Sam, the owner of a small company, learned that a competitor was planning to spend $150,000 on promotion in the next financial year.

as soon as he learned this, sam called his finance manager and said, "i want to spend $150,000 on promotion next year."

in this case, which method of promotional budgeting does sam use?

a) the objective-and-task method
b) the competitive-parity method
c) the percentage-of-sales method
d) the affordable method
e) the pull-push method

When borrowers want funding to pay for different projects, they go to the loanable funds market and acquire funds through either indirect finance or direct finance. below, you are given five different scenarios. is each an example of direct finance or indirect finance?

"in my opinion, we ought to stop making our own drums and accept that outside supplier's offer," said wim niewindt, managing director of antilles refining, n. v., of aruba. "at a price of $21 per drum, we would be paying $4.70 less than it costs us to manufacture the drums in our own plant. since we use 70,000 drums a year, that would be an annual cost savings of $329,000." antilles refining's current cost to manufacture one drum is given below (based on 70,000 drums per year):

What is the difference between total utility and marginal utility? a. marginal utility is subject to the law of diminishing marginal utility while total utility is not. b. total utility represents the consumer optimum while marginal utility gives the total utility per dollar spent on the last unit. c. total utility is the total amount of satisfaction derived from consuming a certain amount of a good while marginal utility is the additional satisfaction gained from consuming an additional unit of the good. d. marginal utility represents the consumer optimum while total utility gives the total utility per dollar spent on the last unit.