You have just been assigned to provide client services to the following entities. For each, identify three resources you could consult in order to better understand the company's business model and industry.
a). Pfizer
b). Southwest Airlines
c). Caesars Entertainment

You are once again in the first step of the research process (understanding the facts). Now, your company is looking to repurchase some of its outstanding stock. You are about to attend a meeting between representatives of your company's Treasury department and a bank at a fixed price on a certain date. Identify three resources you could consult or questions you might ask of others on your team or in the organization, to gather additional background/ precedent for this issue before you attend the meeting.

Identify at least one researchable question for each of the following issues.
A cable network has just entered into an agreement granting it the right to show reruns of a hit TV series. In exchange for this right, the network must pay the TV show's creators a fee each time the show airs.
An online restaurant booking site sells a $100 meal voucher, good for $100 towards a meal at Randall's Steakhouse, to a customer for $60. When the customer presents the voucher to Randall's Steakhouse, the restaurant booking site must remit $50 to Randall's, retaining $10.
A company's auditor is questioning the appropriateness of the company's discount rate assumption, which it uses to measure its defined benefit pension obligation.
Automotive, Inc. has announced the sale of it's Truck Division's three plants, along with planned layoffs of the Truck Division's employees. Automotive, Inc. is hoping to segregate the results of the Truck Division's operations in its financial statements. Identify at least two possible research questions.