What is the main difference between a defined benefit plan and a defined contribution plan?

Assume that a national restaurant firm called bbq builds 10 new restaurants at a cost of $1 million per restaurant. it outfits each restaurant with an additional $200,000 of equipment and furnishings. to partially defray the cost of this expansion, bbq issues and sells 200,000 shares of stock at $30 per share. what is the amount of economic investment that ahs resulted from bbq's actions? how much purely financial investment took place?

Your uncle is considering investing in a new company that will produce high quality stereo speakers. the sales price would be set at 1.5 times the variable cost per unit; the variable cost per unit is estimated to be $75.00; and fixed costs are estimated at $1,200,000. what sales volume would be required to break even, i.e., to have ebit = zero?

The textbook defines ethics as “the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group,” and specifically as the standards one uses to decide what their conduct should be. to what extent do you believe that what happened at bp (british petrolium) is as much a breakdown in the company’s ethical systems as it is in its safety systems, and how would you defend your conclusion?