HIT Corp. has developed a mentorship program for its managers and is encouraging them to serve functions, including coaching others to help them develop skills, acting as sounding boards for ideas, and counselling others to bolster their self-confidence. What other activities are generally included in a mentorship program?
a. The manager is paired with a promising employee and encouraged to develop a personal relationship with the employee outside of work.
b. Identify a less experienced, lower-level employee who appears to have potential for future development
c. The manager is assigned to the protege as their exclusive responsibility for a period of weeks to help indoctrinate the newly hired employee into the corporate entity
d. The manager is requested to go through a training program paired with the protege to ease the employee's transition into the company
e. The manager is assigned as a "trainer" and made responsible for all new employees. It is the training manager who selects the manager with whom each protege will be paired

Eliminating entries (including goodwill impairment) and worksheets for various years on january 1, 2013, porter company purchased an 80% interest in the capital stock of salem company for$850,000. at that time, salem company had capital stock of $550,000 and retained earnings of $80,000.differences between the fair value and the book value of the identifiable assets of salem company were asfollows: fair value in excess of book valueequipment$130,000land65,000inventory40,000the book values of all other assets and liabilities of salem company were equal to their fair values onjanuary 1, 2013. the equipment had a remaining life of five years on january 1, 2013. the inventory was sold in2013.salem company’s net income and dividends declared in 2013 and 2014 were as follows: year 2013 net income of $100,000; dividends declared of $25,000year 2014 net income of $110,000; dividends declared of $35,000required: a.prepare a computation and allocation schedule for the difference between book value of equity acquired andthe value implied by the purchase price.b.present the eliminating/adjusting entries needed on the consolidated worksheet for the year endeddecember 31, 2013. (it is not necessary to prepare the worksheet.)lo6lo1

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You hold a diversified $100,000 portfolio consisting of 20 stocks with $5,000 invested in each. the portfolio's beta is 1.12. you plan to sell a stock with b = 0.90 and use the proceeds to buy a new stock with b = 1.50. what will the portfolio's new beta be? do not round your intermediate calculations.