Melissa, Nicole, and Ben are equal partners in the Opto Partnership (calendar-year-end). Melissa decides she wants to exit the partnership and receives a proportionate distribution to liquidate her partnership interest on January 1. The partnership has no liabilities and holds the following assets as of January 1: Tax Basis FMV
Cash $18,450 $18,450
Accounts receivable 0 24,600
Stock investment 7,800 12,750
Land 31,500 39,000
Totals $57,750 $94,800
Melissa receives one-third of each of the partnership assets. She has a basis in her partnership interest of $25,975.
A. What is the amount and character of any recognized gain or loss to Melissa?
B. What is Melissa's basis in the distributed assets?
C. What are the tax implications (amount and character of gain or loss and basis of assets) to Melissa if her outside basis is $11,000 rather than $25,000?
D. What is the amount and character of any recognized gain or loss from the distribution to Opto?

Which of the following best describes a fractional reserve banking system? a. a banking system in which a large portion of the bank's assets are digital money rather than bills and coins. b. a banking system in which banks keep a portion of deposits on hand to satisfy their customer's demands for withdrawals. c. a banking system in which banks have only partial control over the interest rates they charge on loans. d. a banking system in which net worth is calculated by subtracting a fraction of liabilities from assets. 2b2t

Recently, verizon wireless ran a pricing trial in order to estimate the elasticity of demand for its services. the manager selected three states that were representative of its entire service area and increased prices by 5 percent to customers in those areas. one week later, the number of customers enrolled in verizon's cellular plans declined 4 percent in those states, while enrollments in states where prices were not increased remained flat. the manager used this information to estimate the own-price elasticity of demand and, based on her findings, immediately increased prices in all market areas by 5 percent in an attempt to boost the company's 2016 annual revenues. one year later, the manager was perplexed because verizon's 2016 annual revenues were 10 percent lower than those in 2015"the price increase apparently led to a reduction in the company's revenues. did the manager make an error? yes - the one-week measures show demand is inelastic, so a price increase will decrease revenues. yes - the one-week measures show demand is elastic, so a price increase will reduce revenues. yes - cell phone elasticity is likely much larger in the long-run than the short-run. no - the cell phone market must have changed between 2011 and 2012 for this price increase to lower revenues.

Total marketing effort is a term used to describe the critical decision factors that affect demand: price, advertising, distribution, and product quality. define the variable x to represent total marketing effort. a typical model that is used to predict demand as a function of total marketing effort is based on the power function: d = axb suppose that a is a positive number. different model forms result from varying the constant b. sketch the graphs of this model for b = 0, b = 1, 0< b< 1, b< 0, and b> 1. (we encourage you to use excel to do this.) what does each model tell you about the relationship between demand and marketing effort? what assumptions are implied? are they reasonable? how would you go about selecting the appropriate model?