An equity trader has received a large order to buy XXX stock from an institutional client that is to be filled at the closing price that day. The firm's proprietary trading desk has been accumulating that stock during the day, which it will sell to the customer at the closing price. Just prior to the market close, the trader places a sequence of small market orders to drive the closing price up, so the firm can have a larger profit filling the institutional client's order. This is an example of:

Cash flows during the first year of operations for the harman-kardon consulting company were as follows: cash collected from customers, $385,000; cash paid for rent, $49,000; cash paid to employees for services rendered during the year, $129,000; cash paid for utilities, $59,000. in addition, you determine that customers owed the company $69,000 at the end of the year and no bad debts were anticipated. also, the company owed the gas and electric company $2,900 at year-end, and the rent payment was for a two-year period.

Cherokee inc. is a merchandiser that provided the following information: amount number of units sold 20,000 selling price per unit $ 30 variable selling expense per unit $ 4 variable administrative expense per unit $ 2 total fixed selling expense $ 40,000 total fixed administrative expense $ 30,000 beginning merchandise inventory $ 24,000 ending merchandise inventory $ 44,000 merchandise purchases $ 180,000 required: 1. prepare a traditional income statement. 2. prepare a contribution format income statement.

Aproduction department's output for the most recent month consisted of 8,000 units completed and transferred to the next stage of production and 5,000 units in ending work in process inventory. the units in ending work in process inventory were 50% complete with respect to both direct materials and conversion costs. calculate the equivalent units of production for the month, assuming the company uses the weighted average method.