A Donor Agrees to Contribute $5,000 Per Year at the End

question 54

Multiple Choice

A donor agrees to contribute $5,000 per year at the end of each of the next five years to a voluntary health and welfare organization.The donor did not place any use restrictions on the amount pledged.The stream of the payments is discounted at 6 percent.The first payment of $5,000 is received at the end of the first year.The present value factor for a five-payment annuity due on June 30,20X9,at 6 percent is 4.2124.The present value factor for a four-payment annuity due on June 30,20X9,at 6 percent is 3.4651.
-Based on the preceding information,the increase in present value of the contributions receivable recognized at the end of the first year equals:

• A)$5,000.
• B)$1,264.
• C)$4,212.
• D)$787.

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Definitions:

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data that is used in a hypothesis test to make a decision about the null hypothesis.

Sample Data

Data collected from a subset of a population, used to make inferences or predictions about the larger group.

Population Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points in a population, calculated by taking the average of the squared differences from the mean.

Critical Value

A threshold or boundary in hypothesis testing that defines the cutoff between the rejection or non-rejection of the null hypothesis.