Which of the following is a primary market transaction? a. you buy 200 shares of ibm stock from your brother. the trade is not made through a broker; you just give him cash and he gives you the stock. b. ibm issues 2,000,000 shares of new stock and sells them to the public through an investment banker. c. one financial institution buys 200,000 shares of ibm stock from another institution. an investment banker arranges the transaction. d. you sell 200 shares of ibm stock on the nyse through your broker. e. ibm sells 2,000,000 shares of treasury stock to its employees when they exercise options that were granted in prior years.

Which curve shows increasing opportunity cost as you give up more of one option? demand curve bow-shaped curve yield curve indifference curve

All of the following led to the collapse of the soviet economy except a. a lack of worker incentives. c. inadequate supply of consumer goods. b. a reliance on production quotas. d. the introduction of a market economy.

Caleb construction (cc) incurs supervisor salaries expense in the construction of homes. if cc manufactures 100 homes in a year, fixed supervisor salaries will be $400,000. with the current construction supervisors, cc's productive capacity is 150 homes in a year. however, if cc is contracts to build more than 150 homes per year, it will need to hire additional supervisors, which are hired as full-time rather than temporary employees. cc's productive capacity would then become 200 homes per year, and salaries expense would increase to $470,000. how would cc’s salaries expense be properly classified? fixed variable mixed stepped curvilinear