Brooke owns a sole proprietorship in which she works as a management consultant. she maintains an office in her home where she meets with clients, prepares bills, and performs other work-related tasks. the home office is 300 square feet and the entire house is 4,500 square feet. brooke incurred the following home-related expenses during the year. unless indicated otherwise, assume brooke uses the actual expense method to compute home office expenses.

real property taxes $3,600
interest on home mortgage 14,000
operating expenses of home 5,000
depreciation 12,000
repairs to home theater room 1,000
required:

what amount of each of these expenses is allocated to the home office?
what are the total amounts of tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 expenses, respectively, allocated to the home office?
if brooke reported $2,000 of schedule c net income before the home office expense deduction, what is the amount of her home office expense deduction and what home office expenses, if any, would she carry over to next year?

Fred smithers, a recent college graduate decided to open his own portable juice bar, smithers smoothies, to wheel around newport beach. you, a trusted friend of fred, are a business major that has also recently graduated and agreed to handle the books for a while to get some practical experience and have a favor that you can ask of fred in the future. given the following five transactions concerning the new venture, prepare the necessary journal entries for the transactions, post the journal entries to appropriate t accounts and prepare a trial balance as of the end of the month in order to answer to the necessary may 2: fred invests $12,000 of his own money to start the new company. this money was obtained from a part-time job working at a legal firm while he was in school. may 3: fred spent $5,100 cash to purchase a refrigerated trailer that he can pull behind his car and set up at the beach. under your advice, fred agrees to place the new asset under an account called "equipment." may 6: fred bought $640 of supplies on account from the flav-o-rite confectioners company. because they will last longer than a single accounting period fred agrees to record them as, "supplies" as per your suggestion. may 13: fred sat on the beach for six hours without a single sale and was feeling very down. right before he left, however, a plumber escorting his family reunion along the beach stopped by his stand and bought $800 worth of smoothies for the entire family. under your advice, fred agrees to call this cash revenue, "sales." may 15: excited about his new venture, fred withdraws $350 from the company to take his girlfriend out to dinner. what would be the balance in the cash account at the end of the period following the posting of all the transactions?