Alarge farming cooperative that focuses on the production of fruits and vegetables uses a business that sells the farmers' products in foreign countries and also provides consulting, insurance, legal assistance, and warehousing to the cooperative. this business would most likely be called a(n):
a. trading company. b. export specialist. c. contract wholesaler. d. licensor. e. strategic partner.

Aquatic marine stores company manufactures special metallic materials and decorative fittings for luxury yachts that require highly skilled labor. aquatic uses standard costs to prepare its flexible budget. for the first quarter of the year, direct materials and direct labor standards for one of their popular products were as follows: direct materials: 3 pounds per unit; $ 6 per pound direct labor: 4 hours per unit; $ 19 per hour during the first quarter, aquatic produced 5 comma 000 units of this product. actual direct materials and direct labor costs were $ 65 comma 000 and $ 330 comma 000, respectively. for the purpose of preparing the flexible budget, calculate the total standard direct materials cost at a production volume of 5 comma 000 units.

Suppose that a monopolistically competitive restaurant is currently serving 260 meals per day (the output where mr

Summarize the specific methods used by interest groups in order to influence governmental decisions making in all three branches of government. provide at least two examples from each branch.