Imprudential, inc., has an unfunded pension liability of $583 million that must be paid in 15 years. to assess the value of the firm’s stock, financial analysts want to discount this liability back to the present.

Suppose that with a budget of $110, deborah spends $66 on sushi and $44 on bagels when sushi costs $2 per piece and bagels cost $2 per bagel. but then, the price of bagels falls to $1 per bagel.

You are a newspaper publisher. you are in the middle of a one-year rental contract for your factory that requires you to pay $500,000 per month, and you have contractual labor obligations of $1 million per month that you can't get out of. you also have a marginal printing cost of $.25 per paper as well as a marginal delivery cost of $.10 per paper. if sales fall by 20 percent from 1 million papers per month to 800,000 papers per month, what happens to the afc per paper?

On january 1, a company issued and sold a $398,000, 6%, 10-year bond payable, and received proceeds of $393,000. interest is payable each june 30 and december 31. the company uses the straight-line method to amortize the discount. the journal entry to record the first interest payment is: