Several years ago, swissair made some unwise investments to pay for a planned expansion. as a result, the company had to make some cost-cutting moves that alienated its customers. eventually, the company declared bankruptcy, regrouped, and found itself able to resume business. its board of directors recently announced that the company would resume flying if it could prove that the airlines could regain at least 75 percent of its lost customers. it decided to allocate $50,000 to determine the likelihood that its former customers would fly on the airline again and what methods requiring little or no money could be used to increase that probability. this description represents which stage in the marketing research approach?
a. define the problem
b. develop the research plan
c. collect relevant information
d. develop findings
e. take marketing actions

Required prepare the necessary adjusting entries in the general journal as of december 31, assuming the following: on september 1, the company entered into a prepaid equipment maintenance contract. birch company paid $3,400 to cover maintenance service for six months, beginning september 1. the payment was debited to prepaid maintenance. supplies on hand at december 31 are $3,900. unearned commission fees at december 31 are $7,000. commission fees earned but not yet billed at december 31 are $3,500. (note: debit fees receivable.) birch company's lease calls for rent of $1,600 per month payable on the first of each month, plus an annual amount equal to 1% of annual commissions earned. this additional rent is payable on january 10 of the following year. (note: be sure to use the adjusted amount of commissions earned in computing the additional rent.)

Which is one solution to levy the complexity of the global matrix strategy with added customer-focused dimensions?

Afinancing project has an initial cash inflow of $42,000 and cash flows of −$15,600, −$22,200, and −$18,000 for years 1 to 3, respectively. the required rate of return is 13 percent. what is the internal rate of return? should the project be accepted?