Which of the following statements about initial public offerings are true? ipos are less risky than a typical stock market investment (i. e. investing in mcdonald's or coca-cola) since they are typically smaller companies an ipo occurs when a private company sells stock to the public for the first time when an ipo occurs, a company raises money from public investors that they use to grow their business ipos are risky investments since the company going public often has a limited track record of performance one benefit of “going public (another term for an ipo)” is that a public company has less regulation than a private one

Lincoln company has an accounting policy for internal reporting purposes whereby the costs of any research and development projects that are over 70 percent likely to succeed are capitalized and then depreciated over a five-year period with a full year of depreciation in the year of capitalization. in the current year, $400,000 was spent on project one, and it was 55 percent likely to succeed, $600,000 was spent on project two, and it was 65 percent likely to succeed, and $900,000 was spent on project three, and it was 75 percent likely to succeed. in converting the internal financial statements to external financial statements, by how much will net income for the current year have to be reduced? a. $180,000b. $380,000c. $720,000d. $900,000

The sec has historically raised questions regarding the independence of firms that derive a significant portion of their total revenues from one audit client or group of clients because the sec staff believes this situation causes cpa firms to

Jen left a job paying $75,000 per year to start her own florist shop in a building she owns. the market value of the building is $120,000. she pays $35,000 per year for flowers and other supplies, and has a bank account that pays 5 percent interest. what is the economic cost of jen's business?