Selected Data and Additional Information from the Company's Records Are

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Essay

Selected data and additional information from the company's records are presented below:
$\begin{array}{lrr} \underline{\text { Balance Sheet Data }} & \underline{\text { Year 2 }} & \underline{\text { Year 1 }} \\\text { Cash } & \$ 235,000 & 246,000 \\\text { Accounts receivable } & \$ 120,000 & \$ 150,000 \\\text { Inventories } & 56,000 & 50,000 \\\text { Accounts payable } & 38,000 & 70,000 \\\text { Salaries payable } & 10,000 & 5,000 \\\text { Equipment } & 110,000 & 70,000 \\\text { Accumulated depreciation } & 28,000 & 32,000 \\\text { Bonds payable } & 100,000 & 200,000 \\\text { Common shares } & 300,000 & 200,000 \\\text { Retained earnings } & 76,000 & 40,000\end{array}$

$\begin{array}{lr} \underline{\text { Income Statement Data }} & \underline{ \text { Year 2 }} \\ \text { Net sales } & \$ 920,000 \\\text { Cost of goods sold } & 700,000 \\\text { Operating expenses (excluding depreciation expense) } & 160,000 \\\text { Net income (including depreciation expense and gain) } & 56,000 \\\text { Gain on sale of equipment } & 4,000\end{array}$
Additional information:
1. Equpment with a cost of $30,000 and abogk value of \$18,000 was sald for $22,000 during Year 2.

2. Common shares were issued to retire bonds payable during Year 2.

3. The only items affecting retained earnings in Year 2 were net income and dividends declared and paid.
-Refer to Mary Kay Cosmetics.What amount was declared and paid for dividends during Year 2?

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Definitions:

Matched Pairs

A study design in which each subject is paired with a similar subject, usually to control for certain variables.

Independent Samples

Two or more groups of data that are not related or do not influence each other, often used in comparative experiments.

Nonrandom Samples

Nonrandom samples are samples that are not selected using random methods, which may result in a biased representation of the overall population.

Alternative Hypothesis

It proposes that there is a statistically significant relationship between variables, opposing the null hypothesis.