Cannon Sporting Goods is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of athletic shoes and sports apparel. The following activities occurred during a recent year. The amounts are rounded to millions, except for par value. a. Purchased additional buildings for $170 and equipment for $260; paid $410 in cash and signed a long-term note for the rest.
b. Issued 110 shares of $2 par value common stock for $350 cash.
c. Declared $145 in dividends to be paid in the following year.
d. Purchased additional short-term investments for $7,716 cash.
e. Several Cannon Sporting Goods investors sold their own stock to other investors on the stock exchange for $88.
f. Sold $4,313 in short-term investments for $4,313 in cash.

Required:
For each of the events (a) through (f), perform transaction analysis and indicate the account, amount, and direction of the effect (+ for increase and - for decrease) on the accounting equation.

Recently, verizon wireless ran a pricing trial in order to estimate the elasticity of demand for its services. the manager selected three states that were representative of its entire service area and increased prices by 5 percent to customers in those areas. one week later, the number of customers enrolled in verizon's cellular plans declined 4 percent in those states, while enrollments in states where prices were not increased remained flat. the manager used this information to estimate the own-price elasticity of demand and, based on her findings, immediately increased prices in all market areas by 5 percent in an attempt to boost the company's 2016 annual revenues. one year later, the manager was perplexed because verizon's 2016 annual revenues were 10 percent lower than those in 2015"the price increase apparently led to a reduction in the company's revenues. did the manager make an error? yes - the one-week measures show demand is inelastic, so a price increase will decrease revenues. yes - the one-week measures show demand is elastic, so a price increase will reduce revenues. yes - cell phone elasticity is likely much larger in the long-run than the short-run. no - the cell phone market must have changed between 2011 and 2012 for this price increase to lower revenues.

It is estimated that over 100,000 students will apply to the top 30 m. b.a. programs in the united states this year. a. using the concept of net present value and opportunity cost, when is it rational for an individual to pursue an m. b.a. degree. b. what would you expect to happen to the number of applicants if the starting salaries of managers with m. b.a. degrees remained constant but salaries of managers without such degrees decreased by 20 percent

Last year ann arbor corp had $155,000 of assets, $305,000 of sales, $20,000 of net income, and a debt-to-total-assets ratio of 37.5%. the new cfo believes a new computer program will enable it to reduce costs and thus raise net income to $33,000. assets, sales, and the debt ratio would not be affected. by how much would the cost reduction improve the roe? a. 11.51%b. 12.11%c. 12.75%d. 13.42%e. 14.09%