Brick co. has 170,000 shares of common stock outstanding at january 1, 2015. on may 1, 2015, it issued 30,000 additional shares of common stock. outstanding all year were 12,000 shares of convertible cumulative preferred stock. each share of the convertible preferred stock, which was dilutive in 2015, is convertible into one share of brick’s common stock. what is the number of shares that brick should use to calculate 2015 diluted earnings per share

Personal financial planning is the process of creating and achieving financial goals? true or false

conquest, inc. produces a special kind of light-weight, recreational vehicle that has a unique design. it allows the company to follow a cost-plus pricing strategy. it has $9,000,000 of average assets, and the desired profit is a 10% return on assets. assume all products produced are sold. additional data are as follows: sales volume 1000 units per year; variable costs $1000 per unit; fixed costs $4,000,000 per year; using the cost-plus pricing approach, what should be the sales price per unit?

Label each of the following statements true, false, or uncertain. explain your choice carefully. a. workers benefit equally from the process of creative destruction. b. in the past two decades, the real wages of low-skill u.s. workers have declined relative to the real wages of high-skill workers. c. technological progress leads to a decrease in employment if, and only if, the increase in output is smaller than the increase in productivity. d. the apparent decrease in the natural rate of unemployment in the united states in the second-half of the 1990s can be explained by the fact that productivity growth was unexpectedly high during that period.