On January 1, 2020, a customer purchased a new $29,400 automobile, making a downpayment of $840. The customer signed a note indicating that the annual rate of interest would be 12% and that quarterly payments would be made over 3 years. For the first year, Oriole required a $357 quarterly payment to be made on April 1, July 1, October 1, and January 1, 2021. After this one-year period, the customer was required to make regular quarterly payments that would pay off the loan as of January 1, 2023. Prepare a note amortization schedule for the first year. (Round answers to o de Cash Paid Interest Expense Discount Amortized Carrying Amount of Note Date 0 0 32000 400 960 560 32560 400 977 577 33137 994 400 594 33731 400 1012 612 34343

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Onsider the following subscription behavior information from genie, a web site that provides tools for constructing a family tree (ancestor search). subscriptions cost $9.99 per month, but you are charged for the entire year at the time of purchase. there is a one-year minimum term when you sign up for the service. once purchased, subscriptions are set to renew automatically unless the subscriber cancels them. when a membership renews, it renews for a one-year term and again you are charged for the entire year. there are no variable costs associated with providing this service to an individual customer, but genie does engage in customer relationship activities that they believe will increase customer retention. these customer relationship activities cost genie about $10 per year per customer. based on a sample of 1000 customers that joined genie five years ago, near the time when the company was founded, they were able to determine how many of those customers remained subscribers in the second year, third year etc. based on this information, genie calculated the average annual retention rate to be 20%. genie uses an annual discount rate of 8%. a. last year, genie spent $10,000 placing advertisements on google. genie management believes that these advertisements were responsible for about 300 new subscribers. would you recommend to genie management that they purchase more google ads? b. suppose a newly-introduced loyalty program increases the number of customers that remained to 30%. does this new data change your answer to 9.a? c. do you have any hesitations or concerns about making recommendations to management based on your above estimate of customer lifetime value?

Andy owns islander surfboard inc. in the past, andy has always given his employees bonuses during the holidays if they reached certain sales goals. this year, even though the company is thriving, he decided to cut bonuses from employees and award them to himself instead. what ethical theory of leadership is andy following?