Outsourcing and marketing worldwide enable firms to
a. develop new markets.
b. reduce input costs.
c. manage effects of peaks and valleys in local economies.
d. all of the above.
D
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If only one good is traded between two countries and the price of the good is the same in both countries when expressed in units of the same currency, then
A. people have rational expectations. B. both countries have the same monetary policy. C. there is interest-rate parity. D. the law of one price holds.
Labadie Corporation manufactures and sells one product. The following information pertains to the company's first year of operations: Variable costs per unit: Direct materials$74?Fixed costs per year: Direct labor$1,029,600?Fixed manufacturing overhead$4,461,600?Fixed selling and administrative expenses$3,864,000?The company does not have any variable manufacturing overhead costs or variable selling and administrative expenses. During its first year of operations, the company produced 57,200 units and sold 55,200 units. The company's only product is sold for $233 per unit.Assume that the company uses a variable costing system that assigns $18 of direct labor cost to each unit that is produced. The unit product cost under this costing system is:
A. $74 per unit B. $170 per unit C. $240 per unit D. $92 per unit
Use the information in Scenario 4.5. What is the pre-tax cash flow (net present value) for alternative #2 compared to the base case of doing nothing for the next five years?
A) negative pre-tax cash flow B) more than $0 but less than $40,000 C) more than $40,000 but less than $80,000 D) more than $80,000
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. CR strategies in and of themselves provide their own communications components, and thus require limited communication efforts outside the strategy itself. 2. A 2010 study revealed that an estimated 34% of employees said that they would take a pay cut to work for a socially responsible firm. 3. Studies have shown that despite this growing importance of CR communication, organizations have yet to learn how to communicate their CR. 4. Critically, organizations must be able to identify who is doing the talking, and have existing relationships with the right watchdogs. 5. According to California Management Review’s article that speaks to “good and bad levers,” a firm seeking only a neutral reputation (i.e., by trying to limit negative events and activities) may in the end fare better than the firm that instead commits the same resources to “doing good” while neglecting the “avoiding harm” lever.