You are a brand manager for a large chain of grocery stores. You have been working overtime for the last two weeks to prepare for your pricing objectives meeting with the head of sales and marketing. You walk into the meeting with a high degree of confidence in the strategy that you have for setting the pricing objectives for your brand category for the upcoming year. You are speechless when the marketing head tells you that no changes in the pricing objectives will be made for your brand category. He says he believes it is most prudent to leave the existing pricing objectives as they are for the upcoming year. Which of the following statements is the best explanation for the marketing head’s decision to leave the existing pricing objectives in place with no change? Group of answer choices The company intends to focus on product quality instead of pricing to win market share. The company expects its market share to increase if it leaves its pricing objectives the same. The company is not concerned about cash flow. A status quo pricing objective can reduce a firm’s risks by helping stabilize demand for its products. Profit maximization is not an objective in the upcoming year.

Blue computers, a major pc manufacturer in the united states, currently has plants in kentucky and pennsylvania. the kentucky plant has a capacity of 1 million units a year and the pennsylvania plant has a capacity of 1.5 million units a year. the firm divides the united states into five markets: northeast, southeast, midwest, south, and west. each pc sells for $1,000. the firm anticipates a 50 perc~nt growth in demand (in each region) this year (after which demand will stabilize) and wants to build a plant with a capacity of 1.5 million units per year to accommodate the growth. potential sites being considered are in north carolina and california. currently the firm pays federal, state, and local taxes on the income from each plant. federal taxes are 20 percent of income, and all state and local taxes are 7 percent of income in each state. north carolina has offered to reduce taxes for the next 10 years from 7 percent to 2 percent. blue computers would like to take the tax break into consideration when planning its network. consider income over the next 10 years in your analysis. assume that all costs remain unchanged over the 10 years. use a discount factor of 0.1 for your analysis. annual fixed costs, production and shipping costs per unit, and current regional demand (before the 50 percent growth) are shown in table 5-13. (a) if blue computers sets an objective of minimizing total fixed and variable costs, where should they build the new plant? how should the network be structured? (b) if blue computers sets an objective of maximizing after-tax profits, where should they build the new plant? how should the network be structured? variable production and shipping cost ($/unit) annual fixed cost northeast southeast midwest south west (million$) kentucky 185 180 175 175 200 150 pennsylvania 170 190 180 200 220 200 n. carolina 180 180 185 185 215 150 california 220 220 195 195 175 150 demand ('000 units/month) 700 400 400 300 600

If a country is looking to increase economic growth quickly, it should: choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button. answer choices focus on natural resources and develop physical capital. make investments from domestic savings and adopt new technology. increase spending on human capital and start a new political approach. develop new technologies funded by the public sector.

Suppose the following items were taken from the 2017 financial statements of whispering winds corp.. (all dollars are in millions.) common stock $3,230 accumulated depreciation—equipment $3,940 prepaid rent 175 accounts payable 1,560 equipment 6,940 patents 2,270 stock investments (long-term) 670 notes payable (long-term) 780 debt investments (short-term) 1,740 retained earnings 6,175 income taxes payable 150 accounts receivable 1,740 cash 1,290 inventory 1,010 prepare a classified balance sheet in good form as of december 31, 2017. (list current assets in order of liquidity.)