Two friends wanted to decide where to go for dinner. their conversation went like this: "we need to get something to eat. how about sharky's so we can watch the game on tv? no, sharky's is too noisy. ok, how about we get pizza at the pie hub? the hub is great with me." in that conversation the statement "the hub is great with me" would be analyzed and mapped as

Symantec corp., located in cupertino, california, is one of the world's largest producers of security and systems management software. the company's consolidated balance sheets for the 2009 and 2008 fiscal years included the following ($ in thousands): current assets: receivables, less allowances of $21,766 in 2009 and $24,089 in 2008 $ 838,010 $ 758,700 a disclosure note accompanying the financial statements reported the following ($ in thousands): year ended 2009 2008 (in thousands) trade accounts receivable, net: receivables $ 859,776 $ 782,789 less: allowance for doubtful accounts (8,938) (8,990) less: reserve for product returns (12,828) (15,099) trade accounts receivable, net: $ 838,010 $ 758,700 assume that the company reported bad debt expense in 2009 of $2,000 and had products returned for credit totaling $3,230 (sales price). net sales for 2009 were $6,174,800 (all numbers in thousands).required: what is the amount of accounts receivable due from customers at the end of 2009 and 2008? what amount of accounts receivable did symentec write off during 2009? what is the amount of symentec’s gross sales for the 2009 fiscal year? assuming that all sales are made on a credit basis, what is the amount of cash symentec collected from customers during the 2009 fiscal year?

Companies in the u.s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct

Calculate the required rate of return for climax inc., assuming that (1) investors expect a 4.0% rate of inflation in the future, (2) the real risk-free rate is 3.0%, (3) the market risk premium is 5.0%, (4) the firm has a beta of 2.30, and (5) its realized rate of return has averaged 15.0% over the last 5 years. do not round your intermediate calculations.