Commodity brokers use forward and futures contracts for which of the following reasons? a. commodities come from many different countries with very different currency exchange rates. b. the seasonal nature of many commodities would lead to wide variations in supply and price without these contracts. c. the riskiness of commodity production means that many commodity producers go bankrupt before harvest time. d. the raw, unprocessed nature of commodities means that there is always a third party to any commodity-purchase contract. 2b2t

Consider the scenario below and let us know if you believe lauren smith's actions to be ethical. let us know why or why not. lauren smith is the controller for sports central, a chain of sporting goods stores. she has been asked to recommend a site for a new store. lauren has an uncle who owns a shopping plaza in the area of town where the new store is to be located, so she decides to contact her uncle about leasing space in his plaza. lauren also contacted several other shopping plazas and malls, but her uncle’s store turned out to be the most economical place to lease. therefore, lauren recommended locating the new store in her uncle’s shopping plaza. in making her recommendation to management, she did not disclose that her uncle owns the shopping plaza. if management decided to go with lauren's uncle's plaza, what additional information would be needed in the financial statements?

When a market is in equilibrium, the buyers are those with the willingness to pay and the sellers are those with the costs.

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