Isabel, a calendar-year taxpayer, uses the cash method of accounting for her sole proprietorship. In late December she received a $20,000 bill from her accountant for consulting services related to her small business. Isabel can pay the $20,000 bill anytime before January 30 of next year without penalty. Assume her marginal tax rate is 37 percent this year and next year, and that she can earn an after-tax rate of return of 12 percent on her investments. a. What is the after-tax cost if Isabel pays the $20,000 bill in December? b. What is the after-tax cost if Isabel pays the $20,000 bill in January? Use Exhibit 3.1. (Round your answer to the nearest whole dollar amount.) c. Based on requirements a and b, should Isabel pay the $20,000 bill in December or January? multiple choice December January

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Answer 1

Answer:

A. $12,600

B. $13,392

C. Isabel should pay the $20,000 bill in December

Explanation:

A. Calculation for the after-tax cost if Isabel pays the $20,000 bill in December

First step is to calculate present value tax savings

Present value tax savings=$20,000 x 37%

Present value tax savings= $7,400

Now let calculate the After-tax cost

After-tax cost = $20,000 - $7,400

After-tax cost = $12,600

Therefore the after-tax cost if Isabel pays the $20,000 bill in December is $12,600

B. Calculation for the What the after-tax cost if Isabel pays the $20,000 bill in January

First step is to calculate present value tax savings

Present value tax savings=($20,000 x 37%)* (Discount factor, 1 year, 12%)

Present value tax savings= $7,400 * .893

Present value tax savings=$6,608

Now let calculate the After-tax cost

After-tax cost= $20,000 - $6,608

After-tax cost = $13,392

Therefore the after-tax cost if Isabel pays the $20,000 bill in January is $13,392

c. Based on the above calculation for a and b Isabel should pay the $20,000 bill in the month of December reason been that in a situation where her payment is increase from the month of January to the month of December it will tend to lead to increase in the cash flow present value (PV) .


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The demand for wooden pencils is very responsive to a change in price. That is, the demand for these pencils is highly elastic. Suppose that workers in this industry are successful in negotiating a higher wage from management. As a result:______
A. The price and quantity of pencils purchased will fall, and gross revenues will rise.
B. Price and quantity purchased will rise, and gross revenues will fall.
C. Price will fall, quantity purchased will rise, and gross revenues will rise.
D. Price will rise, quantity purchased will fall, and gross revenues will fall.

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Answer:

D. Price will rise, quantity purchased will fall, and gross revenues will fall.

Explanation:

It will lead to a higher price of the good as the management has to take into consideration the amount to wages to be paid to the workers, thus increasing the price of the goods. This will result to a lower demand at a higher price  because the price increases and competitions will take advantage of the situation and that will also reduce the revenue of the firm.

Ben Collins plans to buy a house for $166,000. If the real estate in his area is expected to increase in value by 2 percent each year, what will its approximate value be five years from now?

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Answer:

$183,264

Explanation:

The computation of the expected value for the five years from now is as followS:

As we know that

Future value = Present value × FV Value Factor

= $166,000 × 1.104

= $183,264

We simply multiplied the present value with the factor of the future value to determine the future value

Milden Company is a merchandiser that plans to sell 27,000 units during the next quarter at a selling price of $53 per unit. The company also gathered the following cost estimates for the next quarter: CostCost Formula Cost of good sold$23 per unit sold Advertising expense$173,000 per quarter Sales commissions6% of sales Shipping expense$68,000 per quarter $5.00 per unit sold Administrative salaries$83,000 per quarter Insurance expense$9,300 per quarter Depreciation expense$53,000 per quarter Required: 1. Prepare a contribution format income statement for the next quarter. 2. Prepare a traditional format income statement for the next quarter.

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Answer:

Part 1.

Contribution format income statement for the next quarter.

Sales                                                                                 $1,431,000

Less Variable Costs

Cost of Sales                                              $621,000

Sales commissions                                     $85,860

Shipping expense : Variable                     $135,000   ($832,860)

Contribution                                                                    $598,140

Less Fixed Costs

Advertising expense                                $173,000

Shipping expense : Fixed                         $68,000

Administrative salaries                              $83,000

Insurance expense                                      $9,300

Depreciation expense                              $53,000    ($386,300)

Net Income                                                                     $211,840

Part 2.

Traditional format income statement for the next quarter.

