All of the following factors contributed to the misconduct cited in the article, except: A. Many of the mortgage-backed securities had complicated structures. B. Analysts anticipated how severe the housing crisis would be. C. Analysts at the rating agencies were reluctant to require issuers to provide sufficient information to rate the securities. D. Rating agencies provided high ratings primarily to ensure firms would continue to hire them.

Stosch company's balance sheet reported assets of $112,000, liabilities of $29,000 and common stock of $26,000 as of december 31, year 1. if retained earnings on the balance sheet as of december 31, year 2, amount to $74,000 and stosch paid a $28,000 dividend during year 2, then the amount of net income for year 2 was which of the following? a)$23,000 b) $35,000 c) $12,000 d)$42,000

Differentiate between the trait, behavioral, and results-based performance appraisal systems, providing an example where each would be most applicable.

1. what are the unique operational challenges to delivering fresh meals? 2. why is speed of delivery so important for delivered meals? what variety of options contribute to this performance metric? 3. how could operations management concepts be utilized to improve the performance of freshly? 4. what are your typical product delivery times? what would be required to speed these up? 5. what are your delivery batch quantities? how could you reduce batch size and reduce delivery cost simultaneously using operations management concepts?