What do barriers to entry have to do with the extent of competition, or lack thereof, in an industry?
without barriers to entry :

a. existing firms will experience price leadership.
b. new firms will enter industries where firms are earning accounting profits.
c. new firms will enter industries where firms are earning economic profits.
d. existing firms will agree to charge the same price and not compete.
e. new firms will enter industries exhibiting diseconomies of scale.

Management discovers that a supervisor at one of its restaurant locations removes excess cash and resets sales totals throughout the day on the point-of-sale (pos) system. at closing, the supervisor deposits cash equal to the recorded sales on the pos system and keeps the rest.the supervisor forwards the close-of-day pos reports from the pos system along with a copy of the bank deposit slip to the company’s revenue accounting department. the revenue accounting department records the sales and the cash for the location in the general ledger and verifies the deposit slip to the bank statement. any differences between sales and deposits are recorded in an over/short account and, if necessary, followed up with the location supervisor. the customer food order checks are serially numbered, and it is the supervisor’s responsibility to see that they are accounted for at the end of each day. customerchecks and the transaction journal tapes from the pos system are kept by the supervisor for 1 week at the location and then destroyed.what control allowed the fraud to occur?

If the findings and the results are not presented properly, the research completed was a waste of time and money. true false

Compute the cost of not taking the following cash discounts. (use a 360-day year. do not round intermediate calculations. input your final answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)