If a firm can "pull off" a technological innovation, executives must consider

A. if they can recoup the costs of their investments in technological innovations
B. the economic feasibility of new technologies.
C. whether there is a good financial incentive for doing so.
D. the long-term commitment of substantial resources.
E. the lack of staff time to work on the technology.


Answer: C

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Why is fraud detection an important part of the audit?

a. Auditors are required to seek out and find all fraud, regardless of its magnitude. b. Auditors expect that management will make them aware of any fraud in the financial statements. c. Society expects that financial statements have not been materially misstated due to fraud. d. Society realizes that some fraud was not intended to be discovered by auditors.

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The service-quality model highlights the main requirements for delivering high service quality. Which are the five gaps that cause unsuccessful delivery?

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Using common-size balance sheet percentages to project individual assets, liabilities, or shareholders' equity has all of the following shortcomings except:

a. Individual assets, liabilities, and shareholders' equity are not independent of each other. b. If a company experiences changing proportions for investments in securities among its assets, other asset categories may show decreasing percentages in some years even though their dollar amounts are increasing. c. Individual assets, liabilities, and shareholders' equity are independent of each other. d. The common-size percentages do not permit the analyst to easily change the assumptions about the future behavior of an individual asset or liability.

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