You are and American traveling on business in the Middle East. As you are leaving country X, the passport control officer at the airport tells you there will be a passport processing delay of 12 hours. You explain that your plane leaves in 30 minutes and the official suggests that a contribution of 50$ would probably speed things up. If you comply with the suggestion, have you violated US law? Explain

Which type of market are you in if your company, along with three other companies, controls 95 percent of the total music industry?

Adds up the money earned by producers plus taxes paid to the goverment. a) income approach b) product approach c) expenditure approach

In each of the cases below, assume division x has a product that can be sold either to outside customers or to division y of the same company for use in its production process. the managers of the divisions are evaluated based on their divisional profits. case a b division x: capacity in units 200,000 200,000 number of units being sold to outside customers 200,000 160,000 selling price per unit to outside customers $ 90 $ 75 variable costs per unit $ 70 $ 60 fixed costs per unit (based on capacity) $ 13 $ 8 division y: number of units needed for production 40,000 40,000 purchase price per unit now being paid to an outside supplier $ 86 $ 74 required: 1. refer to the data in case a above. assume in this case that $3 per unit in variable selling costs can be avoided on intracompany sales. a. what is the lowest acceptable transfer price from the perspective of the selling division? b. what is the highest acceptable transfer price from the perspective of the buying division? c. what is the range of acceptable transfer prices (if any) between the two divisions? if the managers are free to negotiate and make decisions on their own, will a transfer probably take place?