Which of the following actions would be most likely to reduce potential conflicts of interest between stockholders and managers? a. change the corporation's formal documents to make it easier for outside investors to acquire a controlling interest in the firm through a hostile takeover. b. eliminate a requirement that members of the board of directors must hold a high percentage of their personal wealth in the firm's stock. c. for a firm that compensates managers with stock options, reduce the time before options are vested, i. e., the time before options can be exercised and the shares that are received can be sold. d. pay managers large cash salaries and give them no stock options. e. beef up the restrictive covenants in the firm's debt agreements.

Mno corporation uses a job-order costing system with a predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours. the company based its predetermined overhead rate for the current year on the following data: total estimated direct labor-hours 50,000 total estimated fixed manufacturing overhead cost $ 285,000 estimated variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour $ 3.80 recently, job p123 was completed with the following characteristics: total actual direct labor-hours 20 direct materials $ 710 direct labor cost $ 500 the amount of overhead applied to job p123 is closest to:

Suppose there is a 6 percent increase in the price of good x and a resulting 6 percent decrease in the quantity of x demanded. price elasticity of demand for x is a. 0 b. 6 c. 1 d. 36

Expert computers was started in 2018. the company experienced the following accounting events during its first year of operation: started business when it acquired $40,000 cash from the issue of common stock. purchased merchandise with a list price of $32,000 on account, terms 2/10, n/30. paid off one-half of the accounts payable balance within the discount period. sold merchandise on account for $28,000. credit terms were 1/20, n/30. the merchandise had cost expert computers $16,000. collected cash from the account receivable within the discount period. paid $2,100 cash for operating expenses. paid the balance due on accounts payable. the payment was not made within the discount period. required record the events in a horizontal statements model below. in the cash flows column, use the letters oa to designate operating activity, ia for investing activity, fa for financing activity, or nc for net change in cash. if the account is not affected by the event, leave the cell blank. the first event is recorded as an example. what is the amount of gross margin for the period? what is the net income for the period?