_____ are your thoughts or beliefs about specific groups of people.

A) Prejudices
B) Discriminations
C) Self-fulfilling prophecies
D) Stereotypes

The principal motivation behind empire building is gaining and keeping control over human and material resources.

Rocco's Pasta Bar makes manicotti according to an old family recipe which states M  min5/4C, 5P, where M, C, and P are pounds of manicotti, cheese, and pasta respectively.If cheese costs $3 per pound and pasta costs $4 per pound, how much would it cost to produce 20 pounds of manicotti in the cheapest way possible?

A) $64
B) $48
C) $16
D) $33.33
E) $20

The step-down method of service department cost allocation ignores interdepartmental services provided from one service department to another service department and allocates all service department costs directly to operating departments.

Si promises to pay his personal assistant Tery $50,000 in consideration of the services she provided over the years. Si never makes the payment. Si's promise is

A) enforceable for the entire $50,000.
B) enforceable to the extent of what Tery's services were actually worth.
C) not enforceable because the consideration is in the past.
D) not enforceable because the failure to pay is an unforeseen difficulty.

The proposition that a firm borrows up to the point where the marginal benefit of the interest tax shield derived from increased debt is just equal to the marginal expense of the resulting increase in financial distress costs is called the:

A) Static Theory of Capital Structure.
B) M&M Proposition I.
C) M&M Proposition II.
D) Capital Asset Pricing Model.
E) Open Markets Theorem.