You are the international marketing manager for brides & grooms, inc., a designer and manufacturer of wedding apparel. this year's fashions are featuring white for the entire wedding party. you scheduled this year's asian kick-off for next monday in tokyo, when you discover that white is the japanese color of mourning. what did you overlook? a. social and cultural differences b. asian marketing trends c. competitors' designs d. asian fashion taste

Aquatic marine stores company manufactures special metallic materials and decorative fittings for luxury yachts that require highly skilled labor. aquatic uses standard costs to prepare its flexible budget. for the first quarter of the year, direct materials and direct labor standards for one of their popular products were as follows: direct materials: 3 pounds per unit; $ 6 per pound direct labor: 4 hours per unit; $ 19 per hour during the first quarter, aquatic produced 5 comma 000 units of this product. actual direct materials and direct labor costs were $ 65 comma 000 and $ 330 comma 000, respectively. for the purpose of preparing the flexible budget, calculate the total standard direct materials cost at a production volume of 5 comma 000 units.

Identify an organization with the low-total-cost value proposition and suggest at least two possible measures within each of the four balanced scorecard perspectives.

What do you recommend adam do to increase production in a business setting that does not seem to value high productivity?