Astro Mile & Co. owns vast amounts of corporate bonds. Suppose Astro Mile buys $ 1,400,000 of BitterCo bonds at face value on January 2, 2018. The BitterCo bonds pay interest at the annual rate of 8% on June 30 and December 31 and mature on December 1. Astro Mile intends to hold the investment until maturity. Required:
a. Journalize any required 2016 entries for the bond investment.
b. How much cash interest will Astro Mile receive each year from CoteCorp?
c. How much interest revenue will Astro Mile report during 2016 on this bond investment?

Consider the scenario below and let us know if you believe lauren smith's actions to be ethical. let us know why or why not. lauren smith is the controller for sports central, a chain of sporting goods stores. she has been asked to recommend a site for a new store. lauren has an uncle who owns a shopping plaza in the area of town where the new store is to be located, so she decides to contact her uncle about leasing space in his plaza. lauren also contacted several other shopping plazas and malls, but her uncle’s store turned out to be the most economical place to lease. therefore, lauren recommended locating the new store in her uncle’s shopping plaza. in making her recommendation to management, she did not disclose that her uncle owns the shopping plaza. if management decided to go with lauren's uncle's plaza, what additional information would be needed in the financial statements?

You decided to charge $100 for your new computer game, but people are not buying it. what could you do to encourage people to buy your game?

You have just been hired as a brand manager at kelsey-white, an american multinational consumer goods company. recently the firm invested in the development of k-w vision, a series of systems and processes that allow the use of up-to-date data and advanced analytics to drive informed decision making about k-w brands. it is 2018. the system is populated with 3 years of historical data. as brand manager for k-w’s blue laundry detergent, you are tasked to lead the brand's turnaround. use the vision platform to to develop your strategy and grow blue’s market share over the next 4 years.