Charlie Corporation's adjusted trial balance included the following items (all account balances are normal): Accounts payable $65,000, Accounts receivable $33,000, Capital stock $100,000, Cash $50,000, Dividends $10,000, Goodwill $47,000, Interest expense $4,000, Interest payable $2,000, Inventory $36,000, Notes payable $80,000, Prepaid expenses $5,000, Property, plant & equipment $123,000, Retained earnings $46,000, Rent expense $18,000, Revenues $101,000, and Salary expense $60,000. How much are total assets?

Sheldon has the following year-end account balances: accounts receivable, $5,000; supplies, $12,000; equipment, $18,000; accounts payable, $17,000; stockholders’ equity, $43,000. the cash account balance was not available at year-end. given the account balances listed, the balance in the cash account should be?

Performance bicycle company makes steel and titanium handle bars for bicycles. it requires approximately 1 hour of labor to make one handle bar of either type. during the most recent accounting period, barr company made 7,700 steel bars and 2,300 titanium bars. setup costs amounted to $35,000. one batch of each type of bar was run each month. if a single company-wide overhead rate based on direct labor hours is used to allocate overhead costs to the two products, the amount of setup cost assigned to the steel bars will be:

Garrett is an executive vice president at samm hardware. he researches a proposal by a larger company, maximum hardware, to combine the two companies. by analyzing past performance, conducting focus groups, and interviewing maximum employees, garrett concludes that maximum has poor profit margins, sells shoddy merchandise, and treats customers poorly. what actions should garrett and samm hardware take? a. turn down the acquisition offer and prepare to resist a hostile takeover. b. attempt a friendly merger and use managerial hubris to improve results at maximum. c. welcome the acquisition and use knowledge transfer to impart sam hardware's management practices. d. do nothing; the two companies cannot combine without samm hardware's explicit consent.