Accrual income versus cash flow for a period thomas book sales, inc., supplies textbooks to college and university bookstores. the books are shipped with a pro- viso that they must be paid for within 30 days but can be returned for a full refund credit within 90 days. in 2014, thomas shipped and billed book titles totaling $760,000. collections, net of return credits, during the year totaled $690,000. the company spent $300,000 acquiring the books that it shipped. a. using accrual accounting and the preceding values, show the firm’s net profit for the past year. b. using cash accounting and the preceding values, show the firm’s net cash flow for the past year. c. which of these statements is more useful to the financial manager? why?

Acompany is developing a new high­performance wax for cross country ski racing. in order to justify the price marketingwants, the wax needs to be very fast. specifically, the mean time to finish their standard test course should be less thanseconds for a former olympic champion. to test it, the champion will ski the course 8 times. the champion's times(selected at random) are 59.9 61.9 48.8 52.2 46.6 45.3 50.6 and 41.1 seconds to complete the test course. complete parts a and b below.a) should they market the wax? assume the assumptions and conditions for appropriate hypothesis testing are metfor the sample.assume=0.05. what are the null and alternative hypotheses? choose the correct answer below.b) suppose they decide not to market the wax after the test, but it turns out that the wax really does lower the champion'saverage time to less thanseconds. what kind of error have they made? explain the impact to the company of such anerror.

On average, someone with a bachelor's degree is estimated to earn times more than someone with a high school diploma. a)1.2 b)1.4 c)1.6 d)1.8

In the 1970s, kmart used blue light specials to encourage customers to flock to a particular department having a temporary sale. a spinning blue light activated for approximately 30 seconds, and then an in-store announcement informed shoppers of the special savings in the specific department. over time, loyal kmart shoppers learned to flock to the department with the spinning blue light before any announcement of special savings occurred. if kmart was employing classical conditioning techniques, what role did the spinning blue light play?