On january 1, 2013, quick stop, a convenience store, purchased a new soft-drink cooler. quick stop paid $15,380 cash for the cooler. quick stop also paid $750 to have the cooler shipped to its location. after the new cooler arrived, quick stop paid $222 to have the old cooler dismantled and removed. quick stop also paid $1,020 to a contractor to have new wiring and drains installed for the new cooler. quick stop estimated that the cooler would have a useful life of 8 years and a residual value of $500. quick stop uses the straight-line method of depreciation. required: (1) prepare any necessary journal entries to record the cost of the cooler. (2) prepare the adjusting entry to record 2013 depreciation expense on the new cooler. (3) what is the book value of the cooler at the end of 2013? (4) conceptual connection: if quick stop had used a useful life of 12 years and a residual value of $800, how would this effect depreciation expense for 2013 and the book value of the cooler at the end of 2013?

The hawthorne works was a large western electric factory with 45,000 employees. during the 1920s and 1930s, hawthorne works was the site of some well-known industrial studies. in one of the studies, researchers investigated the impact of different working conditions on worker productivity. prior to the start of the study, researchers secretly measured workers' productivity for several weeks. then researchers chose two workers, who then chose their own teams. the teams were separated from the general workforce and completed their work in different experiment rooms where the researchers could observe them more easily. over a 5-year period researchers manipulated the structure of the workday for each team (number and duration of breaks and number of hours per shift). for each of these changes in working conditions, the researchers measured the effect on productivity. for some conditions, such as frequent short breaks, workers rebelled by intentionally decreasing productivity. why did the researchers secretly measure the workers' productivity before creating the two treatment groups? a, to create similar treatment groups so that a cause-and-effect relationship could be establishedb, to draw conclusions about the productivity of all workers in the plant based on the test groupsc, to directly control for confounding variablesd, to provide a baseline for measuring worker productivity

The total value of your portfolio is $10,000: $3,000 of it is invested in stock a and the remainder invested in stock b. stock a has a beta of 0.8; stock b has a beta of 1.2. the risk premium on the market portfolio is 8%; the risk-free rate is 2%. additional information on stocks a and b is provided below. return in each state state probability of state stock a stock b excellent 15% 15% 5% normal 50% 9% 7% poor 35% -15% 10% what are each stock’s expected return and the standard deviation? what are the expected return and the standard deviation of your portfolio? what is the beta of your portfolio? using capm, what is the expected return on the portfolio? given your answer above, would you buy, sell, or hold the portfolio?

Describe a real or made-up but possible example of a situation where an employee faces a conflict of interest. explain at least two things the company could do to make sure the employee won't be tempted into unethical behavior by that conflict of interest. (3.0 points)