1. Taylor Rule. Suppose the Quarter 1 2020 federal funds rate was 0.25%. If the output gap is -7% and the inflation gap is -5%, according to the Taylor Rule, what is the Fed’s target rate for Quarter 2 of 2020?

Assume you have received an invoice dated April 12, 2020 for $15,670.00 with terms of 2/10/n30. How much will you pay, assuming you will send payment on Monday, April 20, 2020.

Ivanhoe Company, a machinery dealer, leased a machine to Dexter Corporation on January 1, 2020. The lease is for an 8-year period and requires equal annual payments of $30,992 at the beginning of each year. The first payment is received on January 1, 2020. Ivanhoe had purchased the machine during 2016 for $142,000. Collectibility of lease payments by Ivanhoe is probable. Ivanhoe set the annual rental to ensure a 6% rate of return. The machine has an economic life of 10 years with no residual value and reverts to Ivanhoe at the termination of the lease.

Compute the amount of the lease receivable.

Prepare all necessary journal entries for Ivanhoe for 2020

Suppose the collectibility of the lease payments was not probable for Ivanhoe. Prepare the necessary journal entry for the company in 2020

Easy Company bought a piece of equipment four years ago. At December 31, 2020, the company revalued the equipment to its fair value. The following information relates to the equipment

Original cost: $1,200; Residual value: $ 200; Estimated useful life from purchase date: 10 years; Years used to December 31, 2020: 4 years; Fair value at December 31, 2020: $966; Depreciation method is straight-line.

Required:

1. Determine the depreciation expense for 2020.
2. Record the journal entry adjustment for the revaluation, using the ‘asset adjustment’method.
3. Determine the depreciation expense for 2021.
4. Assume that the fair value at the end of 2022 is $468. Record the journal entry for depreciation first for 2022, and then the entry related to this new fair value for 2022.

The DeVille Company reported pretax accounting income on its income statement as follows:
   

   
Included in the income of 2018 was an installment sale of property in the amount of $68,000. However, for tax purposes, DeVille reported the income in the year cash was collected. Cash collected on the installment sale was $27,200 in 2019, $34,000 in 2020, and $6,800 in 2021.

Included in the 2020 income was $29,000 interest from investments in municipal bonds.

The enacted tax rate for 2018 and 2019 was 30%, but during 2019 new tax legislation was passed reducing the tax rate to 25% for the years 2020 and beyond

Prepare the year-end journal entries to record income taxes for the years 2018–2021.

Construction Ltd. had the following activity related to its shares for the year ended December 31, 2020. Common shares outstanding, January 1: 150,000 $3, cumulative preferred shares outstanding, January 1: 3,000 During 2020 April 1: Declared a 2-for-1 stock split on common shares July 1: Issued 20,000 common shares. August 1: Issued 1,000 $2, non-cumulative preferred shares. October 1: Repurchased 50,000 common shares. December 1: Declared a 15% stock dividend on common shares. Net income for the year was $476,000. No dividends were declared or paid in 2020. Required : Calculate basic earnings per share for 2020. Round to the nearest cent.

Using C programming

I have a file that contains earthquake data that I will copy and paste below. I want to use either bubble or insertion sort to sort the file by latitude in ascending order, then create a new file containing the sorted data.

example file to sort:

time,latitude,longitude,depth,mag,magType,nst,gap,dmin,rms,net
2020-10-17T17:22:03.840Z,32.877,-116.2991667,0.31,1.16,ml,21,119,0.07747,0.26,ci
2020-10-17T17:17:29.980Z,34.1611667,-116.452,2.75,0.87,ml,17,66,0.05224,0.22,ci
2020-10-17T17:03:54.460Z,33.5396667,-116.4613333,8.66,0.63,ml,18,126,0.06084,0.16,ci
2020-10-17T16:55:01.080Z,63.254,-151.5232,8,1.4,ml,,,,0.9,ak

Crane Company had $290,600 of net income in 2019 when the selling price per unit was $154, the variable costs per unit were $94, and the fixed costs were $573,400. Management expects per unit data and total fixed costs to remain the same in 2020. The president of Crane Company is under pressure from stockholders to increase net income by $57,600 in 2020.

A. Compute the number of units sold in 2019

B. Compute the number of units that would have to be sold in 2020 to reach the stockholders' desired profit level.

C. Assume that Crane Company sells the same number of units in 2020 as it did in 2019. What would the selling price have to be in order to reach the stockholders' desired profit level?

Meyer reported the following pretax financial income (loss) for the years 2020–2022. 2020 $120,000 2021 (150,000) 2022 180,000 Pretax financial income (loss) and taxable income (loss) were the same for all years involved. The enacted tax rate was 20% for 2020–2022. Instructions a. Prepare the journal entries for the years 2020–2022 to record income tax expense, income taxes payable, and the tax effects of the loss carryforward, assuming that based on the weight of available evidence, it is more likely than not that one-fifth of the benefits of the loss carryforward will not be realized.

I am not sure what the correct solution is on your website.

Do we need an allowance journal entry for the years 2021 and 2022 to record the NOL Carryforward benefit?

a. Record income tax expense, deferred income taxes, and income taxes payable for 2020, assuming that it is more likely than not that the deferred tax asset will be realized.

b. Assuming that it is more likely than not that $15,000 of the deferred tax asset will not be realized, prepare the journal entry at the end of 2020 to record the valuation account.