On January 1, the Sleepy Monk Coffee Shop paid $39,000 for a full year of rent beginning on January 1. The rent payment was appropriately recorded in the Cash and Prepaid Rent accounts. If financial statements are prepared on January 31, the journal entry to record the adjustment would be:

a. Debit Rent expense and credit prepaid rent for $1,500.
b. Debit Rent expense and credit prepaid rent for $18,000.
c. Debit prepaid rent and credit rent expense for $18,000.
d. Debit prepaid rent and credit rent expense for $1,500.

Suppose you hold a portfolio consisting of a $10,000 investment in each of 8 different common stocks. the portfolio's beta is 1.25. now suppose you decided to sell one of your stocks that has a beta of 1.00 and to use the proceeds to buy a replacement stock with a beta of 1.55. what would the portfolio's new beta be? do not round your intermediate calculations.

Best burger is a major fast food chain. its managers are motivated to grow the firm in order to increase their market power and change the industry structure in their favor. which of the following strategies is most associated with their motive for growth? a. employing celebrity spokespeople b. implementing automated burger-making machinery c. purchasing competitors d. increasing executive salaries

Stormie zanzibar owns a bakery in the fictitious country of olombia. each month the government’s market ministry mails her a large list of the regulated price of goods which include products like bread, muffins and flat bread. the list also dictates the types of goods she can sell at the bakery and what she is to charge. because of the regulations placed on these goods, stormie has increased her production of sweets, pies, cakes, croissants and buns and decreased her supply of breads, muffins and flat bread. she has taken these steps because the sweet goods’ prices are not government controlled. stormie zanzibar lives under what type of economy?