Smith law firm specializes in the preparation of wills for estate planning. on october 1, 2021, the company begins operations by issuing stock for $12,000 and obtaining a loan from a local bank for $24,000. by the end of 2021, the company provides will preparation services of $31,000 cash and pays employee salaries of $22,000. in addition, smith pays $1,900 in cash dividends to stockholders on december 31, 2021. determine the amount of financing cash flows smith would report in 2021.

Apharmaceutical packaging company (ppc) has decided to reorganize its processes into cells. the company has four different production operations, each requiring a unique piece of equipment. the names and functions of the four pieces of equipment are sort, count, place, and package. the company packages five different families of products (a, b, c, d, and e). the tables below indicate the demand (total units/day by product family), required operations, and operation cycle times for each product family. assume that any individual piece of equipment is available to operate 16 hours/day, but 2 hours (in total) are lost each day on each piece of equipment due to breaks and meetings when operators are not available to operate the equipment. how many minutes/day are available for production

Consider two similar industries, portal crane manufacturing (pcm) and forklift manufacturing (flm). the pcm industry has exactly three incumbents with annual sales of $800 million, $200 million and $100 million, respectively. the flm industry has also exactly three incumbents, with annual sales of $500 million, $450 million and $400 million, respectively. which industry is more likely to experience a higher level of rivalry?

Amanager of a store that sells and installs spas wants to prepare a forecast for january and june of next year. her forecasts are a combination of trend and seasonality. she uses the following equation to estimate the trend component of monthly demand: ft = 30+5t, where t = 1 in january of this year. seasonal relatives are 0.60 for january and 1.50 for june. what demands should she predict for january and june of next year