2. Money for Me Company issues 10,000 shares of restricted stock for their CFO, Scruge Warbucks, on January 1, 2017. The stock has a fair value of $500,000 on this date. Service period related to the restricted stock is 5 years, and the vesting period occurs if Warbucks stays with Money for Me Company until December 31, 2020. Par Value of the stock is $10. The fair value of the stock is $450,000 on December 31, 2017. What are the journal entries on January 1, 2017 (grant date) and December 31, 2018

Brandon, a manager at fairpro technologies corp., is required to provide individual performance feedback to his subordinates. in this scenario, the communication between brandon and his subordinates is at a(n) level

Afinancial institution, the thriftem bank, is in the process of formulating its loan policy for the next quarter. a total of $12 million is allocated for that purpose. being a full-service facility, the bank is obligated to grant loans to different clientele. the following table provides the types of loans, the interest rate charged by the bank, and the possibility of bad debt as estimated from past experience.type of loaninterest rateprobability of bad debtpersonal.140.10car.130.07home.120.03farm.125.05commercial.100.02 bad debts are assumed unrecoverable and hence produce no interest revenue either. competition with other financial institutions in the area requires that the bank allocate at least 40% of the total funds to farm and commercial loans. to assist the housing industry in the region, home loans must equal at least 50% of the personal, car, and home loans. the bank also has a stated policy specifying that the overall ratio for bad debts on all loans may not exceed .04. formulate this problem as a linear program. define your variables clearly and write all the constraints explaining the significance of each.

Google started as one of many internet search engines, amazon started as an online book seller, and ebay began as a site where people could sell used personal items in auctions. these firms have grown to be so large and dominant that they are facing antitrust scrutiny from competition regulators in the us and elsewhere. did these online giants grow by fairly beating competition, or did they use unfair advantages? are there any clouds on the horizon for these firms -- could they face diseconomies of scale or diseconomies of scope as they continue to grow? if so, what factors may limit their continued growth?