A owns a ranch in Wyoming, which B offers to purchase. A is not willing to sell the ranch but is willing to exchange the ranch for an apartment complex in Louisiana. The complex is available for sale. B purchases the apartment complex in Louisiana from C and transfers it to A in exchange for A's ranch. The ranch and the complex each have a $1,000,000 fair market value. Which of the following is true? A) The transaction qualifies as a like-kind exchange for B but not for A.
B) The transaction qualifies as a like-kind exchange for both B and A.
C) The transaction qualifies as a like-kind exchange for A but not for B.
D) The transaction does not qualify as a like-kind exchange for either B or A.

Fred smithers, a recent college graduate decided to open his own portable juice bar, smithers smoothies, to wheel around newport beach. you, a trusted friend of fred, are a business major that has also recently graduated and agreed to handle the books for a while to get some practical experience and have a favor that you can ask of fred in the future. given the following five transactions concerning the new venture, prepare the necessary journal entries for the transactions, post the journal entries to appropriate t accounts and prepare a trial balance as of the end of the month in order to answer to the necessary may 2: fred invests $12,000 of his own money to start the new company. this money was obtained from a part-time job working at a legal firm while he was in school. may 3: fred spent $5,100 cash to purchase a refrigerated trailer that he can pull behind his car and set up at the beach. under your advice, fred agrees to place the new asset under an account called "equipment." may 6: fred bought $640 of supplies on account from the flav-o-rite confectioners company. because they will last longer than a single accounting period fred agrees to record them as, "supplies" as per your suggestion. may 13: fred sat on the beach for six hours without a single sale and was feeling very down. right before he left, however, a plumber escorting his family reunion along the beach stopped by his stand and bought $800 worth of smoothies for the entire family. under your advice, fred agrees to call this cash revenue, "sales." may 15: excited about his new venture, fred withdraws $350 from the company to take his girlfriend out to dinner. what would be the balance in the cash account at the end of the period following the posting of all the transactions?

Noah met an old friend at a coffee shop. he jotted down the friend's new phone number, but later that afternoon he could not find it or remember what he had done with it. a couple of days later, noah went back to the coffee shop, and while waiting in line, he suddenly remembered where he had put the phone number. this is an example of:

Bmw receives data transmitted by each new vehicle it sells to employees understand how customers use the products and when service may be needed. this use of technology aids in bmw's efforts to interact in an ongoing basis with its customers.