Larkspur, Inc. had the following assets and liabilities on the dates indicated.

December 31 Total Assets Total Liabilities
2018 $468,000 $324,000
2019 $548,000 $374,000
2020 $678,000 $474,000
Larkspur, began business on January 1, 2018, with an investment of $92,000 from stockholders.

From an analysis of the change in stockholders’ equity during the year, compute the net income (or loss) for:

(a) 2018, assuming Larkspur, paid $15,000 in dividends for the year.

Net income (loss) for 2018
$

(b) 2019, assuming stockholders made an additional investment of $45,000 and Larkspur, paid no dividends in 2019.

Net income (loss) for 2019
$

(c) 2020, assuming stockholders made an additional investment of $24,000 and Larkspur, paid dividends of $20,000 in 2020.

Net income (loss) for 2020

$

German brothels recently began offering a monthly subscription service for multiple purchasers. if you thought that the brothels' encouragement of prostitution was immoral to begin with, would you consider this pricing plan to be even more immoral? suppose a particular patron at a german brothel has the following willingness-to-pay schedule for services at the brothel, per session. session willingness to pay 1st $84 2nd $72 3rd $60 4th $48 5th $36 6th $24 suppose this consumer would not demand any more sessions, even for free. also assume that the marginal cost to the brothel, per session, is constant at $12. at a price of $78.00 per session, the number of sessions demanded by this consumer would be . at this price and quantity, consumer surplus is $ and producer surplus is $ . suppose the brothel has devised a new pricing scheme for consumers who demand more than 1 session. this pricing scheme is a subscription service, whereby consumers can pay a flat fee of $259.20 and can have up to 6 sessions total. using this subscription pricing model, this consumer would demand sessions. under this scenario, consumer surplus is $ and producer surplus is $ . (hint: for consumer surplus, consider how much total value the consumer places on all sessions, versus the total price paid.)