Northwest Hospital is a full-service hospital that provides everything from major surgery and emergency room care to outpatient clinics. Required:
For each of the following costs incurred at Northwest Hospital, indicate whether it would most likely be a direct cost or an indirect cost of the specified cost object.

1. The wages of pediatric nurses / The pediatric department
2. Prescription drugs / A particular patient
3. Heating the hospital / The pediatric patient
4. The salary of the head of pediatrics / The pediatric patient
5. The salary of the head of pediatrics / The particular pediatric patient
6. Hospital chaplain's salary / A particular patient
7. Lab tests by outside contractor / A particular patient
8. Lab tests by outside contractor / A particular department

Saeed needs money to purchase tools, basic office supplies, parts to refurbish equipment, accounting software, and legal fees. believing saeed's business will be a success, an investor invests $5,000 to saeed open his business. in return, saeed agrees to repay the investor the $5,000 plus 17 percent of the profits of the business. calculate the return on investment for the investor if saeed's business makes $7,000 in profit as a total return of the business in its first year.

3. now assume that carnival booked lady antebellum in december 2016 to perform on the june 2017 western caribbean cruise. further assume that carnival pays lady antebellum its entire performance fee of $52,000 on december 28, 2016, for the june 2017 cruise. what journal entry will carnival make on december 28, 2016, for its payment to lady antebellum?

Which of the following statements about brand names is true? brand names give the seller an incentive to provide consistently high-quality products and services in order to protect the reputation of the brand. brand names are always economically wasteful since they dupe consumers into buying more expensive goods and services that are no different from generic versions. it is always rational to prefer brand names over generic substitutes. read the following example and determine whether it illustrates a common critique or defense of advertising. musashi sees a commercial for a brand x clothing company that depicts the wearers of the clothes out having a good time with friends. although he doesn't particularly need new clothes, the commercial prompts him to buy a brand x t-shirt.