The accountants at gamone phones, a cell phone manufacturing company, discover that the firm has performed poorly over the last two quarters, leading to negative financial implications. instead of stating the actual figures, the managers decide to wrongly present the firm's debts and overstate its earnings. the aspect of financial accounting that should be emphasized to avoid such incidents of accounting fraud is:

What is the relationship between the national response framework and the national incident management system (nims)? a. the national response framework replaces the nims, which is now obsolete. b. the response protocols and structures described in the national response framework align with the nims, and all nims components support response. c. the nims relates to local, state, and territorial operations, whereas the nrf relates strictly to federal operations. d. the nims and the national response framework cover different aspects of incident management—the nims is focused on tactical planning, and the national response framework is focused on coordination.

In 2015, lori assigned a paid-up whole life insurance policy to an irrevocable life insurance trust (ilit) for the benefit of her three children. the ilit contained a crummey provision for the benefit of each child. at the time of the transfer, the whole life insurance policy was valued at $200,000, and since lori had not made any other taxable gifts during her lifetime, she did not owe any gift tax. lori died in 2016, and the face value of the whole life insurance policy of $2,000,000 was paid to the ilit. regarding this transfer, how much is included in lori’s gross estate at her death?

Problem page a medical equipment industry manufactures x-ray machines. the unit cost c (the cost in dollars to make each x-ray machine) depends on the number of machines made. if x machines are made, then the unit cost is given by the function =cx+−0.3x2126x31,935 . how many machines must be made to minimize the unit cost?