Understanding a company's relationships with financial institutions and bondholders is important because: a. it can uncover the fraudulent transactions from special purpose entities. b. it can reveal whether significant short selling of the company's stock has occurred. c. it may in raising additional funds from the financial institutions. d. it can indicate the extent to which the company is leveraged.

Performance bicycle company makes steel and titanium handle bars for bicycles. it requires approximately 1 hour of labor to make one handle bar of either type. during the most recent accounting period, barr company made 7,700 steel bars and 2,300 titanium bars. setup costs amounted to $35,000. one batch of each type of bar was run each month. if a single company-wide overhead rate based on direct labor hours is used to allocate overhead costs to the two products, the amount of setup cost assigned to the steel bars will be:

Nba all-star baron davis and his school friend, cash warren, premiered their first movie "made in america" at the sundance festival in january 2008. the movie, based on gang activity in south central los angeles, received good reviews.    source: the new york times, february 24, 2008         draw baron davis's ppf. label it ppfdavis. draw your own ppf. label it ppfmine.

Anew joint command and control system is being developed to meet the strategic information needs of all the military services. the air force is the lead service, but the army and navy have different points of view about what functions the system should perform. which one of the software acquisition best practices would be most relevant in managing this issue as the program office undertakes system development?