Precious curlsprecious curls is a retail chain specializing in salon-quality hair-care products. during the year, precious curlsprecious curls had sales of $ 39 comma 388 comma 000$39,388,000. the company began the year with $ 3 comma 500 comma 000$3,500,000 of merchandise inventory and ended the year with $ 4 comma 445 comma 000$4,445,000 of inventory. during the year, precious curlsprecious curls purchased $ 23 comma 350 comma 000$23,350,000 of merchandise inventory. the company's selling, general, and administrative expenses totaled $ 5 comma 450 comma 000$5,450,000 for the year. prepare precious curls'precious curls' income statement for the year.

Companies in the u.s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct

Andy owns islander surfboard inc. in the past, andy has always given his employees bonuses during the holidays if they reached certain sales goals. this year, even though the company is thriving, he decided to cut bonuses from employees and award them to himself instead. what ethical theory of leadership is andy following?

Describe a real or made-up but possible example of a situation where an employee faces a conflict of interest. explain at least two things the company could do to make sure the employee won't be tempted into unethical behavior by that conflict of interest. (3.0 points)