The comparability of earnings per share across firms is influenced by the relative amount of capital raised by the various firms and by the ability of the firms to manage their reported earnings per share.

Depreciation, from an accounting viewpoint, can best be thought of as:

A) accounting for the physical deterioration of an asset.
B) writing off assets like patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
C) matching the carrying value of the asset with the estimated net realizable value of the asset.
D) allocating the cost of the asset to the periods in which it gives service.

A compromiser generally doesn't feel as much of a need to rush to a solution as a competitor does.

Anyone who discharges wastewater,other than just domestic sewage,to a publicly owned treatment works (POTW) must obtain what is known as a(n) ________ permit from the local sewage treatment plant where the discharge is being sent or from the state.

A) industrial discharge
B) Water Pollution Control System
C) National Pollution Discharge Elimination System
D) national industrial discharge