Describe the relationship between a person's work ethic and his or her work habits.

Ds unlimited has the following transactions during august. august 6 purchases 58 handheld game devices on account from gamegirl, inc., for $140 each, terms 2/10, n/60. august 7 pays $340 to sure shipping for freight charges associated with the august 6 purchase. august 10 returns to gamegirl three game devices that were defective. august 14 pays the full amount due to gamegirl. august 23 sells 38 game devices purchased on august 6 for $160 each to customers on account. the total cost of the 38 game devices sold is $5,448.51. required: record the transactions of ds unlimited, assuming the company uses a perpetual inventory system. (if no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "no journal entry required" in the first account field. round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

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

The total value of your portfolio is $10,000: $3,000 of it is invested in stock a and the remainder invested in stock b. stock a has a beta of 0.8; stock b has a beta of 1.2. the risk premium on the market portfolio is 8%; the risk-free rate is 2%. additional information on stocks a and b is provided below. return in each state state probability of state stock a stock b excellent 15% 15% 5% normal 50% 9% 7% poor 35% -15% 10% what are each stock’s expected return and the standard deviation? what are the expected return and the standard deviation of your portfolio? what is the beta of your portfolio? using capm, what is the expected return on the portfolio? given your answer above, would you buy, sell, or hold the portfolio?