Explain the purpose of a standstill agreement and the basics of how it works.
What will be an ideal response?
A standstill agreement is designed to prevent an acquirer from obtaining additional holdings in the target firm and thereby gaining more control over that target. In essence, the target firm pays a fee to the acquirer. In turn the acquirer agrees to limit its holdings in the target firm and offers a right of first refusal to the target firm for any shares the acquirer decides to sell.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following could not be used in job-order costing?
a. An average cost per unit for all jobs. b. Standards. c. Overhead allocation based on job's direct labor hours. d. Normal Costing.
According to the textbook, the concept of power is inextricably linked with which management concept?
What will be an ideal response?
Your next project consists of 5 consecutive 10-day activities, each estimated by a different worker in your organization
You have all secretly added your own safety margin of 4 days into your estimates and you watch in horror as the project manager whips out his copy of Critical Chain and slams it on the table midway through their first project meeting. "I'm taking your buffers and making them my own," he bellows. You recoil from this news and do some quick mental arithmetic. Now that you know the project manager is a Goldratt disciple, you know that the new project buffer will be: A) 25 days B) 20 days C) 15 days D) 10 days