You inherited 500 shares of IBM stock from your Great Aunt Mabel. As you contemplate selling the shares, your accountant informs you that the company pays a generous dividend, and advises you to start watching the firm's profits. When you are awarded the first dividend, you learn that it is considered a source of income and you will be taxed on that amount. You find this bothersome because the firm paid the dividend from after-tax profits (these dollars were already taxed). This phenomenon is called .
a. corporate taxation adjusting.
b. double taxation.
c. shareholder tax penalty points.
d. entitlement tax.

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You have just been hired as a financial analyst for barrington industries. unfortunately, company headquarters (where all of the firm's records are kept) has been destroyed by fire. so, your first job will be to recreate the firm's cash flow statement for the year just ended. the firm had $100,000 in the bank at the end of the prior year, and its working capital accounts except cash remained constant during the year. it earned $5 million in net income during the year but paid $800,000 in dividends to common shareholders. throughout the year, the firm purchased $5.5 million of machinery that was needed for a new project. you have just spoken to the firm's accountants and learned that annual depreciation expense for the year is $450,000; however, the purchase price for the machinery represents additions to property, plant, and equipment before depreciation. finally, you have determined that the only financing done by the firm was to issue long-term debt of $1 million at a 6% interest rate. what was the firm's end- of-year cash balance? recreate the firm's cash flow statement to arrive at your answer

Eileen's elegant earrings produces pairs of earrings for its mail order catalogue business. each pair is shipped in a separate box. she rents a small room for $150 a week in the downtown business district that serves as her factory. she can hire workers for $275 a week. there are no implicit costs. what is the marginal product of the second worker?