The federal reserve alters the amount of the nation's money supply by a. controlling the assets of the nation's largest banks. b. minting coins and printing currency that is distributed to banks. c. manipulating the size of excess reserves held by commercial banks. d. reducing the liabilities of the banking system.

Suppose that xtel currently is selling at $40 per share. you buy 500 shares using $15,000 of your own money, borrowing the remainder of the purchase price from your broker. the rate on the margin loan is 8%. a. what is the percentage increase in the net worth of your brokerage account if the price of xtel immediately changes to (a) $44; (b) $40; (c) $36? (leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. negative values should be indicated by a minus sign. round your answers to 2 decimal places.) b. if the maintenance margin is 25%, how low can xtel’s price fall before you get a margin call? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) c. how would your answer to requirement 2 would change if you had financed the initial purchase with only $10,000 of your own money? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) d. what is the rate of return on your margined position (assuming again that you invest $15,000 of your own money) if xtel is selling after one year at (a) $44; (b) $40; (c) $36? (negative values should be indicated by a minus sign. round your answers to 2 decimal places.) e. continue to assume that a year has passed. how low can xtel’s price fall before you get a margin call? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Performance bicycle company makes steel and titanium handle bars for bicycles. it requires approximately 1 hour of labor to make one handle bar of either type. during the most recent accounting period, barr company made 7,700 steel bars and 2,300 titanium bars. setup costs amounted to $35,000. one batch of each type of bar was run each month. if a single company-wide overhead rate based on direct labor hours is used to allocate overhead costs to the two products, the amount of setup cost assigned to the steel bars will be:

During the month of march 2017, weimar world, a tax-preparation service, had the following transactions. * billed $496,000 in revenues on credit * received $164,000 from customers' accounts receivable * incurred expenses of $194,000 but only paid $87,700 cash for these expenses * prepaid $32,220 for computer services to be used next month what was the company's accrual basis net income for the month? select one: a. $302,000 b. $264,080 c. $ 41,860 d. $408,300 e. none of the above