Which of the following bonds pay no interest until maturity?

A) zero-coupon bonds
B) registered bonds
C) serial bonds
D) debenture bonds

A fixed exchange rate is enforced by:

A) national governments,who establish appropriate trade barriers for each country they trade with.
B) national governments,who manipulate gold reserves appropriately.
C) central banks,who buy and sell appropriate currencies.
D) the International Monetary Fund,which offers loans to its member countries.
E) local governments,who manipulate capital reserves appropriately.

Until recently, a large sales organization gave supervisors all key information for further distribution to their employees.But with the introduction of a company intranet and other information technologies, this information is now mostly available directly to employees.By distributing corporate information directly to employees rather than through their supervisors, the company has:

A) increased the legitimate power of supervisors.
B) decreased the information power of supervisors by moving to an all-channel formation of information flow.
C) increased the centrality of supervisors.
D) decreased the company's ability to cope with uncertainty.
E) increased the information power of supervisors by moving to a wheel.

The main purpose of adjusting entries is to:

A) Record external transactions and events.
B) Record internal transactions and events.
C) Recognize assets purchased during the period.
D) Recognize debts paid during the period.
E) Correct errors in the accounting records.

A certain monopolist has a positive marginal cost of production.Despite this fact, the monopolist decides to produce a quantity of output that maximizes total revenues.Assume that the marginal revenue curve for this monopolist always has a negative slope.Then the monopolist

A) is minimizing its profits.
B) produces the same output that it would if it maximized profits.
C) produces less output than it would if it maximized profits.
D) produces more output than it would if it were maximizing profits.
E) produces an output where marginal revenue is strictly less than 1.

Which type of salesperson is responsible for finding new customers and securing their business, typically by convincing the prospective customer to drop one or more competitors?

A) missionary salespeople
B) key account sellers
C) order takers
D) delivery salespeople
E) new-business salespeople