Which of the following is a primary market transaction? a. you buy 200 shares of ibm stock from your brother. the trade is not made through a broker; you just give him cash and he gives you the stock. b. ibm issues 2,000,000 shares of new stock and sells them to the public through an investment banker. c. one financial institution buys 200,000 shares of ibm stock from another institution. an investment banker arranges the transaction. d. you sell 200 shares of ibm stock on the nyse through your broker. e. ibm sells 2,000,000 shares of treasury stock to its employees when they exercise options that were granted in prior years.

All mathematical operations can be performed on ratio data. a. true b. false

What is the communication process? why isnt it possible to communicate without using all the elements in the communication process?

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)