Consider the following simplified financial statements for the Fire Corporation (assuming no income taxes): Income Statement

Sales

$39,914

Costs

$20,393

Balance Sheet

Assets

$54,772

Debt

$33,939

Equity

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The company has predicted a sales increase of 15 percent. It has predicted that every item on the balance sheet will increase by 15 percent as well.

How much dividends should be paid to reconcile the pro forma balance sheet?

step-by-step explanation:

answer: c, the green line

step-by-step explanation:

there is no black line, eliminate b.

simple interest implies periodic payments, but the red line shows no payments, eliminate d.

simple interest has equal payments. if paid say every day, the graph is about a straight line (actually a stairstep).

the yellow line is not straight, eliminate a.

check: the green line is straight, answer is c.

simple interest with positive interest rate gives a straight line sloping up to the right. green line:

g(t) = $100 + ($200-$100) ÷ (20 years) × (t years)

= $100 + (4%/year) × ($100)(t years)

incidentally, the yellow line curving upward represents continuously compounded interest

y = $100 × 2^(t years / (14 assuming the yellow line hits $200 at 14 years. 2^0 is 1, so y(0) = $100; 2^(14/14) is 2, so y(14) = $200.

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