When budgets are used to evaluate performance and to set limits on spending, the process will often result in budget padding. Budget padding means A. underestimating revenue and underestimating costs. B. overestimating revenue and overestimating costs. C. overestimating revenue and underestimating costs. D. underestimating revenue and overestimating costs.

Cool beans is a locally owned coffee shop that competes with two large coffee chains, planeteuro and frothies. alicia, the owner, hired two students to count the number of customers that entered each of the coffee shops to estimate what percent of people who are interested in coffee are visiting each shop. after a week, the students found the following results: 589 visited cool beans, 839 visited planeteuro, and 1,290 visited frothies. the students were surprised that cool beans had 139 visits on monday which represented 59% of all people who visited one of the three coffee shops on mondays. how many people visited one of the three coffee shops during the week?

Which of the following statements is not correct? the stock of publicly owned companies must generally be registered with and reported to a regulatory agency such as the sec. when stock in a closely held corporation is offered to the public for the first time, the transaction is called "going public, or an ipo," and the market for such stock is called the new issue or ipo market. "going public" establishes a firm's true intrinsic value and ensures that a liquid market will always exist for the firm's shares. if you wanted to know what rate of return stocks have provided in the past, you could examine data on the dow jones industrial index, the s& p 500 index, or the nasdaq index.

1. how much money did selfridge spend on advertising before the store’s opening? 2. explain what shopping was like in london during the early 1900s. how does this differ from the modern shopping experience? 3. what was the role of a floorwalker in 1900s london? 4. what inspired selfridge to ensure that customers in his store could browse at their leisure? do you need the links to the video?