Honda Motor Company converted from U. S. GAAP to IFRS at the beginning of fiscal year 2015. At that time, Honda began capitalizing new development costs. It also applied capitalization rules of IAS 38 retroactively, recognizing development cost assets and amortization expenses as though it had capitalized these costs in earlier periods. Honda's 2017 annual report included the following information on research and development costs incurred during the three fiscal years after the conversion to IFRS.2015
2016
2017

Research and development expenditures incurred during the reporting period

¥670,331

¥719,810

¥659,918

Amount capitalized

(188,107)

(190,992)

(121,037)

Amortization of capitalized development costs

123,938

127,684

152,548

Total

¥606,162

¥656,502

¥691,429

Lavage rapide is a canadian company that owns and operates a large automatic car wash facility near montreal. the following table provides data concerning the company’s costs: fixed cost per month cost per car washed cleaning supplies $ 0.70 electricity $ 1,400 $ 0.07 maintenance $ 0.15 wages and salaries $ 4,900 $ 0.30 depreciation $ 8,300 rent $ 1,900 administrative expenses $ 1,400 $ 0.03 for example, electricity costs are $1,400 per month plus $0.07 per car washed. the company expects to wash 8,000 cars in august and to collect an average of $6.50 per car washed. the actual operating results for august appear below. lavage rapide income statement for the month ended august 31 actual cars washed 8,100 revenue $ 54,100 expenses: cleaning supplies 6,100 electricity 1,930 maintenance 1,440 wages and salaries 7,660 depreciation 8,300 rent 2,100 administrative expenses 1,540 total expense 29,070 net operating income $ 25,030 required: calculate the company's revenue and spending variances for august.

Is exploiting a distinctive competence or improving efficiency for competitive advantage. (a) cooptation (b) coalition (c) competitive intelligence (d) competitive aggression (e) smoothing

Gwen, a manager at exude apparels inc., received a message from a customer requesting a replacement for a purchased pair of shoes. exude apparels has a clearly stated no-return policy. gwen responded to the customer denying the request in a tactful and clear manner. despite this, the customer submitted a second request. in this scenario, which of the following is an appropriate response to the second request?