Plush Corporation purchased 100 percent of Common Corporation’s common stock on January 1, 20X3, and paid $450,000. The fair value of Common’s identifiable net assets at that date was $430,000. By the end of 20X5, the fair value of Common, which Plush considers to be a reporting unit, had increased to $485,000; however, Plush’s external auditor made a passing comment to the company’s chief accountant that Plush might need to recognize impairment of goodwill on one or more of its investments.Prepare a memo to Plush’s chief accountant indicating the tests used in determining whether goodwill has been impaired. Include in your discussion one or more possible conditions under which Plush might be required to recognize impairment of goodwill on its investment in Common Corporation.In preparing your memo, review the current accounting literature, including authoritative pronouncements of the FASB and other appropriate bodies. Support your discussion with citations and quotations from the applicable literature.

Suppose Rita obtains 10 units of utility from the last dollar of income she receives and David obtains 6 units of utility from his last dollar of income. Assume both David and Rita have the same capacity to derive utility from income with identical marginal-utility-of-income-curves. Those who favor an equal distribution of income would____________.a. advocate redistributing income from David to Rita.b. advocate redistributing income from Rita to David.c. be content with this distribution of income between Rita and David.d. argue that any redistribution of income between them would increase total utility.

What are the products of an effectively performed job analysis?

Kroger, a grocery store chain, sells thousands of products from hundreds ofdifferent producers that are shipped through a variety of shipping companies
and stored at various warehouses facilities. The coordinated efforts with each
channel partner at each touch point takes efficiency and communication. In
order for the process to run smoothly, which three functions do channel
partners need to perform to efficiently flow products and titles to the
consumer to get payments back to producers?
O transactional, logistical, and facilitating functions
o facilitating, commercial, and institutional functions
logistical, commercial, and transactional functions

Suppose that Italy and Austria both produce fish and shoes. Italy’s opportunity cost of producing a pair of shoes is 5 pounds of fish, while Austria’s opportunity cost of producing a pair of shoes is 10 pounds of fish. By comparing the opportunity cost of producing shoes in the two countries, you can tell that _____ has a comparative advantage in the production of shoes, and ______ has a comparative advantage in the production of fish.

Suppose that Italy and Austria consider trading shoes and fish with each other. Italy can gain from specialization and trade as long as it receives more than _______ of fish for each pair of shoes it exports to Austria. Similarly, Austria can gain from trade as long as it receives more than _______ of shoes for each pound of fish it exports to Italy.

Based on your answers to the previous question, which of the following terms of trade (that is, price of shoes in terms of fish) would allow both Austria and Italy to gain from trade? Check all that apply.

(A) 8 pounds of fish per pair of shoes
(B) 1 pound of fish per pair of shoes
(C) 15 pounds of fish per pair of shoes
(D) 3 pounds of fish per pair of shoes

The company’s president has asked the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to record an additional $75,000 of revenue at the end of the year without providing supporting documentation. What is the most ethical thing to do?

Two firms, A and B, each currently dump 50 tonnes of chemicals into the local river. From now on both firms will require a pollution permit for each tonne of pollution dumped into the river. The government gives each firm 20 tonnes’ worth of pollution permits, which it can either use or sell to the other firm. It costs Firm A $100 for each tonne of pollution that it eliminates before it reaches the river, and it costs Firm B $50 for each tonne of pollution that it eliminates before it reaches the river. What is likely to happen?