Which one of the following is NOT one of the approaches with regard to quality improvement?
a. lean manufacturing
b. agile manufacturing
c. total rework
d. Six Sigma
c. total rework
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Laura is the CEO of her company. There are about 25 people in her company as a whole. She manages a team consisting of departments called sales and marketing, accounting, technology, human resources, and administration. Even though her company is relatively small, she has to be careful of the lack of communication between the departments because of their tendency to work apart from each other. Laura works in which type of organizational structure?
A. divisional B. simple C. matrix D. functional
A retailer has begun to pre-wrap gift items and to re-deploy checkout personnel to reduce waiting times. The retailer is responding to which demographic and lifestyle factor?
a. gender roles b. poverty of time c. component lifestyles d. consumer sophistication and confidence
Jordana is a travel agent. Whenever she sells an expensive vacation package, she encourages the customer to buy travel insurance, which provides reimbursement in case of trip cancellation due to illness or another emergency. Jordana is trying to reduce her customers' ________ risk.
A. social B. psychological C. financial D. physiological E. performance
Last year Almazan Software reported $10.500 million of sales, $6.250 million of operating costs other than depreciation, and $1.300 million of depreciation. The company had $5.000 million of bonds that carry a 6.5% interest rate, and its federal-plus-state income tax rate was 35%. This year's data are expected to remain unchanged except for one item, depreciation, which is expected to increase by $0.310 million. By how much will net income change as a result of the change in depreciation? The company uses the same depreciation calculations for tax and stockholder reporting purposes. (Round your final answer to 3 decimal places.)
A. -$0.232 B. -$0.155 C. -$0.212 D. -$0.202 E. -$0.193