At ______, Your Job as a Reporter Is to Sit

question 39

Multiple Choice

At ______, your job as a reporter is to sit in as a substitute for your readers and distill for them what happened.

• A) meetings
• B) speeches
• C) breaking news
• D) news conferences

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Definitions:

Internal Growth Rate

The maximum growth rate a company can achieve with its existing assets without having to finance growth with external equity or debt.

Retention Ratio

The portion of net income that is retained by a company instead of being paid out as dividends to shareholders, usually expressed as a percentage.

Plowback Ratio

Also known as the retention rate, it refers to the portion of earnings that a company retains and reinvests in its operations rather than distributing as dividends.

Optimistic Assumptions

Assumptions made under the most favorable conditions, often used in forecasting or planning to predict the best-case scenario outcomes.