Thomas book sales, inc., supplies textbooks to college and university bookstores. the books are shipped with a proviso that they must be paid for within 30 days but can be returned for a full refund credit within 90 days. in 2018, thomas shipped and billed book titles totaling $820 comma 000. collections, net of return credits, during the year totaled $743 comma 866. the company spent $327 comma 478 acquiring the books that it shipped. a. using accrual accounting and the preceding values, show the firm's net profit for the past year. b. using cash accounting and the preceding values, show the firm's net cash flow for the past year. c. which of these statements is more useful to the financial manager? why?

Which is the correct expansion of the term internet? a. internetwork b. institutional network c. instructional network d. international network

Consumer surplus is: the difference between the price of a product and what consumers were willing to pay for the product. the difference between the discounted price of a product and its retail price. the difference between the price paid by consumers and the price required of producers. the difference between the price of a product and consumers' valuation of the last unit of the product purchased.

The beach dude (bd) employs a legion of current and former surfers as salespeople who push its surfing-oriented products to various customers (usually retail outlets). this case describes bd's sales and collection process. each bd salesperson works with a specific group of customers throughout the year. in fact, they often surf with their customers to try out the latest surf gear. the bd salespeople act laid-back, but they work hard for their sales. each sale often involves hours of surfing with their customers while the customers sample all the latest surf wear. because bd makes the best surfing products, the customers look forward to the visits from the bd salespeople. and they often buy a lot of gear. each sale is identified by a unique invoice number and usually involves many different products. customers pay for each sale in full within 30 days, but they can combine payments for multiple sales. bd manages its clothing inventory by item (e.g., xl bd surfer logo t-shirts), identified by product number, but it also classifies the items by clothing line (the lines are differentiated by price points as well as the intended use of the clothing, e.g., surfing products, casual wear, . draw a uml class diagram that describes the beach dudes sales and collection process.b. using microsoft access, implement a relational database from your uml class diagram. identify at least three fields per table.c. describe how you would use the relational database to determine the beach dude’s accounts receivable.