Straight Industries purchased a large piece of equipment from Curvy Company on January 1, 2019. Straight Industries signed a note, agreeing to pay Curvy Company $350,000 for the equipment on December 31, 2021. The market rate of interest for similar notes was 8%. The present value of $350,000 discounted at 8% for three years was $277,841. On January 1, 2019, Straight Industries recorded the purchase with a debit to equipment for $277,841 and a credit to notes payable for $277,841. On December 31, 2019, Straight recorded an adjusting entry to account for interest that had accrued on the note. Assuming no adjusting entries have been made during the year, the interest expense accrued at December 31, 2019 is closest to:

Beta coefficients and the capital asset pricing model personal finance problem katherine wilson is wondering how much risk she must undertake to generate an acceptable return on her porfolio. the risk-free return currently is 4%. the return on the overall stock market is 14%. use the capm to calculate how high the beta coefficient of katherine's portfolio would have to be to achieve a portfolio return of 16%.

In december of 2004, the company you own entered into a 20-year contract with a grain supplier for daily deliveries of grain to its hot dog bun manufacturing facility. the contract called for "10,000 pounds of grain" to be delivered to the facility at the price of $100,000 per day. until february 2017, the supplier provided processed grain which could easily be used in your manufacturing process. however, no longer wanting to absorb the cost of having the grain processed, the supplier began delivering whole grain. the supplier is arguing that the contract does not specify the type of grain that would be supplied and that it has not breached the contract. your company is arguing that the supplier has an onsite processing plant and processed grain was implicit to the terms of the contract. over the remaining term of the contract, reshipping and having the grain processed would cost your company approximately $10,000,000, opposed to a cost of around $1,000,000 to the supplier. after speaking with in-house counsel, it was estimated that litigation would cost the company several million dollars and last for years. weighing the costs of litigation, along with possible ambiguity in the contract, what are three options you could take to resolve the dispute? which would be the best option for your business and why?

Gross output (go) reflects the overall status of the productive side of the economy better than gdp does. a. true b. false