A person is completing a Form U4 to become registered and notices that the document requires his signature. The person has an aversion to signing legal documents that he doesn't fully understand. For clarification on the details of the form, he calls his brother who is a lawyer and specializes in employment law. The brother indicates that if Form U4 is signed, a person is agreeing to:

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)