Which of the following is the objective of financial reporting? to provide information: a. used to identify, measure, analyze and communicate financial information needed by management to plan, control and evaluate a company’s operations. b. that defines the process of how and at what cost money is allocated among competing interests. c. about the reporting entity that is useful to present and potential equity investors, lenders, and other creditors. d. about the management and shareholders of an enterprise.

Your mother's well-diversified portfolio has an expected return of 12.0% and a beta of 1.20. she is in the process of buying 100 shares of safety corp. at $10 a share and adding it to her portfolio. safety has an expected return of 15.0% and a beta of 2.00. the total value of your current portfolio is $9,000. what will the expected return and beta on the portfolio be after the purchase of the safety stock?

Suppose general motors demands labor according to the labor demand function 푤푤= 40−0. 5퐸퐸, where 푤푤 is the hourly wage and 퐸퐸 is the number of employees. the united auto workers union has a utility function given by 푈푈=푊푊∗퐸퐸. a.in 1984, the united auto workers union started negotiations with general motors by assuming that they were a monopoly union. find the wage and employment demands that the united auto workers union would have demanded before any bargaining began. b.if general motors and the united auto workers union both had excellent bargaining representatives, would this be the final labor contract? if not, then explain in words and graphically where they would end up after the bargaining process.

The cost of direct labor used in production is recorded as a? a. credit to work-in-process inventory account. b. credit to wages payable. c. credit to manufacturing overhead account. d. credit to wages expense.