Employers can try to overcome the moral-hazard problem involving their employees by

a. better monitoring their employees' work efforts.
b. requiring their employees to take a pre-employment work effort test.
c. paying their employees more often.
d. paying their employees below-equilibrium wages since the employees will likely shirk some of their responsibilities.

The vaska company buys a patent on january 1, year one, and agrees to pay $100,000 per year for the next five years. the first payment is made immediately, and the payments are made on each january 1 thereafter. if a reasonable annual interest rate is 8 percent, what is the recorded value of the patent? 1. $378,4252. $431,2133. $468,9504. $500,000

You decided to charge $100 for your new computer game, but people are not buying it. what could you do to encourage people to buy your game?

Acompany has $80,000 in outstanding accounts receivable and it uses the allowance method to account for uncollectible accounts. experience suggests that 6% of outstanding receivables are uncollectible. the current credit balance (before adjustments) in the allowance for doubtful accounts is $1,200. the journal entry to record the adjustment to the allowance account includes a debit to bad debts expense for $4,800. true or false