Your financial firm needs to borrow $500 million by selling time deposits with 180- day maturities. if interest rates on comparable deposits are currently at 3.5 percent, what is the cost of issuing these deposits? suppose interest rates rise to 4.5 percent. what then will be the cost of these deposits? what position and types of futures contract could be used to deal with this cost increase?

Below are the steps in the measurement process of external transactions. arrange them from first (1) to last (6). event step post transactions to the general ledger. assess whether the transaction results in a debit or credit to account balances. use source documents to identify accounts affected by an external transaction. analyze the impact of the transaction on the accounting equation. prepare a trial balance. record the transaction in a journal using debits and credits.