If you are trying to adequately diversify your portfolio, you would want to avoid investing in stocks that were

A) highly negatively correlated.
B) not at all correlated.
C) highly positively correlated.
D) in different regions of the world.


Answer: C

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A. Uncontrollable elements continually evolve and create changes in a target market. B. Managers can control the external environment that molds and reshapes a target market. C. Environmental scanning is performed by firms in order to prevent changes in a target market. D. Unlike uncontrollable variables, controllable variables do not affect a target market.

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The "clawbacks" provision in the _____ allows a company to recover any incentive-based pay that was paid out during the prior three years if it would not have been paid under restated financial statements.

A) Sarbanes-Oxley Act B) Dodds-Frank Act C) Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act D) Walsh-Healy Public Contracts Act

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How should dividends in arrears be shown on a corporation's balance sheet?

A) As an increase in liabilities. B) In a note or in the body of the financial statements. C) As a decrease in assets. D) As an increase in stockholders' equity.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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