You are the controller for $21$st Century Technologies. Your staff has prepared an income statement for the current year and has developed the following additional information by analyzing changes in the company's balance sheet accounts. $21$ST CENTURY TECHNOLOGIES INCOME STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER $31,2015$ Revenue: Net sales $ $3,200,000$ Interest revenue $40,000$ Gain on sales of marketable securities $34,000$ Total revenue and gains $ $3,274,000$ Costs and expenses: Cost of goods sold $ $1,620,000$ Operating expenses $($including depreciation of $$150,000)1,240,000$ Interest expense $42,000$ Income tax expense $100,000$ Loss on sales of plant assets $12,000$ Total costs, expenses, and losses $3,014,000$ Net income $ $260,000$ Additional Information $1.$ Accounts receivable increased by $$60,000.2.$ Accrued interest receivable decreased by $$2,000.3.$ Inventory decreased by $$60,000,$ and accounts payable to suppliers of merchandise decreased by $$16,000.4.$ Short$-$term prepayments of operating expenses increased by $$6,000,$ and accrued liabilities for operating expenses decreased by $$8,000.5.$ The liability for accrued interest payable increased by $$4,000$ during the year. $6.$ The liability for accrued income taxes payable decreased by $$14,000$ during the year. $7.$ The following schedule summarizes the total debit and credit entries during the year in other balance sheet accounts: Debit Entries Credit Entries Marketable Securities $ $60,000$ $ $38,000$ Notes Receivable $($cash loans made to borrowers$)44,00028,000$ Plant Assets $($see paragraph $8)500,00036,000$ Notes Payable $($short$-$term borrowing$)92,00082,000$ Capital Stock $20,000$ Additional Paid$-$in Capital$$Capital Stock $160,000$ Retained Earnings $($see paragraph $9)120,000260,0008.$ The $$36,000$ in credit entries to the Plant Assets account is net of any debits to Accumulated Depreciation when plant assets were retired. Thus, the $$36,000$ in credit entries represents the book value of all plant assets sold or retired during the year. $9.$ The $$120,000$ debit to Retained Earnings represents dividends declared and paid during the year. The $$260,000$ credit entry represents the net income shown in the income statement. $10.$ All investing and financing activities were cash transactions. $11.$ Cash and cash equivalents amounted to $$244,000$ at the beginning of the year and to $$164,000$ at year$-$end. Instructions a$.$ Prepare a statement of cash flows for the current year. Use the direct method of reporting cash flows from operating activities,investing, and financing. Place brackets around dollar amounts representing cash outfows. Show seperately your computatios of the followin amounts. $1.$ cash received from cutomers $2.$ interest received $3.$cah paid to suppliers and employees $4.$ interest paid $5.$ income taxes paid $6.$ proceeds from sales of marketable securities $7.$ proceeds from sales of plant assets $8.$ proceeds from isussiing capital stock b$.$explain the primary reason why $1.$the amount of cash procided by operating activities was substanially greater than the company's net income $2.$ there was a net decrease in cash over the year despite the substantial amount of cash provided by operating acitvities c$.$ As $21$st cenutry's controller, you think that through more efficient cahs amnagemnet, the company could have held the increase in accounts receivable for the year to $10000$ without affecting net income. explain how holding down theg rowth in recevables affects cash. COmpute the effect tha tlimiting the growth in receivables to $10000$ would have had on the company's net increase or decrease in cash $($and cash equvalents$)$ for the year