When the home office interferes with a subsidiary in another country, profitability suffers.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)


True

One study found that when decisions were made mainly at the home office and close coordination between the subsidiary and home office was required, return on investment was negatively affected. Simply put, the home office ends up interfering with the subsidiary, and profitability suffers.

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Interest revenue earned on held-to-maturity debt investments is reported on the income statement in the ________ section.

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At the order fulfillment center of a major mail-order firm, customer orders, already packaged for shipment, arrive at the sorting machine to be sorted for loading onto the appropriate truck for the parcel's address

The arrival rate at the sorting machine is at the rate of 100 per hour following a Poisson distribution. The machine sorts at the constant rate of 150 per hour. a. What is the utilization rate of the system? b. What is the average number of packages waiting to be sorted? c. What is the average number of packages in the sorting system? d. How long must the average package wait until it gets sorted? e. What would Lq and Wq be if the service rate were exponential, not constant?

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