In the 1973 movie save the tiger, jack lemmon plays harry stoner, the ceo of a clothing manufacturer whose business has fallen on hard times. at one point in the movie, stoner convinces his partner to hire someone to burn one of their buildings to collect on their insurance policy. what term refers to the information problem that led the insurance company to sell a policy for this building to stoner and his partner?

Kelso electric is debating between a leveraged and an unleveraged capital structure. the all equity capital structure would consist of 40,000 shares of stock. the debt and equity option would consist of 25,000 shares of stock plus $280,000 of debt with an interest rate of 7 percent. what is the break-even level of earnings before interest and taxes between these two options?

At the end of the current year, accounts receivable has a balance of $550,000; allowance for doubtful accounts has a credit balance of $5,500; and sales for the year total $2,500,000. an analysis of receivables estimates uncollectible receivables as $25,000. determine the net realizable value of accounts receivable after adjustment. (hint: determine the amount of the adjusting entry for bad debt expense and the adjusted balance of allowance of doubtful accounts.)

Dominic is the founder of an innovative "impromptu catering" business that provides elegant, healthy party food and decorations on less than 24 hours' notice. the company has grown by over 150 percent in the past year. dominic credits some of the company's success to studying the strategies of prominent social entrepreneurs, such as wikipedia's jimmy wales. what can dominic do to exemplify the social entrepreneurship model?