Sales                                                                                 $1,431,000

Less Cost of Sales                                                           ($621,000)

Gross Profit                                                                       $810,000

Less Operating Expenses

Sales commissions                                  $85,860

Shipping expense : Variable                 $135,000

Advertising expense                              $173,000

Shipping expense : Fixed                       $68,000

Administrative salaries                            $83,000

Insurance expense                                    $9,300

Depreciation expense                            $53,000         ($598,160)

Net Income                                                                       $211,840

Explanation:

Contribution format income statement

Here the Company calculates Contribution. Contribution is the amount remaining after All Variable Costs are deducted from Sales Revenue. All the Fixed Costs are expensed in the year they are incurred.

Traditional format income statement

Here the Company calculates Gross Profit. Gross Profit is the amount remaining after All Cost of Sales are deducted from Sales Revenue. All the other costs incurred are expensed in the year they are incurred as operating expenses.

You have always thought that learning to scuba dive would be fun. However, this activity would cost money and require time away from other activities. This situation best exemplifies

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Answer:

Trade-off

Explanation:

Trade-off means the decision depend upon the situation in order to maintain the substainable sequence that lies between the two desirable.

Since in the question it is mentioned that as the person wants to learn scuba dive that required time and the money so this represent the trade-off example

The following information is taken from the operating section of the statement of cash flows (direct method) of Battery Builders, Inc.: Collections from customers $28,000
Payments to suppliers for purchases (13,000)
Payments for operating expenses (9,000)
Payments for income taxes (4,000)
Cash provided by operating activities 2,000
The following information is obtained from the income statement of Battery Builders
Net income $4,000
Depreciation expense 4,000
Gain on sale of equipment 2,000
Write-off of intangibles 1,000
In addition, the following information is obtained from the comparative balance sheets of Battery Builders (decreases in parentheses) Change in accounts receivable $3,000
Change in inventory 3,000
Change in accounts payable 2,000
Change in accrued payable (related to operating expense) (2,000)
Change in deferred taxes payable 1,000
Required
1. Prepare a complete accrual-basis income statement for the current year
2. Compute the cash flows from operations using the indirect approach (that is, start with accrual-basis net income and adjust for various items to obtain cash flows from operations)
Prepare a complete accrual-basis income statement for the current year. should be indicated by a minus sigrn Less

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Answer:

See below

Explanation:

1. Complete accrual basis income statement

Sales

($28,000 + $3,000)

$31,000

Less cost of goods sold

($13,000 + $2,000 - $3,000)

-$12,000

Operating expenses

($9,000 - $2,000)

-$7,000

Depreciation expenses

-$4,000

Income tax

($4,000 + $1,000)

-$5,000

Amortization expense

-$1,000

Gain on sale of equipment

$2,000

Net income

$4,000

2. Cash flow statement (Indirect)

Net income

$4,000

Adjustments;

Add depreciation

$4,000

Add write off intangibles

$1,000

Less gain on sale of equipment

-$2,000

Less increase in accounts receivables

-$3,000

Less increase in inventory

-$3,000

Add increase in accounts payable

$2,000

Less decrease in accrued payable

-$2,000

Add increase in deferred income tax payable

$1,000

Net cash from operations $2,000

Suppose the price of movie tickets changes. The price change leads to a 10 percent decrease in the quantity demanded of movie tickets. This causes the total revenue from movie tickets to increase by 5 percent. Is the demand for movie tickets elastic, inelastic, or unit-elastic

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Answer:

inelastic

Explanation:

Price elasticity of demand measures the responsiveness of quantity demanded to changes in price of the good.

Price elasticity of demand = percentage change in quantity demanded / percentage change in price

If the absolute value of price elasticity is greater than one, it means demand is elastic. Elastic demand means that quantity demanded is sensitive to price changes.  

Demand is inelastic if a small change in price has little or no effect on quantity demanded. The absolute value of elasticity would be less than one

Demand is unit elastic if a small change in price has an equal and proportionate effect on quantity demanded.  

Demand is inelastic because the change in total revenue is less than the change in price.

elasticity of demand = 5/10 = 0.5

Elasticity of demand is less than 1

The opportunity cost of an action is always equal to: multiple choice the things you could have done instead of the action you chose to undertake. the time you give up to undertake the action. the money you give up to undertake the action. the next-best alternative for the resources used to undertake the action.

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Answer:

the next-best alternative for the resources used to undertake the action.

Explanation:

Opportunity cost also known as the alternative forgone, can be defined as the value, profit or benefits given up by an individual or organization in order to choose or acquire something deemed significant at the time.

Simply stated, it is the cost of not enjoying the benefits, profits or value associated with the alternative forgone or best alternative choice available.

For instance, if you decide to invest resources such as money in a food business (restaurant), your opportunity cost would be the profits you could have earned if you had invest the same amount of resources in a salon business or any other business as the case may be.

