Vertical integration strategies offer good potential
a. to expand a company's lineup of products and services.
b. extend a company's competitive scope within the same industry by expanding its operations across multiple segments or stages of the industry value chain.
c. are one of the best strategic options for helping companies win the race for global market leadership. are a good strategy option for helping a company revamp its value chain and bypass low value-added activities.
d. are particularly effective in boosting a company's ability to expand into additional geographic markets, particularly the markets of foreign countries.

Darlene has a balance of 3980 on a credit card with an apr of 22.8% paying off her balance and which of these lengths of time will result in her paying the least amount of interest?

Garrett is an executive vice president at samm hardware. he researches a proposal by a larger company, maximum hardware, to combine the two companies. by analyzing past performance, conducting focus groups, and interviewing maximum employees, garrett concludes that maximum has poor profit margins, sells shoddy merchandise, and treats customers poorly. what actions should garrett and samm hardware take? a. turn down the acquisition offer and prepare to resist a hostile takeover. b. attempt a friendly merger and use managerial hubris to improve results at maximum. c. welcome the acquisition and use knowledge transfer to impart sam hardware's management practices. d. do nothing; the two companies cannot combine without samm hardware's explicit consent.

Cash flows during the first year of operations for the harman-kardon consulting company were as follows: cash collected from customers, $360,000; cash paid for rent, $44,000; cash paid to employees for services rendered during the year, $124,000; cash paid for utilities, $54,000.in addition, you determine that customers owed the company $64,000 at the end of the year and no bad debts were anticipated. also, the company owed the gas and electric company $2,400 at year-end, and the rent payment was for a two-year period.calculate accrual net income for the year.