One of the major financial burdens for many companies is the need to provide and maintain funds to provide benefits needed by former employees. One of the ways that Delta Airline tried to avoid bankruptcy was by reducing the payout from this fund because returns on investments were not keeping pace with the number of retirees and their benefit demands. This example reflects a problem with:

Which of the following is not a characteristic of enterprise applications that cause challenges in implementation? a. they introduce "switching costs," making the firm dependent on the vendor. b. they cause integration difficulties as every vendor uses different data and processes. c. they are complex and time consuming to implement. d. they support "best practices" for each business process and function. e. they require sweeping changes to business processes to work with the software.

Cynthia is a hospitality worker in the lodging industry who prefers to cater to small groups of people. she might want to open a

Which of the following would cause a shift to the right of the supply curve for gasoline? i. a large increase in the price of public transportation. ii. a large decrease in the price of automobiles. iii. a large reduction in the costs of producing gasoline