In general, prices should not be based on costs because:

A. consumers are cost-conscious.
B. producers rarely know what their costs are.
C. consumers make their purchase decisions based on perceived value.
D. producers need to avoid creating a cost competitive parity debate. E. customers are always right

Which of the following statements is not correct? the stock of publicly owned companies must generally be registered with and reported to a regulatory agency such as the sec. when stock in a closely held corporation is offered to the public for the first time, the transaction is called "going public, or an ipo," and the market for such stock is called the new issue or ipo market. "going public" establishes a firm's true intrinsic value and ensures that a liquid market will always exist for the firm's shares. if you wanted to know what rate of return stocks have provided in the past, you could examine data on the dow jones industrial index, the s& p 500 index, or the nasdaq index.

On january 1, a company issued and sold a $398,000, 6%, 10-year bond payable, and received proceeds of $393,000. interest is payable each june 30 and december 31. the company uses the straight-line method to amortize the discount. the journal entry to record the first interest payment is:

Jessica wants to plan where she will place furniture in her room, so she has drawn a scale model of her room in order to begin planning. the scale model is 11 inches long and 8.5 inches wide. jessica notices that the door to her room takes up 1.75 inches on the right-side wall of her room, and she realizes that she cannot place any furniture in the area that the door turns through when it is opened.