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EXTRA CREDIT: As a first step into international business, which two countries are most companies locating in today?

Your company is considering a new project that will require $100,000 of new equipment at the start of the project. The equipment will have a depreciable life of 10 years and will be depreciated to a book value of $25,000 using straight-line depreciation. The cost of capital is 11 percent, and the firm’s tax rate is 21 percent. Estimate the present value of the tax benefits from depreciation.

EXTRA CREDIT: Which of the following requires that rules should be clearly stated and consistently and impartially enforced?

In the spring of 2009, the United States saw a drastic increase in the number of cases of influenza caused by the H1N1 virus beyond what would be expected every year. This is called a/an:

A situation where right and wrong cannot be clearly identified is considered _____.

What is meant by “supply-side economics”—Reagan’s approach to economic policy in the early 1980s?

Once you contract measles, you cannot catch the disease again and you develop life-long immunity, thus we say that measles has ____________  immunogenicity. For this reason, vaccination is a _____________ method to prevent the disease. 

Measles virus has very high ____________ because the virus easily causes disease in infected individuals.

Michelle is conducting a case-control study. The p value for her odds ratio is less than 0.05 and her confidence interval does not include 1, thus she is confident that her results did not occur by chance. This is called:

A group of executives assigned to oversee the organization’s ethics by ruling on questionable issues and disciplining violators is referred to as a(n) _____.