Interwest receives government funding and that funding is tied to the accuracy of the reports put out by its information system. The CFO, Singh, is concerned about whether the employees are properly incentivized to input the data accurately. So she enlists the help of the CEO, Manzoni, to plan a retreat in which she highlighted the importance of proper data entry to the 10 hospital administrators that are in charge of running the hospitals. Six months later the data accuracy problems are as bad as they ever were. Manzoni needs help, what do you recommend? 1. What are the potential sources of the problems? 2. What information would you want to analyze? 3. What actions might you recommend to increase the accuracy of data entry? 4. How does your view of behavior affect how you might address this consulting assignment?

You have $22,000 to invest in a stock portfolio. your choices are stock x with an expected return of 11 percent and stock y with an expected return of 13 percent. if your goal is to create a portfolio with an expected return of 11.74 percent, how much money will you invest in stock x? in stock y?

You are the manager in charge of global operations at bankglobal – a large commercial bank that operates in a number of countries around the world. you must decide whether or not to launch a new advertising campaign in the u.s. market. your accounting department has provided the accompanying statement, which summarizes the financial impact of the advertising campaign on u.s. operations. in addition, you recently received a call from a colleague in charge of foreign operations, and she indicated that her unit would lose $8 million if the u.s. advertising campaign were launched. your goal is to maximize bankglobal’s value. should you launch the new campaign? explain. pre-advertising campaign post-advertising campaign total revenues $18,610,900 $31,980,200 variable cost tv airtime 5,750,350 8,610,400 ad development labor 1,960,580 3,102,450 total variable costs 7,710,930 11,712,850 direct fixed cost depreciation – computer equipment 1,500,000 1,500,000 total direct fixed cost 1,500,000 1,500,000 indirect fixed cost managerial salaries 8,458,100 8,458,100 office supplies 2,003,500 2,003,500 total indirect fixed cost $10,461,600 $10,461,600

Which of the following is not an example of one of the four mail advantages of prices on a free market economy