The stock of Grommet Corporation, a U. S. company, is publicly traded, with no single shareholder owning more than 5 percent of its outstanding stock. Grommet owns 95 percent of the outstanding stock of Staple Inc., also a U. S. company. Staple owns 100 percent of the outstanding stock of Clip Corporation, a Canadian company. Grommet and Clip each own 50 percent of the outstanding stock of Fastener Inc., a U. S. company. Grommet and Staple each own 50 percent of the outstanding stock of Binder Corporation, a U. S. company. Which of these corporations form an affiliated group eligible to file a consolidated tax return?

Suppose that jim plans to borrow money for an education at texas a& m university. jim will need to borrow $25,000 at the end of each year for the next five years (total=$125,000). jim wishes his parents could pay for his education but they can’t. at least, he qualifies for government loans with a reduced interest rate while he is in school. he has a special arrangement with aggiebank to lend him the money at a subsidized rate of 1% over five years without having to make a payment until the end of the fifth year. however, at the end of the fifth year, jim agrees to pay off the loan by borrowing from longhorn bank. longhorn bank will lend him the money he needs at an annual interest rate of 6%. jim agrees to pay back the longhorn bank with 20 annual payments and the payments will be uniform (equal annual payments including principal and interest). (i) calculate how much money jim has to borrow at the end of 5 years to pay off the loan with aggiebank. a. $121,336 b. $127,525 c. $125,000 d. $102,020 e. none of the above

With signals from no-claim bonuses and deductibles, a. the marginal cost curve for careful drivers lies to the left of the marginal cost curve for aggressive drivers b. auto insurance companies insure more aggressive drivers than careful drivers because aggressive drivers have a greater need for the insurance c. the market for car insurance has a separating equilibrium, and the market is efficient d. most drivers pay higher premiums than if the market had no signals

There is just one person in our group, silvia, who seems to have radically different ideas about how to complete our project. she seems to purposely disagree with the majority opinions of the rest of us though yesterday she said something that made a lot of sense to us solve our production problem. i suggested to the entire group today that we hear silvia’s suggestions and asked silvia to share in-depth more of what she said yesterday. i am using which adaptive leader behavior?