Hence, the opportunity cost of an action is always equal to the next-best alternative for the resources used to undertake the action.

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1. Paid Furniture Depot $1300 payment in full. The two accounts that are affected are? (Check all that apply)

Debit cash $1300

Debit Furn Depot $1300

Credit cash $1300

Credit Furn depot $1300

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Answer:

Debit Furniture Depot $1300

Credit cash $1300

Explanation:

Both furniture and cash are assets held by the company.

When an asset increases, in this case we purchased furniture, we must debit the asset account. On the other hand, when an asset decreases, we have less cash since we paid for the furniture, we must credit the account.

The accounts must always be balanced.

Suppose a nation experienced an increase in the level of unemployment. What would be the effect on the nation's production possibilities curve

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Answer:

a. The curve would not shift, the change in unemployment would be represented by moving from a point inside the curve toward the curve

Explanation:

Options are : "a. The curve would not shift, the change in unemployment would be represented by moving from a point inside the curve toward the curve, b. The curve would shift to the left, c. The curve would not shift, the change in unemployment would be represented by moving from a point on the curve to a point outside the curve. d. The curve would shift to the right."

Reduction in unemployment means that the resources are being well utilized , the ideal resources in the economy is being used , so the economy moves from an inefficient point to an efficient one. The change in unemployment will be represented by moving from a point from a point to a curve inside the point. So the nation's production possibilities curve would not shift

A manufacturer of tiling grout has supplied the following data: Kilograms produced and sold 480,000 Sales revenue $ 1,830,000 Variable manufacturing expense $ 942,000 Fixed manufacturing expense $ 230,000 Variable selling and administrative expense $ 358,000 Fixed selling and administrative expense $ 196,000 Net operating income $ 104,000 The company's contribution margin ratio is closest to:

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Answer:

$28.96%

Explanation:

Given the above information, we would calculate first the total variable cost

Total variable cost = Variable manufacturing selling expense + Variable selling and administrative expense

= $942,000 + $358,000

= $1,300,000

The next is to compute the contribution margin

Contribution margin = Sales - Total variable cost

= $1,830,000 - $1,300,000

= $530,000

Therefore,

Contribution margin ratio = (Contribution margin / Sales) × 100

= ($530,000 / $1,830,000) × 100

= 28.96%

Differences in customer rage behaviors of customers from japan & usa (1200 words )

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Answer:

There is difference in the behavior of people who belong to different nations. The people in USA will make different decisions based on their preferences than the decisions made by the people of Japan.

Explanation:

Customer rage is the response of customer to the faulty good. If the customer is not satisfied he may get angry and show some emotions. The behavior in this situation is different for every person. The people in USA might respond less angry than the people in Japan. Their anger and emotions is driven by many factor. The job security in the country, Climatic conditions, political situations, literacy rate, basic necessity problems and many others. The people living in a poor country may show anger in small things while the people in developed country are less angry and more understanding.

"Although Alibaba is competing in the Internet services industry, it has improved its performance by focusing on innovation and service diversification. This improved performance is best explained by:"

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Answer:

the resource-based model.

Explanation:

Resource-based theory can be understood as one that guarantees a strategic and competitive advantage to an organization through its resources that cannot be imitated and replaced. In the case of Alibaba, its valuable resources that guarantee long-term competitive advantages for the company are the company's ability to offer a wide range of products with significant discounts in relation to competitors, facilities for shipping goods worldwide, etc.

Whether the minimum wage is a binding price floor always depends upon whether the economy is in a recession. a. True b. False

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Answer:

false

Explanation:

A price floor is when the government or an agency of the government sets the minimum price of a product. A price floor is binding if it is set above equilibrium price

A country is in a recession when the GDP for 2 consecutive quarters is negative.

A binding price floor depends if it is above or below equilibrium

Land was acquired in 2021 for a future building site at a cost of $40,800. The assessed valuation for tax purposes is $27,900, a qualified appraiser placed its value at $48,900, and a recent firm offer for the land was for a cash payment of $44,200. The land should be reported in the financial statements at:

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Answer:

The land should be reported in the financial statement at $40,800

Explanation:

At the time the fixed asset is being recorded, it should be recorded at the purchase cost or historical price.

Since the land was purchased at $40,800 according to the question, also it is assessed for tax purpose at $27,900 and was valued at $48,900 by other appraisers including an offer of cash payment of $44,200.

But at the time of recording, the balance sheet would show at the price of $40,800

list the roles of teamwork?​

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Answer:

responsibiltes collabration cooperation

Explanation:

Here are five roles of an effective team: Leaders, Creative Director, Facilitator, Coach and a Member. All these are essential components of a team, but they need not be exclusive. A leader can act as a creative director and a coach as well at different times.

