Suppose that today’s date is April 15. A bond with a 8% coupon paid semiannually every January 15 and July 15 is quoted as selling at an ask price of 101.09. If you buy the bond from a dealer today, what price will you pay for it?

Microsoft's stock price peaked at 6118% of its ipo price more than 13 years after the ipo suppose that $10,000 invested in microsoft at its ipo price had been worth $600,000 (6000% of the ipo price) after exactly 13 years. what interest rate, compounded annually, does this represent? (round your answer to two decimal places.)

Doogan corporation makes a product with the following standard costs: standard quantity or hours standard price or rate direct materials 2.0 grams $ 7.00 per gram direct labor 1.6 hours $ 12.00 per hour variable overhead 1.6 hours $ 6.00 per hour the company produced 5,000 units in january using 10,340 grams of direct material and 2,320 direct labor-hours. during the month, the company purchased 10,910 grams of the direct material at $7.30 per gram. the actual direct labor rate was $12.85 per hour and the actual variable overhead rate was $5.80 per hour. the company applies variable overhead on the basis of direct labor-hours. the direct materials purchases variance is computed when the materials are purchased. the materials quantity variance for january is:

Alamar petroleum company offers its employees the option of contributing retirement funds up to 5% of their wages or salaries, with the contribution being matched by alamar. the company also pays 80% of medical and life insurance premiums. deductions relating to these plans and other payroll information for the first biweekly payroll period of february are listed as follows: wages and salaries $ 2,800,000 employee contribution to voluntary retirement plan 92,000 medical insurance premiums 50,000 life insurance premiums 9,800 federal income taxes to be withheld 480,000 local income taxes to be withheld 61,000 payroll taxes: federal unemployment tax rate 0.60 % state unemployment tax rate (after futa deduction) 5.40 % social security tax rate 6.20 % medicare tax rate 1.45 % required: prepare the appropriate journal entries to record salaries and wages expense and payroll tax expense for the biweekly pay period. assume that no employee's cumulative wages exceed the relevant wage bases for social security, and that all employees' cumulative wages do exceed the relevant unemployment wage bases.