Your bank offers you a $40,000 line of credit with an interest rate of 1.75 percent per quarter. the loan agreement also requires that 2 percent of the unused portion of the credit line be deposited in a non-interest bearing account as a compensating balance. your short-term investments are paying 0.20 percent per month. what is your effective annual interest rate on this arrangement if you do not borrow any money on this credit line during the year

Consider the scenario below and let us know if you believe lauren smith's actions to be ethical. let us know why or why not. lauren smith is the controller for sports central, a chain of sporting goods stores. she has been asked to recommend a site for a new store. lauren has an uncle who owns a shopping plaza in the area of town where the new store is to be located, so she decides to contact her uncle about leasing space in his plaza. lauren also contacted several other shopping plazas and malls, but her uncle’s store turned out to be the most economical place to lease. therefore, lauren recommended locating the new store in her uncle’s shopping plaza. in making her recommendation to management, she did not disclose that her uncle owns the shopping plaza. if management decided to go with lauren's uncle's plaza, what additional information would be needed in the financial statements?