The CEO of your firm, a distributor for a domestic beer manufacturer, has asked you to take on a special project. She has been hearing about a growing trend toward corporate social responsibility, but she wonders if this is a reasonable investment for the firm. Outline the costs and benefits in general terms and draw your own conclusion for her consideration.
What will be an ideal response?
A number of options could be considered, but the student should focus on ways in which the distributor could serve the different stakeholders identified in Exhibit 4.3 (employees and their families, current and potential customers, partners, competitors, the community, and the environment). As the company is a beer distributor, the student can bring in issues associated with alcoholic consumption and/or recycling and green marketing considerations.
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A. Salespeople are often disorganized when they use the memorized sales presentation. B. The memorized sales presentation is not effective when selling time is short. C. The difficulty involved in preparing and using the memorized sales presentation often frightens inexperienced salespeople. D. The memorized sales presentation presents features, advantages and benefits that may not be important to the buyer. E. The memorized sales presentation includes too much prospect participation.
Which of the following financing activities results in a cash inflow?
A) buying treasury stock. B) issuing bonds. C) repaying a bank loan. D) paying cash dividends.
The standard deduction amount varies by filing status.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
How much did total U.S. transportation freight volume increase between 2002 and 2006?
a. 5% b. 35% c. 13% d. 8%