According to the Wall Street Journal, merger and acquisition activity in the first quarter rose to $5.3 billion. Approximately three-fourths of the 78 first-quarter deals occurred between information technology (IT) companies. The largest IT transaction of the quarter was EMC’s $625 million acquisition of VMWare. The VMWare acquisition broadened EMC’s core data storage device business to include software technology enabling multiple operating systems – such as Microsoft’s Windows, Linux, and OS X – to simultaneously and independently run on the same Intel-based server or workstation. Suppose that at the time of the acquisition a weak economy led many analysts to project that VMWare’s profits would grow at a constant rate of 2 percent for the foreseeable future, and that the company’s annual net income was $39.60 million. If EMC’s estimated opportunity cost of funds is 9 percent, as an analyst, how would you view the acquisition? Explain.

Choose the best term for each definitionexpense, liability, monetary asset, statement of financial position, tangible asset, net worth, market value, investment asset, income, assetitems of monetary value a person or household ownsmoney spentmoney receivedfinancial assets purchased with the hope that they will generate income and appreciate in value to make it possible to sell at a higher price in the futurea debt or obligation owed to othersthe amount you could realistically sell an asset forassets that can be quickly and easily converted into casha measure of financial wealth and indicates the monetary value of all possessions that a person or household owns, minus the total amounts owed to othersa financial statement that describes an individual or family's financial condition on a specified date by showing assets, liabilities, and net worthpersonal property that was purchased to create a lifestyle or improve your life

Match the various steps in the creative process undertaken by the ad agency for developing the campaign for wpu, to the steps in young's model of the creative process. creative process in developing wpu's campaignyoung's modelafter intensive analysis of the data and several rounds of brainstorming, the agency executives decided to take a break from this project (the wpu campaign), and instead work on a different client's project before tackling the wpu project again. using a combination of animatics and storyboards, the ad agency conducted research with a representative sample of sixty target consumers to pretest the campaign theme and the creative execution. during a brainstorming session in the creative department, a copywriter's suggestion for a slogan for wpu was recognized as an excellent central idea that could drive the campaign for wpu. the account planning, account management and creative departments at the ad agency had a series of meetings and brainstorming sessions to discuss the creative brief and the results of all the primary and secondary research done with the target consumers. the account planning and the account management groups at the ad agency conducted primary research with a representative sample of the target segment and also studied secondary research data to gain insights required for the campaign development process.

If the guide wprds on the page are "crochet " and "crossbones", which words would not be on the page. criticize, crocodile, croquet, crouch, crocus.