Which of the following statements is correct? a. most sinking funds require the issuer to provide funds to a trustee, who saves the money so that it will be available to pay off bondholders when the bonds mature. b. a sinking fund provision makes a bond more risky to investors at the time of issuance. c. if interest rates have increased since a company issued bonds with a sinking fund, the company is less likely to retire the bonds by buying them back in the open market, as opposed to calling them in at the sinking fund call price. d. sinking fund provisions sometimes turn out to adversely affect bondholders, and this is most likely to occur if interest rates decline after the bond has been issued. e. sinking fund provisions never require companies to retire their debt; they only establish "targets" for the company to reduce its debt over time.

Melissa is a very generous single woman. before this year, she had given over $11,400,000 in taxable gifts over the years and has completely exhausted her applicable credit amount. in the current year, melissa gave her daughter riley $100,000 and promptly filed her gift tax return. melissa did not make any other gifts this year. how much gift tax must riley pay the irs because of this transaction?

Verizon communications, inc., provides the following footnote relating to its leasing activities in its 10-k report. the aggregate minimum rental commitments under noncancelable leases for the periods shown at december 31, 2010, are as follows: years (dollars in millions) capital leases operatingleases 2011 $97 $1,898 2012 74 1,720 2013 70 1,471 2014 54 1,255 2015 42 1,012 thereafter 81 5,277 total minimum 418 $ 12,633 rental commitments less interest and (86) executory costs present value of 332 minimum lease payments less current (75) installments long-term obligation $257 at december 31, 2010 (a) confirm that verizon capitalized its capital leases using a rate of 7.4 %. (b) compute the present value of verizon's operating leases, assuming an 7.4% discount rate and rounding the remaining lease term to 3 decimal places. (use a financial calculator or excel to compute. do not round until your final answers. round each answer to the nearest whole number.)

Do a swot analysis for the business idea you chose in question 2 above. describe at least 2 strengths, 2 weaknesses, 2 opportunities, and 2 threats for that company idea.