After issuing its 2020 financial statements, JT Engineering enters into a financing agreement with Elwood Bank. This agreement, made on February 10, 2021, allows JT to borrow up to $6,000,000 at any time through 2022. Under the agreement, funds are borrowed at prime +2 and mature two years from the loan date. The agreement also requires JT to maintain a working capital level of $9,000,000 and prohibits payment of dividends on common stock without prior approval by Elwood. JT currently has $2,250,000 of notes payable with Scecina Bank, maturing March 15, 2021. JT intends to borrow $3,750,000 under the agreement with Elwood to liquidate these notes payable. Based on this information, how much short-term debt does JT have as of its December 31, 2020 balance sheet?

Visburg concrete company pours concrete slabs for single-family dwellings. lancing construction company, which operates outside visburg's normal sales territory, asks visburg to pour 40 slabs for lancing's new development of homes. visburg has the capacity to build 300 slabs and is presently working on 250 of them. lancing is willing to pay only $3, 300 per slab. visburg estimates the cost of a typical job to include unit-level materials, $1, 440: unit-level labor, $720: and an allocated portion of facility-level overhead, $1, 200. required calculate the contribution to profit from the special order. should visburg accept or reject the special order to pour 40 slabs for $3, 300 each?

After discussing the options, the strategic management team has agreed that the pod coffee idea works well with the company's mission statement and decides that the company should move forward in exploring the pod coffee idea. in order to make sure that the pod coffee idea is a good one, and to see if there are other potential future endeavors to pursue, you must analyze the market situation and formulate a strategy. your boss asks you to start working on the pod coffee idea. what is your first stepa. your first step is to formulate a strategy for how to market the pod coffee concept. b. your first step is to consult with your boss and find out what he thinks about the pod coffee idea. c. your first step is to do some research to find out what your competitors are doing. d. your first step is to analyze the organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

The 39 percent and 38 percent tax rates both represent what is called a tax "bubble." suppose the government wanted to lower the upper threshold of the 39 percent marginal tax bracket from $335,000 to $208,000. what would the new 39 percent bubble rate have to be? (do not round intermediate calculations. enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places,e.g., 32.16.)