In its first year of operations, 2020, Marigold Corp. invoiced $185,000 in service revenue. Of that amount, $20,000 was still owing from customers at the end of year. In 2020, Marigold incurred various operating expenses totaling $91,000, of which $82,000 was paid in cash. Salaries and wages paid to employees totaled $75,000 and $2,400 was still owing at the end of the year. In addition, Marigold prepaid $5,500 for insurance coverage that covered the last half of 2020 and the first half of 2021. Marigold estimates it will owe $8,600 in income tax when it files its corporate income tax return after its 2020 year end. Calculate the net income for 2020 under the accrual basis of accounting.

You are an employee of an u. s. firm that produces personal computers in thailand and then exports them to the united states and other countries for sale. the personal computers were originally produced in thailand to take advantage of relatively low labor costs and a skilled workforce. other possible locations considered at that time were malaysia and hong kong. the u. s. government decides to impose punitive 100% ad valorem tariffs on imports of computers from thailand to punish the country for administrative trade barriers that restrict u. s. exports to thailand. how do you think your firm should respond? what does this tell you about the use of targeted trade barriers?

Companies in the u. s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct

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