A plant asset has a cost of $43600 and a salvage value of $10900. The asset has a three-year life. If depreciation in the third year amounted to $5450, which depreciation method was used

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Answer:

c. Sum-of-the-year's digits

Explanation:

As the asset has a three year life,

So, the sum of the digits is

= 3 + 2 + 1

= 6

Now  

Depreciation expense for year 3 is

= (Cost of the plant - salvage value) × 1 ÷ total life

= ($43,600 - $10,900) × 1 ÷ 6

= $5,450

Hence, the sum of the year digits depreciation method is used

A T-bill with face value $10,000 and 97 days to maturity is selling at a bank discount ask yield of 4.4%. a. What is the price of the bill

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Answer: $9,881.44

Explanation:

Price of bill can be calculated with formula:

= Face value * ( 1 - (yield * days to maturity/days in year))

This are usually done using 360 days in a year not 365:

= 10,000 * ( 1 - (4.4% * 97/360))

= 10,000 * 0.9881444444

= $9,881.44

Rappaport Corp.'s sales last year were $385,000, and its net income after taxes was $23,000. What was its profit margin on sales

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Answer:

5.97%

Explanation:

Profit margin is an example of profitability ratio

profitability ratio  measures the ability of a firm to generate profit from its assets

Profit margin = net income / sales

= $23,000. / $385,000,

What is the future value (FV) of $82,797 in thirty years, assuming the interest rate is 16% per year

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Answer:the Future Value of $82,797 in 30 years with 16% interest rate =$7,108,112.26

Explanation:

F V = PV x (1 + R)^n

Where

FV=Future Value

PV= Present Value

R =Interest rate

n= Number of years

F V = PV x (1 + R)^n

Future Value =$82,797 x (  1+ 0.16) ^30

=$82,797 x (  1.16) ^30

$82,797 x 85.849

=$7,108,112.26

Therefore, the Future Value of $82,797 in 30 years with 16% interest rate =$7,108,112.26

Calculate the present value PV of an investment that will be worth $1,000 at the stated interest rate after the stated amount of time. HINT [See Quick Example 4.] (Round your answer to the nearest cent.) 15 years, at 3% per year, compounded annually

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Answer:

$641.86

Explanation:

Future value = $1,000

Years = 15

Rate = 3%

The present value = FV*1/(1+i)^n

The present value = 1,000*1/(1+0.03)^15

The present value = 1,000*1/(1.03)^15

The present value = 1,000*1/1.5579674166

The present value = 1,000*0.6418619473970326

The present value = 641.8619473970326

The present value = $641.86

The present value of the investment is $641.86.

The present value of an investment is the value of the investment today. The present value can be determined by discounting the future value using the stated interest rate.

Present value = [tex]\frac{FV}{(1 + r)^{t} }[/tex]

FV = future value = $1000 r = interest rate = 3%t = time = 15

[tex]\frac{1000}{(1.03)^{15} }[/tex] = $641.86

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Suppose the cross-elasticity of demand for products A and B is 3.6, and for products C and D is -5.4. What can you conclude about how products A and B are related

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Answer:

A and B are substitutes

Explanation:

Cross price elasticity of demand measures the responsiveness of quantity demanded of good A to changes in price of good B.

If cross price elasticity of demand is positive, it means that the goods are substitute goods.

Substitute goods are goods that can be used in place of another good.

If the cross-price elasticity is negative, it means that the goods are complementary goods.

A professional gambler moves from a state where gambling is illegal to a state where gambling is legal. Most of his income was, and continues to be, from gambling. His move A. raises GDP. B. decreases GDP. C. doesn't change GDP because gambling is never included in GDP. D. doesn't change GDP because in either case his income is included.

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Answer:

The answer is C.

Explanation:

In calculating GDP of a country, illegal activities like gambling, betting, proceeds of crime, buying and selling of drugs are nor counted in the computation of GDP.

GDP can be calculated as follows:

C + G + I + (X-M)

Where:

C is Consumers' consumption/spending

G is Government's consumption/spending

I is business investment

X is the country's exports

M is the country's imports.

Let's examine the market for iPads. Assume iPads are a normal good, Microsoft Surfaces are a substitute, and Apple Pencils are a complement. If the price of silicon (a key component of iPads) increases, what would happen to Supply or Demand for iPads (all else held equal)?

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Answer:

the supply curve for iPads would shift to the left, decreasing the quantity supplied at every price level. This shift would result in a price increase. Since the price of iPads increased, the demand will decrease, also decreasing the demand of Apple Pencils.

