Silven industries, which manufactures and sells a highly successful line of summer lotions and insect repellents, has decided to diversify in order to stabilize sales throughout the year. a natural area for the company to consider is the production of winter lotions and creams to prevent dry and chapped skin

The textbook defines ethics as “the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group,” and specifically as the standards one uses to decide what their conduct should be. to what extent do you believe that what happened at bp (british petrolium) is as much a breakdown in the company’s ethical systems as it is in its safety systems, and how would you defend your conclusion?

If an investment has 35 percent more nondiversifiable risk than the market portfolio, its beta will be:

Rebel technology maintains its records using cash-basis accounting. during the year, the company received cash from customers, $43,000, and paid cash for salaries, $23,500. at the beginning of the year, customers owe rebel $1,000. by the end of the year, customers owe $6,600. at the beginning of the year, rebel owes salaries of $5,600. at the end of the year, rebel owes salaries of $3,300. determine cash-basis net income and accrual-basis net income for the year.