Third-party woes. trudy owed sam $40 for a book she purchased from him. trudy mowed betty's yard for $40 and agreed with betty that betty would pay sam for the book. sam is not initially aware of the agreement. betty pays no one. trudy also mowed bob's yard for $40 in return for bob's agreement to give the payment to sally representing trudy's birthday present to sally. bob later refuses to do so saying that promises to give gifts are not enforceable. he then moves out of town. trudy tells both sam and sally that she is broke, that sam needs to get his $40 for the book from betty, and that sally is owed $40 from bob for her birthday present. which of the following is the likely result if sam sues betty for the $40 that trudy owes him for the book?

The gomez company, a merchandising firm, has budgeted its activity for december according to the following information: • sales at $500,000, all for cash. • merchandise inventory on november 30 was $250,000. • the cash balance at december 1 was $20,000. • selling and administrative expenses are budgeted at $50,000 for december and are paid for in cash. • budgeted depreciation for december is $30,000. • the planned merchandise inventory on december 31 is $260,000. • the cost of goods sold represents 75% of the selling price. • all purchases are paid for in cash. the budgeted cash disbursements for december are:

If a firm plans to issue new stock, flotation costs (investment bankers' fees) should not be ignored. there are two approaches to use to account for flotation costs. the first approach is to add the sum of flotation costs for the debt, preferred, and common stock and add them to the initial investment cost. because the investment cost is increased, the project's expected return is reduced so it may not meet the firm's hurdle rate for acceptance of the project. the second approach involves adjusting the cost of common equity as follows: . the difference between the flotation-adjusted cost of equity and the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment represents the flotation cost adjustment. quantitative problem: barton industries expects next year's annual dividend, d1, to be $1.90 and it expects dividends to grow at a constant rate g = 4.3%. the firm's current common stock price, p0, is $22.00. if it needs to issue new common stock, the firm will encounter a 6% flotation cost, f. assume that the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment is 12% and the cost of old common equity is 11.5%. what is the flotation cost adjustment that must be added to its cost of retaine

Select the correct answer a research organization conducts certain chemical tests on samples. they have data available on the standard results. some of the samples give results outside the boundary of the standard results. which data mining method follows a similar approach? o a. data cleansing ob. network intrusion o c. fraud detection od. customer classification o e. deviation detection