You borrow $20,000 at an interest rate of 6% to open Candy Dan's, a gourmet sweet shop. If the return on your investment is ________, then you will earn an economic loss.

A) less than 6%
B) exactly 6%
C) greater than 6%
D) It is indeterminate from the given information.

For the supply function,time-based strategies that impact competitive advantage relate to cycle time reductions,and greater coordination of materials and information flows.

The Z-score model combines five financial ratios in a precise way to estimate a company's default risk.

Employees affected by family violence tend to:

A) get preoccupied with their problems which leads to low productivity.
B) stop trying to achieve anything for fear of criticism.
C) feel that they have gotten away with something.
D) feel that they do not succeed because of their talent and hard work.

A check is referred to as a(n) ________ when the depositary bank is the same bank as the payor bank.

A) "in-place item"
B) "combined item"
C) "continued item"
D) "on-us item"
E) "uniform item"

Suppose that two firms in an industry with a Herfindahl index of 5,000 announce a merger. The U.S. Justice Department concludes the merger will boost the index to 5,500. The antitrust authorities will most likely

A) ignore this merger because of the relatively small increase in the Herfindahl index.
B) allow the merger but watch the new firm carefully for future violations of the antitrust laws.
C) allow the merger if foreign entry to the industry is possible.
D) prevent the merger, contending that it violates the Clayton Act.