Westlake Industries has total assets of $42.5 million, total debt of $29.3 million, and $2.4 million of 6% preferred stock outstanding. If the company has 250,000 shares of common stock outstanding, its book value per share would be

During the first staff meeting after Blake joined the company, he was completely confused by his coworkers' repeated references to the "PPAC committee" and "the next level drill-down." Blake experienced which barrier to communication?

a. an encoding barrier b. nonverbal communication c. jargon d. a sender barrier

Budgets are

a. key components of planning b. financial plans for the future c. an identifier of objectives and the actions needed to achieve them d. used for communication and coordination e. all of these