The Cansler Corporation provides an executive stock option plan. Under the plan, the company granted options on July 1, 2015, that permit executives to acquire 15 million of the company's $3 par value common shares within the next 8 years, but not prior to June 30, 2018 (the vesting date). The exercise price is the market price of the shares on the date of the grant, $12 per share. The fair value of the options, estimated by an appropriate model, is $9.50 per option. On September 15, 2019, 10 million options are exercised to purchase 10 million shares. Prepare the necessary journal entry to record this transaction.

At the end of the current year, $59,500 of fees have been earned but have not been billed to clients. required: a. journalize the adjusting entry to record the accrued fees on december 31. refer to the chart of accounts for exact wording of account titles. b. if the cash basis rather than the accrual basis had been used, would an adjusting entry have been necessary?

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

Consider an economy where the government's budget is initially balanced. the production function, consumption function and investment function can be represented as follows y equals k to the power of alpha l to the power of 1 minus alpha end exponent c equals c subscript 0 plus b left parenthesis y minus t right parenthesis i equals i subscript 0 minus d r suppose that taxes increase. what happens to the equilibrium level of output?