LONG-TERM DEBT INFORMATION IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. The Wall Street Journal, as currently published, is divided into three sections—a news sec- tion, a “Marketplace” section, and a “Money and Investing” section. The Money and Investing section contains a large amount of information concerning long-term debt securities.

REQUIRED:

1. Locate a recent copy of The Wall Street Journal. Prepare a list of the tables it contains that present information about long-term debt securities. For each table, write a sentence describing the debt securities to which it pertains and the information presented.

2. Write a brief paragraph that describes differences between the information presented about corporate debt securities in corporate financial statements and the information presented about those same instruments in The Wall Street Journal.