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The number of employees reporting to a manager is __________.

An interviewer wants to know whether a candidate was a member of the military. Which of the following statements is true? 

Stockholders are all of the people who have an ownership position in a company. 

Which of the following best describes how management uses resources in an organization?

Each question is worth 20 points. Select or provide the correct answer to each question. 

Chain of command means reporting to only one boss.

You are an IT director. You just got word that the home-grown software that you use for the entire company has a security flaw and needs an immediate patch. You have to outsource the work, spending an estimated $100,000 to fund the project. Your audience is your direct supervisor who will need to approve the cost of the project. This supervisor does not like to spend extraneous money for unimportant tasks. Write a sample body paragraph of a bad news email. (No need to write the neutral buffer or goodwill close, simply one effective body paragraph.) Follow the bad news strategy and good style techniques. Remember the order of content. To get you started, here is your neutral buffer intro: Our IT team continues to make good progress toward keeping our company secure. Privacy and security are the utmost priorities for ABC Bank, and we pride ourselves in our proactive approach. This month alone, we have caught 20 breaches to our server due to staff clicking emails containing malware. We have caught the breach before the malware did any damage and we continue to re-educate our team.

This test provides information about the function of the outer hair cells in the inner ear(cochlea) by presenting a stimulus into the ear canal and measuring the response sent back by the outer hair cells. 

A fixed coupon corporate bond with 30 years to maturity has a price quote of 93.5, with payments made annually.  What coupon rate would a company expect for this bond if you expect the yield to be about 8%?  (hint – Assume the quote should be used as percentage of par.  You do not need to consider this bond as quoted in 8ths)  * Please show your work clearly on your hand-written page.  Partial credit will be given if I can follow your work. *

A fixed coupon bond has 15 years to maturity and a coupon rate of 7.5%  Coupon payments are made semi-annually.  Assuming  a current market rate of 7%, what is the present value of the bond?  (HINT – assume this is a $1,000 bond) * Draw a timeline of show all cashflows for this bond.  Submit the timeline with your hand-written work. *