Corridor approach (amortization of net gains and losses.)Gibbs Company has 200 employees who are expected to receive benefits under the company's defined-benefit pension plan. The total number of service-years of these employees is 2,000. The actuary for the company's pension plan calculated the following net gains and losses:For the Year EndedDecember 31 (Gain) Or Loss2014 $640,0002015 (554,000)2016 990,000Prior to 2014, there was no unrecognized net gain or loss. Information about the company's projected benefit obligation and market-related (and fair) value of plan assets follows:As of January 1 2014 2015 2016Projected benefit obligation $2,100,000 $2,340,000 $2,940,000Fair value of plan assets 1,680,000 2,460,000 2,550,000InstructionsBased on the above information about Gibbs Company, prepare a schedule which reflects the amount of net gain or loss to be amortized by the company as a component of pension expense for the years 2014, 2015, and 2016. The company amortizes net gains or losses using the straight-line method over the average service life of participating employees.

Part i a company's cereal is not selling well. create a 10-15-question survey that measures customers' preferences for the company's cereal product. then, answer the following questions: how many scale items will you put in the survey? justify your answer. will you use multiple-choice questions? why or why not? how many scale points will you use in the survey? justify your answer. what data type will be used in the survey? justify your answer. part ii as a second part of this assignment, create a set of survey questions, assuming that you sell cars. you are attempting to measure how customers perceive the quality of the cars that you sell. create three survey questions with simple category scales. justify why you selected those questions and scales. create three survey questions with multiple-choice, single-response scales. justify why you selected those questions and scales. create three survey questions with multiple-choice, multiple-response scales. justify why you selected those questions and scales. create three survey questions with likert scale summated ratings. justify why you selected those questions and scales.

Stocks a, b, and c are similar in some respects: each has an expected return of 10% and a standard deviation of 25%. stocks a and b have returns that are independent of one another; i.e., their correlation coefficient, r, equals zero. stocks a and c have returns that are negatively correlated with one another; i.e., r is less than 0. portfolio ab is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half in stock b. portfolio ac is a portfolio with half of its money invested in stock a and half invested in stock c. which of the following statements is correct? a. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is greater than 25%.b. portfolio ac has an expected return that is less than 10%.c. portfolio ac has a standard deviation that is less than 25%.d. portfolio ab has a standard deviation that is equal to 25%.e. portfolio ac has an expected return that is greater than 25%.

Gideon company uses the allowance method of accounting for uncollectible accounts. on may 3, the gideon company wrote off the $2,000 uncollectible account of its customer, a. hopkins. on july 10, gideon received a check for the full amount of $2,000 from hopkins. on july 10, the entry or entries gideon makes to record the recovery of the bad debt is