Which of the following is an advantage of franchising as a mode of entry into foreign markets? a) the franchiser can easily maintain uniform quality across many geographically dispersed franchisesb) the franchiser can support its short-term interests in a country with an unstable economyc) the franchiser is relieved of many of the costs and risks of opening a foreign market on its ownd) manufacturing concerns can be effectively coordinated across adjacent processese) the franchiser is allowed to take profits out of one country to support competitive attacks in another

Visburg concrete company pours concrete slabs for single-family dwellings. lancing construction company, which operates outside visburg's normal sales territory, asks visburg to pour 40 slabs for lancing's new development of homes. visburg has the capacity to build 300 slabs and is presently working on 250 of them. lancing is willing to pay only $3, 300 per slab. visburg estimates the cost of a typical job to include unit-level materials, $1, 440: unit-level labor, $720: and an allocated portion of facility-level overhead, $1, 200. required calculate the contribution to profit from the special order. should visburg accept or reject the special order to pour 40 slabs for $3, 300 each?

The following accounts are denominated in pesos as of december 31, 2015. for reporting purposes, these amounts need to be stated in u. s. dollars. for each balance, indicate the exchange rate that would be used if a translation is made under the current rate method. then, again for each account, provide the exchange rate that would be necessary if a remeasurement is being made using the temporal method. the company was started in 2000. the buildings were acquired in 2002 and the patents in 2003. (round your answers to 2 decimal places.) exchange rates for 1 peso are as follows: 2000 1 peso = $ 0.28 2002 1 = 0.26 2003 1 = 0.25 january 1, 2015 1 = 0.24 april 1, 2015 1 = 0.23 july 1, 2015 1 = 0.22 october 1, 2015 1 = 0.20 december 31, 2015 1 = 0.16 average for 2015 1 = 0.19

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?