Todd and his roommates nearly died from carbon monoxide poisoning one winter, due to a faulty furnace in the apartment they rented. city code required landlords to provide smoke detectors but not carbon monoxide detectors. todd presented a speech urging city council to also require landlords to equip rental properties with a working carbon monoxide detector. his speech appealed to needs.

Which one of the following is most apt to align management's priorities with shareholders' interests? compensating managers with shares of stock that must be held for a minimum of three years holding corporate and shareholder meetings at high-end resort-type locations preferred by managers increasing the number of paid holidays that long-term employees are entitled to receive allowing employees to retire early with full retirement benefits paying a special management bonus on every fifth year of employment

Ail industries uses activity-based costing to assist management in setting prices for the company's three major product lines. the following information is available: activity cost pool estimated overhead expected use of cost driver per activity cutting $1,000,000 25,000 labor hours stitching 8,000,000 320,000 machine hours inspections 2,800,000 160,000 labor hours packing 960,000 64,000 finished goods units compute the activity-based overhead rates. (round answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 12.25.)

You are chairman of the board of a successful technology firm. there is a nominal federal corporate tax rate of 35 percent, yet the effective tax rate of the typical corporation is about 12.6%. your firm has been clever with use of transfer pricing and keeping money abroad and has barely paid any taxes over the last 5 years; during this same time period, profits were $28 billion. one member of the board feels that it is un-american to use various accounting strategies in order to avoid paying taxes. others feel that these are legal loopholes and corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to minimize taxes. one board member quoted what the ceo of exxon once said: “i’m not a u.s. company and i don’t make decisions based on what’s good for the u.s.” what are the alternatives? what are your recommendations? why do you recommend this course of action?