Mike is the director of human resources for a 120-employee family-owned manufacturing firm. mike has been quite busy the last year reforming the benefit offerings to comply with recent changes in healthcare laws. given the many changes, mike took the opportunity to completely overhaul the employee benefits program including replacing the old medical plans with three brand-new plans. mike is preparing to tell employees about their new benefit offerings a few months prior to the benefits open-enrollment period. given the number of employees, he decides to design a nicely formatted powerpoint slide deck explaining the changes and to send this presentation via email to all employees. one day into the open-enrollment period, his inbox is flooded with over 50 emails from confused employees. mike is puzzled, but realizes he may have made a mistake in communication. which of the following best describes the primary communication mistake he made select: 1 assuming that employees would understand the content of the powerpoint slides. failing to match the communication medium (or channel) with the intended outcome. failing to develop core ideas that adhere to the rules of "sticky" communication. forgetting to alert managers that the communication was "coming their way."

Instructions: use the following information to construct the 2000 balance sheet and income statement for carolina business machines. round all numbers to the nearest whole dollar. all numbers are in thousands of dollars. be sure to read the whole problem before you jump in and get started. at the end of 1999 the firm had $43,000 in gross fixed assets. in 2000 they purchased an additional $14,000 of fixed asset equipment. accumulated depreciation at the end of 1999 was $21,000. the depreciation expense in 2000 is $4,620. at the end of 2000 the firm had $3,000 in cash and $3,000 in accounts payable. in 2000 the firm extended a total of $9,000 in credit to a number of their customers in the form of accounts receivable. the firm generated $60,000 in sales revenue in 2000. their cost of goods sold was 60 percent of sales. they also incurred salaries and wages expense of $10,000. to date the firm has $1,000 in accrued salaries and wages. they borrowed $10,000 from their local bank to finance the $15,000 in inventory they now have on hand. the firm also has $7,120 invested in marketable securities. the firm currently has $20,000 in long-term debt outstanding and paid $2,000 in interest on their outstanding debt. over the firm's life, shareholders have put up $30,000. eighty percent of the shareholder's funds are in the form of retained earnings. the par value per share of carolina business machines stock is

Laws corporation is considering the purchase of a machine costing $16,000. estimated cash savings from using the new machine are $4,120 per year. the machine will have no salvage value at the end of its useful life of six years and the required rate of return for laws corporation is 12%. the machine's internal rate of return is closest to (ignore income taxes) (a) 12% (b) 14% (c) 16% (d) 18%

Sue now has $125. how much would she have after 8 years if she leaves it invested at 8.5% with annual compounding? a. $205.83b. $216.67c. $228.07d. $240.08e. $252.08