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Universal Leasing leases electronic equipment to a variety of businesses. The company's primary service is providing alternate financing by acquiring equipment and leasing it to customers under long-term sales-type leases. Universal earns interest under these : arrangements at a 12% annual rate. The company leased an electronic typesetting machine it purchased for $38,900 to a local publisher, Desktop Inc. on December 31 2017. The lease contract specified annual payments of $8,507 beginning January 1, 2018, the beginning of the lease, and each December 31 through 2019 (three-year lease term). The publisher had the option to purchase the machine on December 30, 2020, the end of the lease term, for $22,500 when it was expected to have a residual value of $26,500, a sufficient difference that exercise seems reasonably certain. (FV of $1, PV of $1, FVA of $1, PVA of $1, FVAD of $1 and PVAD of $1) (Use appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided.) Required: 1. Show how Universal calculated the $8,507 annual lease payments for this sales-type lease. 2. Prepare an amortization schedule that describes the pattern of interest revenue for Universal Leasing over the lease term. 3. Prepare the appropriate entries for Universal Leasing from the beginning of the lease through the end of the lease term. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below Required 1Required 2 Required 3 Show how Universal calculated the $8,507 annual lease payments for this sales-type lease. (Round your intermediate and final answers to the nearest whole dollar amount.)

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