Under the provisions of the uniform securities act, which of the following securities would have to be registered by qualification? a) xyz company has been in business one year. b) an initial offering of its stock will be offered in several states at once. c) the wlc company, formed two years ago, has previously made an offering of its stock in several other states and now wishes to make a new offering of stock in a state. d) red inc., plans to make an offering of its stock in only one state and so it will not file a federal registration statement.

Zara, a global retail and apparel manufacturer based in spain that has successfully implemented this idea by having a continuous flow of new products that are typically limited in supply. zara has created a system that draws its clientèle into its stores, on average, 17 times per year as compared to 4 times per year for most stores. how is zara using it to gain competitive advantage? what specific technologies are used by zara to maintain this advantage over its competition?

Afirm plans to begin production of a new small appliance. the manager must decide whether to purchase the motors for the appliance from a vendor at $10 each or to produce them in-house. either of two processes could be used for in-house production; process a would have an annual fixed cost of $200,000 and a variable cost of $7 per unit, and process b would have an annual fixed cost of $175,000 and a variable cost of $8 per unit. determine the range of annual volume for which each of the alternatives would be best. (round your first answer to the nearest whole number. include the indifference value itself in this answer.)

Effective capacity is the: a. capacity a firm expects to achieve given the current operating constraints. b. minimum usable capacity of a particular facility. c. sum of all the organization's inputs. d. average output that can be achieved under ideal conditions. e. maximum output of a system in a given period.