1. How accounting standards impact financial measures (ratios, covenants, etc.)
2. Although appealing to more refined tastes, art as a collectible has not always performed so profitably. During 2003, an auction house sold a sculpture at auction for a price of $10,341,500. Unfortunately for the previous owner, he had purchased it in 1999 at a price of $12,437,500.
What was his annual rate of return on this sculpture?