Since Microsoft Surface are substitutes, when the price of iPads increase, the demand for Surface tablets will increase.

1. Identifying Cause and Effect Why are Big Box stores able to sell goods at prices so low that
other, smaller stores cannot compete with them?
granted to rep

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Big box stores can capitalize on a concept known as economies of scale. By moving large amounts of products in and out, these retailers are able to snag inventory at discount and then pass those savings on to consumers.
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Big box stores can profit by an idea known as economies of scale. Overwhelmingly of items in and out, these retailers can catch stock at markdown and afterward give those reserve funds to buyers.

What are Big box stores?

A big-box store is a genuinely huge retail foundation, generally part of a chain of stores. The term in some cases likewise alludes, likewise, to the organization that works the store.

Economically, big-box stores can be separated into two classes: general product models incorporate Walmart, Target, and Kmart), and specialty stores like The Home Depot which work in merchandise inside a particular reach, like equipment, books, or customer hardware, separately.

In the late twentieth and mid 21st hundreds of years, numerous customary retailers and grocery store chains that normally work in more modest structures, for example, Tesco opened stores in the big-box-store design with an end goal to rival big-box chains, which are growing universally as their home business sectors arrive at development.

Therefore big box stocks can basically earn more and more of the revenue which is called to be as the economies of the scale.

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A marketing plan is _______.

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Answer:

A marketing plan is a part of an overall business plan

Carol maintains an office in her home where she conducts a dressmaking business. During the year she collects $4,000 from sales, pays $1,300 for various materials and supplies, and properly allocates $2,500 of rent expense and $500 of her utilities expense to the use of her home office. What amount of the rent and utilities expense may Carol deduct in the current year in computing her net income or loss from the dressmaking business

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Answer:

$2,700

Explanation:

Calculation for What amount of the rent and utilities expense may Carol deduct in the current year in computing her net income or loss form the dressmaking business

Rent and utilities expense deduction=$4,000-$1,300

Rent and utilities expense deduction=$2,700

Therefore the amount of the rent and utilities expense may Carol deduct in the current year in computing her net income or loss form the dressmaking business will be $2,700

g The Nelson Company has $1,312,500 in current assets and $525,000 in current liabilities. Its initial inventory level is $385,000, and it will raise funds as additional notes payable and use them to increase inventory. How much can Nelson's short-term debt (notes payable) increase without pushing its current ratio below 2.0

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Answer:

$262,500

Explanation:

Current ratio = Current asset/Current liabilities

In line with the current ratio formula, to calculate the amount of short term debt increase, with the amount of current assets and current liabilities, we must add an amount such that the result 2.0

(1,312,500 + x) / (525,000 + x) = 2.0

Cross multiply

(1,312,500 + x) = 2.0 × (525,000 + x)

Open the brackets

1,312,500 + x = 1,050,000 + 2x

Collect like terms

1,312,500 - 1,050,000 = 2x - x

262,500 = x

It therefore means that the maximum that should be borrowed to buy inventory is $262,500

Assume the following capital structure: Preferred stock, 5%, $50 par value, 1,200 shares issued and outstanding with dividends in arrears for the three prior years. Common stock, $100 par value, 2,200 shares issued and outstanding. Total dividends declared and paid in current year were $52,000. How much of the current dividend will be paid to the preferred stockholders assuming the preferred stock is cumulative

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Answer:

$12,000

Explanation:

The computation of the preferred dividend in the case when the preferred stock is cumulative is given below:

= Dividend percentage × par value of each share × number of shares issued × number of years

= 5% × $50 × 1,200 shares × 4 years

= $12,000

Hence, the preferred dividend in the case when the preferred stock is cumulative is $12,000

How can a customer pay an emailed QuickBooks Online invoice via credit card?

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Answer: - Send A Message Via The Message Feature With Their Credit Card Number Select Review And Pay

- Apply For Account

- Pay Print Off A Form And Then Enter And Send Their Credit Card Details And Authorization Select Review And Pay

- Enter Payment Details

- Pay

Explanation:

A customer can pay an emailed QuickBooks Online invoice via credit card by doing the following;

- Send A Message Via The Message Feature With Their Credit Card Number Select Review And Pay

- Apply For Account

- Pay Print Off A Form And Then Enter And Send Their Credit Card Details And Authorization Select Review And Pay

- Enter Payment Details

- Pay

Which of the following groups of accounts is increased with a debit?
Select one:
O a,
a. assets, revenues, expenses
Ob.
b. assets. liabilities, owner's equity
C. assets. liabilities, revenues
d. assets, drawing, expenses​

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I think the answer is b
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