Hines cosmetic co. sold beauty preparations nationally to beauty shops at a standard or fixed- price schedule. some of the shops were also supplied with a free demonstrator and free advertising materials. the shops that were not supplied with them claimed that giving the free services and materials constituted unlawful price discrimination. hines replied that there was no price discrimination because it charged everyone the same. what it was giving free was merely a promotional campaign that was not intended to discriminate against those who were not given anything free. was hines guilty of unlawful price discrimination? explain.

The systems analysis phase includes three activities – requirements modeling, data and process modeling, and consideration of development strategies. choose two of these activities, explain their differences, and discuss how they are used to accomplish the main objective which is to understand the proposed project.

Management discovers that a supervisor at one of its restaurant locations removes excess cash and resets sales totals throughout the day on the point-of-sale (pos) system. at closing, the supervisor deposits cash equal to the recorded sales on the pos system and keeps the rest. the supervisor forwards the close-of-day pos reports from the pos system along with a copy of the bank deposit slip to the company’s revenue accounting department. the revenue accounting department records the sales and the cash for the location in the general ledger and verifies the deposit slip to the bank statement. any differences between sales and deposits are recorded in an over/short account and, if necessary, followed up with the location supervisor. the customer food order checks are serially numbered, and it is the supervisor’s responsibility to see that they are accounted for at the end of each day. customerchecks and the transaction journal tapes from the pos system are kept by the supervisor for 1 week at the location and then destroyed. what control allowed the fraud to occur?

If a product goes up in price, and the demand for it drops, that product's demand is a. elastic b. inelastic c. stable d. fixed select the best answer from the choices provided