McCullough Hospital uses a job-order costing system to assign costs to its patients. Its direct materials include a variety of items such as pharmaceutical drugs, heart valves, artificial hips, and pacemakers.

Goals that are overly ambitious can discourage employees and decrease motivation, yet the idea of stretch goals is proposed as a way to get people fired up and motivated. as a manager, how might you decide where to draw the line between a “good” stretch goal and a “bad” one that is unrealistic?

If an investment has 35 percent more nondiversifiable risk than the market portfolio, its beta will be:

2. which of the following statements about interest is true? a. interest is a one-time fee that you pay for lending money. b. interest is expressed as a percentage of the amount you are borrowing. c. because interest rates tend to be small numbers, they typically don't have much effect on the price of the goods you're purchasing. d. interest is a penalty that you pay when you don't pay your bills on time.