Jackson, Inc., manufactures two products that it sells to the same market. Excerpted below are its budgeted and actual operating results for the year just completed: Budget Actual Unit sales Product X 22,500 42,000 Product Y 90,000 80,000 Unit contribution margin Product X $ 4.80 $ 3.90 Product Y $ 13.00 $ 14.00 Unit selling price Product X $ 13.00 $ 14.00 Product Y $ 30.00 $ 29.00 Industry volume was estimated to be 1,875,000 units at the time the budget was prepared. Actual industry volume for the period was 2,440,000 units. Jackson measures variances using contribution margin. The market share variance is:

Standardization is associated with which of the following management orientations? a) ethnocentric orientation b) polycentric orientation c) regiocentric orientation d) geocentric orientation

Choose the statement that is incorrect. a. search activity occurs only in markets where there is a shortage. b. when a price is regulated and there is a shortage, search activity increases. c. the time spent looking for someone with whom to do business is called search activity. d. the opportunity cost of a good is equal to its price plus the value of the search time spent finding the good.

Alarge university wanted to study the relationship between completing an internship during college and students' future earning potential. prom the same graduating class, they selected a random sample of 80 students who completed an internship and 100 students who did not complete an internship and examined their salaries five years after graduation. they found that there was a statistically higher mean salary for the internship group than for the noninternship group. which of the following interpretations is the most appropriate? a. there could be a confounding variable, such as student major, that explains the difference in mean salary between the internship and no internship groups.b. we cannot infer anything from these data since the distribution of salaries is likely right skewed.c. you cannot draw any valid conclusions because the sample sizes are different.d. more students should complete internships because having an internship produces a higher salary.