The CEO at Enron was able to use his compensation to mount a solid legal defense when the government charged him. Some contend he should not have been allowed to do that. Others say it must be allowed because the defendant is innocent until proven guilty and clawing back his salary and gains would be a pronouncement of guilt if the government did that before the trial. Discuss both sides of this issue from a business and legal perspective, state where you come down on the issue and indicate why.

Kenney co. uses process costing to account for the production of canned energy drinks. direct materials are added at the beginning of the process and conversion costs are incurred uniformly throughout the process. equivalent units have been calculated to be 19,200 units for materials and 16,000 units for conversion costs. beginning inventory consisted of $11,200 in materials and $6,400 in conversion costs. april costs were $57,600 for materials and $64,000 for conversion costs. ending inventory still in process was 6,400 units (100% complete for materials, 50% for conversion). the total cost per unit using the weighted average method would be closest to:

Assume that a local bank sells two services, checking accounts and atm card services. the bank’s only two customers are mr. donethat and ms. beenthere. mr. donethat is willing to pay $8 a month for the bank to service his checking account and $2 a month for unlimited use of his atm card. ms. beenthere is willing to pay only $5 for a checking account, but is willing to pay $9 for unlimited use of her atm card. assume that the bank can provide each of these services at zero marginal cost.refer to scenario 17-5. if the bank is unable to use tying, what is the profit-maximizing price to charge for a checking account

Firms like papa john’s, domino’s, and pizza hut sell pizza and other products that are differentiated in nature. while numerous pizza chains exist in most locations, the differentiated nature of these firms’ products permits them to charge prices above marginal cost. given these observations, is the pizza industry most likely a monopoly, perfectly competitive, monopolistically competitive, or an oligopoly industry?