Answer:
a. re > rs > WACC > rd.
Explanation:
Re represents cost of equity
Rs represents cost of retained earnings
WACC represents Weighted average cost of capital
Rd represents cost of debt
Basically the cost of equity is highest as there is no assured return on such equity investment.
Cost of retained earnings is less than cost of equity because amount invested is already in hands of company, although belonging to equity holders, thus is higher than total weighted cost of capital.
WACC is the cost after providing weights to every source of capital it is lower then equity, higher than debt because of average.
Cost of debt is lowest because of tax benefit from it.
Answer:
c. an estimate of a plant asset's value at the end of its useful life
Explanation:
The salvage value or the residual value is the estimated value of the fixed asset which can be received at the end of its useful life. So, neither it is a fair market value of a plant asset , nor it is deducted from the accumulated depreciation.
The treatment of the residual value under the straight-line method or any other method is shown below:
The depreciation expense under the straight-line method is shown below:
= (Original cost - residual value) ÷ estimated life in years
The residual value should always be deducted from the original cost of fixed asset
Answer:Yes it should be reported.
$2.8 million should be reported in the the balance sheet as a liability.
Explanation: Contingent liabilities are liabilities that depend on the outcome of an event that may likely not occur.
Before they can be reported in financial statement, it must be able to estimate the value of such contingent liability and the liability must have a higher than 50% possiblity of being achieved.
If the value can be estimated, then the liability has a higher chance of being realised.
Qualifying contingent liabilities such as the $2.8 million estimated by Top Sound International should be recorded in the income statement as an expense and a liability on the balance sheet.
Therefore the $2.8 million liability should be reported in its 2018 balance sheet
Answer: b) lower in long-run equilibrium than in short-run equilibrium.
Explanation:
A self regulating economy will try to move to the long run Equilibrium.
From the graph attached you will notice that the Price Level at the point where the Long Run Curve intersects with the Aggregate Demand curve is lower than the point where the Short Run Supply curve intersects with the same Aggregate Supply.
This means that Prices in the long term at equilibrium will be less than prices in the short term at Equilibrium should the Economy be a self regulating type that will move towards a long term Equilibrium.
