Corporate management and the Board of Directors fulfil a vital role to ensure good corporate governance within a company. Which of the reasons, listed below, has been a major contributing factor to corporate governance scandals?
Question 23 options:
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Changes to government regulations regarding public reporting and disclosure |
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Unclear separation of ownership and management |
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Maximizing current share holder value tends to focus on the value near term |
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Shareholders have dumped the company's stock |
In: Finance
Blossom Inc. is a wholesaler of electronics. It purchased 1300
units of Product X for $700 each during 2022. The selling price
during the year was $900 per unit. At year end, it had 200 units on
hand and due to changes in technology, the selling price will have
to be reduced by 35% in order to sell them. The value of each unit
of Product X for the year-end inventory presentation should
be
a) $315.
b) $700.
c) $585.
d) $900.
In: Accounting
Answer the following question in a minimum of two paragraphs and use scholarly sources to document your main response.
You have seen a number of advertisements of attorneys seeking clients for personal injury claims (car crashes, property damages, etc.). A friend says “I think these sharks make too much money, something ought to be done). Explain what proposed changes you would advocate and support with respect to compensation for attorneys representing plaintiffs?
In: Operations Management
There are two correct answers for this question:
A simple pendulum and a spring-mass pendulum both have identical frequencies. Which changes will result in the spring-mass system having twice the period of the pendulum?
a) Quadruple the mass of the simple pendulum
b) Replace the spring with one half the spring constant and double the mass
c) Make the string on the pendulum four times smaller and make the pendulum 4 times more massives
d) Double the mass in the mass-spring pendulum
In: Physics
Which of the following statements is untrue?
Recognition requires that revenues be recorded when earned which is not necessarily when cash is received.
An annual income statement summarizes revenues earned; less expenses incurred over the year.
An annual balance sheet shows changes in a business's assets, liabilities, and equity during the year.
Matching requires that financial transactions be reported in the period in which they occurred.
The Business Entity Principle requires that each economic entity maintain separate records.
In: Accounting
In: Economics
1. A university was studied last fall to see if male students
studied for a different amount of time than females during the
week. The following data was collected and now, we need to be able
to perform analysis on this data in order to help this university
understand their student population and what changes they may be
able to put into effect.
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Group |
n |
Mean |
StDev |
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Females |
1117 |
2.99 |
2.34 |
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Males |
870 |
2.86 |
2.22 |
a) Perform an appropriate significance test and interpret
it.
In: Statistics and Probability
how marketing affects your daily life and how your understanding
of marketing has changed. To illustrate some of the marketing
components that you have learned, identify a specific product that
could benefit from a new marketing strategy. Describe this product
and explain how you could use the information from this course to
recommend changes. Make sure to include what research strategies
you would recommend the company use to inform the new
strategies.
In: Accounting
Consider the following equilibrium for which H = 16.48:
2 NOBr(g) Y--> 2 NO(g) + Br2(g)
How will each of the following changes affect an equilibrium mixture of the 3 gases in this reaction?
(a) NO is added to the system.
(b) The reaction mixture is heated.
(c) The volume of the reaction vessel is doubled.
(d) A catalyst is added to the reaction mixture.
(e) The total pressure of the system is increased by adding a noble gas.
(f) Br2(g) is removed from the system.
In: Chemistry
1) True or False
- Keq for H2O is << 1
- ΔG° is the Gibbs free energy of a reaction at equilibrium.
- All energy released from an exothermic reaction is available to do work in the cell.
- A reaction with an equilibrium constant of 2.4x10-2 proceeds forward spontaneously under standard state conditions
- Enzyme active sites undergo conformational changes in order to bind optimally to their substrates.
- A reaction with a positive ΔG will proceed in a cell as long as it has an enzyme to catalyze the reaction.
In: Biology