The board of directors of yancey company declared a cash dividend of $1.50 per share on 42,000 shares of common stock on july 15, 2014. the dividend is to be paid on august 15, 2014, to stockholders of record on july 31, 2014. the effects of the journal entry to record the declaration of the dividend on july 15, 2014, are toa. decrease stockholders' equity and increase liabilities. b. decrease stockholders' equity and decrease assets. c. increase stockholders' equity and increase liabilities. d. increase stockholders' equity and decrease assets.

Jung hwa was recently married on july 1, 2018. she had worked for the organization for the past eight years and has been covered under its group healthcare insurance policy during the entire period. when can jung hwa add her new spouse to her insurance plan?

You have $22,000 to invest in a stock portfolio. your choices are stock x with an expected return of 11 percent and stock y with an expected return of 13 percent. if your goal is to create a portfolio with an expected return of 11.74 percent, how much money will you invest in stock x? in stock y?

Fanning company is considering the addition of a new product to its cosmetics line. the company has three distinctly different options: a skin cream, a bath oil, or a hair coloring gel. relevant information and budgeted annual income statements for each of the products follow. skin cream bath oil color gel budgeted sales in units (a) 110,000 190,000 70,000 expected sales price (b) $8 $4 $11 variable costs per unit (c) $2 $2 $7 income statements sales revenue (a × b) $880,000 $760,000 $770,000 variable costs (a × c) (220,000) (380,000) (490,000) contribution margin 660,000 380,000 280,000 fixed costs (432,000) (240,000) (76,000) net income $228,000 $140,000 $204,000 required: (a) determine the margin of safety as a percentage for each product. (b) prepare revised income statements for each product, assuming a 20 percent increase in the budgeted sales volume. (c) for each product, determine the percentage change in net income that results from the 20 percent increase in sales. (d) assuming that management is pessimistic and risk averse, which product should the company add to its cosmetics line? (e) assuming that management is optimistic and risk aggressive, which product should the company add to its cosmetics line?