The accountant for Scott Industries prepared the following list of account balances from the company's records for the year ended December 31: Fees Earned $165,000 Cash $30,000 Accounts Receivable 14,000 Selling Expenses 44,000 Equipment 64,000 Scott, capital 27,000 Accounts Payable 12,000 Interest Income 3,000 Salaries and wages expense 40,000 Prepaid Rent 2,000 Income Taxes Payable 5,000 Income Taxes Expense 18,000 Notes Payable 20,000 Rent Expense 20,000 Based on the information for Scott Industries, is it profitable?

Why has the free enterprise system been modified to include some government intervention?

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

In the fall of 2008, aig, the largest insurance company in the world at the time, was at risk of defaulting due to the severity of the global financial crisis. as a result, the u. s. government stepped in to support aig with large capital injections and an ownership stake. how would this affect, if at all, the yield and risk premium on aig corporate debt?