Outstanding shareswillis & company has 20 million shares of $1 par value common stock outstanding. the company believes that its current market price of $100 per share is too high and decides to execute a 4-for-1 forward stock split to lower the price. how many shares will be outstanding following the stock split? what will be the new par value per share?

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

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)

Driving would be more pleasant if we didn't have to put up with the bad habits of other drivers. a newspaper reported the results of a valvoline oil company survey of 500 drivers in which the drivers marked their complaints about other drivers. the top complaints turned out to be tailgating, marked by 24% of the respondents; not using turn signals, marked by 19%; being cut off, marked by 15%; other drivers driving too slowly, marked by 12%; and other drivers being inconsiderate marked by 5%.