Talbot industries is considering launching a new product. the new manufacturing equipment will cost $19 million, and production and sales will require an initial $3 million investment in net operating working capital. the company's tax rate is 40%.a. what is the initial investment outlay? write out your answer completely. for example, 2 million should be entered as 2,000,000.$ b. the company spent and expensed $150,000 on research related to the project last year. would this change your answer? yes or noc. rather than build a new manufacturing facility, the company plans to install the equipment in a building it owns but is not now using. the building could be sold for $1.5 million after taxes and real estate commissions. how would this affect your answer? i. increase ii. decrease iii. no change (select 1).

b) a student tests 100 students to determine whether other students on her campus prefer soda brand a or soda brand b and finds no evidence that preference for brand a is not 0.5. later, a marketing company tests all students on campus and finds no difference. choose the correct answer below.

Required prepare the necessary adjusting entries in the general journal as of december 31, assuming the following: on september 1, the company entered into a prepaid equipment maintenance contract. birch company paid $3,400 to cover maintenance service for six months, beginning september 1. the payment was debited to prepaid maintenance. supplies on hand at december 31 are $3,900. unearned commission fees at december 31 are $7,000. commission fees earned but not yet billed at december 31 are $3,500. (note: debit fees receivable.) birch company's lease calls for rent of $1,600 per month payable on the first of each month, plus an annual amount equal to 1% of annual commissions earned. this additional rent is payable on january 10 of the following year. (note: be sure to use the adjusted amount of commissions earned in computing the additional rent.)

Select the correct answer. sarah works in a coffee house where she is responsible for keying in customer orders. a customer orders snacks and coffee, but later, cancels th snacks, saying she wants only coffee. at the end of the day, sarah finds that there is a mismatch in the snack items ordered. which term suggest data has been violated? a. security b. integrity c. adding d. reliability e. reporting