Considered alone, which of the following would increase a company's current ratio?

a. An increase in accounts payable.
b. An increase in net fixed assets.
c. An increase in accrued liabilities.
d. An increase in notes payable.
e. An increase in accounts receivable.

During the current year, luis university received a $50,000 gift from an alumna who specified that it must be used to pay travel costs for faculty to attend health care conferences in foreign countries. during the year the university spent $8,000 to support travel to a health care conference in italy. the $8,000 disbursement will cause a net decrease in which class of net assets?

Comparative financial statements for weller corporation, a merchandising company, for the year ending december 31 appear below. the company did not issue any new common stock during the year. a total of 800,000 shares of common stock were outstanding. the interest rate on the bonds, which were sold at their face value, was 12%. the income tax rate was 40% and the dividend per share of common stock was $0.40 this year. the market value of the company's common stock at the end of the year was $18. all of the company's sales are on account. time interest earned ratio

Copan italia is a distributor of laboratory products and manufacturer of laboratory commodities, including transfer pipettes and flexible hematology cups used on a variety of automatic instruments to count blood corpuscle elements. copan's says that the company's business is to continually work to improve the quality of the collection and preservation of the microbiological sample in the "pre-analytical phase," as the demand for better protection of the specimen is growing day by day.