and the contracts must be closed out in december of this year. long-term interest rates are currently 7.30 percent. if they increase to 9.50 percent, assume the value of the contracts will go down by 20 percent. also if interest rates do increase by 2.2 percent, assume the firm will have additional interest expense on its business loans and other commitments of $149,000. this expense, of course, will be separate from the futures contracts. a. what will be the profit or loss on the futures contract if interest rates increase to 9.50 percent by december when the contract is closed out