Tom & Jerry are running Hanna Barbera's lemonade stand as two profit centers. Tom makes the lemonade while Jerry sells it. Jerry argues that Tom is transferring the lemonade to him priced too high, which forces him to charge the customers a high price, losing sales. What could be a profitable solution to this transfer-pricing problem?
a. Move the decision making to Hanna Barbera
b. Turn Tom's division into a cost center
c. Base Tom's reward on the company profits
d. Base Jerry's reward on the company profits
b
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A) Japan and Guatemala B) only Japan C) Botswana and Thailand D) all four countries
When a business has implicit costs
A) economic profits are greater than accounting profits. B) economic and accounting profits are the same. C) economic profits are less than accounting profits. D) economic costs are the same as accounting costs.
If the United States imposed higher tariffs and more restrictive quotas that reduced imports,
What will be an ideal response?
Even in the United States, not all allocation is carried out in a market because, in some cases, people