The 10 payments are made annually starting with the inception of the lease. Title does not transfer to the lessee and there is no bargain purchase option or guaranteed residual value. The asset has an expected economic life of 12 years. The lease is noncancelable. Payment Cash Payment Effective Interest Decrease in balance Balance
90,938
1 13,000 13,000 77,938
2 13,000 7,014 5,986 71,953
3 13,000 6,476 6,524 65,428
4 13,000 5,889 7,111 58,317
5 13,000 5,249 7,751 50,565
6 13,000 4,551 8,449 42,116
7 13,000 3,790 9,210 32,907
8 13,000 2,962 10,038 22,868
9 13,000 ? ? ?
10 13,000 ? ? ?

What would be the outstanding balance after payment #10?
a. $0.
b. $11,927.
c. $13,000.
d. $1,073.

Recently, verizon wireless ran a pricing trial in order to estimate the elasticity of demand for its services. the manager selected three states that were representative of its entire service area and increased prices by 5 percent to customers in those areas. one week later, the number of customers enrolled in verizon's cellular plans declined 4 percent in those states, while enrollments in states where prices were not increased remained flat. the manager used this information to estimate the own-price elasticity of demand and, based on her findings, immediately increased prices in all market areas by 5 percent in an attempt to boost the company's 2016 annual revenues. one year later, the manager was perplexed because verizon's 2016 annual revenues were 10 percent lower than those in 2015"the price increase apparently led to a reduction in the company's revenues. did the manager make an error? yes - the one-week measures show demand is inelastic, so a price increase will decrease revenues. yes - the one-week measures show demand is elastic, so a price increase will reduce revenues. yes - cell phone elasticity is likely much larger in the long-run than the short-run. no - the cell phone market must have changed between 2011 and 2012 for this price increase to lower revenues.

Cool beans is a locally owned coffee shop that competes with two large coffee chains, planeteuro and frothies. alicia, the owner, hired two students to count the number of customers that entered each of the coffee shops to estimate what percent of people who are interested in coffee are visiting each shop. after a week, the students found the following results: 589 visited cool beans, 839 visited planeteuro, and 1,290 visited frothies. the students were surprised that cool beans had 139 visits on monday which represented 59% of all people who visited one of the three coffee shops on mondays. how many people visited one of the three coffee shops during the week?

Suppose that a firm is considering moving from a batch process to an assembly-line process to better meet evolving market needs. what concerns might the following functions have about this proposed process change: marketing, finance, human resources, accounting, and information systems?