President truman once said he wanted to find a one-armed economist because when he asked his economists for advice, they always answered, "on the one hand, on the other hand, " truman's observation that economists' advice is not always straightforward is rooted in the principle that people face tradeoffs. indicates that economists recognize that there are opportunity costs associated with policy decisions. confirms that economists are not suited to be presidential advisers. more than one of the above is correct.

Prepare journal entries for each transaction and identify the financial statement impact of each entry. the financial statements are automatically generated based on the journal entries recorded. apr. 1 tanner invested $80,000 cash along with office equipment valued at $26,000 in the company in exchange for common stock. apr. 2 the company prepaid $9,000 cash for 12 months' rent for office space. the company's policy is record prepaid expenses in balance sheet accounts. apr. 3 the company made credit purchases for $8,000 in office equipment and $3,600 in office supplies. payment is due within 10 days. apr. 6 the company completed services for a client and immediately received $4,000 cash. apr. 9 the company completed a $6,000 project for a client, who must pay within 30 days. apr. 13 the company paid $11,600 cash to settle the account payable created on april 3.apr. 19 the company paid $2,400 cash for the premium on a 12-month insurance policy. the company's policy is record prepaid expenses in balance sheet accounts. apr. 22 the company received $4,400 cash as partial payment for the work completed on april 9.apr. 25 the company completed work for another client for $2,890 on credit. apr. 28 the company paid $5,500 cash in dividends. apr. 29 the company purchased $600 of additional office supplies on credit. apr. 30 the company paid $435 cash for this month's utility bill.

Consider the following limit order book for a share of stock. the last trade in the stock occurred at a price of $50. limit buy orders limit sell orders price shares price shares $49.75 500 $49.80 100 49.70 900 49.85 100 49.65 700 49.90 300 49.60 400 49.95 100 48.65 600 a. if a market buy order for 100 shares comes in, at what price will it be filled? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) b. at what price would the next market buy order be filled? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) c. if you were a security dealer, would you want to increase or decrease your inventory of this stock? increase decrease

Pennewell publishing inc. (pp) is a zero growth company. it currently has zero debt and its earnings before interest and taxes (ebit) are $80,000. pp's current cost of equity is 10%, and its tax rate is 40%. the firm has 10,000 shares of common stock outstanding selling at a price per share of $48.00. refer to the data for pennewell publishing inc. (pp). pp is considering changing its capital structure to one with 30% debt and 70% equity, based on market values. the debt would have an interest rate of 8%. the new funds would be used to repurchase stock. it is estimated that the increase in risk resulting from the added leverage would cause the required rate of return on equity to rise to 12%. if this plan were carried out, what would be pp's new value of operations? a. $484,359 b. $521,173 c. $584,653 d. $560,748 e. $487,805