A. STRENGTH - IncredibleApps has hired the best mobile app developer in the world, programming whiz kid Anna Maria Gutierrez. At age 17, Anna has an global reputation and companies from around the world are clamoring for her apps. b. STRENGTH - IncredibleApps has a very strong marketing and public relations function; It knows how to cash in on public relations and publicity opportunities. If there's good news about mobile apps in the air, IncredibleApps knows how to spin it hugely in their favor.
c. WEAKNESS - IncredibleApps has no experience with wOOlOOhOOlOO, a bleeding edge mobile development language that experts say will be industry standard within a year.
d. WEAKNESS - IncredibleApps has no significant ties to social media players, and is relatively weak in social media in general.
e. OPPORTUNITY - A recent study by Businessweek has found that brick-and-mortar companies which have no mobile or internet presence find it difficult getting customers in the Generation X, Y and Z markets. The study also found that these companies can increase their chances of getting more customers in these markets by launching a mobile app.

Required:
a. Select a STRENGTH and an OPPORTUNITY from the list above. Write down both statements completely, so I know which two statements you have selected.
b. Select a STRENGTH and a THREAT from the list above. Write down both statements completely, so I know which two statements you have selected.

Burke enterprises is considering a machine costing $30 billion that will result in initial after-tax cash savings of $3.7 billion at the end of the first year, and these savings will grow at a rate of 2 percent per year for 11 years. after 11 years, the company can sell the parts for $5 billion. burke has a target debt/equity ratio of 1.2, a beta of 1.79. you estimate that the return on the market is 7.5% and t-bills are currently yielding 2.5%. burke has two issuances of bonds outstanding. the first has 200,000 bonds trading at 98% of par, with coupons of 5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 5 years. the second has 500,000 bonds trading at par, with coupons of 7.5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 12 years. kate, the ceo, usually applies an adjustment factor to the discount rate of +2 for such highly innovative projects. should the company take on the project?

Refer to the payoff matrix. suppose that speedy bike and power bike are the only two bicycle manufacturing firms serving the market. both can choose large or small advertising budgets. is there a nash equilibrium solution to this game?

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?