"A customer's short margin account shows the following balances: Credit Balance: $120,000 SMV: $60,000 SMA: $30,000 What would the adjusted SMA balance be in the account after a short cover of 100 shares of MMM stock at $100 in the account?"

Gideon company uses the allowance method of accounting for uncollectible accounts. on may 3, the gideon company wrote off the $2,200 uncollectible account of its customer, a. hopkins. on july 10, gideon received a check for the full amount of $2,200 from hopkins. the entry or entries gideon makes to record the write off of the account on may 3 is:

One investigating company tracked all credit card purchase during 2012 and measured two variables: (1) the type of credit card used (visa, mastercard, american express, or discover), and (2) the amount (in dollars) of each purchase. identify the level of each variable measured.

You are chairman of the board of a successful technology firm. there is a nominal federal corporate tax rate of 35 percent, yet the effective tax rate of the typical corporation is about 12.6%. your firm has been clever with use of transfer pricing and keeping money abroad and has barely paid any taxes over the last 5 years; during this same time period, profits were $28 billion. one member of the board feels that it is un-american to use various accounting strategies in order to avoid paying taxes. others feel that these are legal loopholes and corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to minimize taxes. one board member quoted what the ceo of exxon once said: “i’m not a u.s. company and i don’t make decisions based on what’s good for the u.s.” what are the alternatives? what are your recommendations? why do you recommend this course of action?