Light Corporation owns 80 percent of Sound Company's voting shares. On January 1, 20X7, Sound sold bonds with a par value of $300,000 when the market rate was 7 percent. Light purchased two thirds of the bonds; the remainder was sold to nonaffiliates. The bonds mature in ten years and pay an annual interest rate of 6 percent. Interest is paid semiannually on June 30 and Dec 31.

1. Based on the information given above, what amount of interest expense should be reported in the 20X8 consolidated income statement? Assume straight-line amortization method is used.

a. $0

b. $6,711

c. $3,355

d. $13,421

2. Based on the information given above, what amount of interest expense will be eliminated in the preparation of the 20X8 consolidated financial statements? Assume straight-line amortization method is used.

A. $13,421

B. $13,023

C. $6,711

D. $6,500

Sean lives in dallas and runs a business that sells boats. in an average year, he receives $722,000 from selling boats. of this sales revenue, he must pay the manufacturer a wholesale cost of $422,000; he also pays wages and utility bills totaling $268,000. he owns his showroom; if he chooses to rent it out, he will receive $2,000 in rent per year. assume that the value of this showroom does not depreciate over the year. also, if sean does not operate this boat business, he can work as a paralegal, receive an annual salary of $21,000 with no additional monetary costs, and rent out his showroom at the $2,000 per year rate. no other costs are incurred in running this boat business.identify each of sean's costs in the following table as either an implicit cost or an explicit cost of selling boats.implicit costexplicit costthe wages and utility bills that sean pays the rental income sean could receive if he chose to rent out his showroom the salary sean could earn if he worked as a paralegal the wholesale cost for the boats that sean pays the