Write a paper on one of the major topics listed below andincorporate at least five other related empirical studies of your choice:

-Research the topic of opportunity cost of capital. When writing your paper, be sure to answer the following

questions, in addition to providing any other information you wish to include. What are opportunity costs and their

benefit? What is net present value? Can it ever be negative? Discuss at least two types of alternative investment

criteria and how they are used by managers to make decisions?

- Research the topic of capital budgeting. When writing your paper, be sure to answer the following questions, in

addition to providing any other information you wish to include. Discuss at least two types of alternative

investment criteria and how they are used by managers to make decisions? Why are discounted cash flow

methods of making capital budgeting decisions superior to other methods?

-Research the topic of accountings role in an organizations architecture. When writing your paper, be sure to

answer the following questions, in addition to providing any other information you wish to include. What is

accountings role in an organizations structure? Does it extend behind the brick and mortar? What are executive

compensation contracts? How are they accounted for?

- Research the topic of basic building blocks and agency cost. When writing your paper, be sure to answer the

following questions, in addition to providing any other information you wish to include. How are agency costs

generated, and what limits them? How are self-interested behavior, team production, and agency costs related to

each other? What is the common thread? How do they serve as the building blocks of managerial accounting?

The paper must: Identify the main issues in the chosen area. Contain and reference new learning that has occurred. Build upon class activities or incidents that facilitated learning and understanding. Present specific current and/or future applications and relevance to the typical workplace.

Must be two to four double-spaced pages in length (not including the title page, table of contents and references page).APA format is required.