Alpha corporation has just paid its annual dividend and is looking forward to another successful year ahead. the company had free cash flow for the year just ended of $1 billion, all of which it just paid out to its shareholders as a dividend. right now, shareholders do not believe that alpha has any growth opportunities, so they expect the annual cash flow and dividend stream to remain unchanged for the foreseeable future. alpha has 100 million shares outstanding and a market capitalization of $10 billion. the company is entirely equity-financed. the capital market is efficient. a) alpha’s ceo now proposes that the company skip its dividend one year from now and instead invest the entire amount of the coming year’s $1 billion free cash flow in a project that management believes will generate a perpetual annual rate of return of 21%. the ceo further asserts that the new project has similar risk to the company’s assets in place. if the company were to announce immediately its plans for the investment one year from now (financed by skipping next year’s dividend) what do you think will happen to alpha’s stock price? b) some of alpha’s board members are worried that shareholders are expecting a dividend next year and that announcing plans to skip next year’s dividend will lower the stock price today. suppose alpha were to announce instead that it plans to pay its usual dividend one year from now and that it has no plans for any new investment at t = 1. what will happen to the stock price today? c) suppose alpha settles on a compromise: alpha announces today that it will invest in the new project one year from now, but it will simultaneously issue enough new shares at that time to enable it to pay the usual $10 dividend per share to its existing shareholders. what do you think will happen to alpha’s share price one year from now under this plan? what do you think will happen to alpha’s stock price today? which of the three plans do you think alpha’s shareholders would prefer?

On april 1, 2017, jiro nozomi created a new travel agency, adventure travel. the following transactions occurred during the company’s first month. april 1 nozomi invested $30,000 cash and computer equipment worth $20,000 in the company in exchange for common stock.2 the company rented furnished office space by paying $1,800 cash for the first month's (april) rent.3 the company purchased $1,000 of office supplies for cash.10 the company paid $2,400 cash for the premium on a 12-month insurance policy. coverage begins on april 11.14 the company paid $1,600 cash for two weeks' salaries earned by employees.24 the company collected $8,000 cash on commissions from airlines on tickets obtained for customers.28 the company paid $1,600 cash for two weeks' salaries earned by employees.29 the company paid $350 cash for minor repairs to the company's computer.30 the company paid $750 cash for this month's telephone bill.30 the company paid $1,500 cash in dividends. the company's chart of accounts follows: 101 cash 405 commissions earned106 accounts receivable 612 depreciation expense—computer equip.124 office supplies 622 salaries expense128 prepaid insurance 637 insurance expense167 computer equipment 640 rent expense168 accumulated depreciation—computer equip. 650 office supplies expense209 salaries payable 684 repairs expense307 common stock 688 telephone expense318 retained earnings 901 income summary319 dividends use the following information: two-thirds (or $133) of one month’s insurance coverage has expired.at the end of the month, $600 of office supplies are still available.this month’s depreciation on the computer equipment is $500.employees earned $420 of unpaid and unrecorded salaries as of month-end.the company earned $1,750 of commissions that are not yet billed at month-end. required: 1. & 2. prepare journal entries to record the transactions for april and post them to the ledger accounts in requirement 6b. the company records prepaid and unearned items in balance sheet accounts.3. using account balances from requirement 6b, prepare an unadjusted trial balance as of april 30.4. journalize and post the adjusting entries for the month and prepare the adjusted trial balance.5a. prepare the income statement for the month of april 30, 2017.5b. prepare the statement of retained earnings for the month of april 30, 2017.5c. prepare the balance sheet at april 30, 2017.6a. prepare journal entries to close the temporary accounts and then post to requirement 6b.6b. post the journal entries to the ledger.7. prepare a post-closing trial balance.

Use the following account numbers and corresponding account titles to answer the following question. account no. account title (1) cash (2) merchandise inventory (3) cost of goods sold (4) transportation-out (5) dividends (6) common stock (7) selling expense (8) loss on the sale of land (9) sales which accounts would appear on the income statement?

On coral island in 2012, the labor force is 12,000, the unemployment rate is 10 percent, and the labor force participation rate is 60 percent. during 2013, 200 unemployed people found jobs and the working-age population increased by 1,000. the total number of people in the labor force did not change. the working-age population at the end of 2013 was the unemployment rate at the end of 2013 was round up to the second decimal. the labor force participation rate at the end of 2013 was round up to the second decimal.