A loan with the following terms is being made: Fixed rate, constant monthly payment. Closing date February 9th. 9% interest rate. Prepaid interest due at closing. $70,000 mortgage loan amount. $1,500 loan discount points to be paid by the buyer/borrower to the lender. 25-year term, monthly payments, fully amortizing.

a. Calculate the APR for federal truth-in-lending purposes.
b. Do you think that the APR calculated in (a) reflects the likely return that the lender will receive over the term of the loan? List specific reasons that the lender’s actual return might be different from the APR.

Overspeculation and a decrease in consumer confidence are both leading factors of: ?

Lynch company manufactures and sells a single product. the following costs were incurred during the company’s first year of operations: variable costs per unit: manufacturing: direct materials $ 12 direct labor $ 6 variable manufacturing overhead $ 1 variable selling and administrative $ 1 fixed costs per year: fixed manufacturing overhead $ 308,000 fixed selling and administrative $ 218,000 during the year, the company produced 28,000 units and sold 15,000 units. the selling price of the company’s product is $56 per unit. required: 1. assume that the company uses absorption costing: a. compute the unit product cost. b. prepare an income statement for the year. 2. assume that the company uses variable costing: a. compute the unit product cost. b. prepare an income statement for the year.

The retained earnings account has a credit balance of $24,650 before closing entries are made. if total revenues for the period are $77,700, total expenses are $56,900, and dividends are $13,050, what is the ending balance in the retained earnings account after all closing entries are made?