The income statement approach to estimating uncollectible accounts expense is used by Landis Company. On February 28, the firm had accounts receivable in the amount of $437,000 and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts had a credit balance of $2,140 before adjustment. Net credit sales for February amounted to $2,500,000. The credit manager estimated that uncollectible accounts expense would amount to 1% of net credit sales made during February. On March 10, an accounts receivable from Kathy Brown for $6,100 was determined to be uncollectible and written off. However, on March 31, Brown received an inheritance and immediately paid her past due account in full. Required: 1) Prepare the journal entries made by Landis Company on the following dates: February 28 . March 10 . March 31 Assume no other transactions occurred that affected the allowance account during March. Determine the balance of Allowance for Doubtful Accounts at March 31 2)

Acompany's income statement showed the following: net income, $145,000 and depreciation expense, $36,300. an examination of the company's current assets and current liabilities showed the following changes as a result of operating activities: accounts receivable decreased $11,500; merchandise inventory increased $22,200; and accounts payable increased $5,500. calculate the net cash provided or used by operating activities. $209,500 $139,000 $176,100 $186,500 $142,100

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

Slow ride corp. is evaluating a project with the following cash flows: year cash flow 0 –$12,000 1 5,800 2 6,500 3 6,200 4 5,100 5 –4,300 the company uses a 11 percent discount rate and an 8 percent reinvestment rate on all of its projects. calculate the mirr of the project using all three methods using these interest rates.