Jane wins $100 comma 000 playing the lottery, and instead of spending it, she deposits it into her checking account at the First Bank of Anywhere. Her bank makes a loan (equal to its excess reserves) to Mary, who uses the money to remodel her home. The remodeling company deposits the money into the Second Bank of Anywhere. The required reserve ratio is 4 percent and each bank initially has no excess reserves. The amount of the loan made by the First Bank equals $ nothing. (Enter your response as an integer.)

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.

The adjusted trial balance for china tea company at december 31, 2018, is presented below:

Gideon company uses the allowance method of accounting for uncollectible accounts. on may 3, the gideon company wrote off the $2,000 uncollectible account of its customer, a. hopkins. on july 10, gideon received a check for the full amount of $2,000 from hopkins. on july 10, the entry or entries gideon makes to record the recovery of the bad debt is