Answer:
in order for Cora's company to properly record this sale it must use the present value of the future payments.
First it must calculate the 8 equal payments (we could do it using a loan calculator or excel spreadsheet), and then it must calculate the present value of the payments either individually using PV = FV(n) / 1.08ⁿ or by using a table with the future value of the annuity.