Nasty break-up. harold wants to purchase a lot next door to sarah's home that is owned by sarah. harold knows sarah will not sell the lot to him because they dated in the past and had a nasty break-up. harold agrees with alice that alice will purchase the lot from sarah for him. alice and sarah reach an agreement and enter into a contract whereby sarah is to sell the lot to alice for a price within the scope of alice's authority. alice tells sarah nothing about her plan to later transfer the lot to harold. before title to the lot is transferred to alice, harold tells alice that he no longer wants the lot. alice tells sarah about harold. sarah tells alice that as far as she is concerned, alice has bought the lot. sarah says that she plans to move anyway and really does not care whether alice or harold ends up with the lot. she just wants her money. what type of principal is harold?

Management discovers that a supervisor at one of its restaurant locations removes excess cash and resets sales totals throughout the day on the point-of-sale (pos) system. at closing, the supervisor deposits cash equal to the recorded sales on the pos system and keeps the rest. the supervisor forwards the close-of-day pos reports from the pos system along with a copy of the bank deposit slip to the company’s revenue accounting department. the revenue accounting department records the sales and the cash for the location in the general ledger and verifies the deposit slip to the bank statement. any differences between sales and deposits are recorded in an over/short account and, if necessary, followed up with the location supervisor. the customer food order checks are serially numbered, and it is the supervisor’s responsibility to see that they are accounted for at the end of each day. customerchecks and the transaction journal tapes from the pos system are kept by the supervisor for 1 week at the location and then destroyed. what control allowed the fraud to occur?

Sarah salesrep is brand new to her job selling "lifetime" printers that never need replacement ink cartridges. the problem is that these printers cost ten times more than a regular printer, so it is difficult to get prospective buyers to understand the cost savings of buying it. to break through the barrier and begin making sales, sarah should use a analysis that highlights her printer's lower cost.

)a business incurs the following costs per unit: labor $125/unit, materials $45/unit, and rent $250,000/month. if the firm produces 1,000,000 units a month, calculate the following: a. total variable costs b. total fixed costs c. total costs