What is the benefit of having subordinates evaluate supervisors? increasing the opportunity to expand a department decreasing the reliance on traditional performance appraisals decreasing a supervisor's authority over subordinates in a workgroup increasing a supervisor's awareness of the workgroup's needs

Which of these things did galileo not do? a. stop publishing his scientific work after being convicted of heresy b. invent the concept of acceleration c. experiment with rolling balls down ramps of increasing steepness to test how objects would fall d. argue that earth moves around the sun e. make up a thought experiment that indicated that objects would fall at the same rate

If a firm plans to issue new stock, flotation costs (investment bankers' fees) should not be ignored. there are two approaches to use to account for flotation costs. the first approach is to add the sum of flotation costs for the debt, preferred, and common stock and add them to the initial investment cost. because the investment cost is increased, the project's expected return is reduced so it may not meet the firm's hurdle rate for acceptance of the project. the second approach involves adjusting the cost of common equity as follows: . the difference between the flotation-adjusted cost of equity and the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment represents the flotation cost adjustment. quantitative problem: barton industries expects next year's annual dividend, d1, to be $1.90 and it expects dividends to grow at a constant rate g = 4.3%. the firm's current common stock price, p0, is $22.00. if it needs to issue new common stock, the firm will encounter a 6% flotation cost, f. assume that the cost of equity calculated without the flotation adjustment is 12% and the cost of old common equity is 11.5%. what is the flotation cost adjustment that must be added to its cost of retaine

Which of the following best describes why you need to establish goals for your program?