Berk and DeMarzo (2020) provide the following quotation (see below). Indicate what is implied in this quote and what ramifications it has for our understanding of finance and market efficiency. Include at least two citations that support your response.   A finance professor and a student are walking down a street. The student notices a $100 bill lying on the pavement and leans down to pick it up. The finance professor immediately intervenes and says, “Don’t bother; there is no free lunch. If that were a real $100 bill lying there, somebody would already have picked it up!” (Berk & DeMarzo, 2020, p. 81)

fter researching the different forms of business organization. Lily Koebel decides to operate "Cookie Creations" as a proprietorship. he then starts the process of getting the business running. In November 2021, the following activities take place. Nov. 8 8 11 13 14 (a) 16 17 20 25 30 Lily cashes her U.S. Savings Bonds and receives $540, which she deposits in her personal bank account. She opens a bank account under the name "Cookie Creations" and transfers $520 from her personal account to the new account. Lily pays $70 for advertising. She buys baking supplies, such as flour, sugar, butter, and chocolate chips, for $130 cash. (Hint: Use Supplies account.) Lily starts to gather some baking equipment to take with her when teaching the cookie classes. She has an excellent top- of-the-line food processor and mixer that originally cost her $780. Lily decides to start using it only in her new business. She estimates that the equipment is currently worth $310. She invests the equipment in…

Santana Rey has consulted with her local banker and is considering financing an expansion of her business by obtaining a long-term bank loan. Selected account balances at March 31, 2020, for Business Solutions follow.  Total assets $121,568   Total liabilities $862   Total equity $120,706 Required:1. The bank has offered a long-term secured note to Business Solutions. The bank’s loan procedures require that a client’s debt-to-equity ratio not exceed 0.77. As of March 31, 2020, what is the maximum amount that Business Solutions could borrow from this bank? 2. Assume Business Solutions borrows the maximum amount allowed from the bank. (a) What percentage of assets would be financed by debt?(b) What percentage of assets would be financed by equity?

You work as an accountant for a small land development company that desperately needs additionalfinancing to continue in business. The president of your company is meeting with the manager of alocal bank at the end of the month to try to obtain this financing. The president has approached youwith two ideas to improve the company’s reported financial position. First, he claims that because abig part of the company’s value comes from its knowledgeable and dedicated employees, you shouldreport their “Intellectual Abilities” as an asset on the balance sheet. Second, he claims that by reporting the company’s land on the balance sheet at its cost, rather than the much higher amount that realestate appraisers say it’s really worth, the company is understating the true value of its assets.Required:1. Thinking back to Chapter 1, why do you think the president is so concerned with the amountof assets reported on the balance sheet?2. What accounting concept introduced in Chapter 2 relates to the…

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