Consider the fisher-price chatter telephone photo above. toy designers at fisher-price conduct marketing research to discover how children play and what they like to play with. for fisher-price, the immediate research objective is to decide whether to continue to market the old chatter telephone design or a new design. the old, original chatter telephone was simply a wooden phone with a dial that rang a bell. however, observers noted that the children kept grabbing the receiver like a handle to pull the phone along behind them. so a designer created a new chatter telephone, one with wheels, a noisemaker, and eyes that bobbed up and down. what would be the most likely measure of success fisher-price would use to determine which design should be selected?

Landon mars, the company bookkeeper, recorded the $10,000 purchase of land as rent expense by decreasing cash and decreasing shareholders' equity. what is the effect of this error on the accounting equation

Required prepare the necessary adjusting entries in the general journal as of december 31, assuming the following: on september 1, the company entered into a prepaid equipment maintenance contract. birch company paid $3,400 to cover maintenance service for six months, beginning september 1. the payment was debited to prepaid maintenance. supplies on hand at december 31 are $3,900. unearned commission fees at december 31 are $7,000. commission fees earned but not yet billed at december 31 are $3,500. (note: debit fees receivable.) birch company's lease calls for rent of $1,600 per month payable on the first of each month, plus an annual amount equal to 1% of annual commissions earned. this additional rent is payable on january 10 of the following year. (note: be sure to use the adjusted amount of commissions earned in computing the additional rent.)

The textbook defines ethics as “the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group,” and specifically as the standards one uses to decide what their conduct should be. to what extent do you believe that what happened at bp (british petrolium) is as much a breakdown in the company’s ethical systems as it is in its safety systems, and how would you defend your conclusion?