Presented below are summary financial data from porter’s annual report: amounts in millions balance sheet cash and cash equivalents $1,850 marketable securities 19,100 accounts receivable (net) 9,367 total current assets 39,088 total assets 123,078 current liabilities 38,450 long-term debt 7,279 shareholders’ equity 68,278 income statement interest expense 400 net income before taxes 14,007

calculate the following ratios: (round to 2 decimal points)
a. times-interest-earned ratio
b. quick ratio answer
c. current ratio

Use this image to answer the following question. when the economy is operating at point b, the us congress is most likely to follow

Adrawback of short-term contracting as an alternative to making a component in-house is thata. it is the most-integrated alternative to performing an activity so the principal company has no control over the agent. b. the supplying firm has no incentive to make any transaction-specific investments to increase performance or quality. c. it fails to allow a long planning period that individual market transactions provide. d. the buying firm cannot demand lower prices due to the lack of a competitive bidding process.

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1