Naida Baronowski is an American fashion designer who has a design firm in Chicago. Naida has been successful in the U. S. and wants to expand her operation overseas. She hopes to open shops in Paris, Milan, Madrid, Rome, Vienna, and Moscow in the next several years. Naida is unfamiliar with foreign operations. She comes to you, her attorney, for advice about how she should pursue her goal of becoming an international fashion company. If Naida keeps her Joliet plant, and ships her clothes from the U. S. to Paris, Madrid, and other cities, she may be subject, in the U. S., to:

a. import restrictions
b. tariff controls
c. export regulations
d. ad valorem taxes
e. licensing fees

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?

Oerstman, inc. uses a standard costing system and develops its overhead rates from the current annual budget. the budget is based on an expected annual output of 120,000 units requiring 480,000 direct labor hours.(practical capacity is 500,000 hours)annual budgeted overhead costs total $772,800, of which $556,800 is fixed overhead. a total of 119,300 units, using 478,000 direct labor hours, were produced during the year. actual variable overhead costs for the year were $260,400 and actual fixed overhead costs were $555,450.required: 1. compute the fixed overhead spending variance and indicate if favorable or unfavorable.2. compute the fixed overhead volume variance and indicate if favorable or unfavorable.

The cost of labor is significantly lower in many countries than in the united states. if you move manufacturing to a facility to a country labeled as part of the axis of evil and a threat to world peace you will increase the net income of your client by $10 million per the facility is located in a country which limits personal freedom and engages in state sponsored terrorism. imagine you are a marketing consultant. (a) what would you tell the executives to do? (b) what are the alternatives? what are your recommendations? why do you recommend this course of action?