Planning, organizing,leading, and controlling
Answer: A. The island of Atlantis has an increasing opportunity cost of producing potatoes and the production possibility frontier is bowed outward.
Explanation:
When there is an increasing opportunity cost of producing a good, the Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) will be bowed out to represent that as more of the good is being produced, more of another good is being given up to do so.
For the island of Atlantis therefore, as they produce more of potatoes, they are giving up being able to produce whatever more and more of other goods they produce which is therefore leading to a PPF that is bowed outward.
Answer:
A standard unmodified opinion.
Explanation:
When a note to the financial statements of the First Security Bank indicates that the company self insures itself for the first $500,000 of liability to employees, with liability insurance for the remainder. Based upon this, one would expect the auditors' report to express a standard unmodified opinion.
A standard unmodified opinion is an opinion where financial statements are presented free of any misinterpretation, in all material respects, in accordance with standards known as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to provide a high level of assurance.
The standard unmodified opinion comprises of report title, audit report address, introduction paragraph, managements responsibility, auditor's responsibility, opinion paragraph, audit report date and signature and address of certified public accountant firm.
Answer:
The correct answer here is option D.
Explanation:
Investment banks are special kind of financial institutions or intermediaries who are concerned with raising capital for other companies.
They also perform advisory based transaction services on the behalf of corporations, individuals and government.
In performing these functions, they often are found guilty of pressurizing analysts to produce favorable research for their clients, attempts to alter research of client's firm and permitting executives of client's firm to do so. They also get involved in prohibiting analysts from making any negative or controversial comments about client they are serving.
They do all these to maintain credit worthiness of their client firm, so that the client is able to procure capital.
