During the current year, the company had the following summarized activities: Purchased short-term investments for $8,000 cash.
Lent $6,300 to a supplier who signed a two-year note.
Purchased equipment that cost $24,000; paid $6,000 cash and signed a one-year note for the balance.
Hired a new president at the end of the year. The contract was for $95,000 per year plus options to purchase company stock at a set price based on company performance. The new president begins her position on January 1 of next year.
Issued an additional 3,000 shares of $0.50 par value common stock for $11,000 cash.
Borrowed $16,000 cash from a local bank, payable in three months.
Purchased a patent (an intangible asset) for $1,400 cash.
Built an addition to the factory for $21,000; paid $7,800 in cash and signed a three-year note for the balance.
Returned defective equipment to the manufacturer, receiving a cash refund of $2,100.
Assuming that the beginning balances in each of the accounts are zero, complete T-accounts to summarize the transactions in (a)–(g).

Which of the following statements is true? a job costing system will have a separate work in process account for each of the major processes. a process costing system will have a single work in process account. a process costing system will have a separate raw materials account for each of the major processes. a process costing system will have a separate work in process account for each of the major processes.

Companies in the u. s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct

Is exploiting a distinctive competence or improving efficiency for competitive advantage. (a) cooptation (b) coalition (c) competitive intelligence (d) competitive aggression (e) smoothing