While on vacation, Kyle Kingston, the president and chief executive officer of Remstat, Inc., is called by the CEO of Viokam Corporation, who asks Kingston if Remstat would be interested in buying 25 percent of the outstanding shares of Viokam. Remstat is a billion dollar conglomerate which has contemplated acquiring Viokam for some time. Kingston tells Viokam's CEO that Remstat is not interested. Kingston tells Viokam’s CEO, however, that KKIM, Inc., would be willing to buy the shares of Viokam. Kingston is the 100 percent shareholder of KKIM. Viokam sells the shares to KKIM for $35 million. A year later, KKIM sells the shares for $55 million to a mutual fund company. When Remstat's directors discover KKIM's purchase and sale of the Viokam shares, they bring an action against Kingston on behalf of Remstat. Which of the following is correct? 1. Kingston may be held liable to Remstat because he usurped a corporate opportunity.
2. Kingston may not be held liable to Remstat because he became aware of this opportunity outside the scope of his duties as an officer of Remstat.
3. Kingston may not be held liable to Remstat because he acted within the discretion afforded him under the business judgment rule.
4. Kingston may be held liable to Remstat because he exceeded his authority to act for the corporation.

Fred smithers, a recent college graduate decided to open his own portable juice bar, smithers smoothies, to wheel around newport beach. you, a trusted friend of fred, are a business major that has also recently graduated and agreed to handle the books for a while to get some practical experience and have a favor that you can ask of fred in the future. given the following five transactions concerning the new venture, prepare the necessary journal entries for the transactions, post the journal entries to appropriate t accounts and prepare a trial balance as of the end of the month in order to answer to the necessary may 2: fred invests $12,000 of his own money to start the new company. this money was obtained from a part-time job working at a legal firm while he was in school. may 3: fred spent $5,100 cash to purchase a refrigerated trailer that he can pull behind his car and set up at the beach. under your advice, fred agrees to place the new asset under an account called "equipment." may 6: fred bought $640 of supplies on account from the flav-o-rite confectioners company. because they will last longer than a single accounting period fred agrees to record them as, "supplies" as per your suggestion. may 13: fred sat on the beach for six hours without a single sale and was feeling very down. right before he left, however, a plumber escorting his family reunion along the beach stopped by his stand and bought $800 worth of smoothies for the entire family. under your advice, fred agrees to call this cash revenue, "sales." may 15: excited about his new venture, fred withdraws $350 from the company to take his girlfriend out to dinner. what would be the balance in the cash account at the end of the period following the posting of all the transactions?