During a telephone conference call, Rafaela asks her assistant to complete a report as soon as possible that day. The assistant, however, didn’t understand the urgency of Rafaela’s request, so when Rafaela showed up after lunch to collect the report, it wasn’t done. In this scenario, the assistant failed to understand what aspect of Rafaela’s message?

If the supply of aisle seats and middle seats on an airplane is the same, but the demand for aisle seats is greater than the demand for middle seats, then the equilibrium price of aisle seats will be less than the equilibrium price of middle seats. true false

Symantec corp., located in cupertino, california, is one of the world's largest producers of security and systems management software. the company's consolidated balance sheets for the 2009 and 2008 fiscal years included the following ($ in thousands): current assets: receivables, less allowances of $21,766 in 2009 and $24,089 in 2008 $ 838,010 $ 758,700 a disclosure note accompanying the financial statements reported the following ($ in thousands): year ended 2009 2008 (in thousands) trade accounts receivable, net: receivables $ 859,776 $ 782,789 less: allowance for doubtful accounts (8,938) (8,990) less: reserve for product returns (12,828) (15,099) trade accounts receivable, net: $ 838,010 $ 758,700 assume that the company reported bad debt expense in 2009 of $2,000 and had products returned for credit totaling $3,230 (sales price). net sales for 2009 were $6,174,800 (all numbers in thousands).required: what is the amount of accounts receivable due from customers at the end of 2009 and 2008? what amount of accounts receivable did symentec write off during 2009? what is the amount of symentec’s gross sales for the 2009 fiscal year? assuming that all sales are made on a credit basis, what is the amount of cash symentec collected from customers during the 2009 fiscal year?

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