Time is money in any business environment. To be successful in the business world, you must be able to create concise and easy-to-read messages. As you revise, eliminate flabby expressions, long lead-ins, fillers, redundancies, and empty words. Your audience will appreciate your brevity. 1. If your writing contains a flabby expression like in view of the fact that, replace it with the word because / although / probably. For each of the following two sentences, choose the best revision.
2. I am sending you this letter to inform you that we have experienced an unexpected surprise within our expense sheet, but we are positively certain we will solve it.
A) We need to inform you that we have experienced an unexpected surprise with our expense sheet, but we are midway to an end result.
B) We have identified a problem with our expense sheet, but we will solve it.
C) I am sending you this letter to inform you that we have a problem with our expense sheet, but we are positively certain we have a solution.
3. It is the user who should contact the help center.
A) Everyone knows that it is the user who should contact the help center.
B) The user should contact the help center.
C) If there is a problem, the user should contact the help center.
Read the following passage.
4. (1) You scheduled seven conference calls for this morning between 10 and 11 a. m. (2) Generally, the company limits the number of conference calls to three per hour. (3) I’m letting you know that in the future, we should be more careful about scheduling. Which revision limits the long lead-in in sentence 3?
A) In the future, we should be more careful about scheduling.
B) I’m letting you know so that in the future we are more careful about scheduling calls.
C) So that you know in the future, we should be more careful about scheduling.

4. the condition requires that only one of the selected criteria be true for a record to be displayed.

You hold a diversified $100,000 portfolio consisting of 20 stocks with $5,000 invested in each. the portfolio's beta is 1.12. you plan to sell a stock with b = 0.90 and use the proceeds to buy a new stock with b = 1.50. what will the portfolio's new beta be? do not round your intermediate calculations.

The starr theater, owned by meg vargo, will begin operations in march. the starr will be unique in that it will show only triple features of sequential theme movies. as of march 1, the ledger of starr showed: cash $3,150, land $22,000, buildings (concession stand, projection room, ticket booth, and screen) $10,000, equipment $10,000, accounts payable $7,300, and owner’s capital $37,850. during the month of march, the following events and transactions occurred.mar. 2 rented the three indiana jones movies to be shown for the first 3 weeks of march. the film rental was $3,600; $1,600 was paid in cash and $2,000 will be paid on march 10.3 ordered the lord of the rings movies to be shown the last 10 days of march. it will cost $200 per night.9 received $4,500 cash from admissions.10 paid balance due on indiana jones movies rental and $2,200 on march 1 accounts payable.11 starr theater contracted with adam ladd to operate the concession stand. ladd is to pay 15% of gross concession receipts, payable monthly, for the rental of the concession stand.12 paid advertising expenses $900.20 received $5,100 cash from customers for admissions.20 received the lord of the rings movies and paid the rental fee of $2,000.31 paid salaries of $2,900.31 received statement from adam ladd showing gross receipts from concessions of $6,000 and the balance due to starr theater of $900 ($6,000 × 15%) for march. ladd paid one-half the balance due and will remit the remainder on april 5.31 received $9,200 cash from customers for admissions.1.) enter the beginning balances in the ledger.2.) journalize the march transactions. starr records admission revenue as service revenue, rental of the concession stand as rent revenue, and film rental expense as rent expense. (credit account titles are automatically indented when the amount is entered. do not indent manually. record journal entries in the order presented in the problem. if no entry is required, select "no entry" for the account titles and enter 0 for the amounts.)3.) post the march journal entries to the ledger. (post entries in the order of journal entries presented in the previous question.)