Harper Housewares Inc.$$s statement of stockholders$$ equity on December $31,2023$ is listed below.

From December $31,2023$ Balance Sheet

$5\%$ cumulative preferred stock, $$50$ par,$10,000$ shares authorized; $6,000$ shares issued and outstanding $$300,000$

Common stock, $$1$ par, $500,000$ share authorized; $385,000$ shares issued and outstanding $385,000$

Paid$-$in capital in excess of par $-$ Preferred stock $25,000$

Paid$-$in capital in excess of par $-$ Common stock $2,045,000$

Retained earnings $220,000$

Total stockholders$$ equity $$2,975,000$

Harper had the following select financial metrics at December $31,2023$:

$$ Total assets of $$10,488,000$

$$ Debt$-$to$-$equity ratio of $1\mathrm{.}4.($All debt was paid off in $2024.)$

$$ EV$/$EBITDA multiple of $11\mathrm{.}4$X

$$ EBITDA margin $32\mathrm{.}6\%$

$$ PE multiple $18\mathrm{.}2$

The following transactions occurred during $2023$:

Feb $3$ Issued $2,500$ shares of preferred stock for $$50$ per share.

Mar $15$ Declare and pay cash dividends of $$1\mathrm{.}25$ per common share.

Apr $25$ Issued $50,000$ shares of common stock for $$10$ per share.

Jun $15$ Repurchased $15,000$ shares of common stock at $$7$ per share.

Oct $24$ Sold $7,500$ shares of treasury stock bought on June $15$ for $$16$ per share.

Common shares closed at $$12$ and $$10$ on Dec $31,2023,$ and $2022$ respectively.

$1.$ Record $($prepare the journal entry for$)$ the $5$ transactions noted above. I am mainly interested in the economic impact of each transaction $($e$.$g$.,$ $$500$ increase in cash, and increase in capital$)$ as opposed to accounting entries if you don$$t speak accounting. Calculate the impact of Harper$$s market cap based on each of these transactions.

$2.$ Calculate Harper$$s total liabilities at December $31,2023.$ How much of that was reported as debt?

$3.$ Calculate Harper$$s enterprise value at December $31,2023.$

$4.$ Calculate Harper$$s $2023$ sales.

$5.$ Calculate the sales multiple at December $31,2023.$