Taking the easy way out when bringing a speech to a close could
a. improve a presentation.
b. destroy an otherwise fine presentation.
c. embellish a presentation.
d. not affect your presentation.
b. destroy an otherwise fine presentation.
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There is a strong expectation among the general public for corporate policies that recognize the importance of ______.
a. the local community b. affirmative action c. ethnicity d. corporate social responsibility
A specialty hedge fund is considering the purchase of a Jackson Pollock painting. It estimates the value of the painting to be $185 million. In an auction, both the number of competing bids and the amount of the competing bids is uncertain. The hedge fund has maintained a file summarizing 10 recent art auctions that it believes are similar to the upcoming auction. It is considering a bid of $163 million and would like to evaluate its chances of winning the upcoming auction with this bid.
Bid Amount (As Fraction of Estimated Share Value) Company 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 0.817 0.884 0.756 ? ? ? ? 2 0.771 0.863 0.825 0.819 0.851 0.786 ? 3 0.804 0.851 0.786 ? ? 0.851 ? 4 0.880 0.756 0.874 0.877 0.910 ? ? 5 0.890 0.804 0.819 0.860 0.880 0.880 ? 6 0.851 0.786 0.896 0.784 0.792 0.792 ? 7 0.881 0.786 0.804 0.819 ? ? ? 8 0.804 0.819 0.860 0.880 0.773 ? 0.824 9 0.819 0.896 0.877 0.860 0.784 0.819 0.880 10 0.756 0.804 0.786 0.786 0.819 0.885 ? a. Construct a spreadsheet simulation model to determine the likelihood of the hedge fund winning the auction. Use a discrete uniform distribution between the minimum and maximum number of bidders in the 10 observed auctions to model the number of bidders in the Jackson Pollock auction. Fit a realistic distribution to the bid data to generate values of competing bid amounts.b. For a bid amount of $163 million, estimate the probability of the hedge fund winning the auction? What will be an ideal response?
Bruce, who is single, had the following items for the current year: ? Salary of $80,000. ? Gain of $20,000 on the sale of § 1244 stock acquired two years earlier. ? Loss of $75,000 on the sale of § 1244 stock acquired three years earlier. ? Worthless stock of $15,000 . The stock was acquired on February 1 of the prior year and became worthless on January 15 of the current
year. Determine Bruce's AGI for the current year. a. $27,000 b. $38,000 c. $42,000 d. $47,000 e. None of the above
The benefits of making all or part of a product in-house is minimal when highly specialized assets are involved.
a. true b. false