You sell 100 shares short of AMF Corporation when it is selling at $45 per share. Your margin requirement is 60% and the commission on the sale is $50 and the broker charges 10% annual interest. AMF Corporation paid a $0.50 per share dividend while you were short the stock. After one year you cover your short sale at $35 per share with a $50 commission for the purchase. 1. What is your total dollar return on this investment?
2. What is your annual rate of return on this investment?
3. Suppose you purchase 200 shares of Best Hat Corporation at $52 a share by making a margin deposit of 50%. If the maintenance margin is 30%, at what price will you receive a margin call?

In three to four sentences, explain the effect of a price ceiling on the quantity of a good and who this intervention intends to assist

Required prepare the necessary adjusting entries in the general journal as of december 31, assuming the following: on september 1, the company entered into a prepaid equipment maintenance contract. birch company paid $3,400 to cover maintenance service for six months, beginning september 1. the payment was debited to prepaid maintenance. supplies on hand at december 31 are $3,900. unearned commission fees at december 31 are $7,000. commission fees earned but not yet billed at december 31 are $3,500. (note: debit fees receivable.) birch company's lease calls for rent of $1,600 per month payable on the first of each month, plus an annual amount equal to 1% of annual commissions earned. this additional rent is payable on january 10 of the following year. (note: be sure to use the adjusted amount of commissions earned in computing the additional rent.)

Richardson hired j. c. flood company, a plumbing contractor, to correct a stoppage in the sewer line of her house. the plumbing company's 'snake' device, used to clear the line leading to the main sewer, became caught in the underground line. to release it, the company excavated a portion of the sewer line in richardson's backyard. in the process, the company discovered numerous leaks in a rusty, defective water pipe that ran parallel with the sewer line. to meet public regulations, the water pipe, of a type no longer approved for such service, had to be replaced either then or later, when the yard would have to be excavated again. the plumbing company proceeded to repair the water pipe. though richardson inspected the company's work daily and did not express any objection to the extra work involved in replacing the water pipe, she refused to pay any part of the total bill after the company completed the entire operation. j. c. flood company then sued richardson for the costs of labor and material it had furnished. (c) for what, if anything, should richardson be liable? explain."