iSooky has a spotter truck with a book value of $52,000 and a remaining useful life of 5 years. At the end of the five years the spotter truck will have a zero salvage value. The market value of the spotter truck is currently $38,000. iSooky can purchase a new spotter truck for $132,000 and receive $32,200 in return for trading in its old spotter truck. The new spotter truck will reduce variable manufacturing costs by $26,200 per year over the five-year life of the new spotter truck. The total increase or decrease in income by replacing the current spotter truck with the new truck (ignoring the time value of money) is:

Which of the following statements is not correct? the stock of publicly owned companies must generally be registered with and reported to a regulatory agency such as the sec. when stock in a closely held corporation is offered to the public for the first time, the transaction is called "going public, or an ipo," and the market for such stock is called the new issue or ipo market. "going public" establishes a firm's true intrinsic value and ensures that a liquid market will always exist for the firm's shares. if you wanted to know what rate of return stocks have provided in the past, you could examine data on the dow jones industrial index, the s& p 500 index, or the nasdaq index.