On march 1, showcase co., a furniture wholesaler, sells merchandise to balboa co. on account, $259,040, terms n/30. the cost of the merchandise sold is $152,710. on march 5, showcase co. issues a credit memo for $31,930 for merchandise returned prior to balboa co. paying the original invoice on march 29. the cost of the merchandise returned is $16,530. journalize balboa co.’s entries for (a) the purchase, (b) the return of the merchandise for credit, and (c) the payment of the invoice. refer to the chart of accounts for exact wording of account titles.

Wallis company manufactures only one product and uses a standard cost system. the company uses a predetermined plantwide overhead rate that relies on direct labor-hours as the allocation base. all of the company's manufacturing overhead costs are fixed—it does not incur any variable manufacturing overhead costs. the predetermined overhead rate is based on a cost formula that estimated $2,886,000 of fixed manufacturing overhead for an estimated allocation base of 288,600 direct labor-hours. wallis does not maintain any beginning or ending work in process inventory.

Karen is working on classifying all her company’s products in terms of whether they have strong or weak market share and whether this share is in a slow or growing market. what type of strategic framework is she using?

Consider a treasury bill with a rate of return of 5% and the following risky securities: security a: e(r) = .15; variance = .0400 security b: e(r) = .10; variance = .0225 security c: e(r) = .12; variance = .1000 security d: e(r) = .13; variance = .0625 the investor must develop a complete portfolio by combining the risk-free asset with one of the securities mentioned above. the security the investor should choose as part of her complete portfolio to achieve the best cal would be a. security a b. security b c. security c d. security d