Financial accounting 16th Edition by Jan Williams,Susan Haka,Mark Bettner ,Joseph Carcello

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Assume that you will soon graduate from college and that you have job offers with two pharmaceutical firms.he first offer is with Alpha Research, a relatively new and aggressive company.he second is with Omega Scientific, a very well established and conservative company.
Financial information pertaining to each firm, and to the pharmaceutical industry as a whole, is as follows:

The Omega offer is for $46,000 per year.he Alpha offer is for $42,000.owever, unlike Omega, Alpha awards its employees a stock option bonus based on profitability for the year.ach option enables the employee to purchase shares of Alpha's common stock at a significantly reduced price.he more profitable Alpha is, the more stock each employee can buy at a discount.
Show how the above information may help you justify accepting the Alpha Research offer, even though the starting salary is $4,000 lower than the Omega Scientific offer.