Exercise 11-13a calculate financing cash flows (lo11-5) dristell inc. had the following activities during the year (all transactions are for cash unless stated otherwise): a building with a book value of $400,000 was sold for $500,000. additional common stock was issued for $160,000. dristell purchased its own common stock as treasury stock at a cost of $75,000. land was acquired by issuing a 6%, 10-year, $750,000 note payable to the seller. a dividend of $40,000 was paid to shareholders. an investment in fleet corp.’s common stock was made for $120,000. new equipment was purchased for $65,000. a $90,000 note payable issued three years ago was paid in full. a loan for $100,000 was made to one of dristell’s suppliers. the supplier plans to repay dristell this amount plus 10% interest within 18 months. required: calculate net cash flows from financing activities. (cash outflows should be indicated with a minus sign.)

In its 2016 annual report, caterpillar inc. reported the following (in millions): 2016 2015 sales $38,537 $47,011 cost of goods sold 28,309 33,546 as a percentage of sales, did caterpillar's gross profit increase or decrease during 2016? select one: a. gross profit increased from 26.8% to 28.6% b. gross profit decreased from 28.6% to 26.5% c. gross profit increased from 71.4% to 73.2% d. gross profit decreased from 73.2% to 71.4% e. there is not enough information to answer the question.

Match the various steps in the creative process undertaken by the ad agency for developing the campaign for wpu, to the steps in young's model of the creative process.creative process in developing wpu's campaignyoung's modelafter intensive analysis of the data and several rounds of brainstorming, the agency executives decided to take a break from this project (the wpu campaign), and instead work on a different client's project before tackling the wpu project again.using a combination of animatics and storyboards, the ad agency conducted research with a representative sample of sixty target consumers to pretest the campaign theme and the creative execution.during a brainstorming session in the creative department, a copywriter's suggestion for a slogan for wpu was recognized as an excellent central idea that could drive the campaign for wpu.the account planning, account management and creative departments at the ad agency had a series of meetings and brainstorming sessions to discuss the creative brief and the results of all the primary and secondary research done with the target consumers.the account planning and the account management groups at the ad agency conducted primary research with a representative sample of the target segment and also studied secondary research data to gain insights required for the campaign development process.

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