Why do company manager-owners smile when they ring the stock exchange bell at their ipo?A. An IPO's price goes up on the first day, generating guaranteed returns for investors. B. Manager-owners are freed of the burden of managing their company. C. An IPO reveals the value of the manager-owners' stake. D. Manager-owners receive their first stake in the company at an IPO.

Sam robinson borrowed $21,000 from a friend and promised to pay the loan in 10 equal annual installments beginning one year from the date of the loan. sam’s friend would like to be reimbursed for the time value of money at a 9% annual rate. what is the annual payment sam must make to pay back his friend?

Cool beans is a locally owned coffee shop that competes with two large coffee chains, planeteuro and frothies. alicia, the owner, hired two students to count the number of customers that entered each of the coffee shops to estimate what percent of people who are interested in coffee are visiting each shop. after a week, the students found the following results: 589 visited cool beans, 839 visited planeteuro, and 1,290 visited frothies. the students were surprised that cool beans had 139 visits on monday which represented 59% of all people who visited one of the three coffee shops on mondays. how many people visited one of the three coffee shops during the week?

If you were running a company, what are at least two things you could do to improve its productivity.