Derivatives: Derivatives are some financial instruments which are meant for managing risk and safeguard the risk created by other financial instruments. These financial instruments derive the values from the future value of underlying security or index. Some examples of derivatives are forward contracts, interest rate swaps, futures, and options.
Interest rate swap: This is a type of derivative used by two parties under a contract to exchange the consequences (net cash difference between interest payments) of fixed interest rate for floating interest rate, or vice versa, without exchanging the principal or notional amounts.
Debit and credit rules:
- Debit an increase in asset account, increase in expense account, decrease in liability account, and decrease in
stockholders’ equity accounts. - Credit decrease in asset account, increase in revenue account, increase in liability account, and increase in stockholders’ equity accounts.
To journalize: The entries of issue of note, interest payments, and
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- Danforth Industries had the following activities, traceable costs, and physical flow of driver units: • • Technical support (hours): $380,000 total cost, 10,000 hours Shipping processing (orders): $275,000 total cost, 3,600,000 orders • Account reconciliation (accounts): $145,000 total cost, 38,000 accounts Customer correspondence (letters): $50,000 total cost, 4,800 letters The above activities are used by Division A and Division B as follows: Technical support hours: 2,500 hours (Division A), 4,500 hours (Division B) Shipping processing orders: 480,000 orders (Division A), 210,000 orders (Division B) Account reconciliation accounts: 9,500 accounts (Division A), 8,200 accounts (Division B) Customer correspondence letters: 1,100 letters (Division A), 1,600 letters (Division B) How much of the technical support cost will be assigned to Division A?arrow_forwardProvide correct solution and accounting questionarrow_forwardGlenwood Industries made a $310,000 investment in new machinery. Assuming the company's margin is 6.5%, what income will be earned if the investment generates $600,000 in additional sales?arrow_forward
